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Can anyone with Belgian phone (in the firmware has a CDA xxxxxx/55 right?) please look under the Hidden Lock Menu (jog dial down * * jog dial down) and see if your padlocks are closed or open?
Alt Q- Can anyone say EXACTLY how to tell if your phone is the World vs Europe version?
I am getting the "your phone is up to date" hassle with a R1A14 organizer FW so I KNOW it is out of date. BUT my phone in the Hidden Locks menu all has the padlocks *unlocked* with nothing entered in the MNC2 or 3 fields for any of the categories, there is no branding, and no other sign of a lock.
My CDA is a XXXX/5 instead of a /1 or /2 like some, but the only post I have found commenting on the /X says that /55 are locked and others are not. Can not find out any meaning for a /5 (only one 5 not two) like mine, maybe a partial lock?
So. What do I/we have??? Does anybody know how to tell what a /5 is?
thanks,
Dave
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Posted: 2006-09-13 10:12:25
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can you check your lock status for me?
do it this way :
jog dial up,*,jog dial down, jog dial down,*,jog dial down,*
basically is >*
and go to system information and sim lock
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Posted: 2006-09-13 11:09:35
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same here, Belgian P990, can't update, everything seems unlocked in the service menu....
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Posted: 2006-09-13 12:34:12
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On 2006-09-13 11:09:35, babyk84 wrote:
can you check your lock status for me?
All three entries, network, Network Subset, and SIM have the small padlock unlocked, and the number 5. This number is the same as in the CDA xxxxxx/5 listed under firmeware info.
I can NOT reflash FW from UK, Hong Kong, US, without getting a "your phone is up to date" which is clearly wrong.
Can you help me figure out if this phone is loced to one carrier's FW or a region or is the problem on my computer/SEUS end?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
D
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Posted: 2006-09-13 17:44:15
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On 2006-09-13 12:34:12, Mac wrote:
same here, Belgian P990, can't update, everything seems unlocked in the service menu....
Mac- when you say 'same here' do you mean you also are /5 or do you mean you can't update in general also? If this first, then can you pelase say if you have a /5, /55 or what? If the second, then I'll guess the reason you can't update is your phone is /55 and there are a lot of reports of /55 not being able to update because they are tied to a carrier's firmware. most reports say you will need to wait until that carrier updates their firmware, sorry.
my stress is from the phone not updating and being a /5 (NOT /55) yet can not update and gives no sign of being locked anywhere...
so what does your phone have, /5 or /55???
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Posted: 2006-09-13 17:47:31
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I mean I also bought it in belgium and can't update.
My CDA is /55 , everything is unlocked in the service menu and the unit is unbranded and not tied to a specific operator....strange
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Posted: 2006-09-13 18:53:49
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Well, curioser and curioser... I tried updating FW again today and this time selected a chinese language (I don't know for sure which one since they *are* in chinese) and lo and behold it worked!
I do not know then if the phone being a CDA xxxxxx/5 means it is locked to region 5 (or whatever) and that is what 'worked', or if SE updated the 'other' firmwares out there and that was what 'worked'...
My info is now:
Phone: CXC 162037 R7A001
BT: CXC 162058 R4F01
ORG: CXC 162072 R2A05
CDA: CDA 162007/5 R2A04
I know the ORG is the "important" one but I post the others so people can help decipher this /5 issue...
Did any Belgian (/55) users try updating today? Or Italy? Or anyoen else who has been getting 'no updates necessary'? Did it work for you?
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Posted: 2006-09-14 07:39:26
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I am afraid not to understand what you're trying to tell us
- Have you upgraded a Belgian P990i with CDA162008/55 (supposeldy FW locked) by chosing chinese language while using SEUS software update and it worked !
- Now your CDA has been changed to CDA162007/5 version
You also want to gather information about the meaning of CDA's
I tried to reproduce upgrading but didn't work for me
[ This Message was edited by: !066d on 2006-09-14 12:34 ]
[ This Message was edited by: !066d on 2006-09-14 12:35 ]
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Posted: 2006-09-14 13:33:01
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On 2006-09-14 13:33:01, !066d wrote:
I am afraid not to understand what you're trying to tell us
- Have you upgraded a Belgian P990i with CDA162008/55 (supposeldy FW locked) by chosing chinese language while using SEUS software update and it worked !
- Now your CDA has been changed to CDA162007/5 version
Sorry if I wasn't more clear- I was trying to find out what the heck a /5 CDA phone was versus the /55 Belgian phones, to see if I shared a common problem with them or had my own problem.
The end result is I found a great response by jcount on my-symbian (http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27799&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=270) that led me to the uiqzone site which talked about the /5. Apparently it is UK, unbranded, so in theory I *should* be getting the current R3 organizer firmware, but am still getting R2 so do not know for sure what is going on...
so if you ahve a belgian /55 then no, I don't think what I am doing/seeing wil help ya, sorry!;)
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Posted: 2006-09-15 08:11:52
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so does ANYONE have a CDA 162007/5 phone out there???
What organizer firmware do you have? I have gotten up to CXC 162072 R2A05 but can not get up to R3... sigh. Phone is slower on R2 than it was on R1;(
Any /5's out there PLEASE tell me you got to R3 and how-
thanks,
D
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Posted: 2006-09-15 08:15:18
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