k800 problem

[infin1ty13]

are you sure it was never locked? did you buy it in a store thats reliable? or did you buy a used one? a k800i cid52 can be unlocked with ease. but if you update with SEUS the lock will return. and reflashing it won't remove the simlock. also it happens that store's unlock the phones themselfes and the resell it (yes in some country's like the netherlands it is allowed to unlock phone's and sell them. this was highly popular with the Iphone btw) anyway it's indeed impossible to restore the eprom from CID52 now that it is CID53. the only thing you can do is waiting untill CID53 patching is free/possible

[samspin]

I've taken it back to the store and explained what's happened, and they said a lot of people have been put up to CID53 and ended up with re-locked phones lately, and they were very understanding. They are going to try and sort it out for me as they have good contacts (and one person who has links with SE).

[samspin]

They couldn't fix it, they told me the problem is in the GDFS. The phone indeed came from abroad and was reflashed to support UK networks. Upgrading undid that. I DO have a backup of the GDFS that I did before upgrading, however since it's CID53, I don't have programs that can restore it. UNLESS.. there does happen to be a new version of XS++ that only works in linux that can support CID53 (XS++ 4.1 beta). I have ubuntu-linux on my laptop, so... I wonder if I could restore the GDFS with that to fix it... but I don't know seeing as the GDFS was backed up when my phone was still CID52, would restoring it to the phone completely break it seeing as the phone is CID53 now?

[SeaMonkey]

They couldn't fix it, they told me the problem is in the GDFS. The phone indeed came from abroad and was reflashed to support UK networks. Upgrading undid that. I DO have a backup of the GDFS that I did before upgrading, however since it's CID53, I don't have programs that can restore it. UNLESS.. there does happen to be a new version of XS++ that only works in linux that can support CID53 (XS++ 4.1 beta). I have ubuntu-linux on my laptop, so... I wonder if I could restore the GDFS with that to fix it... but I don't know seeing as the GDFS was backed up when my phone was still CID52, would restoring it to the phone completely break it seeing as the phone is CID53 now?

Just take your GDFS on stick to service and they will do it for you (they told you if they can't do it)

[samspin]

I got it back now, and was told they had done their best. Yet when I checked it, I found that they had SOMEHOW managed to downgrade it back to CID52! They must have had one of those expensive boxes to do it. But for some reason it was locked to O2, as any other sim I had said "insert correct sim". Well, fair enough I AM on 02, but what if someone else borrows my phone and needs to use their own non-02 sim? So, I thought what the hell, upgrade it to k810i, this time using k810 cid52 flash files and NOT SE update! Applied the unlock patch via setool and... everything's back to normal. Now I just need to remember not to ever use SE update, and if I ever reflash, use CID52 files and re-unlock it via patch...