How to Unlock the LG Rumor Touch - VM510 from Virgin Mobile (possibly others)

[captainkirks]

Can someone please help me?

I followed these instructions and the phone to show up on a com port. However. Whenever I try to upload the prl, it keeps going back to Virgin Mobile. I check the prl on the phone and it doesn't change.

Everytime I try to make a call it keeps saying "the number or code you have dialed is not valid"..

Any suggestions???

Please help.

Thanks

We are playing around with trying to make the prl stick. Dose anybody have the dll or firmware for the sprint version?

[captainkirks]

Here is a file that will slow down the phone to read the spc everytime. Its just a copy of a pdf ad we did but its 192 mb size.

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (MD5: B83B12C21E0498B4B56858EAE1ABB6D7)

[cdtatum]

I actually found it easier to do add a lot of music and go through the media player. Going through the document viewer didn't give enough time. So if anyone is having trouble with the suggested method try through the media player

[Crogon]

Greetings everybody! Happy to see everything is green across the board!

My apologies for being offline for a couple of days. Something freaky happened with my laptops power. I suspect my munchkin knocked it over or something and didn't tell me. Anyway, I tore it apart and hotwired it, so I'm good to go now.

You guys are burning PRL'S?? Isn't that a little risky considering we're not actually using the proper dll files for the phone? Anyway, I have heard on other forums that people are having a bit better luck using LGNPST and the 9200 dll. I saw one reference to using the 10000 and one using the 11000, but I don't even recall which prog they were using.. if you want to experiment. Somewhere in Howards 60ish post long thread, there's some instructions on how to see the hidden files and folders and stuff:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Good luck with that. I plan on going through and extracting all the data and posting it into a wiki at some point. Tons of good info in there, but it does tend to meander.

For those trying to tether the phone, it appears the sprint phones use an applet of some sort to accomplish it, so we may need to rip the applet and associated settings out of the Sprint Rumor Touch, and hack it into our VM Rumor Touch phones before we succeed in that effort. I've seen it done more than a few times on Windoze Mobile phones. You buy the unlocked version, and you get a snazzy little app that hooks everything up for you, but if you buy the at&t or t-mobile version, you just get a hyper-link or something that tells you to piss off until you shell out extra money for the 'feature'. :P &^#%$!! So yeah, you can blame this crap on Micro$ofts marketing model.

Peace out!

[Crogon]

Not exactly firmware, but some guy at Howards extracted a bunch of stuff off of his phone. I haven't looked at it yet, so I'm not sure exactly what it is. It's in the 'opened ports' thread.

Possibly a bit closer to firmware, apparently, someone has extracted the cab files for the update. I'm waiting to hear back about that.

EDIT: NEED SOMEONE TO CONFIRM THIS! From what I read earlier, the Security Code is NOT in the NV RAM until after it has been entered in the phone for the first time. Of course, I already have my code, so I can't double check this and verify it. I'm hoping someone will take the time to read through the thread and get this far BEFORE they extract the code from their phone and use it for the first time.

This would be useful for people who can't seem to 'time out' their phone long enough to do the steps I outlined. According to count-dooku from Howards, if you can read the memory at least to the RX 105 block, you will have the security code. Previous reports claimed it was in 85 somewhere, so I'm not sure whats going on here.

Thanks so much for any help!

If LGDownload fails to complete 'Reading NV RAM' (in my case it always stops at about 35% and quits), you may still be able retrieve the SPC code from the partial output. Go to C:\LG Electronics\LGDownload\Model\VX9100\LOG and open one of the error log files (the larger the file size, the more likely it will contain the SPC code). Search for NV_SEC_CODE_I in the file. You may see something like this:

Reading NV_SEC_CODE_I 85 (0x55) ----------------------------------------

TX. 105 : 26 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 &U..............................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................................
00 00 00 00 00 A5 34 7E ......4.

RX. 105 : 26 55 00 33 39 35 39 34 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 &U.395947.......................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................................
00 00 00 00 00 .....

Success Reading NV_SEC_CODE_I

Pay attention to the "RX. 105" line, the last 6 digit number is the SPC code.

[dareed56]

thank you for this information