by Bjørn Storkholm
9. May 2009 12:21
Since I got my first windows mobile device, I've been hating the license rules for the OS. Some years ago, I bought a danish QTek S200. Since I live in Denmark, it came with a danish OS.... I always hated danish operating systems.
I want to get the OS in english and install that (I'd even pay for it). Now that appeared to be a struggle. The danish OS had a higher version number than the english. The installer refused to do a "downgrade" to a lower version number. This appeared to me to be a way for HTC (QTEK), to prevent doing changes they wouldn't allow.
Those learnings is about 4 or 5 devices ago, and is still an issue to me. Whenever I get a new device, I prefer to buy a Danish one, since we have the special danish characters on the hardware keyboard (my current device is Touch Pro), but I don't want that crappy danish OS.
Beeing a little bit of a stubborn geek of nature, I needed to find out something about this. The keyword is Hard SPL. If you need to flash a device, with an OS that the vendor doesn't like, start googling for Hard SPL.
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