How To Force NoDo On HTC Dev Unlocked Phones

Chris Walshie (yup of Chevron) has just posted on how to unbrand your HTC phone and get it to push the NoDo update. Here are his instructions:

So NoDo was finally released this morning. Well, for the EU people anyway (don’t get me started).

Windows Phone 7, by default, stores your operator identifier in a sneaky registry key, which is checked by the Windows Update Client running on the phone. This identifier is then used to check if the updates have been approved for your operator. If they are slow, like Telstra here is in Australia, you’re going to be waiting a long time.

So, let’s tell you how you can “un-brand” (this won’t remove the boot splash screen) your phone so it appears to be a generic handset to the Update Servers.

Your device needs to be dev-unlocked for this to work. Sorry folks.

1. Download this zip file and deploy the 3 xap files onto your device.
2. Run the ChevronWP7.Ringtones.xap and wait till it displays “Ringtones added… and CustClear.provxml underneath”
3. Run the TouchXplorer app, navigate to My DocumentsMy Ringtones click on CustClear.provxml and select Copy from the Application Bar.
4. Navigate back inside TouchXplorer to the Windows folder.
5. Select paste from the Application Bar, this should scroll right to the bottom and put a copy of CustClear.provxml in the Windows folder.
6. Now run the Connection Setup application and click on the Ok button (it’s the one with the tick).

And now you’re done and free to re-connect to Zune and check for updates.

Again, this is ONLY for HTC devices.

This is definitely at your own risk but if you’re impatient and give it a go share your experiences.