E220 Vodafone D2 Debranding

inquisitor · 10-03-2010, 19:15

Strange behaviour. Usually if a Huawei modem is locked, it will require an unlock code to be entered after providing the PIN code. I assume it is pure coincidence, that the modem did not appearing with other SIM cards inserted. Further at least the E220 sold by Vodafone Germany did never have any lock.
Actually with XP sometimes the same problem as in Vista occurs, i.e. the PC does only detect the massstorage component of Huawei modems.
Just follow the instructions for Vista/7 on your XP machine, as described here in German and then run the dashboard update, which will remove the Vodafone software.
If you still run into problems try another USB port of your computer or try to run the firmware update on your Vista computer.

9eor9 · 15-03-2010, 13:36

After some experiments the dashboard update was successful on another USB port.
When running the firmware update, an "unexpected error occured" and the update could not be continued.

What's that???

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	10-03-2010, 19:15 Strange behaviour. Usually if a Huawei modem is locked, it will require an unlock code to be entered after providing the PIN code. I assume it is pure coincidence, that the modem did not appearing with other SIM cards inserted. Further at least the E220 sold by Vodafone Germany did never have any lock. Actually with XP sometimes the same problem as in Vista occurs, i.e. the PC does only detect the massstorage component of Huawei modems. Just follow the instructions for Vista/7 on your XP machine, as described here in German and then run the dashboard update, which will remove the Vodafone software. If you still run into problems try another USB port of your computer or try to run the firmware update on your Vista computer. terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com

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9eor9 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 223 Join Date: 10 Apr 2009 Country:	15-03-2010, 13:36 After some experiments the dashboard update was successful on another USB port. When running the firmware update, an "unexpected error occured" and the update could not be continued. What's that???