Guide to Certificate/Application Unlocking Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones

[Fergus]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!

I cannot tell you how relieved I am. I've finally managed to get my i-mate
SP5m WM5 Smartphone to sync with my Exchange server.

I thought I'd post this just as a more definitive guide, if you will, than
the ones I've found so far, because it took me forever and a day to find
that extra step that was required.

So, to application unlock the WM5 smartphone (and actually any other HTC
device I think), and to install the root certificate from your internal CA
(this is all assuming you have your own Windows-based Certificate Authority,
not a public certificate):

1. Go to http://www.modaco.com/INFO_Decert_SIM_Unlock_C550-t222786.html.
2. Download the HTC-signed "regeditSTG.zip" and move it to your smartphone.
IMPORTANT: Put it on the phone, not on a memory card - this was my first
sticking point.
3. Extract the zip file using Explorer on the device (if it's a WM5 device).
4. Run the Regedit exe and follow the instructions on the page above for
registry changes to make. It was also suggested by a Microsofty a few posts
down to change 00001017 (4119) to 144 (in the same part of the registry),
although I'm not sure what each entry does. I did all three. :-)
5. Download SDA_ApplicationUnlock.exe from
http://www.modaco.com/Motorola_MPx220_and_Audiovox_SMT6500_app_lockedl-t116301-s15.html,
connect the device, run this app, click "Unlock" or whatever, then restart
the device.
6. Export the root certificate from the Certificate Authority in your domain
(in DER format), copy it to the phone (again NOT the memory card) and simply
run it from Explorer. Bob's yer uncle.

In case you don;t know how to export the root cert, follow these
instructions:
1. Run MMC on the CA server.
2. File, Add/Remove Snap-in.
3. Add... select Certification Authority, and select Local Computer.
4. Finish, Close, OK.
5. In MMC, right-click the CA, select Properties. View Certificate, go to
Details tab, select Copy to File...
6. Next, make sure DER encoded binary is selected, Next, put something like
"c:\rootcert".
7. Finish and you're done. Copy it to the phone, run it and you're done.

Can't believe it took me 4 days of frustration to get that far. It also took
i-mate support just as long (as if they actually bothered reading my plea
for help! hahaha). They really do suck.

Hope this helps folks, I know there's a lot of people asking these same
questions around the place.

Fergus.

[Raymond P.L. Comvalius]

Fergus,

Thanks for the solution. It works perfect.

Raymond

[nf_cre...@yahoo.co.uk]

this seems just what I have spent the weekend looking for, do you know
if this will work with all WM5 Imate phones, specifically the Imate
Jasjar

Nick F

[bretstaylor]

Fergus, what are the other changes you referenced in your instructions?

"4. Run the Regedit exe and follow the instructions on the page above
for
registry changes to make."

I have an SP5m that I'm trying to unlock so I can solve an Exchange
Activesync issue that just started to occur for some reason.

Bret