Folks, this post relates, to all the rugged phones above, which codename is HW-T18. They're made for many companies, but the firmware is universal, and since I know it's tested on Utano, AGM, and FortisX - rest is up to you on testing. Since there is not a specific part of forum, which relates to theese phones, I decided to make a separate topic thus here are few scattered, which doesn't give full info about rooting, or firmware updates. I do think it's neccessary, couse on my own, recently, when I tried to make phone better - messed up too much, and bricked the phone. I've searched for two days, with the help of few people from the forum, but finally came to some solutions, which should be all gathered in one place.
So first and foremost the firmware update. If you run on android 2.2, or you have 2.3.5 and need to flash it again, following this link
h t t p : / / share.branddistribution.de/utano_outdoor/sw/utano_BARRIER_T180_ANDROID_2_3_5_1.rar
you can find a 2.3.5.1 firmware. It should be placed on a SD card in folder /image
Now a tricky part. If you have 2.2 android, push the camera and powe button at the same time
If you have a 2.3.5 press camera/volume down/volume up/power at the same time
The phone, will vibrate twice, and probabily won't show anything for a few minutes. During this time, do not press anything, nor try to remove the battery. After approx 5 min, it's reboot with new firmware nothing more simple - so if it happens to brick the phone, there's a way to rescue it :)
ROOTING
Download the root.zip file below - place it on SD card. Power off the phone - power on again but to do it - press both power and home key (the one in the middle of hardware keys), keep the home screen pressed, untill welcome screen shows. Release the key, and when a droid with exclamation mark shows, press it again to run recovery mode - then navigate /volume up/ down and camera button to confirm, and choose "apply update from sdcard" choose the root.zip file, and after install is complete, reboot system, and enjoy rooted system.
I hope that I helped, if you have any questions related to this model, feel free to ask here. Maybe owners of this specific phone, together will find answers to them :)
Of course I'm not responsible for any damage you may couse - it worked for me, and few other people I've talked with, and read about :)
So first and foremost the firmware update. If you run on android 2.2, or you have 2.3.5 and need to flash it again, following this link
h t t p : / / share.branddistribution.de/utano_outdoor/sw/utano_BARRIER_T180_ANDROID_2_3_5_1.rar
you can find a 2.3.5.1 firmware. It should be placed on a SD card in folder /image
Now a tricky part. If you have 2.2 android, push the camera and powe button at the same time
If you have a 2.3.5 press camera/volume down/volume up/power at the same time
The phone, will vibrate twice, and probabily won't show anything for a few minutes. During this time, do not press anything, nor try to remove the battery. After approx 5 min, it's reboot with new firmware nothing more simple - so if it happens to brick the phone, there's a way to rescue it :)
ROOTING
Download the root.zip file below - place it on SD card. Power off the phone - power on again but to do it - press both power and home key (the one in the middle of hardware keys), keep the home screen pressed, untill welcome screen shows. Release the key, and when a droid with exclamation mark shows, press it again to run recovery mode - then navigate /volume up/ down and camera button to confirm, and choose "apply update from sdcard" choose the root.zip file, and after install is complete, reboot system, and enjoy rooted system.
I hope that I helped, if you have any questions related to this model, feel free to ask here. Maybe owners of this specific phone, together will find answers to them :)
Of course I'm not responsible for any damage you may couse - it worked for me, and few other people I've talked with, and read about :)