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Originally Posted by Der Jens
Unfortunately, I don't have a Pre yet so I can't try any of this myself. However, as we are talking about a database file it SHOULD be possible to just write whatever values you want to the database. I don't really see why anything would need to be recompiled.
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Any volunteers?
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Since the database rewrite now indeed seems to work (Thanks!), I wonder whether a fresh Pre can be modified in that way to get passed the activation screen in a foreign non-supported country. Remember on such a unit it's not possible to activate the dev mode the normal way.
Is the USB mode that one can activate during power on the same as the developers mode needed for updating the database? Or does that USB mode require a full flash sequence? If not, a "DB update only" would enable activation through a non-supported provider without flashing the unit.