it's worked fine on a 2nd HT701 I'm going to go ahead and post this. Remember that this is still very much beta so please only attempt this if you know what you're doing and are not afraid of bricking your unit.
Note, this WILL wipe all the settings and return it to a factory default state. It will look like a brand new HT701 when done.
Remember, although it needs to be on a network with your computer it cannot have internet access or it'll phone home and become locked!
1) Log in to the web interface as admin. If it's a virgin ATA the admin password is ERgTbCLo
2) Upload this firmware image (bottom of the 'Advanced Settings' page):
download
ht701fw.bin.zip 3676664 bytes (copy and paste)
http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/2141094~d4e88417991859782a92832da30f9ec1/ht701fw.bin.zip
3) Wait 2 minutes 34 seconds (at least! that's just how long mine took) after clicking the submit button and then power cycle it. It will NOT come back up by itself.
4) After power cycling it, mine took approx. 1 minute 7 seconds before the web interface started responding again. The admin password is now "admin"
Congratulations, you now have a permanently unlocked ATA. This firmware build also has the serial console enabled and NFS support (HUGE help while working on it!). You can now flash a stock HT701 firmware image if you want. I consider this firmware a 'dev' build so you will probably want to flash the normal stock firmware to it if you are not interested in the serial interface or otherwise hacking it.
Thank you for this. Amazon sent me a branded ATA rather than the unlocked one. The password you provided worked AND the firmware did as well. I waited 5 minutes before rebooting (the Power light was on solid when it was done). Took about another minute for the web interface to come up but it worked fine. 12/8/2014. Thank you!
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