hi guys,
i accidently erased my bootloader, my xda won't start anymore.
it hangs at the bootscreen and does nothing.
i found several threads about this, but no solution yet.
is there any way to fix it??
best regards
tim
We're looking into flashing using JTAG, directly to the motherboard. More info soon.
How did you erase the bootloader?
how i erased
i played around with mkrom, and sometimes, when the defaukt.reg was not right my xda didn't start anymore.
the i took a friends mda to make a rom backup to sd and recovered my device using the sd-backup. that worked very well several times, but yesterday it started, saying 'downloading from sd-card' and then my device reseted - and that was it.
now it only shows the bootsplash image and does nothing - not even go into bootloader..
and the sad thing is that i changed the start picture - and my changed one is still showing - now when i send it in to o2 they will laugh at me :-(
p.s. the bootloader version is 5.15...
Yep, the one danger of ROM flashing. You probably flashed BOOT+CE, where CE would have been a little safer.
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yeah, i did flash boot and ce, forgot to mention that,
for some strange reason my friend had to backup boot+ce because when he only backupped ce his device got erased like a hard reset?? we both did not understand why but it happened two times, and when he backupped boot + ce his device was not erased.. strange, but that's because all this sh*t happened ;-)
anyway, i'm looking forward to a jtag solution, but if it will ever be possible, don't i need some kind of jtag cable or something like that?
i just took a short look at jtag, but that's what i understood??
p.s. this forum is so great - it's nice to know people like you xda-developers are around
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hi guys,
i acquired my XDA II jst 2 wks ago and now it's stuck with its O2 blue screen , no matter what reset i do. it's not even being read by active sych. the only thing i was doing before it happened, i was sending an sms and suddenly it hanged. so i restarted it, but it did not went through anymore, just up to the O2 bluescreen :x .
have anybody experience this error with their XDA II? is there a work around in this problem? thanks in advance for the help. :wink:
also after a hardreset ?
yes sir! :shock: after so many hard resets....
well since a hardreset unlike a softreset should clear the mem taking it back to how it were when you first got it
there must be something pretty much wrong with the device
i would
1 send it back to get fixed
2 try and upgrade / downgrade the rom from the bootloader
I hope you're an intermediate level user, cuz i'm suggesting you try reflashing the os (i mean since it apparently is dead now) via bootloader.
It can be done cuz i made a mistake in flashing once and it got stuck on the bootloader, but i was able to reflash it to a fixed state.
so visit the forum about the T-Mobile 1.60.36 RUU update, read it thoroughly, get the needed tools and do the needed steps before flashing. . . .the get your unit into bootloader (if it can) then flash away and pray it solves your problem
cheers,
Carlo
i will try your suggestion guys.... thanks so much for the giving feedback to my case... i'll keep you posted what happened.
if there's anything you can add or suggest further, i welcome it....
I think i destroyed the bootloader of my magician,
it starts only if i eject the battery cover before.
- softreset hangs up the device in the bootloader
- no sd backup flashing possible (loader does not recognize backup)
- no upgrade ability while the device runs windows
reflash tried with JAM_WWE_106_110_10500 Rom image with a patched MaUpgradeUt_noID.....
i really need ur help
Did You try anansky's Big Storage it worked for me...
If you really crashed the bootloader then there's nothing you can do but send to service centre and act dumb not knowing what happened..
georgexoasi said:
Did You try anansky's Big Storage it worked for me...
If you really crashed the bootloader then there's nothing you can do but send to service centre and act dumb not knowing what happened..
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They will warranty it only if you have correct ROM on your device, they will not if you have foreign image on it That's what happened to my XDA 2, cost me 250 USD :twisted: I've learned my lesson hard way - don't mess arround with home cooked ROMs
Well anansky's rom worked for me........
So i'm safe.......
the devica has the original rom!
only radio has been updated
My PC crashed while I was flashing my Wizard,(it was at 100%, but wasn't finished).
The Wizzard boots, and asked if I want to use the Rom on my SD card(this was a back up of my fone, that I used to restore my Co-workers fone, and it worked). When I tell it to use the Flash on my SD card it goes throught the whole flashing process, only to reboot in bootloader mode. It's a visious cycle.
I've searched but haven't found alternative ways to restore my phone.
Oh its SPL 2.26.
Thanks.
muffdoc said:
My PC crashed while I was flashing my Wizard,(it was at 100%, but wasn't finished).
The Wizzard boots, and asked if I want to use the Rom on my SD card(this was a back up of my fone, that I used to restore my Co-workers fone, and it worked). When I tell it to use the Flash on my SD card it goes throught the whole flashing process, only to reboot in bootloader mode. It's a visious cycle.
I've searched but haven't found alternative ways to restore my phone.
Oh its SPL 2.26.
Thanks.
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What you mean with "a back up of my fone"? An "r2sd all"? And worked how?
muffdoc said:
My PC crashed while I was flashing my Wizard,(it was at 100%, but wasn't finished).
The Wizzard boots, and asked if I want to use the Rom on my SD card(this was a back up of my fone, that I used to restore my Co-workers fone, and it worked). When I tell it to use the Flash on my SD card it goes throught the whole flashing process, only to reboot in bootloader mode. It's a visious cycle.
I've searched but haven't found alternative ways to restore my phone.
Oh its SPL 2.26.
Thanks.
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have you tried flashing an official rom in bootloader mode? I think bootloader mode is when you hold down the comm manager button, the voice dial button, and hit the little hole on the side of the phone at the same time. it should start the phone in the tri-color mode...at which point if you are connected to the pc through, you should be able to flash a rom...
muffdoc said:
My PC crashed while I was flashing my Wizard,(it was at 100%, but wasn't finished).
The Wizzard boots, and asked if I want to use the Rom on my SD card(this was a back up of my fone, that I used to restore my Co-workers fone, and it worked). When I tell it to use the Flash on my SD card it goes throught the whole flashing process, only to reboot in bootloader mode. It's a visious cycle.
I've searched but haven't found alternative ways to restore my phone.
Oh its SPL 2.26.
Thanks.
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If the device boots in bootloader mode...it's not bricked!
You need to flash the factory rom 1st the normal way before you can do anything else.
If it boots...it ain't bricked...!
Ok I'm gona try to load the factory rom,(I need to track that down, I was using a back-up of my old rom that I had on my SD card from when I rescued, my co-workers.)
Any hints on where I may find the factory Rom and loading program? I've grabbed one Rom, and I'm looking for "shelltool" as well. I'm hoping I can gather all these things before the days out... I miss my phone.
Thanks guys.
muffdoc said:
Ok I'm gona try to load the factory rom,(I need to track that down, I was using a back-up of my old rom that I had on my SD card from when I rescued, my co-workers.)
Any hints on where I may find the factory Rom and loading program? I've grabbed one Rom, and I'm looking for "shelltool" as well. I'm hoping I can gather all these things before the days out... I miss my phone.
Thanks guys.
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Haha! I would miss my phone too!!
If you have Cingular/AT&T:
http://www.america.htc.com/support/8125/software-downloads.html
Thats the official ROM. I havn't heard a lot of Shelltool, so i can't help ya out there.
Good luck with the revival of your phone!!
Well I used the "CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE.exe" while downloading the Factory Bin. And all is better.
Wow, what a day, and now I have my phone again
Thanks for the help guys, you know everything in life is a learning experience, and today I've learned somemore!
Need Help Downgrading Wizard
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my friend owns an 8525 and all of a sudden it stopped working (cant make/recieve calls and text messages). i tried doing a hard reset and it didnt work. he called att and the tech guy told him that his phone needs to reinstall the rom, which also didnt work. he bought a new phone and gave me the hermes so that i can play around with it. i tried installing wm6 on it and at 15% the update stopped.. and the phone reset itself. now.. it doesnt have a rom installed and keeps on going to the tricolor screen. i tried the unbrick method (in the wiki) several times and still no luck. it keeps telling me that i dont have enough ram but the booting still wont start. what are my other options for fixing this?... my kaiser was bricked before and i did the unbrick method for that and it work.. i havent tried that yet but is there any chance that it will work..?..
he doesnt need the phone anymore but hes hoping that itll be fixed so he can use it as a backup phone.. so.. yea.. any other ideas for ressurecting an old friend?
thanks!!
Sounds like the radio rom is dead.... Whats the SPL? You have a chance if it has Hard SPL installed - should say SPL - 2.10 olipro.
If so, try flashing a stock rom first, then a radio only rom. If you get no love, flash a cooked rom on it. I'd do it using the sd card method.
It should work as a PDA if you can't flash the radio, but its a brick cos no more phone calls...
If he doesn't want that, he could sell it on ebay for spare parts...
Cheers...
I just went through a similar situation last night. I am running dvh_79's v16 (build 19965.1.2.3) Lite. I added his HTC Today Plugin from the sdauto zip file but didn't like how the Today plugin slowed down my phone, so I uninstalled it and that's when my radio took a dump.
I used the instructions in the Hard SPL forum post #116 to unbrick it using the same rom and radio .nbh files and it went off without a hitch.
The first thing anyone should flash onto their phone is Hard SPL v7. Even before any skins. It won't make you 100% safe from bricks, but I'm damn glad I had it on there this morning while I was reinstalling my phone.
BTW ultramag69, I saw a lot of posts by you in various threads talking about unbricking a phone, and correct me if I am wrong, but if I have olipro 2.10 SPL on my phone (which I do), is it possible to initiate an install of a ROM image without being able to successfully boot the OS on the phone? Does Olipro automatically look for HERMIMG.nbh on the SD card? That was a point of confusion for me at first until I ran the HARDSPPL.exe file, but then again my phone didn't brick to the point I couldn't boot the OS.
What are the choices if you cannot boot OS? Are there any that can be performed from the bootloader itself?
Thanks.
well.. i did the kaiser unbrick procedure.. the mtty thingy.. it kinda worked. after that i installed the dopod wm6 rom... it handled the wm6 well---for a while.. after booting, the phone would turn off by itself (w/ 100% battery of course) or even restart itself..
sometimes it will stay on and be "fully functional" (w/o the calling and messaging still...) but somehow freezes when i look at the device information, specifically in the page where it displays the imei (which is missing btw...)..
the "phone" function doesnt work either, as it doesnt show the dialer.. and then after a few minutes, the phone finally freezes...
idk why this happens.. i tried installing other roms but the rom update always freezes. i tried 4 different roms already... so i had to do the mtty thing again...
(i have hardspl installed)
Codevyper, IF YOU HAVE hARD SPL INSTALLED, yes you can run the os flash. Just put the sd card in and reset. As the Hermes is going to the bootloader anyway it will recognise the flash file "hermimg.nbh". I've successfully fixed my phone when thats happened.
akosiryan, it sounds like you may have a corrupted radio rom. This is not gonna make you happy but this is ,at this point, almost 100% unbrickable. You could try to flash a radio only rom - no os, just the radio - but if it gets stuck and you've tried the stock rom then it looks like its a permanent brick...
You should be able to use as a PDA if you don't play with the phone functions though...
Just as a last shot, you could always use MTTY to check for bad blocks BUT this requires you to downgrade the SPL to 1.10 olipro to fix if you do. Please note though that sometimes the carrier does give you a couple of bad blocks to "brand" it as theirs...
Best of luck.
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Codevyper, IF YOU HAVE hARD SPL INSTALLED, yes you can run the os flash. Just put the sd card in and reset. As the Hermes is going to the bootloader anyway it will recognise the flash file "hermimg.nbh". I've successfully fixed my phone when thats happened.
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Thanks ultramag69! I am indeed running olipro 2.10 on my phone so it makes me feel better knowing that if I can get the nbh on the card, then I can flash the ROM that way.
oh well.. me and my friend decided to sell his phone on ebay or sumthin..lol.. so its not a problem.. ill try to do one last step tho.. like flashing the radio only rom to see if itll work.. but i dont really care anymore.. lol.
No problem... If the Ebay from where you're from is like Aussie ebay, you should get approximately 1/2 to 2/3 the price that the working models go for. Generally the price goes up about 6 hours before the end of the auction with the price skyroketing in the last 10 mins... I'd probably give it a few days on Ebay to make sure people see it....
If you do get the radio rom working, Hermes (jasjam/dopod 838 pro) go for about $250 - $350Aud in Oz.
Cheers...
ok then! thanks
Hi all - I'm in a bit of trouble.
Tried changing the OS to Android and must have made a mistake somewhere along the line.
Was using ROM update utility MAGDLR V1.13 and got as far as updating the ROM Was told that the screen should go black and if it didn't, then I needed to perform a reset.
I did this and now the screen just shows the htc logo on white background.
Irish phone - got it august '10. recently upgraded ROM from HTC site to version 3.14.405.2 but not sure now whether I've wrecked it completely.
Was just sick of WinMo and wanted a change - can anyone help please?
ND
boot into bootloader and start again. do you have hspl? right radio?
get into bootloader. flash magldr. then flash nandroid.
you probably need to downgrade the rom to get to hspl 2.08
Thanks - I got the correct HSPL and installed it on the phone, that part was fine. The problem now is that the handset isn't even acknowledging when it's plugged in. And when I connect via USB, the computer isn't registering any connection to it.
I think it's toast! The only thing I can see is a white background with green htc lettering i.e. welcome screen
Thanks for getting back to me, any other ideas?
Will I be able to reload original windows back on by myself?
Try windows 7 XP sucks doing this kind of stuff
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
ndonovan said:
...The only thing I can see is a white background with green htc lettering i.e. welcome screen...
Thanks very much for the response. As above, the handset is completely unresponsive - it's not even showing a "charge" when plugged in.
Any help greatly appreciated
Many thanks
Signed,
Cracking up
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Can you get to bootloader?
(power on while holding vol. down)........
If so, get to bootloader then connect via usb. The word serial at the bottom of the screen should change to USB. This sometimes takes a few minutes (for me anyway)
Once it reads "USB" flash a WM6.5 Rom in the usual way.......
If you cant get to bootloader then theres a good chance you've somehow borked your device......
Thanks everyone and in particular jsmmcabe and conantroutman
I got into bootloader and I'm trying to reinstall the windows os from there.
will let you know how I get on,
thanks again guys - lifesavers
I should have mentioned that flashing a stock 6.5 rom will wipe HSPL.
If you flash a stock rom then you will need to reinstall HSPL before attempting any MAGLDR/NAND shenanigans... (sheNANDigans?? see what I did there )
If you flash a custom ROM from XDA then your HSPL will be ok......
Also should have mentioned the age old "NO .51. radios on a tmous" advice.........
Good luck.......
Well after all of that I went to Pirate Bay, downloaded an Android 2.2 file, copied it onto my SD card and ran it.
Hey presto, I have an Android Phone!
I cannot begin to tell you how much better it is. It's fast, it doesn't freeze, the whole interface is much cleaner and easier to use.
SNAG ITEM:
Tried doing the same with a friends phone and when activating the copied files from the SD card, the thing just hangs and I have to reset the phone.
Any idea why it worked on mine and not his?
Same phone, bought in Ireland, a week apart. Different mobile operator networks though..... I'm Vodafone, he's O2 - weird, no?
ndonovan said:
Well after all of that I went to Pirate Bay, downloaded an Android 2.2 file, copied it onto my SD card and ran it.
Hey presto, I have an Android Phone!
I cannot begin to tell you how much better it is. It's fast, it doesn't freeze, the whole interface is much cleaner and easier to use.
SNAG ITEM:
Tried doing the same with a friends phone and when activating the copied files from the SD card, the thing just hangs and I have to reset the phone.
Any idea why it worked on mine and not his?
Same phone, bought in Ireland, a week apart. Different mobile operator networks though..... I'm Vodafone, he's O2 - weird, no?
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Could be its not booting because of an incompatible radio....
must be above 2.08.50..... you can find this info in settings about phone...
Also, why download android from the piratebay???
Everything android related you could possibly need is here on XDA.
Personally Id be suspicious of anything from a site like that. Theres no way of knowing whats in that Rom. I would change to a well used and trusted build from XDA if I were you.
Theres no exact science to getting this running on different phones, what works for one may not work for another......