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Decided to upgrade the ROM, this is where my trouble started

Please help if you can this is my first post on the site I had a look to see if anyone ells has had the same problem but did not se anything I understood to be the same.
I have been offered a XDA that has these symptoms and have decided it’s best to ask the pros before parting with £120.00 of my hard earned cash.
The information given to me is this:
“I decided to upgrade the ROM It all seemed to be going well then it just stopped loading and now the XDA wont do anything and the screen just says “UPGRADING IT WILL TAKE ABOUT 5 MINUTES” WARNING NOT TO REMOVE CONNECTIONS”
I will do my best to get additional information if required
Thanks for the time.
WOP

This is a typical situation of a failed ROM update ...
Can you get the bootloader screen (power + soft reset) ? and what version you read (5.15 , 5.17, 6.22 .... etc)
If you can get the bootloader screen with "GSM Ok", the chances are high that you can get this XDA working again using SD flashing method.
Try to get back with more info.

It is probably a good xda. All you probably need is an sd card and this forum. But meanwhile press the guy a little more. 100 will not be such a bad idea.

is £120.00 for an XDA good if it works?
I have emailed the chap with the request and am awaiting a reply from him :?:
I will also try and get the extra £20 off thanks for the hint :lol:
But let me make sure I have this write can you damaged hardware on these items when playing around with the software:?:
Or can you simply just reinstall all the software and drivers like a PC :?:

wop said:
But let me make sure I have this write can you damaged hardware on these items when playing around with the software:?:
Or can you simply just reinstall all the software and drivers like a PC
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The answer is YES!! ... you can read many stories here about people ended up with a nice $200 worthy paper weight!!! ... but being carful it can be a joyful experience

This is the latest saga to this story
I am officially a real member now as I have paid out my £120.00 for this xda and now the fun really begins
Because I have no idea how to fix it
I was asked to check if it did certain things and the answer to that question is yes the information I have is this bootloader page displays GSM OK
And we have V5.15 installed I hope this means something to someone out there in the XDA world.
If you would like to help me be gentile as I am still virginal when it comes to these things but I have some PC experience and am willing to make an ass of myself
Please do not lead me in the wrong direction as Biso007 says you can read many stories here about people ended up with a nice $200 worthy paper weight!!! And that’s not good

Get yourself an sd memory card and a memory card reader writer, download xdatools, go look at www.yorch.net or http://lumpistefan.dyndns.org/ have a good look around the site before trying anything. I was going to buy that xda but he stipulated "no returns" so I gave it a miss, I think it will probably be ok but I was a bit puzzled as to why the guy didnt fix it himself.

How when why and where
These are the questions I will problem be asking for a while I have received the item and in its normal mode it has lines all over the screen with two rectangular boxes going long ways across the screed these are clear.
I have done a hard reset and have it shows this wallaby bootloader v5.15 on a white red green and blue screen at the bottom left hand side it has GSM OK when you hit the action key it runs some tests I collated this information most thing got the thumbs up but some did not SIR RX error and RTS-CTS err come up and froze the system.
Can this one be fixed or do I have a door stop.
If it cam be fixed Can I download the XDAtools on this site?

If you pass your mouse over this link xdatools you will get a box pop up, scroll down and click on download, use the sd flash method and good luck.

can i :?:
Hi cruisin thru
Thanks for the directions you have pointed me in found the tools and have down loaded them.
As I have a working XDA and an sd card available to me buy no card reader/writer available at the moment is it possible to download the correct files from a working XDA to one that is not working via an sd card or the cradle or some form of direct link?
regards[/b]

Yes. You can dump the rom from a living XDA to an SD card via the bootloader. However there is a caveat. The living XDA may suffer a hard reset, so you must ensure a full back up. Put your SD card, preferably 64mb into the living XDA, go into the bootloader and when you get GSM OK hit the upper left button (Calendar Button) and select CE Rom to SD. Leave the system until it is completed. Then pop your SD into the dead XDA and enter the bootloader the usual way. If your card is okay, the rom should be recognised and you will be prompted to download rom. Follow the instructions, the rest is easy. Good luck.

back in a tick
Sorry I have not got back to you in a bit I was waiting for my sd card to arrive from the USA.
I think I got quite a good deal just over £40 including P&P for a 256 what do you think?
I will try what you mentioned in the last post and once I’m done I will let you guys know how it went.
Any last minute advice from the professionals out there?

O my god
What can I say I now have 2 working XDA’S with loads of memory that will let me put any sim card in and I
thank all those that helped me to solve this problem and those that set up this fables site well done to you all
I have one more question to ask?
:twisted: WHAT CAN I TRY NEXT :twisted:

Urgent Request (XDA II Locked, Total Noob , Please help!)

Hi all,
first off all i'd like to say Hi to everyone as im new here.
Also id like to thank everyone for readingmy problems
Any way i purchased an XDA II about a Week ago from Ebay its really my fault as in the item description it said there was a problem with the phone it wont start as its locked.
The phone goes to a Blue screen after you ON it and do the screen configiration etc
The blue screen has Cognito on it saying 'Warning this Devcie is Locked'
then under it:
'If you are installing from the MMC card please wait.
Otherwise, either insert the MMC card and do a cold boot, or contact Cognito to unlock the device.
Im not sure what this means and if i leave the phone for a while or type it from it takes me to a password screen in white with the keyboard on it.
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Im not sure what to do if you can help me you will save me alot of money otherwise do i just chuck the phone away also
ive tried a Hard Reset by clicking the POWER BUTTON, RESET KET.
nothing happens just the phone loads up and makes me Calibrate the screen.
Ive tried this process while also pressing the D-PAD i get a screen with Serial with V1.06 i think at the bottom
i dont really know how i can know if its Hard resetted.
So please peolple take a Minute to help me thanks alot.

may work not too sure though
hey man i feel sorry for you
okay wot u do is download the o2 rom for the device because u sed it is a xda2 so download and install that. this will do a comlpete rest not like hard reset it will deleted absolutly everything on the xda2 and then install indows 2003 back onto it it will be like getting a new fone. try it i hope it works for u

HI
Thank you so much.
For your Advice and Time.
can you confirm this will remove that Lock thing ?
Also do you know where i can download Win2003 for XDA II o2 UK
Thank again

Hi,
I flashed the himalaya M1000 with WM2003se upgrade. but still could not remove the Cognito (shame).
please if somebody can help that would b nice

Should do. I've done the 1.72 update on it based on the ROM from this site and all is good.

Can't beleive

I just can't beleive guys that you are experts and that's definitly correct. I learnt a lot from you guys but i have a problem and no one responded... My qtek 9100, acctually it's o2 xda is turning itself off and i tried to update it at least 5 times on different types of roms... It doesn't help. Can you please tell me what is making this problem. Now it's o2 ver 2.21 installed... Please help me and again, you are the best and thank you

bigbatica said:
I just can't beleive guys that you are experts and that's definitly correct. I learnt a lot from you guys but i have a problem and no one responded... My qtek 9100, acctually it's o2 xda is turning itself off and i tried to update it at least 5 times on different types of roms... It doesn't help. Can you please tell me what is making this problem. Now it's o2 ver 2.21 installed... Please help me and again, you are the best and thank you
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if you keep it connected to the battery does it keep turning itself off? Also, are the gold connectors that touch the battery bent or dinged at all?

Bad battery?
Had same problem with Toshiba e800...

fresh123breeze said:
Bad battery?
Had same problem with Toshiba e800...
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well its obviously something to do with the battery...but definitely trying a new battery can't hurt.

Can't be. It's new device... With some roms installed it used to happen that when someone call me it turns off. It used to happen after third call received. I though that the problem is with sim card voltage but it's not. When i installed gsm radio rom 1.13 that problem stopped. Then it used to turn itself off after i leave it for let's say half our. That means, no one calls me and nobody touched it and it turned off... I don't no, i'm ging crazy... I read that some of these problems can happen with software installed. Can you tell me, wich version of software is installed on original qtek 9100??? Thanx for reply

Then it used to turn itself off after i leave it for let's say half our. That means, no one calls me and nobody touched it and it turned off... I don't no, i'm ging crazy...
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I can't believe it either. :? So you want your qtek 9100 always on for 24/7?

Yes, i need it 24/7. For me it's not logical tah they made device like that and that it can't work 24/7

how long ago did you buy the phone...can you just exchange it for another one? Sounds like its broken to me...

by turning itself off I assume you mean all the way off, Ie when you hit the power button you see the same series of bootscreens you see after a soft reset, NOT just a standby (ie hit power and the desktop comes on...) I certainly do not mean to insult your intellegenct, but I feel it helps to be extremely clear on the details with problems like this...

Yea I have to agree with Starcruiser1229. It does seem like you mean when the device is idle, it will automatically go off. does it bother you that much when it goes off all the time? is this also your first time using a pda? sorry for the weird questions but it really does look like its the first time you've actually used one. if the device goes off and you have to soft reset all the time, then that is a problem.

Ok, thanx for reply. I'm not stupid, i hope so . I know what is stand by and that screen turns off when idle and other stuff. It's not my first pda and i know how to use it and what am i talking about. Yes it soft reset itself after fourth call received (sometimes on the first call,too). I read somewhere on the net that this problem is connected with software. Sometimes it turns off on standby and green is not blinking. When i hit on/off button to turn on screen, as i always do when it's locked, it soft reset... Don't know what more are you interested and i know it sounds silly because i haven't seen anyone had this problem on this forum. My friend read on some other forum that the problem is with unlock tools. Could this be possible???

P3300 - brick?? Please help!!!

During firmware update the USB cable has been disconnected by mistake, and since then it displays a white screen without loading the OS.
All trials to reflash failed, since it does not see the current SW version (I think).
Is there any tool or any way that can help me force the firmware update to the device unconditionally?
Help would be highly appreciated.
TIA, Zohar

zoharbl said:
During firmware update the USB cable has been disconnected by mistake, and since then it displays a white screen without loading the OS.
All trials to reflash failed, since it does not see the current SW version (I think).
Is there any tool or any way that can help me force the firmware update to the device unconditionally?
Help would be highly appreciated.
TIA, Zohar
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It depends if it is CID-Unlocked or not. Did you pay money to our friends at http://www.imei-check.com/ ? to get rid of your simlock? if so there is not a problem. Just reset your phone while holding down the voice record button on the left side of the phone this will display a three colored bar on the display, then start a original ship rom from T-Mobile or Dobop, HTC is a little bit harder. I don't own a Orbit, so I could be off. Please do a search in this forum there are some people with the same problems.
Good luck
RvBCrS

rvbcrs said:
It depends if it is CID-Unlocked or not. Did you pay money to our friends at http://www.imei-check.com/ ? to get rid of your simlock? if so there is not a problem. Just reset your phone while holding down the voice record button on the left side of the phone this will display a three colored bar on the display, then start a original ship rom from T-Mobile or Dobop, HTC is a little bit harder. I don't own a Orbit, so I could be off. Please do a search in this forum there are some people with the same problems.
Good luck
RvBCrS
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rvbcrs is right,try to get the phone into bootloader and reconect the phone if the system reads the connection try flashing with the t-mobile org shipped rom if ur in luck,should work.All the best.

No upgrade of bricked Phone in bootloader mode under Vista
Under Vista the upgrade in bootloader mode soed not work!
I think it is because of Windows Mobile Device Center Software instead of ActiveSync. Under XP no problem in 15 minutes...

well I have HTC so what shall I do
when I have the 3 stipes display. Thanks, radim
rvbcrs said:
It depends if it is CID-Unlocked or not. Did you pay money to our friends at http://www.imei-check.com/ ? to get rid of your simlock? if so there is not a problem. Just reset your phone while holding down the voice record button on the left side of the phone this will display a three colored bar on the display, then start a original ship rom from T-Mobile or Dobop, HTC is a little bit harder. I don't own a Orbit, so I could be off. Please do a search in this forum there are some people with the same problems.
Good luck
RvBCrS
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rvbcrs said:
It depends if it is CID-Unlocked or not. Did you pay money to our friends at http://www.imei-check.com/ ? to get rid of your simlock? if so there is not a problem. Just reset your phone while holding down the voice record button on the left side of the phone this will display a three colored bar on the display, then start a original ship rom from T-Mobile or Dobop, HTC is a little bit harder. I don't own a Orbit, so I could be off. Please do a search in this forum there are some people with the same problems.
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Can someone help me with this? I've got to the "bootloader mode" but don't know how to flash it from there. ActiveSync doesn't make a connection at that stage of course.

Travelcard said:
Can someone help me with this? I've got to the "bootloader mode" but don't know how to flash it from there. ActiveSync doesn't make a connection at that stage of course.
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Download this HTC P3300 WWE factory rom here http://rapidshare.com/files/19322112/HTC_1.12.405.01_026790_WWE_SHIP.rar. Now first launch Bootloader (multi color screen) and just run the ROMUpdateUtility.exe from the rar, voila your device unbricked .
PS: If you are running vista you must first change a driver, see link below to fix that. Cheers
http://www.mrvanx.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=27

Phew! That worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for that.

Travelcard said:
Phew! That worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for that.
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Your Welcome

Blackstone screwed!!! Help!!!

I have a situation out here..a TERRIBLE one
Since couple of hours back, its seems that the END KEY button is 'pressed' continuously. So I cannot use the device anymore as its always in locked state.
Figured it out because, sometimes I managed to unlock it but locked back again in no time.
Was using Dutty's Holy Grail.
Tried flashing other ROMS, even stocks ones; but they all stuck up on alignment. Upon restart, the unlock thing appears at the bottom (6.1 ROM) but its only for a second or so and that alignment things take control again.
I do not know if I've explained it well, kinda freaked out here
Guys, pls. do help me out...I've tried soft/hard resets, flashing...

fazalali110 said:
I have a situation out here..a TERRIBLE one
Since couple of hours back, its seems that the END KEY button is 'pressed' continuously. So I cannot use the device anymore as its always in locked state.
Figured it out because, sometimes I managed to unlock it but locked back again in no time.
Was using Dutty's Holy Grail.
Tried flashing other ROMS, even stocks ones; but they all stuck up on alignment. Upon restart, the unlock thing appears at the bottom (6.1 ROM) but its only for a second or so and that alignment things take control again.
I do not know if I've explained it well, kinda freaked out here
Guys, pls. do help me out...I've tried soft/hard resets, flashing...
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When alignment screen appears have you tried pressing power on/off, as this should hopefully bring you back to lockscreen where you may be able to unlock device before going back to alignment screen.
If you are still unable to unlock device its most likely due to a hardware issue with button and its probably worthwhile returning device under warranty. Ensure you have returned to stock SPL & rom beforehand

Thanks a lot for your response.
Tried that too..pulling out the stylus unlocks it for a moment though, but still not of any benefit.
Warranty hmmm....I got it from UK as it was cheaper from where I live.
Anyway will try to get some local support.

fazalali110 said:
Thanks a lot for your response.
Tried that too..pulling out the stylus unlocks it for a moment though, but still not of any benefit.
Warranty hmmm....I got it from UK as it was cheaper from where I live.
Anyway will try to get some local support.
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If the country that you bought the device and the country that you live are both member's of the European Union you are entitled to a 2 year hardware warranty as long as you can provide the initial purchasing receipt/invoice
Also it helps if the phone is in stock rom with the official spl but that is not obligatory by any means.

Have you tried bypassing the alignment phase? Try this:
The solution, to skip or bypass the screen alignment process altogether.
How to do it: Create a blank text file called, welcome.not, instead of welcome.not.txt, and place it in the root of your storage card. Next, flash a new rom or hard reset and you're done. If all goes to plan, the "welcome" phase will be bypassed, and you will not be prompted to align the screen or set the date, location, time etc.
If for some reason it does not, go into the root of your SD and manually with your stylus or via activesync on your desktop create a new blank file in there and name it welcome.not. If it works then leave it in the root of your SD and it will allow the bypass with each new flash or hard reset.
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That should at least get you past the alignment phase at least.

ioannisman said:
If the country that you bought the device and the country that you live are both member's of the European Union you are entitled to a 2 year hardware warranty as long as you can provide the initial purchasing receipt/invoice
Also it helps if the phone is in stock rom with the official spl but that is not obligatory by any means.
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Nah, not in the european union either.
ClydeB1 said:
Have you tried bypassing the alignment phase? Try this:
That should at least get you past the alignment phase at least.
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I cooked a rom without windows lock and welcome, but still can't use the mobile. Touching the screen only brings the back light up..doesn't do anything else
Don't know what went wrong, it was placed peacefully on a table, had used it 15~20mins back; and when i try to use it again BAM!
Have a feeling its the digitizer.

fazalali110 said:
Nah, not in the european union either.
I cooked a rom without windows lock and welcome, but still can't use the mobile. Touching the screen only brings the back light up..doesn't do anything else
Don't know what went wrong, it was placed peacefully on a table, had used it 15~20mins back; and when i try to use it again BAM!
Have a feeling its the digitizer.
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Sure is sounding that way, sorry to say.

Got it repaired for around 80$. Thanks for all your support.
Back to flashing...

fazalali110 said:
Nah, not in the european union either.
I cooked a rom without windows lock and welcome, but still can't use the mobile. Touching the screen only brings the back light up..doesn't do anything else
Don't know what went wrong, it was placed peacefully on a table, had used it 15~20mins back; and when i try to use it again BAM!
Have a feeling its the digitizer.
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Man....!!!
I faced the same issue last week.....
I made eveything soft, hard reset and it didn't work also ROM upgrade also still stuck in the same page of align and it seems the touch screen doesn't work or there a delay to repond to your touch order....
Please I need your help it's still new and it's out of warranty.......

fazalali110 said:
Got it repaired for around 80$. Thanks for all your support.
Back to flashing...
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What was the problem ?

jasemHD said:
What was the problem ?
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well, just after a day, the same problem occured. HD was locking on it own BLAH BLAH. Gave it back to the guy who repaired it and he fixed it again today.
Well, I didn't want to take any chances, so, just bought a HD2
EDIT: I was told that the problem was with the sensor, I'm sure he meant digitizer.
If you are sure that its nothing to do with the software, send it for repair. If not under warranty, get it repaired by someone trustable
Best of luck, I feel for you