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How to upgrade ROM?

I am using xda1 and would like to upgrade it to WM2003 (T-mobile CE Rom). However, after I wrote the ROM (NK.nbf) to my 128M SD card through a SD card read/writer by XDA OSImage Tool, I pressed the power button together with soft reset to the bootloading mode and put the SD card into my xda, nothing happen. It does not check the new rom, why?

You have to insert the SD-Card BEFORE you go into Bootloader-Mode.
Greetings, Kaputter :shock:

I also tried that, I input the SD card first and pressed to the wallaby bootloader mode (v5.15).
What it showed was just the "white/red/green/blue" page and checked GSM ok. Any other button I have to pressed?

Chris it means that the card has not been written to properly I think, try writing the file again, if you put it in your xda without going into bootloader, it should offer to format the card for you, just say no to the question then try again, if it doesnt offer to format the card it means the file has not been written correctly.

Yeah, you are right.
When I inserted the card (that I think written with the NK.nbf) in the card reader/writer, it didn't ask me to format the card. When I open the explorer for that drive, I saw the nbf file there.
I tried to write the file several times and same results.
Let me explore my case a bit. I used the XDA OSimage tool and for the Source, I chose the file (NK.nbf that contains the T-mobile 4.01.00 downloaded from other thread in this forum) in my computer (WIN2000) and for the destination, I chose the G:NK.nbf.
Any thoughts?

You need to choose destination from the drop down box, it should show your card reader there, then it will work.

chris_khho said:
When I open the explorer for that drive, I saw the nbf file there.
Any thoughts?
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That's your problem right there.
You can't just do a windows/dos 'file copy' to write the ROM image to the SD card. You need to use XDAtools or its predecessor XDArit to copy a raw ROM image to the card. The difference is that the card must ONLY have the Rom image and not the FAT, etc information that gets added in when the card is formatted.
This is why under the correct circumstances the XDA gets confused when you first stick the card in - it sees a card that isn't formatted so it offers to format it so the card can be written to.
The bootloader method is IMO the best way to upgrade the ROM. Read up some more on XDAtools and how it can be used to write the ROM image to the SD card.

But I did use the OSImage Tool already. For the source, I choose the NK.nbf file from my PC and I choose the SD card drive for the destination.
But the actual problem seems solved for me. The actual reason for upgrading to WM2003 for me is to view and edit the office attachment whenever received from my e-mail. In the past, I can't read the word or excel document without activesync the files. Now, by using an add-in software, I can.
Thanks very much to everybody.

Using OS Image Tool to copy bootloader to SD Reader

I cannot figure out how to copy the bootloader_v5_15.nb0 to the SD card on my reader (Image Mate 8 in 1) in a format that will be recognized by my XDA. All the examples here are will the older XDA tools which I can't find. I have the newest (I think) XDA OS Image tool and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to put the bootloader file on the SD card in the right format. Thanks.

paul.ck said:
I cannot figure out how to copy the bootloader_v5_15.nb0 to the SD card on my reader (Image Mate 8 in 1) in a format that will be recognized by my XDA. All the examples here are will the older XDA tools which I can't find. I have the newest (I think) XDA OS Image tool and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to put the bootloader file on the SD card in the right format. Thanks.
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Download and use XDArit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=3274&highlight=bootloader+xdarit

Thanks
The XDArit program was exactly what I needed. I was able to unlock my phone and my friends and load everything back on it. Thanks

Xdarit is the bomb alright ! I tried xdatools to write to my 256 MB SD card and I couldnt get the XDA to boot from the SD card so I tried Xdarit next. (1.02 version) and the program didnt even execute for me.. Threw an exception.. so then I downloaded the older version of Xdarit (ver 1) which is called XDARit1.exe and wrote the image to the SD card. This time I could boot (by soft-booting holding with holding the power key) and it went directly to the SD Download screen .. smooth sailing from then..

Can I use XDARit1.exe to write to my sd via a xda? or do I must have a card reader/ writer?
When I start XDARit1.exe I get a window with only one option which is to write to disk 4294967295, if I point to write to sd, I get a warning that it may erace a present hard disk.

flashing from SD card

hi, i've been reading a lot on this forum lately, because i lost my OS while trying to upgrade with .exe file, so my phone doesn't work now, my wallaby bootloader 5.17 works just fine, i just need to upload the OS to the device, i've bought a 256 SD card, a card reader, i've uploaded the rom using xdatool exactly how you say to do it, i've put the card in and...nothing, i reseted, nothing, i went to the bootloader and nothing asked whether i want to get the rom from the SD card, what do i need to do now to start flashing???

ok nevermind what i wrote in the previous post, i know how to do it, all need now is to know how to put the file wallaby-patch-tool.nb2 on the sd card, neither XDATools nor XDArit cooperates with this file format

ok nevermind what i wrote in the previous post, i know how to do it, all need now is to know how to put the file wallaby-patch-tool.nb2 on the sd card, neither XDATools nor XDArit cooperates with this file format

how to put stock rom in, with usb not working

Hi, how do i put original stock rom into diamond 2 when im going to send my phone to repair, because of faulty usb-pc connection. Is there any way? because i cant send it with cooked ROM

Use SD card. Take a card less than 8GB. Format it to FAT32. Copy ruu_signed.nbh to card and rename it to topaimg.nbh. Put phone in boot loader and follow instructions.

ai6908 said:
Use SD card. Take a card less than 8GB. Format it to FAT32. Copy ruu_signed.nbh to card and rename it to topaimg.nbh. Put phone in boot loader and follow instructions.
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If you name it topaimg.nbh it probably won't flash.
Has to be TOPAIMG.nbh

It doesn't matter, you can use both, small or capital letters. It worked for me in both ways.

Good to know. I have heard of it failing if it is not exact.

Cannot flash ROMs from sd card !!!!

my sd card is kingston sdc4\8gb formatted as FAT32
i did almost averything but still cannot flash ROMs from it
any idea?

What's the error?
Are you certain you renamed the .nbh file to topaimg.nbh?

Very easy:
- Download the rom you want.
- Rename the rom file to topaimg.nbh
- Copy this file to the root of the card
- Press the 2 up/down volume buttons (on the side of the phone) and softreset.
- Once you see the coloured screen release the buttons

Bruce Inman said:
What's the error?
Are you certain you renamed the .nbh file to topaimg.nbh?
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joooe said:
Very easy:
- Download the rom you want.
- Rename the rom file to topaimg.nbh
- Copy this file to the root of the card
- Press the 2 up/down volume buttons (on the side of the phone) and softreset.
- Once you see the coloured screen release the buttons
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as i saied i did almost every thing
yes i renamed it to topaimg.nbh
yes i copied to root of sd card
yes i went to bootloader
but it shows nothing but "serial"

Probably the phone is locked in your language.

joooe said:
Probably the phone is locked in your language.
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actually when i try another sd card it works
my issue is with that specific sd card

any one has any idea??

I have the same issue I onlocked my sd card ussing a hslp .cab but I can't find it and I lost my sd which I could use to update my roms.

mohamed2900 said:
my sd card is kingston sdc4\8gb formatted as FAT32
i did almost averything but still cannot flash ROMs from it
any idea?
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I have the exact same microSD card C4/8GB Kingston formatted FAT32 on a HTC Pure. Can't use it to flash. Something must be wrong with this card.