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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.

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

SD card image --> nbf, how to do?

does anyone knows whether there're some tools could do it? I wanna convert a SD card image to a NBF file, so that I can use RUU to simplify the flash.
Any help will be appreciated.

loading rom from sd card

Hi there can some one Help
I'm useing biuld 18538.0.7.0 pv But can't get it to load rom from sd card I need to know the correct path & config txt file please

how to upgrade herald via sd card?(sd card flashing)

how to upgrade herald via sd card?(sd card flashing)
thanks

1. There is already a walkthrough that I myself created. Please search.
2. This subforum is for posting on MAKING ROMs. There is another forum for help.

i found this and i post here
format sd card to fat32
copy *.nbh file to root of sd card and rename it to HERAIMG.NBH
make sure battery charge more than 50%
press and hold camera button then press reset via stylus(or remove battery hold camera button and place battery again) and device will be flash with SD Card.
thats all.

i am unable to do this..my device takes me to bootloader screen. what do to?

So you're saying you formatted the memory card to FAT32, renamed the file to HERAIMG.nbh and put it on the card, then put it in the phone, and WHILE THE PHONE IS ON pressed and held the camera button and then soft resetted the phone with the stylus, HOLDING THE CAMERA BUTTON the whole time?

If ^that^ doesn't work, then either you're using a SDHC, which is not compatible, or your card is not fast enough.

ivanmmj said:
1. There is already a walkthrough that I myself created. Please search.
2. This subforum is for posting on MAKING ROMs. There is another forum for help.
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JUST FOLLOW IVANS POST ABOUT ROMs. IT WILL SAVE YOU ALOT OF HEADACHES...THANKS IVAN, YOU ROCK MAN !!!

how do u format ur sd card to FAT32?
and where is the *.nbh file?

tinman4124 said:
how do u format ur sd card to FAT32?
and where is the *.nbh file?
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These are two things you should really know before messing around with your phone and potentially bricking it.
There are many guides on how to format on google (it depends on your computer's Operating System). There are many guides on what FAT32 is on google, as well.
As far as where is the nbh file. It's THE ROM that you downloaded.
Knowledge is the best way to safeguard your phone from any damage.
Hope that was helpful. ^_^

Something that you might have missed...
I too was having issues of the phone going into the bootloader. Now if you follow the instructions to the letter it does work. However, if you think that my SD Card is already formatted to FAT32 and I have a bunch of space left. Then it wont work! It SEEMS you have to have nothing but the nhb file on the SD Card. That is reformat the SD Card then put the file on, and you'll be sweet!