Hello, GREAT FORUM!
I have installed 4.01.16 ROM from lumpistefen kitchen. It's working normal, but a little buggy for me and i wonna to return to my origial 3.17 O2 ROM (i have nk.nbf).
But i can't do it from XDATools directly. The only way, as i see, is update from bootloader. I haven't SD card reader, so i write my 3.17 ROM with XDATools on 128 Mb SD card, using builtin XDA SD card slot.
Then i restart XDA to bootloader (press power+soft reset), which shows me following on the screen:
Wallaby Bootloader
5.15
GSM OK
That's all! What should i do next? How can i start re-flashing?
Can it be bootloader problem? Can it be solved fixed with pnewbootloader from XDAUtilities package (from XDA-Developers). Or i can make my device not loadable at all?
One remark: After rebooting WM2003 promt me to format my SD card to make it readable. Is it correct? Or there are some problems in SD card writting process..
Please, give me some ideas, what should i do! :wink: How can I re-flash my ROM?
I had a similar problem. I tried using XDATools to write a ROM to my SD card but when rebooting-with power key.. it went to the diagnostics screen directly. So I used XDArit1.exe to write to the SD card and this time the XDA recognised the image on the SD card and went into the SD Download screen. But to do this I had to borrow an SD Card reader from a friend.. Oh Also. I did make sure I had Bootloader 5.15 before I did this.
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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.
How can I flash to WM2003 with bootloader 5.22. Other than the diagnostics menu, all I see (when hitting contacts) is:
CE ROM to SD
BOOT to SD
CE+BOOT to SD
GSM ROM to SD
CE+GSM to SD
Thanks in advance...
You need first to use an sd card and a card reader/writer, using the tools available on the forum you program the card with the rom image, you then place this in your xda, push power while using stylus to push in the hole on base of xda, the system will recognise the rom and ask you would you like to program the rom. Its a good idea to use that bootloader section that you are in to backup your existing rom first, ce to sd.
Thanks for the reply. I've done all that you said, but the bootloader just comes to a bootloader screen with the version and nothing else. It never asks me to do anything with the ROM. When I hit the contacts button, like in earlier versions of bootloader, there is no menu option to restore from SD.
there is no option for that, it does this automatically if you instert an sd card with the os image in the right format.
OSImageTool can create such an sd card for you.
I'm not sure what I have done wrong in creating the image then. I used xdatool with NK.nbf as the source and NK.nb1 on an SD card in a card reader as the destination. It creates fine, and when I enter the boot loader on my SX56, it goes from WAIT to GSM OK and then sits.
it does not matter what is on the sd-card before you write the os image on it using xdatools. the old data on the card is overwritten.
if you insert the card with the osimage on it in your xda, it should complain that the card is not formatted, if it says this it is ok, it just means that windows ce does not see a FAT filesystem on the card.
( so don't answer 'yes' to that question )
if you then boot into bootloader mode, you should get the question if you want to flash your rom.
I don't get the question to flash my rom. Please, what am I missing???
XDAtools:
Browse to NK.nbf as the source
Browse to NK.nb1 on SD reader as the destination
Boot with SD card into Wallaby
Screen goes from WAIT to GSM OK.
Nothing else.
I can see a file NK.nb1 on the card when I look at it in the card reader.
Do not use browse, use the drop down box in destination, choose sd card, then it will work, when you insert the card to your xda it will ask to format it, reply no and enter bootloader mode as you did before.
There is something about this bootloader that does not allow this or this option is disabled. I hvae the same problem and have flashed amny times on other bootloader version. I have a device with bootloader 5 and the same sd card flash that would not work on the bootloader 5.22 works on 5.15! So I don't have any idea. Something new form HTC :shock: I guess.
I can see a file NK.nb1 on the card when I look at it in the card reader.
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this is wrong
a sd card with the os image on it should appear as 'unformatted' or unreadable to either windows or windows ce.
you have to select sd card device from the dropdown menu.
such that the destination says something like
J: 123M USB Storage MMC[/quote]
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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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.
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
I have problem with upgrading windows via SD card. I found out that if I make a test of SD card in Wallaby Bootloader 5.15, everytime I get "TEST ERROR". I tried many times with different cards.
Could you try the test, and let me know if it is "normal", when SD card test fail.
How to do that: powerbuttotn + softreset -> wallaby bootloader -> hit (main) cursor key -> choose SD card TEST.
Maybe this is why I cannot upgrade with SD card. Maybe SD slot is bad....
Sorry mikulkajan,
but it appears to be your device/card, just tried with my O2 XDA, v5.15 bootloader and a 256MB MMC card and the test came up OK... - just to check the blatently obvious but if using an SD card is it unlocked?
Sorry mikulkajan,
but it appears to be your device/card, just tried with my O2 XDA, v5.15 bootloader and a 256MB MMC card and the test came up OK... - just to check the blatently obvious but if using an SD card is it unlocked?