Hi ,
during Xmas shopping yesterday I dropped my XDA1 on the pavement.
Unfortunately it is not starting up anymore now.
No reaction to the on/off buttom at all.
If I try to start it with the stylus it comes up with Wallaby bootloader screen V5.15 GSM OK.
The only other screen that I can reach from there is diagnostics GPRS4.2132S54.
It does varies test which seem to work ok, but I can't get out of this diagnostic screen.
Any idea, how to get it started again would be very much appreciated.
(of course the warranty is wxpired and I do not have an O2 contract anymore)
many thanks
If you just use the stlyus in the little hole and the bootloader comes up, i would think, that the power button do not work any more. Maybe this is your trouble. Bootloader normaly comes up by pressing power button and sticking the stylus in the little hole.
Try dismantling the xda and check the Power Button....
HTH
Stefan
many thanks, problem solved!
Following your much appreciated advice, I opened the XDA.
The problem was indeed the on/off button, which I could fix easily.
many thanks again for your efficient and quick help!
golf
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Hi, after reading that the PM10A could take windows mobile 2006 i tried it, installed it and broke my PM10A. Now all the thing does is Vibrate, it wont charge or turn the screen on, all it does is vibrate for a short period of time and if i plug it in it will vibrate continously. Also it cannot be seen by the computer or active sync, everybody i have talked to about this says that it is a complete mystery, what i was hoping was to see if any body knows what is wrong and could help me??
I only bought this around 3-4 days ago and therefore quite upset, i know its my own fault due to WM2006 but is it fixable?
Please help me.
The Magician can't take WM6. wherever you read it, it was not true... It can't take WM5 either
I'm sorry to be harsh, but this is something that has been asked a lot of times, and the answer is still no. Closest you'll get as far as i know is the WM6 lookalike rom that someone here posted...
you bricked your phone, methinks... Buy a new one off ebay or something.
Welcome to the forums though
Enter boot loader hold down camera + power button and reset device.connect cable and update
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The Bootloader
You can enter the bootloader by holding down the camera + power button, and resetting the device.
the reset button is on the bottom right, a small hole. a wallaby reset pin fits nicely in the hole. the magician unfortunately does not have one.(but you can use the magician pencil) "
Works again! Thanks!
grigoreee said:
Enter boot loader hold down camera + power button and reset device.connect cable and update
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The Bootloader
You can enter the bootloader by holding down the camera + power button, and resetting the device.
the reset button is on the bottom right, a small hole. a wallaby reset pin fits nicely in the hole. the magician unfortunately does not have one.(but you can use the magician pencil) "
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Great, this works perfectly and now the PDA works normaly again, thanks a lot for your great help, very much appreciated, thanks a lot,
Thanasie
WM5
grigoreee said:
Enter boot loader hold down camera + power button and reset device.connect cable and update
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The Bootloader
You can enter the bootloader by holding down the camera + power button, and resetting the device.
the reset button is on the bottom right, a small hole. a wallaby reset pin fits nicely in the hole. the magician unfortunately does not have one.(but you can use the magician pencil) "
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hello is there no chance to upgrade magician from WM2003SE to WM5 ???
No I don't think so.
aaurnab said:
hello is there no chance to upgrade magician from WM2003SE to WM5 ???
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I don't think so but if you do find something please let me know, thank you.
My Magicain, seems to be permanently stuck in the bootloader mode. I've tried using the original flash RUU (even the NO_ID version) without success. It either doesn't detect my device, or says that it isn't the correct version for my phone (although I downloaded it from the official site).
Any suggestions?
Nokia 3650 said:
My Magicain, seems to be permanently stuck in the bootloader mode. I've tried using the original flash RUU (even the NO_ID version) without success. It either doesn't detect my device, or says that it isn't the correct version for my phone (although I downloaded it from the official site).
Any suggestions?
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Hi, i dont know if yours is an I-Mate but try to go to the i-mate website and download it from there it worked for me and i was just thinking you should maybe give it a try, let me know what happens.
Yes, I had already used it. This was what bricked my I-mate Jam, in the first place. I tried using the NO_ID tool, to try to connect with my device, but it keeps saying that my unit is not designed for this tool.
Nokia 3650 said:
Yes, I had already used it. This was what bricked my I-mate Jam, in the first place. I tried using the NO_ID tool, to try to connect with my device, but it keeps saying that my unit is not designed for this tool.
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Hi, sorry for the late reply, i used the one named : JAM_UK_Aus_11200_171_11 CDL
hope this helps,
i have now purchased a t-mobile mda 2 but i am having problems with this sim card as it will not recognise any sims i put into it, i have had a bad time with these HTC's that maybe i will not buy any more, this new one i have is my 3rd i think
I got the unit re-flashed with the 'big ROM' versiosion.
The unit now works, but I want to get my other Charmer working now. It shows the bootscreen, then the device turns itself off. I have to remove/re-insert the battery, then do a hard reset to ge it back on.
Nokia 3650 said:
I got the unit re-flashed with the 'big ROM' versiosion.
The unit now works, but I want to get my other Charmer working now. It shows the bootscreen, then the device turns itself off. I have to remove/re-insert the battery, then do a hard reset to ge it back on.
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hi, again sorry for very very late reply, i now fix these PDA's, have you managed to fix your charmer?
No. I haven't fixed the Charmer as yet. I gave up on that project, as it seemed to be more a hardware problem than the actual firmware.
I'll PM you more on this shortly.
Nokia 3650 said:
No. I haven't fixed the Charmer as yet. I gave up on that project, as it seemed to be more a hardware problem than the actual firmware.
I'll PM you more on this shortly.
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yeah sure PM me any time, thanks
I am not able to access the bootloader by pressing the three buttons. Device freezes on a black screen. What is the solution?
Hi,
I am trying to flash a ROM on a friend's Hermes, but it is a bit knackered. His OK button on the side near the jog-dial has died.
For some reason it won't flash without putting it into Bootmode first (I had to do this method on my phone which is exactly the same, but in better condition).
Is there any way to get it into Bootmode without pressing the power and OK buttons whilst soft-resetting?
Google came up with nothing and neither did forum search.
My power button is toast, so I'm in the same boat, no paddle.
While my power button was dying, it was stuck in the depressed state, and any soft reset attempt would put it into boot loader mode. So maybe no OK button is OK. Not sure if I had compounded issues whose interactions were confounding my results or what.
Any way to remap the power button or the OK button? No answers in the HTC or XDA wiki and forums.
This might be a case of the blind leading the blind here, but I doubt that'd work.
I don't think it's in the software mapping on the button, but in the hardware. Short of opening it up I doubt you could remap it.
Again, I could be wrong.
I was thinking something more software based. Nearly every ROM I've seen puts it into Bootloader before flashing it. Wonder if there's any way to stop it just there.
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This might be a case of the blind leading the blind here, but I doubt that'd work.
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Hey, as long as you tried it out, I think that's all you can expect.
If you can't use the sd card method, why not use the usb method (now this is a role reversal ).
I'm a great advocate of the sd card method but if its impossible then the only way to go is the usb method via activesync.
Cheers...
As for , if you want to open your Hermes, theres a Great guide on Mike Channon's site. Its the "HTC Service Manual". It tells you how to open your Hermes, take it apart & put it back together again. Do a search on the forum for "Hermes HTC Service Manual" and you should find it. It fairly easy to disassemble
and pretty robust. you do need a small flatblade screwdriver, a small philips head and a No.6 torque key.
It will also void warranty.
Cheers...
Mike's site was valuable as it lead me to another site's step-by-step to open my Hermes and un-stick the power button. I wouldn't mind remapping the power button for each ROM I flash...but my flashing days are over as I'm happy now with something as simple as a stable ROM. sigh
Hi all,
I appreciate any help here as i'm relatively new to this.
I have a hermes with the sprint rom update and that's it. I was recently trying to update to a different rom and I keep running into the same error. I don't know what my bootloader version is, and the ok power and reset button doesn't bring me into that mode. my camera button does, and I also don't see any of the spl information that's asked to be picked. However I just do the force, and it almost works and It brings up the screen where it actually should start loading...however here comes the problem. it keeps telling me that theres a usb connection problem.. I have several chords and tried them all and nothing seems to work. I checked other forums for this problem and found none..although I am horrible at looking. any help would be much appreciated. thanks!
Did you HOLD the three buttons (ok, power and reset button) in until the phone reset?
I'd say to try the sd card method but 1st you need to install Hard SPL to make sure you CAN FIX it if something goes wrong then upgrade your rom. If you haven't flashed any other rom before I'd bet my bottom dollar you have a "dangerous" SPL to try flashing with.
Try the three buttons again like I said then, if your SPL isn't 2.10 olipro (yeah, right), read this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296722
It will provide you with the right tools to start flashing.
Cheers....
thanks for the help. however the ok button still isn't doing it. is this common? I can only assume the mode where the three color bars displayed on the screen is the boot loader. and I see nothing about olipro. I hold the ok power and reset button and it boots upp like a regular soft reset. but with power camer and rese, then its colored screen. I'm not sure if this makes any difference...
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thanks for the help. however the ok button still isn't doing it. is this common? I can only assume the mode where the three color bars displayed on the screen is the boot loader. and I see nothing about olipro. I hold the ok power and reset button and it boots upp like a regular soft reset. but with power camer and rese, then its colored screen. I'm not sure if this makes any difference...
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Can you post a photo of your device , just to make sure its a Hermes we are dealing with here, also where the buttons are would help
Hi there, your sprint mogul is a Titan
HTC TyTn = HTC Hermes
Sprint/HTC Mogul = HTC Titan
Thread moved to the appropriate forum. good luck
Heres a link to the Titan wiki.
Hey ... I have A BIG problem. My power button on my HTC TyTN got screwed. And I don't know how to fix it. Tried dissassembling and the button isn't as elastic as the other ones.
So - any underlay or whatever. Could it help? Anyone who had the same problem?
I checked it ... and the button [the small black thing] doesn't "click" ... so - what can I do with that? My warranty has expired few days ago.
Or, is there another way to get into the bootloader except OK + Power + Softreset? I wanna flash new ROM (which I really need, this one is kinda weird) and I'm afraid of doing it (just for sure if I brick the phone).
You have to take the plunge and flash the unit using RUUwrapper.
Another alternative is using MTTY.exe (or another terminal too over a virtual USB connection) to place the phone in bootloader mode among other things.
If you know how to use JTAG (I'm just learning about this), then you have nothing to wory about.
But ... it has to be connected to activesync. And if thar ROM will be bad (won't boot) or flashing fails, I won't be able to connect phone to RUUwrapper.
Or can mtty put "dead" phone into bootloader?
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Or can mtty put "dead" phone into bootloader?
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Yes it can. I do not remember the command right now.
NB: A 'bricked' phone will always be in bootlader mode anyway.
You can run the terminal command "r2sd all" (this works on Charmers/Magicians) (so you'll have to look up your variant) to back up the current ROM to the M2 card (using a RAW writing method) in MTTY.exe (or any other suitable terminal program).
Well, I'm still a bit scared that mtty won't put the phone into bootloader.
And can you please explain me this? "NB: A 'bricked' phone will always be in bootlader mode anyway."
If i have bad XIP or whatever, it just has white screen and nothing happens. Will mtty be able to put phone into bootloader even after this?
Same problem Here
Hi Friends,
I screwed my HTC Hermes power button while trying to fix its earlier problem.
Now to turn the backlight on ..i changed the settings and I can now use any button to bring it out of Sleep mode....
I used a program available on this site to enter bootloader.
However, the problem remains when "power button" is to be pressed.
Any advice on how to get over the "Press power button" to start the ROM flashing....
Has it just popped off the board slightly?
Does it click with some applied pressure in a particular area?
I just yesterday repaired the power button on my hermes, it had popped out from the PCB on one side.
Bit of soldering managed to re-attach the metal outer case of the switch to the PCB, all seems to be working again.
DarK501 said:
Has it just popped off the board slightly?
Does it click with some applied pressure in a particular area?
I just yesterday repaired the power button on my hermes, it had popped out from the PCB on one side.
Bit of soldering managed to re-attach the metal outer case of the switch to the PCB, all seems to be working again.
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Its completely come out of the PCB... I tried but doesn't work for me...
Also, further damage has been done as the Battery connector has come off the PCB......
Phone is completely off now. Will keep you posted.
wanted to install wp7 with a clean start...so tried to task29 (doloop) with 100% success and then my tmo hd2 wont go into bootscreen what ever i do...its stuck for ever in "stick together"...i know there is no os to load...but i dont understand y cant my hd2 go intobootloader
so far i tried
with holding volume down and power key with a single tap
with holding volume down and holding power key
with holding volume down, volume up and power key with a single tap
with holding volume down and reset button
with/without sim
with/without SD
with/without plug in wall charger
with/without plug to pc via usb cable
observations...when i pull out the battery and put it back in and then connect to computer when the phone is still off....the charging indicator LED glows in orange.
when in this mode if i switch the phone on with power/end key....it doent start...i have to pull the usb out, the orange LED still glows...and if i tap the power/end key nothing happenes...i have to pullout the battery to get it to start and eventually get stuck in "stick together"..
would really appriciate if any1 can help me get my hd2 into bootloader screen...
resolved the problem myself.....hd2 is working like a charm....thanks for all your support.
How did you fix it? For other users in this position.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
SOLVED {bootloader dont loadArrow}
Here is what I did..
B4 that some background -
I used to heavily try different roms/mods and always played with android sd and nand versions…win 6.5X in multiple cooked version….
So my tmo-hd2 has been formatted/hard reseted/flashed many many times
By virtue of this….my screen died….slowly my screen touch responsiveness malfunctioned and eventually died… all hardware keys were working perfectly by the touch was dead….
During the process of screen malfunction to completely dead….made few observations to not things which might help fellow Hd2 owners…one thing is power/end key seems to be the culprit (this is my observation/belief).
Since I don’t live in US spend 100$ in changing the screen since then everything is working well…I still rig my hd2 like I always do…
Well when the wp7 was released, wanted to give a try…did this…hspl pkg 3 spl 2.08 hspl > then task 29 > and my hd2 didn’t get into bootloader at all…..i was doomed as there hd2 (after task29) didn’t hv os..
Searched for the solution everywhere and eventually nothing worked for me…I was about to give up…suddenly sometime struck my mind…wat if the power/end key is the problem….then things were positive..
I opened up my hd2 (unscrew and removed the back panel) and disconnected the connector flex rigid board (A board) of the hardware keypad from the mainboard….and pushed the battery in and pressed reset (sometime u need to plugin the usb cable to wall charged/pc to wake up the phone) and held volume down key and hopped for some miracle.
Viola saw the tricolor screen after eternity – since the back panel (not backcover) was open I help the battery to the pins and didn’t even move my fingers …run the stock rom installation and held the battery tight in place and waited to get the rom completed…the moment its 100% relaxed my fingers and reconnected the flexboard connector, re-assembled my phone and everything was back to normal…
ONE THING I LEARND FROM THIS…..HD2 IS A ROCKING PHONE AND U CAN RESURRECT IT WHATEVER HAPPENS TO IT (if at all some1 screws it with wrong radio…its officially bricked, but still it can be revived using RIFF JTAG method and rewrite boot data).
One final request pls DON’T GIVEUP ON YOUR DEVISE
Now I have wp7 running successfully and waiting for my activation code for live services
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I can confirm this does work. I myself was going to give up until I found this and well thank you!
fcpelayo said:
I can confirm this does work. I myself was going to give up until I found this and well thank you!
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happy it worked for you....promote this solution....others might benefit.
also hit thanks if u think its worth it
May I link to or rewrite and credit you with this in my guide?
interesting, two confirmations in this thread, and there's another thread where 2/3 people successfully used this method.
That whole lower right area is the Achilles Heel of this phone, keypad, screen connector and most pressed key all right in one little place.
Bring me the chief designers head on a plate!
Yes. The only downfall of the hd2. I wish it had the soft screen keys at the bottom.
Sent from my HD2 using xda premium
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May I link to or rewrite and credit you with this in my guide?
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Would like to divert folks to this thread and share experiences here so every one will hit the same link to get benefit, If thats oki with you. let me know
samsamuel said:
interesting, two confirmations in this thread, and there's another thread where 2/3 people successfully used this method.
That whole lower right area is the Achilles Heel of this phone, keypad, screen connector and most pressed key all right in one little place.
Bring me the chief designers head on a plate!
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yup...and the interesting thing is, i befriended an HTC engineer and got hold of multiple 'a-boards' at that time to test this out.the flex-board that reacts when we push the button.
there were multiple models/molds for HD2...may be different production lines..everything did the same job including the one which was shipped with the device..'a-board' wasnt the culprit here..the very design of having power + end call + device unlock in the same key/button is the issue.