Ok the stand alone EXE doesnt work for me. It requires that I plug in a power adapter that is already pluged in and because of this I was told that I need to do it the SD card method.
Ok so I have os image tool ... how do I load the special edition rom into it so I can copy it to my secure digital card?
All I have is the EXE file, not a NB1 file.
Extract the exe file using winzip......
Stefan
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anyone know how to flash ROM using .nb0 ROM file?
Toshiro said:
anyone know how to flash ROM using .nb0 ROM file?
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Yea you can do it with the XDATools program!
For more info. on XDATools read:
http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2189
Download site:
http://cuba.calyx.nl/~jsummers/XDA/XDAtools-Jeff.exe
HTH
normally an .nbo extension means that the file is the bootloader part, not the Windows CE part.
An .nbo file should hae a size of 256 k, while an .nb1 file is around 32 meg.
my .nb0 file size is 32 MB
I normally have an aversion to blindly changing the extension on files, especially when they are going to be used in a ROM upgrade, but I think you want to change the extension to .nb1. I would suspect that the bootloader wouldn't know what to do with a 32 meg .nb0 file.
i'll try that... thanks
you may also want to check your file using 'splitrom.pl'
it will try to determine what is contained in your file.
to be safe, convert it to a 'sure' nb1 by typing
Code:
perl splitrom.pl yourunknownfile.xxx -wo truenb1.nb1
i'm not familiar with perl scripts and i don't use linux
i'm using win xp
is there a way to do this using win xp?
thanks
Qman... I tried using XDAtools and it didn't work. OSImageTool didn't recognize the file's format.
Any thought?
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Qman... I tried using XDATools and it didn't work. OSImage Tool didn't recognize the file's format.
Any thought?
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Thats real strange I just copied an image with the same extension to a SD card without any problem, oh wait I used XDArit 1.0 and not XDATools.
So I'll give XDATools a try when I get off work tonight and post how that went.
BTW the file I used was a boot loader backup ROM and then I used XDArit to copy it from the SD card to hard drive and I named/saved that file as xdarom.nb0 then I used XDArit to write it back to the SD card, bingo no problem!
BTW Toshiro thats why I had ask you to send a copy of that file to see if I could write it disk, but since you didn't I just created one myself and it worked. :wink:
Can somebody else give this a try and see if it also works for you.
HTH
Toshiro:
i'm not familiar with perl scripts and i don't use linux
i'm using win xp
is there a way to do this using win xp?
thanks
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Activeperl.
If you are one of those Qtek users who never settle for what they have and you want to experiment with cooking some new ROMs made to your individual needs, here's how you can do it.
- First, you need to always download the ROM in an EXE format. You then right click on the downloaded file and you choose to extract files in a specified folder
- Second, you will need to install XDAtools on you PC. After you've done so, run the application.
- A window with a 'source' field' and a 'destination' field will appear. In the 'source' field hit the browser button and pick up the nbf file you had previously extracted from the EXE ROM file. The file is named NK.NBF.
- Click on 'copy' and wait till is finished. You won't be able to verify that the file has been written on your card as the card is not readable.
- Slide the card in the Qtek and press the power button whilst simultaneously you do a soft reset.
- Let the files copy and do NOTHING untill the process is completed.
- Do a battery reset and wait for 60secs before you switch it on again.
Note1: Make sure you don't run out of power. Your battery must be fully charged.
Note2: If you're cooking your ROM in Lumpi Stefan's kichen have in mind that the ROM version 4.01.00 is a T-Mobile edition and it'll cause you various problems with ActiveSync. For a start you won't be able to upgrade to another ROM through your PC. You'll have to do it through an SD. Also the ROM edition 4.00.21 is in German.
Good Luck!
HTC finally came out with a wm6.1 update for the Telus touch phone.
I cant install the .exe file directly from my phone, and I tried to extract the .cab file, but it's just not installing...
I'm not running the new mac, with the intel processor. So I cant run windows on it.
Any other suggestion for me ?
Put it on a flash drive and install it from Kinkos or the library.
Thanks Balana,
Yep I tried to put it on my flash drive, but i get the message that it is an invalid ppc application.
And what is Kinkos ?
The update exe's don't contain a cab file. They contain an .nbh ROM image. If you extract that file from the exe you can flash it directly from your SD card. I'd suggest looking for specifics in the Upgrades/ROM Development forum of your particular device.
Thank's Bedoig.
Tried everything, finally I had to resort to the ultimate sacrifice... working on a PC ! Flashed my device to wm 6.1 Cant be happier, now I have the GPS on my HTC touch.
Hi all,
I'm probably being really stupid but i'm going round in circles trying to upgrade an SPV2000 to WM5 or 6. Every flash i've tried reports a country or hardware missmatch. Can anyone supply a flash that will work?
Many thanks in anticipation.
Bryan
look at my signature click the WIKI link and read
or download the archive i attached, extract it to folder on your pc, get the nk.nbf from the rom you want to flash and copy it to the folder in which you are extracted my archive, then put your device in bootloader mode and run MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe
Greeting from the boonies of Maine.
Phone: HTC Touch Vogue (US Cellular) w. coke 2.31 and a Rom I cooked in the PPCKitchen
The first one I created did weird things I did not like, so went back to Factory ROM from HTC website (I have a copy on my computers)
I then tried to pick and choose what I wanted in the PPCKitchen, but some thing happened there too. 1- no longer connects to the internet via #777
I wanted to go factory again so as to restart with using cabs instead so I can check 1 by one the items causing weird stuff to happen.
Connected to my desktop and got a can not communicate message -- it says Remote Network Error (Error 608) - anybody have a clue what I can do now - my laptop said the same thing.
If I can not connect through the desktop or laptop then I can not restore what needs to be restored.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
Maine Notary Net
Firstly, have you tried to hard-reset the phone? (red+green+stylus in reset hole) Ive always noticed with flashing a ROM a hard reset immediately helps with weird issues that may occur
If that doesnt help, then you can always connect your (less than 2GB) SD card, the original works great for this into your PC and copy over the ROM you want to use onto it XXXfilenameXXX.nbh file, once there or before you copy it either way, rename it to VOGUIMG.nbh and then attempt to flash/reflash via bootloader mode (power+camera+stylus in hole)
Sometimes you can start bootloader then plug it in via USB, but its just easier to have the ROM on a SD card for future emergency flashes if needed
Hope that helps
Detroit Doug
Hard reset didn't work as it still uses the rom you just flashed.
I have the sd card to use but the file on the htc site for the shipped uscc rom is an exe file which includes the RUU so that I do not thing would auto run in the same way.
Any other ideas.
Download a custom ROM from around here for your carrier once you open the file (usually a .rar file) you will find the .nbh file there - rename that file to VOGUIMG.nbh and copy it to your SD card and use bootloader method to flash (BTW the ROM coming down from whatever site your original ROM is your getting is most likely just a compressed executable so you can probably use WinRAR or WinZip to extract to a folder and find the nbh file there)
Once it is up and running, connect via USB and attempt to synch and go from there
Detroit Doug
[Solved - sort of]
Thanks for the clues Detroit_Doug (referring to the first post).
I was able to place the phone in bootloader (bottom would read [serial]) then plugged in the phone (changed to [USB]) and ran the exe file. That worked. So now I am back to stock.
QPST does not recognize my phone so how can I get the rom backed up as just the vogueimg.nbh file.
I use Vista and it has its own extract the nbh file -- right click on an exe does not include extract. I really do not want to have to have another program to do what vista has built in as it takes over all kinds of compressed files when you install it.
But my original problem is solved. Going to try to find cabs for just the items I want so I can use remove programs when things go wonky again.
Thanks again
Kevin M Carman
Maine Notary Net
mainenotarynet said:
QPST does not recognize my phone so how can I get the rom backed up as just the vogueimg.nbh file.
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Simple answer: you cant
that is if Im reading your request correctly, you want to back your phone up into a .nbh file? if that is correct see simple answer.
ROMs are created to flash to a device, not like Ghost or Ateris that makes an image of the phone you can just restore the image in its entirety.
Your closest you can hope for is to install PIM or SPB backup solutions that will allow you to backup contacts, mail, texts, etc but unfortunately not apps or the OS.
mainenotarynet said:
I use Vista and it has its own extract the nbh file -- right click on an exe does not include extract. I really do not want to have to have another program to do what vista has built in as it takes over all kinds of compressed files when you install it.
Thanks again
Kevin M Carman
Maine Notary Net
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Vista (like XP and Windows 7) has its version of compression software and will allow the compression and extraction of SOME compressed files although Windows will see an .EXE as just that an .EXE and may or may not recognize it as a compressed executable and therefor wont open it.
Your best bet is to use a small app such as WinRAR or even 7-Zip, with those during the install you can select to allow Windows UI integration as well as what file extension you want it to be associated with and which ones you dont (zip, rar, iso, etc)
Hope that helps and glad your back up and running
Detroit Doug