I was trying to upgrade the ROM on an Alpine and didn't back up the original ROM.
Of course the upgrade has gone wrong and I'm in bootloader screen (screen showing USB).
I tried searching for a ROM to flash from an SD car but I've not been able to get onto the ftp sites where these are stored.
Can anyone help. I need a UK ROM that I can flash this machine with.
Eagerbeaver said:
I tried searching for a ROM to flash from an SD car but I've not been able to get onto the ftp sites where these are stored.
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Have you read http://wiki.xda-developers.com/ ?
The FTP requires a username and password (these are both xda). However, if you're using IE to browse the FTP site, you'll have issues, as for some reason the FTP site just hates Internet Explorer's method of communicating with FTP sites. Grab a decent client (SmartFTP, CuteFTP, FlashFXP which is my preferred client, UltraFXP... you name it, there's tons of FTP apps out there) and navigate the FTP site again. Once you've logged in, all the ROMs (both official and better, cooked ROMs with all the crud stripped out, etc) are inside the Alpine folder's subfolders.
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I went onto all of the servers/ftp etc. and was unable to find a server which would allow me to download WM 2003. On Getright it kept coming up with Server Busy. I know some servers don't allow download managers, but I can't download it any other way. IE sux, Opera's transfer is ****e and I'm on a 56k modem. How can I donwload them, or are there some servers which do allow download managers?
Hey there leef,
Use my FTP server:
Server: ftp.zensay.com
username: qtek
password: qtek
Use an FTP client like WS_FTP or Bulletproof FTP (Do a Google search). Make sure you DO NOT use Passive mode.
Hope this helps.
phone edition
Hi, thanks for that link, I was just curious as to whether this file I downloaded from your link 'nk.nbf' is the phone edition of WM2003? I have an O2 xda. Do I follow the same procedure as your other article states? I'm not sure as on the screenshots it features a 'nk.nb1', do I just use my 'nk.nbf' file where it has nk.nb1?
Thanks for your help
Lee
Leef
try this http://members.lycos.co.uk/xdarom
regrads
Thanks for all your help.
Lee
Re: phone edition
leef said:
Hi, thanks for that link, I was just curious as to whether this file I downloaded from your link 'nk.nbf' is the phone edition of WM2003? I have an O2 xda. Do I follow the same procedure as your other article states? I'm not sure as on the screenshots it features a 'nk.nb1', do I just use my 'nk.nbf' file where it has nk.nb1?
Thanks for your help
Lee
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If you picked it up from the 'WM2003-40001' directory, then yes it is the 2003 ROM.
XDArit has the ability to write either nb1 or nbf files to the SD Card, so you should be fine with the nbf file.
Can someone PLEASE direct me to a REAL location containing ALL the missing files that will allow me to directly flash the rom from PC Harddrive nb1 files using XDAtool. I, nor anyone seems to have been able to connect to Jeffs archive. If these files are NOT available due to licenses, etc, PLEASE just say so.
Thanks
david
i think the computer need to have activsync installed
at least mine complained
ActiveSync not the issue
I am looking for the files needed that need to be added to the XDAtools so that a rom can be flashed from the PC (programme A for instance). I am running ActiveSync 3.7 and am completely able to read the rom and store it on my harddrive as well as doing updates to the rom with exe updates. I just want to be able to flash the rom from the PC.
david
Hello:
is it possible to get the Blackberry software ONLY for the XDA II? the O2 website only supplies it as part of a full ROM upgrade which I don't want to do as my unit is set up perfectly and I don;t want to have to do a hard reset and build it all again??
Thanks
Just download the full ROM upgrade and use ROM Edit 2003 to extract the installation CAB file you need from the extended ROM.
To do this, you need to start the ROM upgrade process (you do not need to cradle your device to your computer).
When the program welcomes you, you do not respond but search your harddisk for nk.nbf (it should be located somewhere in c:\documents and settings).
Copy this file to another location on your harddrive.
Now you can cancel the ROM upgrade process.
Browse the nk.nbf (extended ROM file) using ROM Edit 2003 in order to locate the CAB file you need for Blackberry installation.
Extract the file from the extended ROM and copy it to your device.
Run it on your device and install there.
You might need to unlock and unhide your extended ROM on your device prior to installation.
Sascha
icarusbop said:
Hello:
is it possible to get the Blackberry software ONLY for the XDA II? the O2 website only supplies it as part of a full ROM upgrade which I don't want to do as my unit is set up perfectly and I don;t want to have to do a hard reset and build it all again??
Thanks
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RIM check the device software and radio build before they will allow the software to connect to their relay. So extracting the software only and trying to connect will have no effect - it will bounce the moment it detects an unapproved software combination.
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We have our own BB server and GPRS aPN for the system ove rhere, do you think it will work on this equipment??
In theory, yes, but what I think you will find is that BB connects to its own APN then connects to your BES server. When you want to use "GPRS", it discos from the APN & will connect to yours.
So I think it's unlikely
Hmm -I've tried to get the NK.nbf file.
It does not seem to me on my computer any where, but the upgrade app does say it extracts it - maybe it stores it in RAM until the unit has been identified.
My XDA unit will not conect via serial to get the ROM file (I use BT to sync) as I dropped it once and the connector is damaged.
Any other ideas how I can get it? Is anyone willing to post the extended ROM
image for me?
Is there anyone have BlackBerry Connect App for WM2003, please?
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Is there anyone have BlackBerry Connect App for WM2003, please?
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i'm waiting too
Hi guys I have 2 questions,
1: I have a MDA Compact 2 that has customised firmware by my employer, some application automatically install when its first turned on after a reset , I have just bought a second one as a spare, is there a way of cloning the firmware from the first one to the new spare?
2: is there a way of using the MDA as a Modem on my pc? We have web and talk but wool prefer to get internet via my laptop?
thanks
1. What brand are you in? T-mobile German, Czech? Which one?
2. Flash wm6, there is an easy way of sharing the MDA Compact II internet connection for PC.
its T-Mobile UK, i cant risk going to WM6 becuase of the mod's by my employer, it runs custom software.
If its been modified by extended rom only to install custom software/settings etc then you can just use Total Commander and browse to \Extended_Rom\ then copy all the files out of it. then on the other device, skip the original customization by soft reseting when its says its about to start, then install the list of extracted cabs from the business device.
For a bit more involved, you can take all the extracted files, build them into an image and then flash them to the other device overwriting the tmobile stuff so they'll always be on there.
If you pair the laptop with the phone, it should detect the presence of a bluetooth modem (not on AKU 3+ tho) which you can then use on the laptop as a new connection dialling *99#
Hi thanks for the reply, I have followed the instructions from here,
http://www.htcwiki.com/page/Use+my+MDA+as+a+Modem?t=anon
but I am having a problem, when it says select access point name I do have any to chose, it just says none?
Any ideas
i have tryied ot on none but it dont work
I think its general.t-mobile.uk
but it wont let me type anything in?
hundleton1 said:
but it wont let me type anything in?
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no it wouldnt, it should contain the list of connections already presence on the device. i dont have an aku2 anymore on mine so i cant check it out in more detail.
hello all!
i managed to do do the rooting thing by myself (thats what i think) and i just need u guys to tell me if i did right
1- i followed this guide : https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/how-to-root-android-pie-8-0-1-nvidia-t3982709
2- my shield is now showing that error message at the start telling its unlocked,
3- i have now magisk and twrp installed and i can see the root directory.
Now to the things that i need to understand here is what do i need the rooted image from nvidia for? and why cant i access the root from ftp ? only my usb drive and sd card is showing but root not accessed from ftp.
MY android is: 8.1
Thanx in advance for all help.
2- it's not an error, but a warning.
Don't worry about it
The development image from nvidia is running a developer build of android which is prerooted and in theory su's like magisk should be easier to install.
The stock ota/recovery images comes with more protection which makes them harder to root and to do changes to the system, but thanks to people like @rootfan it's pretty much painless.
Are you sure it's ftp and not smb?
Smb just shows the internal and external drives.
If you are using an ftp server app on the shield you need to setup the paths yourself within that app.
Thanx for clearifying this, so in my case i dont need any image cuz i alredy done it i guess.
I tried to set up the ftp server to point to the root directory in my nvidia shield but i could not find any app that can point the root. All apps seems old.
How do you guys fix this?
I'm using servers ultimate.
I also think the app just called ftp server can do it.
Solid explorer might also be able to.
Atleast in servers ultimate I have to manually type in the path which is just "/" that should bring you to the root folder.
I use server ftp and server ultimate. The first one works flowless but no root. The second one that you said have root access but i cant connect to the server for unkbown reason. Could be the port
mLgz0rn said:
I'm using servers ultimate.
I also think the app just called ftp server can do it.
Solid explorer might also be able to.
Atleast in servers ultimate I have to manually type in the path which is just "/" that should bring you to the root folder.
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I tried that ultimate one and it says its runing but i cant connect to it from pc. My unrooted ftp server app works without problems. Any other apps out there that i can try?
Edit: after testing few things i managed to run ftp from browser bytyping ftp:// my external ip : port
But this doesnt work from an ftp client from my pc at the same netwrok. Even if i give the box internal ip.
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I tried that ultimate one and it says its runing but i cant connect to it from pc. My unrooted ftp server app works without problems. Any other apps out there that i can try?
Edit: after testing few things i managed to run ftp from browser bytyping ftp:// my external ip : port
But this doesnt work from an ftp client from my pc at the same netwrok. Even if i give the box internal ip.
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Which one of the ftp servers within servers ultimate are you running?
I can only get "ftp server" to work and not the native one.
mLgz0rn said:
Which one of the ftp servers within servers ultimate are you running?
I can only get "ftp server" to work and not the native one.
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i found the problem, it was network problem, not ftp server, all worked fine, when i changed to another ftp client (total commander) instade of (winscp) it worked, i guess its has something to do with passive or active mod in the connection. now when i connect from pc i can run ftp root ( / ). thanks alot for helping me out.
i know its not so big thing rooting the shield cuz these days u can allmost do anything by sideloading apps or games but do you guys have any tips what do to with rooted box that cant be done with sideloading?