Okay so about a month ago I flashed my 8125 with TNT's Rom and have loved it every moment. This time around though I want to taste a new flavor and have decided to try the "Slim Diamond Project." I have a G4 wizard btw. Anyway I heard that is recommended that I reflash to the original Rom that the phone originally came with first. Is this the right Rom I would flash it with? 8125
Just follow the directions and install the old Rom before I do the Flash with Merlin's Rom?
Nopes! its not necessary to flash the official rom everytime before flashing a new rom.Although,its only recommended,just to clear any corruption of Extended_Rom,if any and to start with a fresh and stronge foundation.
But,I have never flashed any official rom before flashing anyother rom and never felt any corruption of the Extended_Rom or any problems afterwards...Well,than that's me!!! do your own thing.
okie dokes thanks very much for helping me out. It is very much appreciated so I'll try and flash away
HTC have just released andofficial ROM upgrade for the European market taking it to 1.39.405.3. I have downloaded and installed this ROM.
I would also like to try some XDA devs ROM's with WM6.5. My question is that if i try some XDA devs ROM's can i use the official ROM that i have just installed in order to go back to a factory spec or do i have to use a factory original from XDA devs in order to make my TD2 boxfresh again.
I would love to experiment if i have a simple way back into a factory ROM but am unsure if i don't.
For cooked roms (form XDA Devs) you'll need hardSPL
Which disables the security, (So you can flash non-official roms)
Then you can flash any rom you want (official or unofficial)
When you really want to go box fresh, You need to reflash a stock rom, and then just run the HardSPL removal application
I upgrade the ROM fairly frequently on my Blackstone, usually with the latest Dutty release. This was fine up til yesterday. I installed Dutty's Holy Grail R0 ROM, and after installation, after about an hour, the device completely locked up. I pressed the reset button, and the device Hard-resetted, removing everything and going back through the setup screens. This happened a couple of times, so last night I put on a different ROM, Dutty's WM6.5 R15. The device locked up after about an hour, and wouldn't get past the "smart mobility" screen when restarted. This morning I loaded the stock (Orange UK) ROM back onto the device. I haven't had the chance to check if this problem will re-occur, but when I turn on the phone the colours are flipped (putting it to sleep and turning it on again fix this problem, but on a soft-reset it happens again). Seems I can't get anything right at the moment, can anyone suggest what might be up? Tech specs below:
UK Touch HD on Orange
USPL - used exactly as per the Dummies Guide.
Using Win7 x64 (yes, I've got the drivers installed correctly for USPL)
ROMs mentioned in post:
Dutty's Holy Grail R0
Dutty's W6.5 R15
I suppose you didn't install the stock ROM prior to installing the Dutty ROM. You MUST flash a stock ROM before you flash a home cooked ROM, since they work a bit differently when it comes to erasing data. USPL doesn't seem to be the best way either. I had similar problems like you when I used USPL.
So try the following:
Flash your SPL to OliNex
Flash your device with a stock ROM
Use HSPL to flash the Dutty ROM of choice
Ogredani said:
I suppose you didn't install the stock ROM prior to installing the Dutty ROM. You MUST flash a stock ROM before you flash a home cooked ROM, since they work a bit differently when it comes to erasing data. USPL doesn't seem to be the best way either. I had similar problems like you when I used USPL.
So try the following:
Flash your SPL to OliNex
Flash your device with a stock ROM
Use HSPL to flash the Dutty ROM of choice
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not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
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Could it be the SPL? Does USPL work with every ROM? The confusing thing is having flashed a stock ROM (the Orange UK ROM), while the device seems fine (apart from having to use 6.1!) it does suffer from the bizarre colour problem while starting up. If I were to flash the SPL to HardSPL, would I be able to undo this? I don't really want to get the phone to a state where I can't return it to the stock ROM/SPL if I need to return it.
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not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
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lol i was gunna say exactly the same thing
fredley said:
Could it be the SPL? Does USPL work with every ROM? The confusing thing is having flashed a stock ROM (the Orange UK ROM), while the device seems fine (apart from having to use 6.1!) it does suffer from the bizarre colour problem while starting up. If I were to flash the SPL to HardSPL, would I be able to undo this? I don't really want to get the phone to a state where I can't return it to the stock ROM/SPL if I need to return it.
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maybe you should try hspl rather than uspl, its a lot easer and more convient, and its eaaasy to go bk to your original spl if you need to
cortez.i said:
not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
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Just sharing the experience from myself and several users at HTCpedia where flashing a stock ROM first is the general recommendation. You might have made it just fine with your HD without a "stock flash", but you may have different set-up of your phone (SPL, ROMs) than others. That's why I say play it safe and install the (latest) stock ROM and HSPL-OliNex. Seems to work for more or less everyone.
However, I agree that there is no definitive explanation to why you should flash the stock ROM, but it seems as if the flashing procedure of a stock ROM resets the memory completely, where a cooked ROM flash does not. Note that this well may be an issue with the wrapper and not the ROM, but that's another story.
Ogredani said:
Just sharing the experience from myself and several users at HTCpedia where flashing a stock ROM first is the general recommendation. You might have made it just fine with your HD without a "stock flash", but you may have different set-up of your phone (SPL, ROMs) than others. That's why I say play it safe and install the (latest) stock ROM and HSPL-OliNex. Seems to work for more or less everyone.
However, I agree that there is no definitive explanation to why you should flash the stock ROM, but it seems as if the flashing procedure of a stock ROM resets the memory completely, where a cooked ROM flash does not. Note that this well may be an issue with the wrapper and not the ROM, but that's another story.
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The best thing to do is use mtty to completely format your device and totaly remove the current os and any defragmented parts of older roms left in the memory blocks before flashing a new rom
Ogredani said:
Just sharing the experience from myself and several users at HTCpedia where flashing a stock ROM first is the general recommendation. You might have made it just fine with your HD without a "stock flash", but you may have different set-up of your phone (SPL, ROMs) than others. That's why I say play it safe and install the (latest) stock ROM and HSPL-OliNex. Seems to work for more or less everyone.
However, I agree that there is no definitive explanation to why you should flash the stock ROM, but it seems as if the flashing procedure of a stock ROM resets the memory completely, where a cooked ROM flash does not. Note that this well may be an issue with the wrapper and not the ROM, but that's another story.
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Think someone in HTCPedia was playing if safe by suggesting users flash stock rom before flashing cooked rom. Like cortez.i said above you DO NOT need to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. Some poeple occasionally experience issues with cooked roms and a solution can be to flash a stock rom. But like cortez.i I've flashed well over 200+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so and I've never had an issue. It may be inexperienced users are doing something different which causes these issues or haven't followed the flashing process properly.
Hi all
I apologise if this has been asked and answered but I can't seem to find any info on this... I am looking for the original TMobile UK ROM, I want to flash custom ROMS to my phone but want the official ROM just in case I need to return my phone for some reason..
Any help on this would be great...
Thanks
"leo official roms"thread first post first link first folder.
Thanks... Quick question for you, If I install HSPL and flash with a custom ROM... Then decide to go to the TMobile ROM using that ROM, will that remove the HSPL or not... I'm only asking in case I need to take my phone in for repair or something...
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Thanks... Quick question for you, If I install HSPL and flash with a custom ROM... Then decide to go to the TMobile ROM using that ROM, will that remove the HSPL or not... I'm only asking in case I need to take my phone in for repair or something...
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install hspl then flash anything you like using USB, , then if you ever need to totally factory reset, use the tmo rom you just got and flash from sd card, that will reset spl, radio and rom to factory shipped. If you flash the T Mo from USB it will not remove hspl, but it will work fine, and is usefull sometimes to 'reset' the memory between different cooked roms.
Cloudy 0.5 for wm6.1 installed..
How to change the rom back to the original version?????
Since after I hard reset it,
it is still that rom..
I know why..
but any ways to install the original rom?
ROMs stays the same
K!LL3R said:
Cloudy 0.5 for wm6.1 installed..
How to change the rom back to the original version?????
Since after I hard reset it,
it is still that rom..
I know why..
but any ways to install the original rom?
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In order to return to the "original ROM" you need to flash your device with THAT ROM.
If you want to revert back to the shipped rom, please visit HTC official support page, pick your device, click download and find the latest ROM.
Follow the instructions from HTC when flashing official ROMs!
You will be fine, just do as the HTC support instructions tells you to, not as described here (when flashing original ROMs that is.)
that update is actually to re-install the whole rom but not to update only some files?
Yes it will, if I remember correctly, they call them a "ROM Update".
I don't know if you can just run the ROM update executable off HTC's website if you have HSPL installed though (Can someone confirm this either way?)
sorry I am new for this..
I found HTC Touch HD HSPL's link to be dowloaded.
But what does hspl means?