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Radio Stack upgrade disaster

If I have overlooked the thread that covered this situation, please just point me to it as I have made several searches and read several threads but no luck.
I was happily running a custom 2003 ROM with the original AT&T stack. As I was quite happy with the way my 2003 OS was configured and operating, I decided to just try the NEW AT&T radio stack as I wanted to see if it helped with some reception issues I have expereinced. I copied the four radio stack files to the Windows directory on the PPC. I had the PPC in its cradle for power. I then executed the RSUupgrade and at 10% it locked down completely. No hard key had any effect and in fact, not even the soft boot buttom worked. I then attempted a cold reboot and that resulted in a hung machine again.
So, I decided to take the safe route and do an SD flash burn back to the original AT&T ROM (which I had copied way back when). Using XDA Tools I burned it to my SD card. Did the soft/on button routine, and proceeded to flash the memory. If indicated that the checksum matched and was finished. After the cold reboot, I got the old splash screen, but it took forever for the today screen to appear and the START button as well as ALL the indicators at the TOP are missing. I am unable to get to file manager.
I then decided to see if I could connect via ActiveSync. I uninstalled AS3.7. and reinstalled the original 3.5. When I attempt to connect, AS does see that the PPC has been docked, but it is never able to connect.
So, I am unable to reinstall a radio stack of any kind. I am unable to get the OS to function normally.
BTW, Just for grins I also tried an SD card install of the newest AT&T ROM as well as my custom ROM and the results are all the same. I suspect the now corrupted radio stack, but HOW do I purge it and start over when I can't get the OS to boot sufficiently to reinstall the stack
ANY IDEA? HELP!!!

Come on, someone has to have an idea
I will start off with an update. After reading another thread, someone mentioned that initial boot was taking about 15 minutes when there was NO radio stack. I decided to see if that might be occurring to me and sure enough, after about 15 minutes, the PPC beeped and the OS came up. If was still a bit sluggish, but operational. I was able to successfully attach to my PC via ActiveSync.
Now for the downside. Still NO success with installing the radio stack. I have tried reflashing the OS back to the original AT&T PPC2002 OS but that made no difference. I have tried both the original radio stack and the new one, no difference. I have tried to install the stack with the SIM card (SIM not SD) in and out, no difference. It always sticks at 1%, tells me the upgrade failed and to press ok to reboot. I did read the thread that gave LOTS of help regarding this issue, but nothing seems to help. I can remove the lnk in the startup folder, delete the files, reboot, recopy via ActiveSync, start the upgrade (RSUpgrade.exe) and everytime it immediately goes to 1%, sets there a minute or so, the pops up the failure message.
Surely, someone has an idea. Could a corrupt SIM cause this? Is there a alternate way of installing the radio stack?
BTW, just for grins, I thought I would try doing a "normal" exe upgrade since AT&T posted such. I know that it is full of risk, but at this point, I had little to loose. I made sure that I was running ActiveSync 3.7.1 and was connected. I then launched the upgrade. It came up with a splash screen with some warnings and the typical stuff. I then selected the "next" button and nothing happened except that cursor (when pointing in the window) went into the "working" state where it remained until I finally killed it about 30 minutes later. There was NEVER any sign that progress was being made.
HELP!!!
david

I have the same exact problem.
The Start menu is missing. No Icons on the top bar.
What's funny is that the screen seems to be inverted.
When I tap close to the bottom of the screen, the clock setting screen appears.
Anybody have a solution?

I suspect there is an alignment problem
When I first boot up after ROM upgrade, I can get to the today screen with the volume button, but I can't get to the file explorer because the start menu is missing.
When I tap on the lower part of the screen, the upper part responds.
Could this be due to the alignment steps being bypassed?
What order do you have to tap the alignment crosshairs during startup?

This sounds like a different problem
As I mentioned, on my first reflash of the OS after the radio stack upgrade failure, I got the today screen without the start bar at the top (ie it was totally blank and tapping in that area did nothing). Everything else on the today page worked. On subsequent reflashes of the OS, the today page was totally normal, start button, everything in place and working. On those subsequent reflashes, I also got the normal initial screen alignment pages on the first boot after the reflash.
I will also post, that I finally gave up on getting the radio stack to install. I have sent my unit to the guys at PPCTechs. In talking to them, they have 2 other SX-56 units in for upgrades with the same radio stack issue. They feel that they will be able to force the reflash via alternate means using a serial cable. As I mentioned on the other thread where I have been posting, I will post back once I hear if they were successful.
David

in general people should not mess with radiostacks unless they have issues and the radiostack is recommended by the phonecompany one use

ROM Flashing problem connecting to ActiveSync

Hi there,
I've got an XDA Orbit that used to be on an O2 contract (I now use TMobile).
I've currently got HTC Home installed but I'd like to flash the ROM using the Armetis Touch 4 ROM.
I've tried running start_uspl.exe but it doesn't reboot the phone so I can't connect to ActiveSync to continue onto the flashing part of the process.
I've tried a couple of times and it just gets to a point where the only thing I can do is a soft boot.
Is there something I'm not doing right or is there a different process I should be doing?
Cheers,
YP

Hi, I am also having the same problem as this with my O2 XDA Orbit - it seems that when the phone reboots, it shows a white screen and cannot continue the process. Any help would be great please

The white screen is normal.
You do not need the activesync to continue the process.
Just wait a while at the white screen. That's for updating your SPL.

After uspl finishes I get RUU, but then phone allready has wtite screen and it can't continue flashing cuz RUU is telling that there is no phone connected.
I flashed it once (WM 6.1 with cube) lost tons of nerves cuz of that, but it slowed down few days ago, gwes in task Mgr has "X" so I guess that is the cause of its slowlyness.

Unlocking my phone for the first time!

Well I'm going to unlock my phone (Sprint Touch) for the first time. I'm trying NFSFAN's wm6.5 ROM. Wish me luck. Hopefully my reading comprehension skills are up to the task so I don't skip a step and blow something up.
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Question 1:
When I'm going to run the unlock utility, should ActiveSync actually say that it is connected to the phone? When I get to the rainbow screen ("Serial") then plug in the usb wire, the phone switches to "USB" and I hear the "something's connected" noise in XP. ActiveSync, however, still says "Not connected"
...I seem to be stuck here, at the beginning. At least my phone still works
One comment: the NFSFAN 6.5 ROM FAQ seems to want me to run the unlocker with the phone at the Rainbow screen. The PPCGeeks thread by IMCoKeMaN seems to say that you just run the unlocker with the phone normally attached to ActiveSync without unraring or Rainbow mode... Who is right? Am I just confused?

It seems like ActiveSync actually connects to the activesync program on the phone, so when you are in the rainbow screen, it connects without the OS being involved and AS won't show as being connected. If I remember, running the unlocker will put it in rainbow mode and you don't have to do that first. But it has been a long time since I unlocked mine and I forgot the details. I do remember I followed IMCoKeMaN's directions to the letter. Good Luck! It is scary to start, but these guys have got this stuff down to a science!
David

for the unlocker you go throught activesync. then to flash NFSFAN's ROM put the phone into bootloader. You can flash the rom using activesync but i've just got into the habit of using manual bootloader.

Knave,
Please let me know if the W6.5 works well on the HTC Touch (Sprint). I am a bit reluctant to try it yet, but if you can do it successfully, and report on how it does, then maybe I'll follow your lead.
Thanks
QA

So, I'm trying again. This time I plugged the phone in while it was turned on on the standard home screen. I let ActiveSync show that it was connected, and I ran RomUpdateUtility.exe. I click thru a couple screens, the phone automatically goes over to the rainbow screen, and then the status bar screen. It sits at 0% for about a minute.
...and I get another ERROR[262]: Update Error.
I turn the phone back on and it reboots fine (I guess it never actually started writing to the Phone's memory, just like in my initial post.)

One thing before you start, qanda, do you know about Dashwire? It's a way to backup all your phone contacts & info to the web before you wipe the memory. I guess there maybe different backup services out there, but I like to use one just to be safe.
Ah hah! Now it's (ALMOST) working... Here's some stream-of-consciousness directions I'm typing as I do the flash procedure.
1. Plug in phone (phone is turned on, in the normal home screen state)
2. Make sure ActiveSync says you're connected.
3. Run the unlocker (the Vogue_unlocker_MFG_2.31.exe file). Do *not* extract the downloaded file and run the RUU.exe file yourself. It doesn't work that way. You just follow the directions here in the "DOS" looking window that pops up. It does something to the phone, tells you to unplug & replug, ... Eventually a ROM loading program starts & you follow those directions. Then you go back to the "DOS" looking window.
4. Phone automatically reboots and gets to the Windows Mobile initialization screen (tap here & there, etc). Then the phone starts loading the customization stuff automatically. (I was getting a bit worried here that it was stuck on the Windows Mobile 6.1 boot screen -- seemed to take an extra minute or two, but it eventually came up.)
5. Now I guess the phone is *UNLOCKED* but still running the stock Sprint WinMo6.1 OS. I can confirm that when I do the PWR-CameraButton-Stylus reset to the rainbow screen, I see the SPL-2.31.CoKe text in the red bar.
6. Next, I'm going to try loading the NFSFAN 6.5 ROM...
7. I'm back to following the instructions in the thread by codybear *explicitly*: unplug phone, 3-button-reboot to rainbow mode (displaying SERIAL), plug in phone (now displaying USB), run the RUU.exe inside the directory where I decompressed the NSFFAN ROM. Clicked thru the RUU.exe program & phone goes to percent-loading status screen. Phone reboots itself at 100%.
8. Phone reboots *slowly*, the Sprint Splash animation is replaced by an HTC animation. Whew! after several minutes I see a WinMo6.5 setup screen. I do the setup & it autoload customizations. Phone automatically reboots.
9. Still following codybear's thread, I do the RED-GREEN-Stylus hard reset. (You have to hold down the buttons until you see the grey Hard Reset Warning Screen.) ... another SLOW reboot & I go thru the WinMo6.5 tap-screen setup again
10. Like codybear says, I install the Sprint DCD cab that I had copied onto my memory card. Phone wants to reboot again, so I OK it. (Sprint has one DCD cab and another cab for MMS, so I do both.)
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Directions are now complete. Unfortunately when I try to do something with data service I get a "Error Code 1012 Data Provisioning Failure". It's late now, so I'll try to fix it tomorrow. This might help: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35433

Now I got everything working. I fixed the final error -- the "Error Code 1012 Data Provisioning Failure".
I initially tried running the IOTA thing via:
Run IOTA by going to Start->Settings->Personal Tab->Phone->Services Tab->Internet->Get Settings->Start
...nothing happened. The I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=410357
I did the RegEdit thing like it describes, setting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/DIM/EnableCurrentUserName value to 0. Then I reran IOTA, and all is well.
Then I reinstalled Dashwire, it sync'ed my contacts up & I'm back to normal!
Woohah!
btw...RegEdit is on the NSFFAN ROM under Start Menu-> System Tools

help my mogul is bricked

ok since i got this phone i have had problems,but i updated it to 6.1 and it got better (locking up all the time)then i played with a bunch of custom roms,then the other day it just decided not to turn on at all,before it would just lock up at the htc screen,now when i turn it on the green light is on and nothing happnes?? i force it in the loader screen and have tryed getting it to take a rom that way and it just gets stuck and says loading but dosnt do anything? the update utilitly does not work either it keeps saying image is currupt?

Welcome to forums
Have a deep read here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Titan
Hope it helped and good luck,

What version bootloader do you have? What image are you trying to load in bootloader.

i have opilo_240. i cant load any image nothing will take,no roms no radio no nothing

Are you sure you are naming it correctly and on a 2GB or less FAT32 sd card.

i have tryed it a million times, yes i have been typing it right.it recognizes it and starts to load it but then locks up. is there a way i can get this loader off the phone and take it back to original? maybe the loader is crap so if i try and put a original loader back in it will take a install again but i cant find any thing

Not possible that I know of to change bootloader without softspl which needs WM to run.

Where are you getting these images? What is your provider. Please update this in your profile so we can help easier.

my provider is metro pcs but its a sprint phone,i have tryed the sprint/htc 6.1 update then i tryed a couple of ryan mogul 6.5 roms.see since i got this phone (used) it had problems loading from the htc screen,sometimes i would have to soft reset about 5 times before it would load the o/s then sometimes it would go days without a problem,it did this with the stock image then got better with the 6.1 and thought it was good then i played with a couple roms and they all loaded ok but the phone was getting worse when locking up it would do it all the time,then i went back to the 6.1 sprint rom and it didnt get better just worse,then it wouldnt get past the htc screen,so i tryed again to put back to stock and now when i turned the phone on it vibrates then just the green light turns on,when i try and hard reset it just instantly says complete,i can boat to loader and connect to pc fine but when i try and load a image from cpu it goes to 1% then stops and says image file is corrupt, is my phone junk? i have a brand new touch pro coming today but i would like to get this mogul up and running its just a shame cause i loved this phone when it worked,im ready to throw it in the garbage

Get the .nbh from the following sprint .exe and try it on the sd card. If you can get into bootloader your phone shouldnt be a brick. Mtty might be an option but that isnt something I can teach you how to do very well.
ftp://ppcgeeks.com/Titan/CarrierRom..._RS_TITAN_3.42.02_SPCS2.04_PPST_0718_Ship.exe

[Q] [q] black screen of death after failed android install

Good morning.
im a newbie at updating the HTC HD 2 Leo i have for T-Mobile (which is probably WHY i shouldnt have messed with it in the 1st place...).
i tried downloading the android gingerbread rom onto my phone last night and while downloading the software their was a partition error and my phone was stuck afterwards rebooting on the failed software dowload (would get stuck on a black screen only showing the HTC letters in green.)
i FURTHER screwed it up by trying to put it in bootloader mode and trying to install the Original software i found which i downloaded off a website for the factory version of my HTC HD 2 Leo.
NOW it only shows a black screen.. the computer cant sync my phone, the battery light is not showing and no signs of life...it wont even let me go into bootboader mode...all it says when i plug it in to my USB port on the computer is under hardware found " Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM"...
someone PLEASE help this lost noob... much appreciated

wow! erm.... have you tried a hard reset? recovery software might still be on there, with any hope.....

i tried , but the hd2 doesnt show ANYTHING on the screen, i tried holding both buttons and pushing the power on button but the factory screen wont pop up because the screen stays permenantly black

Sounds as though you flashed a T-MObile USA with a ROM with a .51 RADIO; if that is the case then the phone is bricked.
You could always telephone HTC and say you charged your phone overnight and it didn't respond the next day - with no mention of flashing the phone.
As you have found out flashing before reading can be fatal (for the phone) and expensive. I have flashed quite a few HTC WinMo phones, but for every different phone I read then reread the instructions.

thanx i appreciate it , it sux that i cant get it fixed.