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Dear poeple,
I have this question about an upgrade i have put on my artemis .
I have upgraded my artemis to wm6 rom Gibs217 now i wanted to roll back my phone to the old settings and the old rom.
I have upgraded it so my question is can somebody please tell me how to downgrade my artemis to the old settings and rom again .
Very much appreciate the help.
Greetings,
Vibes.

the same way as you upgraded just with the old rom insted of the new one
the old rom is gon from your device and will have to be reapply'd

upgrading error
But thereis the problem when i reapply the original rom after 1% it crashes and say that the rom is corrupt i tried it with 3other images and they all did the same so what would you do if you were me ? isnt there a way to remove the new rom and let the original rom install itself or something ?

sorry dont know much about flashing artemis
but when you flash a new rom it's kinda like formatting your pc harddisk
and installing a new os
you cant roll back
i would wait and see if a more spc artemis expert flasher comes along and tell you what to do
or start reading threads about how to fix your flashing issue
few issues comes along that nobody before have encountered
so it could be that search would lead you do a fix

Want to flash ROMeOS v4.21 onto 8525, need some help

I'm a noob when it comes to flashing Roms. I've never flashed a custom ROM before, only AT&T's WM6.0 upgrade when that first came out.
I have an 8525 and want to flash ROMeOS v4.21 onto it. I know I need Hard SPL which I downloaded (Hard-SPL-V7.zip). I downloaded this file http://rapidshare.com/files/136228827/_ROMEOS_421_ROM.ZIP, but now I'm not 100% sure what to do here. Do I need to download anything else? Did I even download the right thing? I downloaded it from here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=411692
Could somebody hold my hand and help me out a bit? What exactly is the next step. How do I flash this ROM onto my 8525 now w/o bricking my phone?
I appreciate all the help, and plan on paypaling the creator of this rom, and hopefully somebody who helps me out w/ flashing the rom as well.

It's always good to start at the beginning, especially when it comes to flashing ROMS. Start HERE; this is a page I created for newcomers that has most everything you need to know about your phone. Especially important for ROM flashing would be MrVanx Upgrade Guide.
Best wishes,

Help - Nothing seems to be going right

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.

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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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.

Lessons Learned in HD2 ROM Testing (Confessions of a Cooked ROM hopper) =)

Lessons Learned in HD2 ROM Testing (Confessions of a Cooked ROM hopper) =)
Here's what happened:
I'd been through at least 20 "Flashes" of about 3-5 Cooked ROMs from the best chefs. I decided I wanted to reflash back to my stock ROM just to "refresh" (in lieu of mtty, of course which I still plan to do sometime). So off I went to download what I thought, at the time, was my stock ROM.
I thought I had a WWE Europe device (wrong for me to assume, I know) because I only had the UK Plug accessory included...
So I download the WWE Europe ROM and put it in my newly formatted 8gb microsd, renamed it to LEOIMG.nbh and started the upgrade process...
HOLY &*%$#@ it stops and tells me I have the wrong freaking device....
Then I thought that maybe, just maybe (since there was pinyin support from what I vaguely recalled) that it was in fact a WWE Asia ROM...
To cut the long story short, I flashed via microsd using the Asia WWE 1.48 (the CORRECT Stock ROM) and have started from scratch... (install HSPL, download Cooked ROMs, Flash, Test AND repeat from step 2... download, etc... you know the drill)
I'm only posting this in a new thread so that others who may run into what happened to me can find it and not panic that they can only get to a bootloader, etc...
I'm off to flashing some more Cooked ROMs... (BTW, I was a XDA2mini user way back, then shifted to an iPhone 2G and 3G for the past 2 years... and you know what, I missed the thrill of Windows Mobile Customization, I must say!)
Happy Flashing Everyone!

Well .... is that a "Confession of a Flasher-holic"?
LOL!!
This feeling is just like the feeling of those people that mod their PC .... mod their cars .... etc.
In life ... the kick or fun of it is the process ....

you were describing normal things which happen once you start modding or in this case flashing

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you were describing normal things which happen once you start modding or in this case flashing
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Exactly =) Now I need another HD2 for Flashing and Testing... back to work I go...

[Q] Back 2 Da Basic

OK, thanks to everyone here I finally flashed my HD2 and I liked it a lot. I tried the Energy Rom and Core Cell Rom and they both worked great and have there advantages. But I have a new question now. I want to change my phone back to stock, which stock rom should I download? And is the installlation process the same as flashing the phone with a custom rom?

hmmm...
im assumin you have a tmous HD2. if so you can find the original tmobile rom on their website. just search for hd2 software update on the search portion. same as here, you can find it. just gotta look and not ask a question when you can find it yourself. also i think this question doesnt belong under this thread mayb under HD2 general..
http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm54430.xml thats helpful... use it to flash back..

ok, thanks for the help. but i have a question and something else as well. I clicked on the link and read over everything it says:
NOTE: The software update is only designed to update the ROM version from 2.10.531.1 and 2.13.531.1 to 3.14.531.1. If at any point the software was changed from 2.10.531.1 or 2.13.531.1 by flashing to unsupported software, sometimes called rooting or hacking, then we strongly recommend you do not perform this update, as it was not designed to update unsupported software.
It seems like their saying don't use this update if I flashed another rom besides the stock rom which it came with. So exactly what do I do from here? Not trying to sound slow or anything, but I want to becareful with these things. And besides I don't have a spare phone to use and would hate to brick this one up. Any help is appreciated.

I got my TMOUS HD2 yesterday and to go around customs, I asked if the seller could flash there nonbootable ROM, which I made (HTC Oboe XIP and no IMGFS to be sure it wouldn't boot ). When it arrived, I just flashed the 3.14 ROM without single errors and keeping HSPL2.
Do it, there won't be problems .

this thread came in time. today i got a message from tmobile indicating that there is a new update available. i wanna give it a shot and if i don't like it then I'm going to upgrade to the cell core v3 since i've been using v2 for a while