Read only memory. When you "hard reset your phone it is reverted back to these setting and deletes everything else. It is like a cd image, you interact with it without changing it (unless you change the image itself through a "rom kitchen" from your computer prior to flashing.)
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Anybody help me, please!
After I tried to use i-mate ROM 1.72, I realised it had some big bugz that causes when U use/install some kinda' applications it freezes totally and when you want reset your device the XDA2 doesn't boot the system, and you just see the bootimage and booting stops. It happens accidentally not depends on you at first sight.
Ok, I thought, I restore the system after a hard reset from my SDCard with XBackup. But after restore (XBackup said: "restore is complete") that freezing happend again. Just the bootimage, not more.
That's why I downgraded the ROM to O2_1.60 and tried to restore my backup file on SDcard created by XBackup. It worked, but it has another problem: after restore process xda2 can't see the 'Storage' and 'Extended_ROM' folders although after hard reset it seemed.
In the registry (\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Storage Manager\Profiles\TRUEFFS_DOC & TRUEFFS_DOC2) everything is normal and values the same than before the hard reset.
So, anybody has an idea what's happend and how can I get to visible this two folders ('Storage' and 'Extended_ROM')?
I have the same problem. After upgrading to 1.66 my "Storage" disappeared. How do I get it back?
Suddenly my Media Player has gone bad on me. Probably deleted some part of it in my efforts to slim down the system. When I launch it from the "Programs" folder I get this error-message:
"The file 'player' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. You might nedd to reinstall or restore this file."
The icon is also missing. However when I try to open a WMP-file the app starts up just fine, and after that clicking on the icon in the "Programs" folder also works until next (soft)reset. Icon still missing though. Kinda annoying but no big deal. Can it be fixed somehow, or am I facing my first hard reset?
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OK, so I did the hard reset hoping my problem would go away but since I also restored my device with Sprite the WMP-error was also restored (I sort of suspected that...)
It did however work before the restoring part of all this.
Is there any other way of doing this? (Besides another hard reset and the pain of having to manually install/set registrys etc etc...)
Please advise... :?
If you can remember all the files you deleted, you can perform a hard reset so that the files you deleted in the first place are returned. Copy all those files to your SD Card then use your excisting Sprite Backup to restore back to whatever configuration you programmed and add one by one the files you deleted (now placed on your Sd card) and test Windows Media Player. This proceedure is very tidious as you have to try one file at a time and remembering which folder you copied them from, restoring and deleting them again if that was not the file needed.
So personally, I would just perform a hard reset and do it all over again. But this is just me.
Another suggestion to avoid this happening in the future, if you do opt for the hard reset and starting from scratch, make a backup BEFORE each time you add or delete a file. Just in case you want to go back to your last configuration. This is the procedure I use to do with my Palm OS device each time I want to try an application. I made sure I have a backup of my system with a clean install, meaning I did not change anything on the system, just a plain backup after I plugged-in all my codes and installed all my applications. I then perform another backup after each change I do and observe my system if nothing conflicts. So in anyway, using this procedure, I know I always have a backup of a clean install. Something I miss from Palm.
You´re probably right, makes sense to have a nice, clean backup to go back to. Guess that's what I'll do. Just need to work up the energy for it...
Thanks Christian!
I was trying to install IIWPO.
After I copied IIWPO.cab into the "Extended_ROM2" directory, I clicked on the "Extended ROM2" directory and it was blank.
I performed a soft reset, and now it looks like some files are there (but not IIWPO), but some of the files seem to have garbled names.
I'm using a cingular 8125:
ROM version: 2.25.11.1 WWE
ROM Date: 5/11/06
Radio version: 02.25.11
Protocol version: 4.1.13.12
ExtROM version: 2.25.11.102
Questions:
1. Can I & should I try to recover the files in this directory? I don't care about the Cingular stuff in that directory, as long as the unit still boots & can access Cingular phone & internet service.
2. Am I at risk of bricking the phone?
3. Is it safe to hit the reset button on the side of the phone?
4. If I am not at risk of bricking the phone, is the phone still able to be reset to manufacturer defaults by clearing the storage (Settings -> System -> Clear storage) and doing a fresh install like I have done 100x in the past or is it possible that the installation files are corrupt? (ie are they in this extended rom directory?)
FYI: the phone is still locked and CID locked, although I did download (but not run) lokiwiz03a.zip.
Right now the phone seems to work (minus the IIWPO)
Disclaimer: I only have a very rudimentary knowledge of this stuff.
I would do a hard reset and start over... first off.. unlock your device.. lol.
If I do a hard reset isn't there a risk of bricking the phone? The hard reset runs many of the programs in the extended rom, correct? Any idea as to the answers to my other questions?
A hard reset I don't beleive will brick your phone.. .. But just to be sure, read up a little bit, a hard reset restores your phone to original form.. erases pretty much everything and reverts it back... since your rom is 2.25.0001 which is the cingular windows mobile 5 carrier rom it will clear all your settings and saved information and put it right back to where you started.
In answer to one of your questions.. alot of the rom installation files are unnaccessable, so I beleive it is safe to hard reset.. again.. read up on it.. because as with ANYTHING you never know.
I thought that the extended room doesn't get touched on a hard reset (the premise as to why iiwpo works).
So you are saying that a hard reset will put back all of the corrupted files that are in extended rom?
Some of the files are reporting to be over a gb each, so if I think its important to fix.
Can anyone confirm for sure that a hard reset will rebuild tbis directory?
yeah Im not sure about that, I just know whenever I had ANY problem.. that seemed to me like it was potentially phone-killing I did a hard reset.. thats why I said to read around and see if you can find anything similar... I'm not 100%.
hamm3r said:
I thought that the extended room doesn't get touched on a hard reset (the premise as to why iiwpo works).
So you are saying that a hard reset will put back all of the corrupted files that are in extended rom?
Some of the files are reporting to be over a gb each, so if I think its important to fix.
Can anyone confirm for sure that a hard reset will rebuild tbis directory?
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Ok, let me clear some issues
A hard-reset does NOT brick a phone and does NOT restore the extended_rom, it only erases the USER area. What will happen, in this case, is that after hard-resetting there will be no files in extended_rom to customize the ROM with all the garbage Service Providers like to push (and sometimes, unfortunately, some useful fixes or network configuration)
@ hamm3r
What you have done is you tried to write to a protected zone (not possible from SPL 1.06 and beyond) and although you thought you did, you saw the result upon rebooting the device - it got corrupted. The FAT is no longer readable and therefore files appear to be GB in size. The only solution is to flash a new extended_rom in case you want to use it when hard-resetting the phone and that can be done by flashing just the extended_rom (using my tool - check signature) or by flashing a complete RUU package - which must be the same you have now (official) since the phone is CID locked
cheers
I was just wondering , is there a way to change the backup rom stored on your phone so when u hard reset it installs that rom, because i hav a t-mobile mda rom 1.8.10.2, and thats ll i can hav since i cannot ujpdate my phone via usb so im jus wondering if there is a way somebody please help
There is no such thing as "hard reset" or "backup" ROM on your phone. There is just one ROM, parts of which are loaded to RAM when the system runs and parts are used as is (it called XIP - eXecute In Place).
What happens when you hard reset is that all the settings you changed and all the data you added to the phone are deleted.
Question is why can't you update via USB?
There are options where you can flash a new ROM from a specially formatted SD card, but I am not sure if such thing exists for your device.
I suggest you check the WiKi.
Hi,
I have recently flashed my HD2 with the following firmware called :
_HTC HD2_RUU_Leo_HKCSL_WWE_1.72.831.1_Radio_CRC_Signed_15.32.50.07U_2.07.51.22_2_Ship(2)
I got this from the HTC Website, after reflash all was good
After the reflash I used a program called "HTC Backup" to backup all my contacts etc from a file i created. After that backup was done, my HTC had only half the Icons on it, example when I go into Start > Tools .... there is NOTHING.
I have tried to Hard Reset, by holding Vol down, vol up and power button, the multicoloured screen comes up but does not prompt me to hard reset, so only thing I can do then is take battery out and put it back in, resets back to how it is... limited functionality with nothing under Tools.
Any help? My HD2 is pretty much useless now. i try to reflash again wtih it but I get error 260 cannot connect.
Thanks.
Bit of an update, Well I managed to get it to connect and reflash, but now I don't know how to get my data back.
I was highly recommended the program "HTC Backup" which is supposedly made by HTC, but the backup simply renders my HTC Useless, no Tools, No Settings.
When restoring, about 30 seconds while it's restoring, it just turns into the desktop, the program dissapears and goes to desktop, then you have nothing under "tools"
It's done it twice in a row.
Anyway of accessing the files stored in the "backup" file this program makes?
The program when restoring, about 10 seconds in just switches to the desktop, the desktop is now bank, no clock and nothing. when going into menu, there is no "Tools" and the menu is half empty half of the icons.
I'm wondering does anybody know how to access or decompile these backup files that the program "HTC Backup" creates?
Thanks.
has it restored your contacts?
see, what has probably happened is the backup prog has backed up all kinds of registry settings, and you have moved to a new rom, and those settings are no longer valid, and are screwing with the new rom. (you shouldnt copy tweaks and reg settings across from one rom to a new rom. its OK for hard resetting to the same rom, not a new one).
So, if your contacts are restored, and you can get enough functionality to do it, try to sync them off the phone now whilst its useless, (activesync to outlook, microsoft myphone, gmail or something, theres probably loads of ways,) and then do a hard reset, and after the new rom is in place sync the contacts back, meaning you arent running the restore program.