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Dead XDA, Really need your help this time guys!

I was experimenting on the new Rogers ROM in the Kitchen, to see why myself and everyone was having such problems. Of course I made a backup using XDATools to my SD first. (testing to see if I take off all or some of the check marks to add folders and programs if it could be stable.
But it did not work, still got the crap rom with no phone and loads of other problems. So decided to rebuild from SD, worked fine, told me to hard reset and then hard reset in a minute again. I have done this several times with out a problem.
Now after waiting I push the hard reset NOTHING, push all buttons nothing happens. Completly dead. After a while I was able to get back to the bootloader and download SD card ROM again but after hard reset its still dead. Any IDEAS!!!!

Help!!! Custom rom issue: did I brick it?!?

I wanted to try NFSFAN's custom 1.28 Bell rom, so I unlocked with IMCokeMan's 2.31 unlocker (2.31 instead of 0.41 because I had previously upgraded to UTStarcom's Bell WM6.1 rom with the 3.42.50 radio when it came out). The unlock process went smoothly, and I had no problem flashing NFSFAN's 1.28 rom after that either.
NSFAN's RUU said I was successful, and my Vogue automatically restarted but got hung up on the "Bell" splash screen, I tried to let it work itself out for over 15 minutes before I tried a reset, but it still had the same problem. Tried a hard reset: same problem. I let it sit connected to the charger for a half week now and it still is hung at the "Bell" splash screen.
I'd try to flash the stock rom again, but I can't get the RUU to work without an activesync connection (right?).
Did I brick it? Any advice would be appreciated.
Here's everything my version-screen says if it helps at all:
M 03
B 01
P DCAAXOM-4350H
R 3.42.50
D 3NFS (is that NFSFAN's rom or an error?)

esskay said:
I wanted to try NFSFAN's custom 1.28 Bell rom, so I unlocked with IMCokeMan's 2.31 unlocker (2.31 instead of 0.41 because I had previously upgraded to UTStarcom's Bell WM6.1 rom with the 3.42.50 radio when it came out). The unlock process went smoothly, and I had no problem flashing NFSFAN's 1.28 rom after that either.
NSFAN's RUU said I was successful, and my Vogue automatically restarted but got hung up on the "Bell" splash screen, I tried to let it work itself out for over 15 minutes before I tried a reset, but it still had the same problem. Tried a hard reset: same problem. I let it sit connected to the charger for a half week now and it still is hung at the "Bell" splash screen.
I'd try to flash the stock rom again, but I can't get the RUU to work without an activesync connection (right?).
Did I brick it? Any advice would be appreciated.
Here's everything my version-screen says if it helps at all:
M 03
B 01
P DCAAXOM-4350H
R 3.42.50
D 3NFS (is that NFSFAN's rom or an error?)
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OK, relax - its not bricked
the D 3NFS is just NFSFAN's signature on his ROM's nothing to worry about there
First try pulling the battery for a couple minutes and then putting it back in and trying to start, if that still fails, have you tried to hard-reset the phone? red+green+stylus in hole at bottom and hold until the gray screen appears warning you your about to reset the device (your lose you data but it will reload the last ROM you flash
try those if that still doesnt do it, rename the RUU_signed.nbh file to VOGUIMG.nbh and copy it to your SD card then put the SD card back into the phone and press and hold the power+camera+stylus and it will reflash from the SD card (referred to as bootloader mode)
hope that helps
Detroit Doug

I'm up and running again!
I can't thank you enough Detroit Doug, I don't know what I would've done without your help.

Same problem.. put NFSROM's 6.5 rom on my vogue and it worked fine at first, but froze while i was changing the Today theme, and when i soft-reset, it hard-reset itself instead. Never heard of that happening.
After the hard reset it restarted itself as usual, but never recovered after that, just gets stuck at Bell loading screen eternally.
I think it might be because I let customization run the first time, forgetting that I was supposed to reset before customizations run. Possible?
Anyways, I'm trying your last suggestion Detroit_Doug, I put the RUU_signed.nbh on my microsd and renamed it to VOGUIMG.nbh (no other files), popped it in and put it in bootloader... now it's at the gray screen saying it's updating, but the progress bar isn't going anywhere.
Any other solution to recover?
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Fixed it. I gotta look around more for solutions! I downloaded the official Bell ROM from the HTC website and that ran flawlessly.
Now to do it all over again!

blackrook said:
Same problem.. put NFSROM's 6.5 rom on my vogue and it worked fine at first, but froze while i was changing the Today theme, and when i soft-reset, it hard-reset itself instead. Never heard of that happening.
After the hard reset it restarted itself as usual, but never recovered after that, just gets stuck at Bell loading screen eternally.
I think it might be because I let customization run the first time, forgetting that I was supposed to reset before customizations run. Possible?
Anyways, I'm trying your last suggestion Detroit_Doug, I put the RUU_signed.nbh on my microsd and renamed it to VOGUIMG.nbh (no other files), popped it in and put it in bootloader... now it's at the gray screen saying it's updating, but the progress bar isn't going anywhere.
Any other solution to recover?
...
Fixed it. I gotta look around more for solutions! I downloaded the official Bell ROM from the HTC website and that ran flawlessly.
Now to do it all over again!
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No problem - the SEARCH feature can be your friend LOL
As for the initial issue - it came with the today theme - you state you flashed to 6.5 ROM which will NOT use today themes (not sure if it was a misused term on your part or if you were actually trying to use a today theme on a 6.5 UI (Titanium or CHome as it is referred to)
Even then, if you are flashing to the 6.5 ROM and wanting themes, they really are not needed - change the overall color via then included color themes and/or install the Color Bar cabs which can be found around the forum and then just browse to a picture it will work great doing something simple rather than complex on a pre-release OS
There are some "themes" available, but be careful and read the threads regarding them before installing and try to keep to the ROM thread itself when applying themes as other users will report pros and cons of such action and can keep you from having to hard reset or completely re-flash your phone for some colors and graphics
Detroit Doug

Problem resets after being turned on.

Hi guys, having a weird and annoying issue here - I have a unbranded leo, running stock 1.48 with all the patches...
more times out of most, when i turn off the phone, and turn it on again, it does a factory reset? anything saved on the phone goes, and i'm back with a blank phone (all the settings etc).
I can't really turn the phone off now, risk of losing everything.
This started since i put HSPL on the phone it seems, i havn't put on any custom roms, just the stock 1.48 via the update exe package/file.
I did try to update to 1.61 stock the same way, but that never worked...it just keept reseting itself before reaching the windows boot screen....so i had to flash 1.48 to get the phone to work.
I'm thinking of taking off HSPL - best way to go about it?
Or any suggestions on this, woudl be much appreciated!

Any one? I am trying to remove HSPL, but no luck.

I suggest you read this thread, if you have not done so already. If you cannot find an answer in that thread you could start a post there.
I think you will get a lot more responses there, as that thread deals with flashing ROMS. Good luck!

HELP! My Phone is Slowly Self-Destructing!!

Hey guys, I am kind of a noob but have successfully been hacking with my Touch for a while now...or so I thought. I flashed to the 3.37.78 radio a while back and have been keeping up with NSFAN's ROM's for over a year now with no problems....until a few months ago. My phone locked up and I had to soft-reset but to no avail. It got stuck on the startup screen and would not do anything so I did a hard reset and all was good. Then it happened again weeks later. Now it has been happening a lot more recently. I will be texting or on the internet with it and then all of a sudden it will lock up, I do a soft reset and it will hang up either on the startup screen or seem to boot up but then contacts will be missing and there will be no signal. Sometimes the today screen will show but I cannot do anything on it.....all of this requires a hard reset to fix. This happened after I flashed NSFAN's latest ROM so I flashed back to some of his older ROM's that I had no problem with in the past and still the same problem. It has been happening every week or 2 now to the point that I can't even bother setting up the phone the way I want because I know it will happen again. Can any of you guys tell me what the problem is? I really need to get this resolved because I am losing information everytime. Please help!!!

Im a GSM Phone user... and as a general rule, if things start to go wrong.... Flash the OEM rom. That would be the stock ROM. And then flash back to your "custom" rom... Ive had to do that with my phone(s) as well.... It basicly puts things back to 'ground zero'. BUT. Use the phone with the stock rom for a day and see if you still have the same problems... it may be a problem in the phone. In which case you may need to replace and/or send the phone back for replacement to your carrier.
Hope this helps....

Thanks for the reply.....What I ended up doing is reflashing my radio to the 3.42.50 version and then reflashing my ROM to NSFFAN's again. So far so good. I am really hard on my phones and the fact that I drop my phone on a regular basis can't help either....I just need it to last me a few more weeks until I get a new one. Thanks again...

HD2 keeps crashing/hardresetting itself...

first things first: the hd2 is my very first windows mobile device. i've already read the wiki and searched the forum/the internet for help, but i didn't find a solution for my problem. i'm also not a newcomer when it comes to flashing (i've gained some experience from my psp/wii/nokia n82/creative zen).
so i got my htc hd2 a few days ago and one of the first things i tried was flashing a rom (i didn't like the t-mobile branding).
i had absolutely no problems installing hspl (this forum was very informative) and flashing the artemis rom (i strictly followed the instructions), which i found in the rom developement sub forum. since everything seemed to work fine, i started adding my contacts and some applications, still no problems.
but after a while one of the apps seemed to have crashed and the phone became unresponsive.
i removed the battery and turned my phone back on, but it was stuck in the boot screen (the very first screen on which it says "r g d" in red at the bottom). since i didn't know what to do, i simply flashed the artemis rom another time and so the story repeats: at first everything worked fine and after a while the phone got stuck again.
after 4 tries i decided to switch to the shock star r9 rom (also found on xda), which also seemed to work fine at first, but it didn't take long for the phone to freeze again. i took out the battery again and turned the phone back on. this time (to my surprise) it didn't get stuck on bootup, but instead it (automatically) performed a hard reset. the phone now does a hardreset everytime i turn it back on, which makes it pretty much unusable...
since i'm getting REALLY tired of adding my email accounts/favorites/application shortcuts (by now i'm just installing them on the sd card, so i don't have to reinstall them)/facebook associations for my contacts/etc and i thought i'd better ask for help.
does anyone know what causes this issue and/or how i can solve this problem? help would be appreciated!
and since i'm here, what should i use to backup my phone (once it's running perfectly)? i already tried pim backup (sadly it doesn't create a backup of everything) and spb backup (freezes on registry recovery). would it be possible to create a rom that contains ALL of my information (settings/contacts/favorites/applications/registry tweaks/...)?
tl;dr:
my hd2 automatically performs a hardreset on bootup, how do i fix it?
please ignore any grammar errors, i'm tired and not a native english speaker

I have the same problem exactly regarding self-hard-reset. I still did not find any reasonable cause for this problem which is starting really to push on my nerves

This sounds to me like a corrupt file system, which can happen after ROM flashes. I would try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644781

@Moandal: thanks for the answer. i just flashed the shock star rom again and the phone boots up normally again. but i really doubt that it will stay like this, unless i know what caused the problem. next time it happens, i'll try the program from your link.
but if i'm not mistaken, that program also hardresets the phone (correct me, if i'm wrong), so i could just flash a rom instead and that's what i'm trying to prevent (as i said, i don't want to have to enter my personal stuff again and again and again...).
what exactly could cause a corrupt file system? could it be a problem with the rom(s) or am i just doing something completely wrong?

A "simple" custom ROM flash only overwrites the ROM's contents without prior erasing, which on the HD2 has been found to sometimes cause trouble like the continuous hard resets you've suffered.
The solution is a full erase of the ROM before flashing the new ROM, which this mtty command does. So, you obviously can't do it without hard resetting/reflashing.

@kilrah: ok, that made things much clearer. i'm going to use the program posted above and flash the rom again, i hope that will fix future issues.
thanks for the fast help, guys

I had the same issues, at first I thought it was the artiums rom but having done MTTY walkthrough I'm 1 week into the Miri rom without much issues (apart from the odd program crash)

since it started pretty much straight away on the first rom, id be a little concerned that it might be an issue with the phone.
if it continues after you mtty/task 29 then id flash back to stock, including spl, and monitor that for a few days.
Code:

@samsamuel: since my last post the phone crashed only once (i was using opera 9.7 when it became unresponsive again), but this time it didn't perform a hard reset!
the main issue seems to be solved and that's good enough, for the time being.
if the problem occurs again, i'll follow your advice.

opera 9.7 - have you moved the cache to the memory card? I've had a lot of freezes the last few days with opera 9 7, turns out it was cos the cache was on the sd card (default 2 gig that came with it).
moved the cache to the phone yesterday, not a crash in 30 hours.

no, but i was actually going to. won't do it now, obviously

please help cause it went crash and hardreset by itself over again..... how can I fix this??