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Please Help - Can't Flash Rom anymore - No Image File

Good Morning,
I have been flashing a few different roms to find one that suit my needs however I have come to a problem - When I run the RUU it finds the device starts to bootloader on the device then very very quickly the device brings up a grey screen which says something like no image file (happens so quickly hard to read) then goes back to the tri-colour boot loader.
The PC then keeps trying for another minute or two and then says its lost connection.
I have tried using the Manual Boot Loader on the phone and putting the image straight to the msd card and running boot loader by vol - + Power but still nothing works
The last image I tried was the LIA (Can't remember which version - its at home)
I am currently running HardSPL 1.56.OliNex
On the Bootloader it also says this if it helps:
BLAC100 32M
MicroP-Blackstone (LED) v6
Also tried a Hardreset and downloaded official rom from the HTC website :-(
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks.
Max

max_carpenter said:
Good Morning,
I have been flashing a few different roms to find one that suit my needs however I have come to a problem - When I run the RUU it finds the device starts to bootloader on the device then very very quickly the device brings up a grey screen which says something like no image file (happens so quickly hard to read) then goes back to the tri-colour boot loader.
The PC then keeps trying for another minute or two and then says its lost connection.
I have tried using the Manual Boot Loader on the phone and putting the image straight to the msd card and running boot loader by vol - + Power but still nothing works
The last image I tried was the LIA (Can't remember which version - its at home)
I am currently running HardSPL 1.56.OliNex
On the Bootloader it also says this if it helps:
BLAC100 32M
MicroP-Blackstone (LED) v6
Also tried a Hardreset and downloaded official rom from the HTC website :-(
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks.
Max
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Ensure that you put the .nbh and ruu file into one folder with no other files. Make sure you have named the file correctly, i.e. blacimg.nbh

Thanks for your advice. Got the Offical HTC Rom flashing back now.
Strange why the RUU didn't work though been working fine.
Just another quick note while this HTC Rom is flashing it says:
Radio_v2
Bootloader
Splash1
os
Does this mean I need to put Hardspl back on to do more roms as it mentions bootloader?
Regards,
Max

max_carpenter said:
Thanks for your advice. Got the Offical HTC Rom flashing back now.
Strange why the RUU didn't work though been working fine.
Just another quick note while this HTC Rom is flashing it says:
Radio_v2
Bootloader
Splash1
os
Does this mean I need to put Hardspl back on to do more roms as it mentions bootloader?
Regards,
Max
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If you SPL states SPL: 1.56.Olinex then you do not need to re-use HSPL unless you are flashing a rom based on pre 1.54

Ok it didn't change the SPL so thats still ok -
However I can no longer flash new images from my computer using the RUU?
When ever I try it connects enters bootloader but then says No Flash Image. I have checked on the computer I have the RUU tool and the blacimg.nbh but nada.
I have tried roms that were working before. If I copy the blacimg.nbh to the memory card and use vol down + Power it works fine.
anyone seen that before?

max_carpenter said:
Ok it didn't change the SPL so thats still ok -
However I can no longer flash new images from my computer using the RUU?
When ever I try it connects enters bootloader but then says No Flash Image. I have checked on the computer I have the RUU tool and the blacimg.nbh but nada.
I have tried roms that were working before. If I copy the blacimg.nbh to the memory card and use vol down + Power it works fine.
anyone seen that before?
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So you can still flash from sd card, but not using usb cable and pc method. I am assuming you still get 'usb' at bottom of bootloader before you try flashing. I was goingf to suggest maybe your .nbh file was corrupt but you stated you tried using ones which where previously successful so it can't be that. Are both the nbh and ruu files in their own folder with no other files? Try using ruu I've attached. Do you get any error codes?

I will give that RUU a go later once I have played with this rom for a bit.
Yes the RUU and the .nbh are in a folder on my local drive on their own - No antivirus installed
The same .nbh file works via the flash memory,
However the USB text doesn't appear on the boot loader anymore. When I run the RUU from the PC with USB attached with ActiveSync it auto loads the bootloader perfectly but from there no usb and it flashes to the grey screen abotu no flash image then back to the bootloader with nothing at the bottom.

max_carpenter said:
I will give that RUU a go later once I have played with this rom for a bit.
Yes the RUU and the .nbh are in a folder on my local drive on their own - No antivirus installed
The same .nbh file works via the flash memory,
However the USB text doesn't appear on the boot loader anymore. When I run the RUU from the PC with USB attached with ActiveSync it auto loads the bootloader perfectly but from there no usb and it flashes to the grey screen abotu no flash image then back to the bootloader with nothing at the bottom.
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ok, reason flash fails is more than likely due to 'usb' not appearing at bottom of bootloader.
Various reasons for this:
First check that 'allow usb connections' is enabled in activesync connection settings and then see if 'usb' appears
Secondly, update usb drivers

Ok thanks I will note that although I think I have found a rom I am very happy with. So far seems to do everything I want and very stable so will see how it goes.
Just encase anyone is intrested its: Xnor 6.5 V1.4
I have yet to go through everything but so far so good....

same problem
hi I have same problem as OP.. did this get resolved??

dunno if this will help you but basically to flash it via usb the pc detects the phone as something else (not active sync or mobile center or whatever its called now).
so you need to have the drivers installed for that.
if you cancelled the driver screen or something the first time, then it will still be on your system as a nonfunctioning device the easiest thing to do is uninstall it from device manager.
then install the drivers as mentioned above and plug the phone in again in bootloader mode and wait...
it will take longer than usual because its the first time the driver is being loaded. then i think 'usb' will appear...
i had a problem like that after i reformatted my pc but this was ages ago

help: HSPL error, bricked!

anyone can help me?
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after check my HD2 version is 1.42, I started the HSPL program, and after some time, it shows "xxxx hacked" on the HD2, but unfortunately, at this time, my computer showed an error, and the HSPL program stopped.
after that, whatever I do, HD2 can't started anymore. It shows an white triangle plus "!" on the screen.
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what should I do now?

esuper said:
anyone can help me?
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after check my HD2 version is 1.42, I started the HSPL program, and after some time, it shows "xxxx hacked" on the HD2, but unfortunately, at this time, my computer showed an error, and the HSPL program stopped.
after that, whatever I do, HD2 can't started anymore. It shows an white triangle plus "!" on the screen.
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what should I do now?
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extract with winrar the .exe from a stock rom i.e. 1.48 wwe.
copy the .nbh file to your sd card and rename it to leoimg.nbh (format your sd card to fat32 first).
put your sd card to your device.
hold both volup and voldown hardware buttons and reset your device.
follow the steps and hspl will be erased.

gianton said:
extract with winrar the .exe from a stock rom i.e. 1.48 wwe.
copy the .nbh file to your sd card and rename it to leoimg.nbh (format your sd card to fat32 first).
put your sd card to your device.
hold both volup and voldown hardware buttons and reset your device.
follow the steps and hspl will be erased.
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where can I get the 1.48 wwe.?

put ur serial number in here (assuming you're in the UK)...
http://www.htc.com/uk/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=297&cat=2&dl_id=804
failing that, get it in here...
http://www.4shared.com/account/home.jsp

I'm not in UK, I'm in china
THEREFORE, the links doesn't work.
By the way, if I follow your instruction and upgrade to rom 1.48, how can I use the HSPL? since it's for 1.42 only.

esuper said:
I'm not in UK, I'm in china
THEREFORE, the links doesn't work.
By the way, if I follow your instruction and upgrade to rom 1.48, how can I use the HSPL? since it's for 1.42 only.
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It worked for me on the 1.48 ROM. My phone shipped with it, and installing HSPL was the first thing I did so I could flash other ROMS.
I have heard that sometimes, you need to run it more than once if it doesn't work....but for me... it worked the first time.

Mine errored out somewhat similar to the OP's case. I just ran HSPL again and it said it completed successfull.
HINT: Make sure you choose the selection in the end quicly when it asks you if you want to display the ms HACKED on your device. When i clicked NO first time, it errored out and closed. Second time, i hit yes and it was success.

mikron15 said:
Mine errored out somewhat similar to the OP's case. I just ran HSPL again and it said it completed successfull.
HINT: Make sure you choose the selection in the end quicly when it asks you if you want to display the ms HACKED on your device. When i clicked NO first time, it errored out and closed. Second time, i hit yes and it was success.
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What made you decide to press "no"? Also, make sure not to do anything else but move the mouse from time to time during the flashing. Dont bring up other tools, windows' start menu, use keyboard shortcuts to do anything; in other words, dont touch your keyboard, dont click your mouse, just move your mouse around to ensure it doesn't start the screensaver

Hold down the Volume Down button and "click" the power button to start up the phone in Boot Loader mode with the 3 color screen. You should see "Serial" on the screen. Now, plug in the USB cable to your PC, and the "Serial" should change to "USB". Start up HSPL and try loading it again to your phone.
If it doesn't work, try the same procedure again. I thought I had bricked my phone by trying to load a ROM that wasn't made for my region, and I had to retry loading HSPL 3 times before it worked.

mikron15 said:
.... the selection in the end quicly when it asks you if you want to display the ms HACKED on your device. When i clicked NO first time,
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lol, it doesn't say "do you want to display hacked"....it says can you see hacked on your display?"

phone died (probably just windows mobile)

i got this phone 1 day, and it's already dead
i installed hspl, and a custom wwe rom, it was working fine. But then it froze on me, when i tried to start opera, it said it was clearing the memory or something. When i rebooted the phone, at first it refused to boot, froze at the pink circle.
now i got it to boot a couple of times, and HTC sense is mostly gone, i get to see an ugly Win M version... I cant get the phone to connect, so i can reinstall another firmware ... what can i do?
It's just a pretty expensive flashlight now.

GregoryGoris said:
i got this phone 1 day, and it's already dead
i installed hspl, and a custom wwe rom, it was working fine. But then it froze on me, when i tried to start opera, it said it was clearing the memory or something. When i rebooted the phone, at first it refused to boot, froze at the pink circle.
now i got it to boot a couple of times, and HTC sense is mostly gone, i get to see an ugly Win M version... I cant get the phone to connect, so i can reinstall another firmware ... what can i do?
It's just a pretty expensive flashlight now.
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Try flashing it by SD card method
1. Make sure your microSD is Formatted to fat32 (you dont have to delete all files but it is safer if you do)
2. Download your prefered Rom from the LEO Rom Develpoment Page and unzip/unrar it to your PC
3. Goto the Roms Folder and rename the .nbh file to LEOIMG.nbh
4. Copy the LEOIMG.nbh file to the root of your MicroSD Card
5. Plug the MicroSD Card into the phone
6. Reset the device while pressing the volume down button to enter the BootLoader screen, you will first see a tri-color screen with the phone and SPL Information at the top
7. Follow the On Screen instructions to start the update
8. After flash has completed, press the reset button with the stylus to reset the device.

I tried
and failed.
I uploaded the nbh from your signature to my freshly formatted Fat32 microsd card
the tricolore screen came up. It said something about reading, and some digits at the top (005 something), back to the tricolore screen.
and now its been like that for about an hour... (PB81100 HX-BC
SPL-1.42.HSPL XE
0x05
CotullaHSPL 0X10 in the top red part
SERIAL in the white...
what can i do? There has to be a way...

plug in the usb whilst on the three colored screen. when serial becomes usb flash your rom from usb.

samsamuel said:
plug in the usb whilst on the three colored screen. when serial becomes usb flash your rom from usb.
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wow, i feel like a fool for not thinking about this
thanks a lot, works like a charm again!

no worries.
when you look in bootloader, if it says spl x.x.hspl then you can flash anything from usb. if it said x.x.0000 then it would only accept roms specific to your model/region/provider.
its worth remembering you can flash hspl from the bootloader screen too.

oh and when it was sticking at the pink circle,,,,,, almost certainly because you hadn't flashed a compatible radio.
if it happens again go into bootloader and flash the radio, just like flashing a rom.

i think giving your hd2 a hard reset will make it work again.

I did exactly the same thing. Have flashed ROMs before on other devices and foolishly plunged straight into to flashing my HD2 without reading the instructions carefully; i.e. check the battery level is >50%, ensure you have HardSPL'd and flash the correct radio version first.
I tried Energy ROM Build 21907 and had it working for a while until I powered off and then tried to switch on again and it froze with a pink circle showing. I had checked the radio version (2.04) but had not heeded the warning to use 2.07.50 or higher, avoid 2.xx.51 like the plague etc. Just plain hadn't followed instructions.
Doing a soft reset doesn't work.
Doing a hard reset doesn't work.
Hitting one's head against a wall does not work.
Following samsamuel's advice about plugging in after hard reset does work:
- Have your Windows PC ready but don't plug in the device yet
- Download CustomRUU.exe and the correct radio file
- Rename the radio file to RUU_signed.nbh
- Hold the device's Vol Down and Power keys, let em go and do a hard reset
- You'll see the tricolour screen and you should see HSPL near the top and "Serial" at the bottom
- Plug in the USB cable and "Serial" changes to "USB"
- Run CustomRUU on your PC and follow the instructions
Thank you very much, samsmuael, for rescuing me on this occasion.

I had a frightnening experience in the same vein today also.....
Decided to go for my first flash........which turned into 3...
Anyway I flashed an energy rom...........
Then a cleanex which left me unable to connect via activesync........
Had a quick panic.........got on here for some answers and found something about flashing via cable from bootloader.......... Panic over
Flashed to another energy rom.......... all is well again......
Only problem is what to flash next........

NEED MASSIVE AMOUNT OF HELP for HD2

whats up team... so i have a mountain of a problem... i was running the elegancia rom on my HD2 and had android v2 installed on it. i decided to change my rom to artemis version 34.5 WWE (english lang version). the zip file did not contain the custon ruu, so i downloaded the generic custom ruu from theunlockr.com the hd2 started botting but it stays on the "stick together" screen and its not budging. tired the soft reset button, tried pulling out the battery, and even tried hard reset with the volup and voldown buttons... by my calculations, i think that the ruu that i downloaded and installed is either twitch or faulty and it has been saved to the device memory, so any type of reset i do will put me back to this rom (since by now its the default). windows does not recognize the phone when connected through usb. so i am in a deadlock. does anyone know any fancy trick or am i just f***ed

The search function is still working
try searching for - flash by sd card

new develompent
from the forums u directed me to, i realized the the extrected file was in RUU-signed.nbh form, and once i downloaded the generic custom ruu, i did not change the file name to leoimg.nbh, and flashed the phone. is there anyway to flash the phone to its original settings (factory) while the phone from the spl screen?
johnerz said:
The search function is still working
try searching for - flash by sd card
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GOT IT
ok so if anyone else has this problem when the hd2 doesnt load after "stick together" screen and wants to restore it to factory settings
1. connect ur phone to ur computer via usb
2. soft rest your phone while holding the volume down button. this will bring u to the SPL screen, and in the bottom white section it should say "usb"
3. download the stock rom for your hd2 from a website such as theunlockr.com
4. while ur phone is connected to ur pc, run the stock ruu rom
5. loading screen will appear on your phone, and there you go

Struggling to downgrade WP7, Please help!!!

I'm trying reinstall WM6.5 on my HTC HD2 from MAGLDR V1.13.
I've downloaded the stock rom from HTC website and im trying run the installer but it fails it cant seem to pick up my phone as a USB connection.
I tried the bootloader way but it always get stuck at the installation part at 0%.
what am i? doing wrong, its driving me mad..
SPL version is SPL-2.08.0000

Make sure you’ve got more than 50% power on the device.
• Unplug USB cable
• Power Off device.
• Press and hold volume down button and press power button to start again.
• You will be presented with a tricolor splash screen.
• Connect USB cable to PC
• On the Tricolor splash screen you see “serial”; change to “usb”, if not unplug and plug the cable back in.
• As Administrator Run the WM6.5 ROM Update and follow instructions, your device should now be flashed with WM6.5.

GreatLorens said:
Make sure you’ve got more than 50% power on the device.
• Unplug USB cable
• Power Off device.
• Press and hold volume down button and press power button to start again.
• You will be presented with a tricolor splash screen.
• Connect USB cable to PC
• On the Tricolor splash screen you see “serial”; change to “usb”, if not unplug and plug the cable back in.
• As Administrator Run the WM6.5 ROM Update and follow instructions, your device should now be flashed with WM6.5.
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thanks for the reply,
done the above a few times but no joy..
I see USB at the bootloader and when i run the ROM update, it doesnt show me what the current version of the phone is but just says it will update to the version 3.14.110.1! so when i start the install process nothing happens, i get the error [302]..
why is that?
any other way to flash this??

rafter_01 said:
thanks for the reply,
done the above a few times but no joy..
I see USB at the bootloader and when i run the ROM update, it doesnt show me what the current version of the phone is but just says it will update to the version 3.14.110.1! so when i start the install process nothing happens, i get the error [302]..
why is that?
any other way to flash this??
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i had came across this issue last week.
when in tri-color mode, re-install hspl 2.08 and then magldr 1.12/1.13.
then try installing wm6.5.
This worked in my case.
Check if it does in urs too...
Al the best...

ankushmulay said:
i had came across this issue last week.
when in tri-color mode, re-install hspl 2.08 and then magldr 1.12/1.13.
then try installing wm6.5.
This worked in my case.
Check if it does in urs too...
Al the best...
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what ive done so far,
re-installed the hspl 2.08 and then installed the radio 2.15.50.14 from the following site: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-hardspl-2-08-on-htc-hd2/
but now at the bootloader im getting the following error 'upgrade ROM code error Please try again"
What have i done wrong???
thanks

flash hspl ... radio ... then mag ... then try the downgrade to winmo

rubledub said:
flash hspl ... radio ... then mag ... then try the downgrade to winmo
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after the radio, I cannot download magdlr, it stops at 29%.. Or sometimes doesn't do anything!!

I'd suggest task 29 to wipe the phone completly. Then make sure you have the correct stock rom for your phone. EG if you bought a EURO o2 HD2 then you need to have the o2 3.14 stock rom. Extract the .nbh file from the .exe.
Use SD Formatter to format your SD card, this will wipe all windows 7 partitions.
Then copy .nbh file and place it on the sd card, then boot into boot loader (tri colour screen) and follow on screen instructions. A grey screen should appear at this point.
This will remove Hard spl and restore WM 6.5 and also restore the first of the two splash screens and the radio back to factory settings and will also restore your warrently as well.

GhostXSeries said:
I'd suggest task 29 to wipe the phone completly. Then make sure you have the correct stock rom for your phone. EG if you bought a EURO o2 HD2 then you need to have the o2 3.14 stock rom. Extract the .nbh file from the .exe.
Use SD Formatter to format your SD card, this will wipe all windows 7 partitions.
Then copy .nbh file and place it on the sd card, then boot into boot loader (tri colour screen) and follow on screen instructions. A grey screen should appear at this point.
This will remove Hard spl and restore WM 6.5 and also restore the first of the two splash screens and the radio back to factory settings and will also restore your warrently as well.
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Thanks for this info, will try it. Have you got a link to task 29? Is it a software?

No but it is all over XDA. I think you'll find it someware on the WM 6.5 thread. If that doesn't work your nand will be stuffed but it has allways worked for me!

GhostXSeries said:
I'd suggest task 29 to wipe the phone completly. Then make sure you have the correct stock rom for your phone. EG if you bought a EURO o2 HD2 then you need to have the o2 3.14 stock rom. Extract the .nbh file from the .exe.
Use SD Formatter to format your SD card, this will wipe all windows 7 partitions.
Then copy .nbh file and place it on the sd card, then boot into boot loader (tri colour screen) and follow on screen instructions. A grey screen should appear at this point.
This will remove Hard spl and restore WM 6.5 and also restore the first of the two splash screens and the radio back to factory settings and will also restore your warrently as well.
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Yes, even i suggest you the "flash via micro sd card" method becoz it works in worst cases. and follow all the steps sequencely. good luck

Task29 gives an error 290 and doesn't complete.
Im getting frustrated... What can i do next

task 29 now wipes my phone but everytime i flash a new rom is crashes at 9% or 10% and then i get the error 290.
i downloaded the stock rom for my phone... argggh what can be done?
thanks

Sounds like nand is dead. Looks as if you will have to return it to get it fixed!

i must agree with ghost ... sounds like you flashed the poor baby to death :'( sad sad day! and very rare i might add!

GhostXSeries said:
Sounds like nand is dead. Looks as if you will have to return it to get it fixed!
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cannot believe i messed it up.......

know where i can send it for repair? will HTC cover it under warranty? will they be suspicious?

anyone? do i need to ring my phone contract people or go directly to HTC?
Thanks

Depends how old it is. It may need to go directly to HTC to get it fixed.

I read somewhere that error [290]: Invalid Command - the ROM Update Utility has encountered communication errors during the update process.
Try changing the usb cable/connect directly to usb port (not usb hub) if you still want to use usb for flashing.
I always use the sdcard method when there's a problem flashing via usb. Rename RUU_signed.nbh (extract from stock rom exe package) to LEOIMG.nbh and copy the file to sdcard (sdcard MUST be formatted as FAT32 - use HP format tool). Put sdcard into the phone and boot into bootloader mode ... see if it works ...