hey there, before you yell at me to search hear me out.
i followed the tutorial to root my phone from the latest legit version of android. i installed jesesfrekes 1.5 version along with the radio(?) from htc. i figured i would bring it back to the stock version so i did some searching and found that most threads didnt say much but go search! well i did find some hints that people were saying to download the original rc29 dreimg.nbh and power on via camera and power button and go from there. the problem is that when i boot into the phone via camera button and power button, all i see are little androids on skateboards and SERIAL0, with no instructions or prompts to continue. can anyone help me out on what to do from here to get the stock firmware back, and everything back to factory?
thanks in advance!
if you don't see the image update screen before serial0, it means the file DREAIMG.nbh is not on your sdcard or the card is not properly formatted. also note that the whole linux system is published under GPL and Android is an open source project, so mods are strickly legitimate.
You plug in usb cable then hit back button from there. Then it should say fastboot instead of serial.
Two things:
Hey there,
If you want to go back to truly stock, you'll first want to replace your SPL with the stock one. Once you go back to unrooted, you won't be able to do this again without getting root back. So it has to be done first. Right now, you've got HardSPL, or Engineering SPL. Once you reflash back to the ugly rainbow original SPL, I have a feeling you've put the DREAIMG.nbh ZIP FILE on your SD card. Unlike other updates you do in recovery mode, YOU HAVE TO UNZIP THIS ZIP FILE first, and put the unzipped contents (the DREAIMG.nbh file ITSELF, around 95 MB or so) on the SD card. If you just download that zip and put it on there, it won't work.
Good luck.
Ricky
please excuse my ignorance when using the term legitimage, i just did not know what terms to use to accuretly point to what i needed to talk about.
anyways, i think the problem may be that the sd card was not formatted correctly, for the img file is definitly there. i am having a hard time formatting it via pc, since everything i right click on the drive in "my computer" and hit format, the pc says no drive found, and my phone claims "preparing sd card" also, i tried the format option on the phone itself, which apprently did not work.
So you rooted your phone, flashed spl then updated to 1.5?
gooberguy said:
please excuse my ignorance when using the term legitimage, i just did not know what terms to use to accuretly point to what i needed to talk about.
anyways, i think the problem may be that the sd card was not formatted correctly, for the img file is definitly there. i am having a hard time formatting it via pc, since everything i right click on the drive in "my computer" and hit format, the pc says no drive found, and my phone claims "preparing sd card" also, i tried the format option on the phone itself, which apprently did not work.
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Sounds like you're using Vista?
DesignDawg said:
Hey there,
If you want to go back to truly stock, you'll first want to replace your SPL with the stock one. Once you go back to unrooted, you won't be able to do this again without getting root back. So it has to be done first. Right now, you've got HardSPL, or Engineering SPL. Once you reflash back to the ugly rainbow original SPL, I have a feeling you've put the DREAIMG.nbh ZIP FILE on your SD card. Unlike other updates you do in recovery mode, YOU HAVE TO UNZIP THIS ZIP FILE first, and put the unzipped contents (the DREAIMG.nbh file ITSELF, around 95 MB or so) on the SD card. If you just download that zip and put it on there, it won't work.
Good luck.
Ricky
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i am putting the straight nbh file on there, and not the zip, it seems like my problem lies in formatting. and may i ask what you mean by replacing my spl? what is the importance of this, and if it is of upmost importance, how do i go about doing it?
thanks a bunch for the quick responses.
Ryanmo5 said:
So you rooted your phone, flashed spl then updated to 1.5?
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DesignDawg said:
Sounds like you're using Vista?
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correct to both quotes
gooberguy said:
correct to both quotes
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Unfortunately, I have had VERY LITTLE LUCK dealing with my G1 on Vista. Anything other than casually connecting it and transferring files casues the same types of headaches you're experiencing. Trying to scan the disk, trying to format it, fix errors, even eject the disk (safely remove) causes the phone to disconnect and/or Windows to claim not to be able to read it.
I'm not saying Vista and the G1 can't work together well, I'm just saying mine don't. --So I always use my XP machine whenever I try to do anything like that. Other than that, if you're sure you've unzipped your nbh file, sorry I can't be of much help.
after doing a little bit of research i guess i need to change the skateboard version of the spl to the gay pride one for 100percent original correct? how do i do this?
also i updated the radio(whatever that means ) from the HTC website, as per the tutorial. do i have to "downgrade" that as well?
my 2c:
the sdcard has to be formatted as fat32, not fat16. i never had luck with G1 and interfacing with a computer or doing anything like rooting a phone while the sdcard was fat16. works like a charm when its fat32 though.
i managed to get skateboard SPL to recognize my dream image.nbh by formatting the sd card on a windows xp as designdawg mentioned. now im trying to figure out if i need to downgrade the spl and radio, before i flash the dreamimage.nbh on there.
gooberguy said:
i managed to get skateboard SPL to recognize my dream image.nbh by formatting the sd card on a windows xp as designdawg mentioned. now im trying to figure out if i need to downgrade the spl and radio.
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D'OH! It's too late, I think. I told you that on my first post. You must have missed it. In order to change your SPL, you have to be able to flash images signed with the test keys. You can no longer do that because you have RC29 with the stock recovery, which will only flash google-signed keys. The only way to go back to the original SPL is to re-root your phone now.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
oh no! you must have misunderstood, i have not gone back to RC29 yet, i am still on jf1.5 patiently waiting instructions here, haha
gooberguy said:
oh no! you must have misunderstood, i have not gone back to RC29 yet, i am still on jf1.5 patiently waiting instructions here, haha
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Oh. Gooood. Well, all you need to do is download the SPL file for the original, rename it update.zip, put it on your card, home+power to get to recovery mode, then ALT+S to flash your SPL back to original. Then you can use the original SPL (Camera+power) to flash back to RC29. RC29 will reset your radio and everything, so you'll be factory fresh at that point. I would throw an ALT+W in there somewhere to wipe it if I were you, or you can always do it after you've done RC29.
You're ready to go. (I just did all this last night myself).
excuse me if this is a dumb question, but where can i download the original spl? i would search for it but im not exactly sure what to search hah. thanks a lot for helping me out once again. also, would it be okay to alt+w right before i do the update.zip for the original spl?
In case anyone is following and still having trouble with this:
1. Download the Original SPL By downloading G1OrigBootloader_nocheck.zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860
2. Rename to update.zip and flash via normal Home+Power Method
3. Download Original RC29 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480)
4. Unzip .nbh file and place in the root of your newly formatted card.
5. Boot with Camera+Power and follow the steps given onscreen to install
6. Don't enjoy losing root : (
EDIT: In order to get to the current build you have to update in steps so after upgrading to RC29 upgrade to RC30 and then to RC33 via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=479571)
PS I had App2SD for a long time so the SPL would look for my image in the EXT3 partition and then quit when it couldnt find it. So I ended up having to format it completely to FAT32 and then it worked.
Hope this helps
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Fellow Android fans. I am out of ideas and could use a benevolent lending hand of help. I have been searching this site for three days now and have attempted everything I can think of (and have found in searches) to get my phone back up again. I have found a couple of posts where people were stuck at the splash screen but just wiping/reflashing typically fixed their issue. I however cannot get past the G1 screen after each boot regardless of the ROM NOR can I even access my SD card which I suppose are two different problems all together.
HISTORY: I have had every modified ROM since JF released his first version last year. I have flashed, backed up, changed radios, put apps/cache/data to my SD (8gb Class 6) with rare issues. The couple times I did get stuck at the splash screen, I would just use Fastboot to go back to a backed up nandroid ROM. But then I decided to go to the latest JF Lucid 1.5 ROM. That’s when it all went downhill. (Certainly no one's fault but my own I know) Though I wiped initially, it seemed that some links were still stuck on the phone for I couldn’t get my apps to SD. The ROM was working fine and I could install market apps without issue, but I wanted to have 100+ apps for absolutely no good reason other than “because I could.” So I was talking with Marcus who suggested I repartition my SD card. This is where the noob came out of me. My trial period had ended with Partition Manager so I used Window’s Device Manager to delete the partition (I backed everything up thankfully) After I did so I powered down the phone to see if all was ok. It wasn’t. It just gets stuck on the G1 screen.
Attempts to Restore:
• I can access the Recovery tool and wipe/flash an older known working update.zip file and it says that it loads successfully, but when I reboot I get stuck at the G1 screen.
• I can access Fastboot and flash a backed up ROM (known working backups that have worked before mind you), it says loaded successfully, but when I reboot it gets stuck at the G1 screen.
• When I insert my SD card into a card reader I cannot access the card as it says “insert disc”.
• I went into Windows Device Manager and it shows that have a memory card but says “Unreadable”.
• I put an older 2gb SD card in the phone and loaded an older RC33 ROM and flashed it. It flashed just fine but gets stuck at the G1 screen.
• So I downloaded the Ubuntu Live CD and attempted to reformat my SD card via Gparted. No dice. It won’t even recognize it as an available disk. (I tried both with it in my phone connected via USB and in the micro SD card adapter and card reader)
I have Windows XP, a Ubuntu Live Cd, JF Lucid 1.5, and a headache after the numerous failed attempts at getting this straight.
I am completely out of ideas. I am not however, familiar with ADB so I am really hoping that there are some commands or something out there can bring my phone back from the dead. If I have to buy a new SD card, so be it, but I am trying to avoid having to buy a new phone. Long story short, I suppose my question is two fold:
1) By deleting my partition did that ruin the SD card and ultimately cause these boot loop issues? I just can't figure that out how that is possible since a partition isn't even a requirement of flashing a ROM
2) Is it possible to reclaim my phone and if so, how?
Thank you very much for your time and any suggestions...
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Interesting problem you got there. Not that i have any answers for ya, but a few ideas. I've read the boards here for a lil while at least, and i know that if you had custom boot images, the second one can cause hangs when switching to certain roms. You didn't say, have you tried flashing the original dreamimg.nbh? When you formatted your sdcard, did you have apps to sd and that dalvic cache to sd card too? possibly pointers on the main partition pointing to a non existing mount point. Hope you get it up and running again
what spl were you on? have you tried the sapphire spl? or hardspl?
I've done this before too. Easiest way to fix it is to flash DREAIMG.NBH, and then re-install test keys and the SPL of your choice and reflash JF1.5
I forgot to mention that yes I had apps, data, and dalvik all moved to the SD card but NO custom boot images. I am assuming the data or dalvik move is what caused the initial problems when I flashed to ADP 1.5. I currently am running the HardSPL (HSPL10.95.3000)
I haven't tried flashing the DREAIMG.NBH yet but assumed it wouldn't work as I have flashed numerous other ROMs to no avail. I suppose I shouldn't assume. I will try that today. On the other hand, any ideas on how to reformat (or just make it recognizable for that matter) my SD card?
Thanks gang!
bahnburner said:
I've done this before too. Easiest way to fix it is to flash DREAIMG.NBH, and then re-install test keys and the SPL of your choice and reflash JF1.5
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How do I go about reinstalling the test keys? And do I need to flash to an SPL other than the HardSPL (which I have now) for the DREAIMG.NBH to flash appropriately?
Thanks man
gPhunk said:
I forgot to mention that yes I had apps, data, and dalvik all moved to the SD card but NO custom boot images. I am assuming the data or dalvik move is what caused the initial problems when I flashed to ADP 1.5. I currently am running the HardSPL (HSPL10.95.3000)
I haven't tried flashing the DREAIMG.NBH yet but assumed it wouldn't work as I have flashed numerous other ROMs to no avail. I suppose I shouldn't assume. I will try that today. On the other hand, any ideas on how to reformat (or just make it recognizable for that matter) my SD card?
Thanks gang!
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flashing the nbh should be the way to go .. it basically images the whole phone .. whereas flashing the ROM files does not .. each update.zip only deletes the /system portion of the phone .. performing ALT+W deletes the /system AND /data portions of the phone
flash the nbh like you were starting from scratch with the root process .. go back thru all the steps .. put the new recovery.img etc blah blah blah
odd
I'm not real sure as far as the test keys go. But as long as your phone is rooted with a hard spl (which is just a edited engineering spl) you should be able to reflash any rom including rc29 (dreamimg.img) just rebember to go thourgh the bootloader to do so not recovery. The very way you originally rooted you dream.
Have you tried simply doing a wipe yet? Sounds like you need to clear out the /data partition, and be patient when it boots up the first time after a wipe - it can take a while.
LucidREM said:
flashing the nbh should be the way to go .. it basically images the whole phone .. whereas flashing the ROM files does not .. each update.zip only deletes the /system portion of the phone .. performing ALT+W deletes the /system AND /data portions of the phone
flash the nbh like you were starting from scratch with the root process .. go back thru all the steps .. put the new recovery.img etc blah blah blah
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Thanks guys - The DREAMIMG flash worked. You truly are life savers. (My wife has been on my ARSE the last 4 days for this.. lol) I do have a quick question for Lucid.
First, thank you for ALL the fine work you have done. Basically all of my ROMs have been yours (and JF's of course). So my question is with the linking of the data and dalvik cache. Even though I wiped when flashing to 1.5 it seemed I still had file folders stuck in my partition which were preventing me from updating the links again. What should I have done to re-link them appropriately? I tried your "undodata / dalvik" scripts but still couldn't get them linked.
Again guys - Thank you
daveid said:
Have you tried simply doing a wipe yet? Sounds like you need to clear out the /data partition, and be patient when it boots up the first time after a wipe - it can take a while.
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Ya I wipe with every flash. I even let it boot up overnight (as I read that it can take a while) but when I woke up it was still at the G1 screen. Have no idea what caused this but the DREAMIMG.nbh flash worked.
great news
Good to hear you got your dream up and running again. I'm happy to see the community so willing to help. Keep posting issues, keep responding to those who you think you can help. This is the reason why xda-devlopers site is the go to site for xda issues.
SDcard probs....
Did you ever get your SD Card working again?
If not, download the free version of killdisk from http://software.lsoft.net/KillDiskSuiteFree-Setup.exe and use it to wipe the entire sd card with zeros. After that, remove the card from your windows box then reinsert it. Windows should ask you to format it and you should be golden. I've seen this problem happen with flash drives as well and this always gets them back.
I suspect that the disk is dead. In any case, windonkey isn't the right thing to use to try to recover it. Boot on the livecd, insert the disk, type 'dmesg', which should output the device file, i.e. 'sdb', then as root do a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd?" where ?=whatever that was from 'dmesg', wait until it finishes, pull the card, push the card, run gparted. More than likely, the output of 'dmesg' will show a problem with the card, in which case, melt it, burn it, break it in half, throw it out, warranty it, whatever makes you happy that results in you not accidentally trying to use the thing.
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Did you ever get your SD Card working again?
If not, download the free version of killdisk from http://software.lsoft.net/KillDiskSuiteFree-Setup.exe and use it to wipe the entire sd card with zeros. After that, remove the card from your windows box then reinsert it. Windows should ask you to format it and you should be golden. I've seen this problem happen with flash drives as well and this always gets them back.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it but it couldn't write to it. I suppose it's hosed. Just ordered another. Thanks for your help though!
Can flash DREAMIMG.nbh - but not a modded ROM
I was able to regain my phone by flashing DREAMIMG.nbh. (thank you all) I followed all of the directions (to the "T") from this post (http://www.kyubinc.org/files/AndroidMod.zip) that I saw Lucid recommended in an April post. I was able to get through the steps and rooted the phone successfully (made sure I could get "#" when typing "su" into Term Em) BUT when I go to flash RC33, I get hung up at the freaking G1 screen AGAIN !!! <<I'd pull my hair out if I had any>>
I let it boot for 90min before I decided to request suggestions so I don't think it's a patience thing. The only error I noticed while rooting was when I entered the recovery console, at the top it said "Can’t open /cache/recovery/command". Can't remember if that was normal or not as it's been so long but it let me successfully flash the update.zip from the SD card so didn't think much of it. But when I rebooted it is stuck at the G1 screen.
Now I know that my 8gb SD card is hosed so am using the 1gb that came with the phone until I get my new one. So I am using a completely different SD card but am getting the same "stuck at the splash screen" issue. Anyone have an idea what in my phone is surviving all of these wipes/flashes that is perpetuating this issue? It just doesn't make since that I can flash an OEM ROM (DREAMIMG.nbh) just fine but not a modded one (RC33). I certainly am not ruling out user error, but it just seems like a directory or file or WHATEVER inside the phone has been corrupted or something because it's the only constant in this whole process.
Thanks again
dunno
When you went through the root process again did you reinstall the hard spl again. And then protect it
gPhunk said:
I was able to regain my phone by flashing DREAMIMG.nbh. (thank you all) I followed all of the directions (to the "T") from this post (http://www.kyubinc.org/files/AndroidMod.zip) that I saw Lucid recommended in an April post. I was able to get through the steps and rooted the phone successfully (made sure I could get "#" when typing "su" into Term Em) BUT when I go to flash RC33, I get hung up at the freaking G1 screen AGAIN !!! <<I'd pull my hair out if I had any>>
I let it boot for 90min before I decided to request suggestions so I don't think it's a patience thing. The only error I noticed while rooting was when I entered the recovery console, at the top it said "Can’t open /cache/recovery/command". Can't remember if that was normal or not as it's been so long but it let me successfully flash the update.zip from the SD card so didn't think much of it. But when I rebooted it is stuck at the G1 screen.
Now I know that my 8gb SD card is hosed so am using the 1gb that came with the phone until I get my new one. So I am using a completely different SD card but am getting the same "stuck at the splash screen" issue. Anyone have an idea what in my phone is surviving all of these wipes/flashes that is perpetuating this issue? It just doesn't make since that I can flash an OEM ROM (DREAMIMG.nbh) just fine but not a modded one (RC33). I certainly am not ruling out user error, but it just seems like a directory or file or WHATEVER inside the phone has been corrupted or something because it's the only constant in this whole process.
Thanks again
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and you followed these steps precisely?
http://files.lucidrem.us/jf/ROOT/g1_root.txt
just making sure
O dear, I am experiencing the same issue - I pulled my SD out this morning was not able to get it recognized, and upon reboot got stuck on the splash screen. I have wiped several times and am still stuck at splash 2. I am at work so cannot try to access my card thru my PC to see if I am having the same problem as gPhunk, but can only assume that i fried my SD card. I am a n00b, so really nervous of my ability to get myself back up and running.
To install the dreaming.nbh, is it the same as any other flash - rename it update.zip and ctrl-s from the recovery screen? Does that bring back to an RC build so i have to re-root?
Help! And thank you so much!
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and you followed these steps precisely?
http://files.lucidrem.us/jf/ROOT/g1_root.txt
just making sure
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Similar - but the ones I followed were these
http://www.kyubinc.org/files/AndroidMod.zip
I will try this set this time..
Ok my last 3 days I've been simply trying to install some custom ROMs and did all the reading and research step by step, but my AT&T HTC Pure just wont update the HSPL no matter what.
Steps I've taken so far:
1. Formatted SD Card
2. Obtained and put goldcard.img on SD Card
3. Fully connected phone via Windows Mobile Device Center
4. Antivirus turned off
5. Tried Topaz-HardSPL_V5_00R5_183HSPL in in auto-mode, fails telling me " Fatal Error" and underneath "Please make sure the device is properly synced; Please retry after syncing device (via Activesync or Windows Mobile Device Center)" which I have...
6. Tried installing ENABLERAPINEW.cab with results "unsuccessful" (but again my phone does sync just fine, I still took this step)
7. Tried Manual Flash, my phone never goes into bootloader, and right after "verifying phone information" shows screen saying "ERROR [224]: DEVICE NOT RESPONDING"
8. Tried entering bootloader mode and during auto-mode to flash, tells me same exact thing as without bootloader
9. Tried Manual Flash in bootloader, it gets to flashing screen with a progress bar at 0% on both PC and phone forever, I waited 20 mins and it didn't change.
It seems as if there is something preventing RUU to be writing anything on my phone, so that's why it throws connection error, but I am not sure. And I am seriously loosing all hope in this and dont know what to do, so HELP please!
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I also forgot to mention that I tried to Hard_SPL from another computer that is Windows XP, used Activesync, which didn't work either...
The only thing i can tell you is to read this thread (what you have already done i think)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=520312
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Ok my last 3 days I've been simply trying to install some custom ROMs and did all the reading and research step by step, but my AT&T HTC Pure just wont update the HSPL no matter what.
Steps I've taken so far:
1. Formatted SD Card
2. Obtained and put goldcard.img on SD Card
3. Fully connected phone via Windows Mobile Device Center
4. Antivirus turned off
5. Tried Topaz-HardSPL_V5_00R5_183HSPL in in auto-mode, fails telling me " Fatal Error" and underneath "Please make sure the device is properly synced; Please retry after syncing device (via Activesync or Windows Mobile Device Center)" which I have...
6. Tried installing ENABLERAPINEW.cab with results "unsuccessful" (but again my phone does sync just fine, I still took this step)
7. Tried Manual Flash, my phone never goes into bootloader, and right after "verifying phone information" shows screen saying "ERROR [224]: DEVICE NOT RESPONDING"
8. Tried entering bootloader mode and during auto-mode to flash, tells me same exact thing as without bootloader
9. Tried Manual Flash in bootloader, it gets to flashing screen with a progress bar at 0% on both PC and phone forever, I waited 20 mins and it didn't change.
It seems as if there is something preventing RUU to be writing anything on my phone, so that's why it throws connection error, but I am not sure. And I am seriously loosing all hope in this and dont know what to do, so HELP please!
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you cant flash hardspl on the sd card, it must be done over activsync. u dont put it on your card, you run it from your computer. make a new folder{on your computer} and name it whatever , then unrar the file into the folder, then you should be able to flash the hardspl.make sure the ruu and the nbh file are in the folder.
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you cant flash hardspl on the sd card, it must be done over activsync. u dont put it on your card, you run it from your computer. make a new folder{on your computer} and name it whatever , then unrar the file into the folder, then you should be able to flash the hardspl.make sure the ruu and the nbh file are in the folder.
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I do run Custom RUU from desktop local drive and not from SD Card and results mentioned above are the ones I get. Again tried with phone on, it just tells me ERROR [224] and never goes into bootloader or anything. Tried entering the the phone to bootloader manually and connecting it to usb and run RUU, it goes a little further where it finally gets to screen of flashing progress but freezes at 0% and thats it.
Could missteps in obtaining Goldcard be the reason for such behavior?
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you cant flash hardspl on the sd card, it must be done over activsync. u dont put it on your card, you run it from your computer. make a new folder{on your computer} and name it whatever , then unrar the file into the folder, then you should be able to flash the hardspl.make sure the ruu and the nbh file are in the folder.
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Yes, you can flash ANY .nbh from your SD card by renaming it TOPAIMG.nbh.
SerGTR said:
I do run Custom RUU from desktop local drive and not from SD Card and results mentioned above are the ones I get. Again tried with phone on, it just tells me ERROR [224] and never goes into bootloader or anything. Tried entering the the phone to bootloader manually and connecting it to usb and run RUU, it goes a little further where it finally gets to screen of flashing progress but freezes at 0% and thats it.
Could missteps in obtaining Goldcard be the reason for such behavior?
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Sorry for my ignorance but what is goldcard?
What is the current SPL?
I agree leemoss. You need Hardspl from your system. First synch your phone to system through Active sync. Execute the HardSpl.183, select auto flash.
Second thing i noted is on SDcard you have to rename the ROM file and store it as TOPAIMG.nbh and place in the root folder.
I read about people having problems, and the ones that weren't spent the 20 bucks on the Sim unlocker. I'd never flashed a phone before, so I went that route. It's worth it IMO.
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I read about people having problems, and the ones that weren't spent the 20 bucks on the Sim unlocker. I'd never flashed a phone before, so I went that route. It's worth it IMO.
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See I do take ever single step that is in the guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530335
But it just doesnt work, but again I flashed HSPL and custom ROMs before on my Xperia X1a (unlocked) without any problems. I attached a pic of my bootloader, and when I try to run some custom ROM which I name TOPAIMG.nbh it enter screen "loading..." and freezes so have to rest my phone by taking battery out so it loads back just fine.
Again this phone I am using is HTC Pure by AT&T and thats what confuses me, maybe I really do have to SIM unlock my phone before I can HSPL and flash custom .nbh ROMs?
gold card
Bruce Inman said:
Sorry for my ignorance but what is goldcard?
What is the current SPL?
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My stock SPL is in pic attached, and Goldcard.img suppose to be something I had to put on my SD Card so that I have SuperCID so I can flash HSPL and any custom ROMs, you can read more about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530335
SerGTR said:
See I do take ever single step that is in the guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530335
But it just doesnt work, but again I flashed HSPL and custom ROMs before on my Xperia X1a (unlocked) without any problems. I attached a pic of my bootloader, and when I try to run some custom ROM which I name TOPAIMG.nbh it enter screen "loading..." and freezes so have to rest my phone by taking battery out so it loads back just fine.
Again this phone I am using is HTC Pure by AT&T and thats what confuses me, maybe I really do have to SIM unlock my phone before I can HSPL and flash custom .nbh ROMs?
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You only need to CID unlock to flash ROMs, if you buy the SIM unlocker you get both CID and Security unlocked but it still may not work.
I see you have 1.8.33 which is good because there is not a working HSPL for 2.54
You say you tried running custom ROMs as TOPAIMG.nbh, but did you try it with the HSPL nhb? It would be the same process as doing a ROM from SD card.
I would also get rid of goldcard as that is only to recover a bricked device.
Get all goldcard stuff off your card and PC, reformatt your card to Fat32 the place the renamed TOPAIMG.nbh and proceed to bootloader.
One last pointer, another method to flash is to download Topaz Custom RUU Wrapper and put the exe file in the same folder as the .nbh on your desktop and run the .exe after your sync'd. **Make sure all firewalls and antivirus are off.**
Good Luck.
Bruce Inman said:
You only need to CID unlock to flash ROMs, if you buy the SIM unlocker you get both CID and Security unlocked but it still may not work.
I see you have 1.8.33 which is good because there is not a working HSPL for 2.54
You say you tried running custom ROMs as TOPAIMG.nbh, but did you try it with the HSPL nhb? It would be the same process as doing a ROM from SD card.
I would also get rid of goldcard as that is only to recover a bricked device.
Get all goldcard stuff off your card and PC, reformatt your card to Fat32 the place the renamed TOPAIMG.nbh and proceed to bootloader.
One last pointer, another method to flash is to download Topaz Custom RUU Wrapper and put the exe file in the same folder as the .nbh on your desktop and run the .exe after your sync'd. **Make sure all firewalls and antivirus are off.**
Good Luck.
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Tried still same results... freezes at flashing with 0% at progress bar. I attached view screens that concern me that RUU cant read my stock ROM Image version, is this normal? The only other thing I am gonna try to do is maybe reinstall the entire Windows Mobile Device Center, besides that I am clueless.
Have you install the enablerapinew.cab first?
If so, I'm outta tricks. Others have been having issues as well in the HSPL thread. You may have to wait for an update.
I don't think its anything on your PC unless firewall or AV aren't turned off.
Remove SD-Card and Sim-Card before HardSPL from PC. I had 2 TouchDuals before TD2, one was no prob to flash, second needed SD-Card to be removed! Once HardSPL succeeded you may leave SD-Card in TD2.
WORKING!!!
YES!!! I finally got it to SPL, what it was that my phone could not accept any .cab installations due to security issue with "unknown publisher" signature, that's why my phone didn't allow me to install enablerapinew.cab but then I just hard reset my phone installed enablerapinew.cab and everything worked, YEY! Thank you Bruce Inman, and everyone else who spend time to try to guide me through my issues, tnx!
i didnt unlock mine. all i did was flash it.theres gotta be sumthn ur doin wrong.
Problem solved!
leemoss84 said:
i didnt unlock mine. all i did was flash it.theres gotta be sumthn ur doin wrong.
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I figured it out man, tnx.
SerGTR said:
I figured it out man, tnx.
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good deal man. what was the prob?
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good deal man. what was the prob?
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What it was that my phone could not accept any .cab installations due to security issue with "unknown publisher" signature, that's why my phone didn't allow me to install enablerapinew.cab but then I just hard reset my phone installed enablerapinew.cab and everything worked.
Im not really to sure how to revert everything back to stock.
I need to sent the phone to be fixed, Im having allot of problems with it.
But Im guessing they wont accept a phone with HSPL and radio changes At TmobileUk, will they?
So a guid would be awesome.
Thanks allot guys.
flash a stock rom
lonelykatana said:
Im not really to sure how to revert everything back to stock.
I need to sent the phone to be fixed, Im having allot of problems with it.
But Im guessing they wont accept a phone with HSPL and radio changes At TmobileUk, will they?
So a guid would be awesome.
Thanks allot guys.
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Well, maybe when you revert everything back to stock, you won't have any more problems with your phone?
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Well, maybe when you revert everything back to stock, you won't have any more problems with your phone?
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Ha! I wish! Already tried it.
I thought you had to do something with the hspl stuff.
Oh well, clearly not
tmo uk - get your stock rom from 'leo official roms thread' first post first link
either:-
1 - right click the stock rom .exe, choose extract here. This will give several files, one of which is ruu_signed.nbh.
2 - rename ruu_signed.nbh to leoimg.nbh and copy to fat32 sd card
3 - power off, power on with vol down pressed to enter bootloader, which will automatically detect the leoimg and flash the phone, resetting the rom, the radio and the spl back to stock.
Job done
OR
1 - run the stock .exe file over usb, which will reset the rom and the radio back to stock
2 - run hspl2 on the PC and choose 1.42.0000. This is the stock spl.
Job Done.
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tmo uk - get your stock rom from 'leo official roms thread' first post first link
either:-
1 - right click the stock rom .exe, choose extract here. This will give several files, one of which is ruu_signed.nbh.
2 - rename ruu_signed.nbh to leoimg.nbh and copy to fat32 sd card
3 - power off, power on with vol down pressed to enter bootloader, which will automatically detect the leoimg and flash the phone, resetting the rom, the radio and the spl back to stock.
Job done
OR
1 - run the stock .exe file over usb, which will reset the rom and the radio back to stock
2 - run hspl2 on the PC and choose 1.42.0000. This is the stock spl.
Job Done.
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Thanks allot
Hopefully the guys on Tmob will acctually understand whats wrong with my phone lol. Im not hopeful
Hey so i just picked up an hd2 on craigslist. when the seller handed my the phone he showed me the phone working and then did a hard reset so i thought nothing of it and took the phone while it was resetting. then while waiting for it to boot i noticed it was taking quite a while so i took out the battery and let it reboot, it turned on then froze on the homescreen. i've tried several hard resets and have gotten the phone to the point where it works but only after putting in a removing the battery several times and the phone sticking on the "stick together" logo. I was going to try to do the newest tmobile update on the phone using the one available on their website but now i have an issue plugging the phone into the computer or wall adapter as it will make the phone freeze and ill have to go back through my removing the battery 5 times process. is this some sort of common issue with a common fix or should i take the phone to tmobile or htc and see what they can do for me. i dont have a receipt as a purchased the phone on craigslist so im not sure tmobile will do anything for me.
Edit: i can now connect my phone to the pc i'm trying to update to 2.13.531.1 but i got to 8% but the update froze there and the phone currently has no image version. I'm using windows 7 ultimate and ive tried to run as administrator and with xp service pack 3 compatibility.
thatg said:
Hey so i just picked up an hd2 on craigslist. when the seller handed my the phone he showed me the phone working and then did a hard reset so i thought nothing of it and took the phone while it was resetting. then while waiting for it to boot i noticed it was taking quite a while so i took out the battery and let it reboot, it turned on then froze on the homescreen. i've tried several hard resets and have gotten the phone to the point where it works but only after putting in a removing the battery several times and the phone sticking on the "stick together" logo. I was going to try to do the newest tmobile update on the phone using the one available on their website but now i have an issue plugging the phone into the computer or wall adapter as it will make the phone freeze and ill have to go back through my removing the battery 5 times process. is this some sort of common issue with a common fix or should i take the phone to tmobile or htc and see what they can do for me. i dont have a receipt as a purchased the phone on craigslist so im not sure tmobile will do anything for me.
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I would put the phone in boot load manually by holding the volume down button while turning it on, and remove the memory card and then reflash the tmobile rom
can someone also help me figure out how to get the ruu.nbh file off this rom and how big it should be so i can try to flash it from the sd card. thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=681030
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I would put the phone in boot load manually by holding the volume down button while turning it on, and remove the memory card and then reflash the tmobile rom
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i found a .nbh file on my computer that was 4mb and renamed it leoimg.nbh then tried putting it on a freshly formatted fat 32 micro sd car and went into bootloader mode but the phone gives me an upgrade error, asks me to try again and just goes to a white "loading..." screen now the phone is stuck here. its like the newest issue is the one im stuck with. now i cant get the phone to sync with the computer or run the .exe to recognize the phone
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i found a .nbh file on my computer that was 4mb and renamed it leoimg.nbh then tried putting it on a freshly formatted fat 32 micro sd car and went into bootloader mode but the phone gives me an upgrade error, asks me to try again and just goes to a white "loading..." screen now the phone is stuck here. its like the newest issue is the one im stuck with. now i cant get the phone to sync with the computer or run the .exe to recognize the phone
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What error did it give you? Found an nbh file? was it from a stock rom? Do you have Hard SPL on it? If it doesnt have HSPL on it then you will only be able to load a stock rom
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I would put the phone in boot load manually by holding the volume down button while turning it on, and remove the memory card and then reflash the tmobile rom
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+1 or flash the phone then task 29 it.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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What error did it give you? Found an nbh file? was it from a stock rom? Do you have Hard SPL on it? If it doesnt have HSPL on it then you will only be able to load a stock rom
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no i have not run hard spl so i can only install a stock rom a suppose. the exe gets stuck at 8%, i have no idea where the right nbh file is. i read somewhere when you run the exe it installs the nbh in a temp folder but im not sure i found the right one. ive also downloaded task29 and tried to run as admin but it doesnt do anything just goes to the htc install screen and stays at 0% Getting frustrating it was working fine actually before i tried to install the new tmobile software update. ive read that task29 gets rid of extra leftovers of other roms and might help the exe finish up on the phone and get past that 8% wall but it doesnt seem to be working for me
right click the stock exe file choose extract here, will give 9 or so files, one of them is about 200meg and is called ruu_signed.nbh that's the file you want.
randomly flashing nbh files that you don't know what they are, that's about the stupidest thing you can do...... you deserve a brick for being an idiot.
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right click the stock exe file choose extract here, will give 9 or so files, one of them is about 200meg and is called ruu_signed.nbh that's the file you want.
randomly flashing nbh files that you don't know what they are, that's about the stupidest thing you can do...... you deserve a brick for being an idiot.
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lol thank you for the words of encouragement, so i've extracted the .nbh file its 268mb, renamed it to leoimg.nbh tried the update from the sd card and it fails at the radio says, update terminated, update FAIL. any idea where to go from here?
Edit: i've run hspl3 on the phone is boot loader mode and have also run task29 from doloop but still get the same error with the tmobile file. 8% using the exe and FAIL trying to flash from the sd card
heh you're welcome. (i was harsh to make the point,,, if you found a random bottle of liquid that said petrol on it, you wouldn't put it in your car till you were sure it was petrol, right?)
as to why it failed, i'm not sure, i think i'd probably hspl3, choose 2.08.hspl, then try flash a radio on its own (see the tmous radio thread) because it could be a bad radio.
just please confirm the exact filename of the .exe you extracted ruu_signed from?
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heh you're welcome. (i was harsh to make the point,,, if you found a random bottle of liquid that said petrol on it, you wouldn't put it in your car till you were sure it was petrol, right?)
as to why it failed, i'm not sure, i think i'd probably hspl3, choose 2.08.hspl, then try flash a radio on its own (see the tmous radio thread) because it could be a bad radio.
just please confirm the exact filename of the .exe you extracted ruu_signed from?
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The first exe file, which got to 8 percent then went red and failed was
T-Mobile_HD2_MR_Software_2.13.531.1
After hspl3 and using task29 i tried flashing this exe which gets to 99% and fails
RUU_Leo_1_5_TMOUS_2.02.531.MASD_S__Radio_Signed_15.29.50.07U_2.06.50.04_TeleNav-5.5.42
that second one, did you flash from sd card? cos its a manufacturing test rom, and if so then you may now be stuck with a test spl of 2.02, and if so things just got a heap worse,,,
go into bootloader and tell me what it says next to spl
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that second one, did you flash from sd card? cos its a manufacturing test rom, and if so then you may now be stuck with a test spl of 2.02, and if so things just got a heap worse,,,
go into bootloader and tell me what it says next to spl
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i tried flashing using the .exe method in bootloader mode. next to spl it reads -2.08.hspl 8g XE
it now says
Upgrade ROM code error
ah ok, good.
so, it seems to be the radio causing the error, so since you have hspl installed, why not try a custom rom? they don't include a radio, so it may bypass the problem.
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ah ok, good.
so, it seems to be the radio causing the error, so since you have hspl installed, why not try a custom rom? they don't include a radio, so it may bypass the problem.
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Which do you suggest, i bought the phone so that i could ultimately install android on it. but it seems i'd be lucky to even have wm running on the thing
Edit. just tried kumars classic rom, renamed to leoimg tried running off the sd card, The update finishes successfully but after i hit the reset button on the back of the phone i just see the tmobile stick together logo and the phone doesnt boot. Do a lot of people struggle with the hd2s or do i just have a bad example here?
well unfortunately i think you may have a dud. its the radio that is preventing it from booting.
it could be the radio from that test rom, it could be something else (but still the radio)
options...
its still under warranty, speak to t mobile and/or htc, but don't mention flashing and be sure to remove hspl if you do send it back. (run hspl3, choose 2.08.0000, that's stock)
or
look on here for a user called xmoo, he knows a lot about this sort of problem, (im just good with regular flashing issues)
im having the same issue so if you believe its the radio will installing different radio maybe fix the problem?
i;ve tried installing a new radio from the sd card. it goes red and fails
It sounds like a hardware issue at this point. I'm willing to bet you fried something when you pulled the battery in the middle of the master reset.
Hope thats something htc will cover. Phones on its way over
Hey guys,
So my HD2 recently started having the same issue a lot of you guys are having with the touchscreen just dying or being very unreliable. This past week I've had trouble getting past the lock screen and today it takes me half an hour to a full hour of attempts to make it past the lock. Once I do, however, the screen works fine until it's locked again.
I'm about two weeks away from warranty ending, so I want to get this bad boy sent in ASAP. A year ago I flashed a custom ROM onto the phone and haven't modified it until this morning when I installed MAGLDR 1.13 and NAND Android ROM. The new ROM worked great but didn't resolve the touchscreen issue at all.
What I want to do is completely restore the phone to how I bought it from T-Mobile US a year ago. I don't want the replacement voided because of the custom ROM, though it clearly has nothing to do with the error.
Not being very technically proficient with this stuff (aside form the dozens of hours I've spent reading up), what is the best way to go about this?
So far I tried doing a Hard Reset manually via the VolUpDown/EndCall button boot, but that just booted me into NANDroid after the reset. I tried downloading WinMo from the T-Mo site, but it's asking for a phone identification number I can't access because of the lack of touchscreen access.
Any help/advice you guys can offer would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance!
You can get the IMEI number from behind the battery to download the rom from t-mobile.
This was explained to me by another member here
Right click the ROM file you download from the T-mobile site and rename the .exe to a .zip and then you can explore the file to find the RUU_signed.nbh file. You want to copy the RUU_signed.nbh file to the root of your SD card (make sure it has been formated to FAT32) and rename the file to LEOIMG.nbh. then place the SD card in the HD2. Boot the HD2 imto bootloader and as soon as you see searching on the screen let the volume down button go. It should ask if you want to flash the imageand you will have to press the end button to confirm and it will flash the ROM.
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You can get the IMEI number from behind the battery to download the rom from t-mobile.
This was explained to me by another member here
Right click the ROM file you download from the T-mobile site and rename the .exe to a .zip and then you can explore the file to find the RUU_signed.nbh file. You want to copy the RUU_signed.nbh file to the root of your SD card (make sure it has been formated to FAT32) and rename the file to LEOIMG.nbh. then place the SD card in the HD2. Boot the HD2 imto bootloader and as soon as you see searching on the screen let the volume down button go. It should ask if you want to flash the imageand you will have to press the end button to confirm and it will flash the ROM.
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I seriously owe you a beer, this solution worked flawlessly. Thank you!!
Hi ... this is exactly what i need to do, but my problem is I don't have my SD card in my phone anymore. I forgot my phone at home ... and this is my go to phone when I forget things!!! I flashed the phone, and now it's not going to work the way that I need to without the card. Anyway of reseting the phone?? Please help!
Flash over usb, then use hspl 4 to set stock spl.
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Flash over usb, then use hspl 4 to set stock spl.
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How exactly do i get hspl 4?
It's been a long time since i flashed anything and played around with my phone.
look at the links in my sig, you want the one that says HSPL4
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look at the links in my sig, you want the one that says HSPL4
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ok... thanks so much for that...
what about some instructions?
phoneoff-power+voldown-releasepowerkeepholdingvoldown-stripedscreen-insert usb-whenserialchangestousbinsertusb-runhspl4(rightclickrunasadministrator)-choose2.08.0000or3.03.0000asyoulike-whenphonerebootsimmediatelyholdvoldowntoreenterbootloader(stripedscreen)-waitforserial-->USB-runthestockromupdateyoudownloaded.
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bootloader - run hspl4 - set desired spl - bootloader - flash stock rom - sit back all smug.