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A history of what has been done:
at first a perfectly working factory default XDA with a rom that dated back to fall 2002.
Connected to a Compar laptop running WinXp, ActiveSync 3.5 (build 12007)
Tried to flash Radio_Stack_Upgrade_v421.exe to the XDA, the flash went all-ok as far as 45% or 53% and froze after that. After being frozen for more than 5 minutes gave a message "flash failed" and booted the XDA, and started flashing all over again with the same result (this cycle repeated about 10 times)
After which I deleted the flash-related files from the XDA:sta startup directory, during while it was flashing.
Booted the XDA
Worked seemingly fine, except that none of the GSM functions vere operational. At first nothing else seemed to be wrong, but then the XDA completely failed to recognize the AC power connection. It insisted that it ran on battery even thou the power cord was connected. Even tried a different powerplug on the wall. Also the power utility from the settings meny gave "uknown" as batterylife.
Tried to flash the XDA with Radio_Unit_Upgrade_v31703.exe, but could not even start the procedure, as it insists on an early phase that the AC powercord must be connected, and since it doesn't recognize the connetion it simply aborts.
Desperate after this tried a hard reset.
After that the XDA doesn't boot properly: it gets past the inital "plash screen" into making a beep sound and displaying a white screen with blue thick bar (empty) on top. I'v booted the machine about 20 times like this by now, always with the same result. Some times it doesn't get as far as the blue-white empty window. If I leave it at that the XDA simply reboots itself after being frozen in the white-blue screen for over 2 minutes.
I left the machine at the table and went to the gym after coming back it had gotten past the white-blue screen, to the initial phase after hard reset where it says "tap screen to setup your XDA" I tapped the screen and it went to clicking through the crosses on the screen to initialize. I managed to click 1 cross, after which the XDA froze completely and did not react for 15 minutes.
After that single incident getting past the white-blue screen, I haven't been able to repeat it. I have tried to boot with SIM and SD, with SIM only, with SD only, and without both: the same results with each.
I have another XDA at my disposal, and a SD card. Could the device still be rocoverable somehow through using that other XDA to copy something into the SD card and booting.
Please tell me do I have a paper weight on my hands, or can I somehow recover from this. Thank you!
Yea that’s a good place to start use the other XDA to copy it ROM+Boot to the SD card and use that to reflash your ROM. You do that by entering bootloader mode and select CE+Boot. Hopefully you won't get the dreaded Check Sum after the reload!
Do you have access to a PC SD card reader, because you're go to need
one!
Updating your Qtek ROM using the 'SD Card' or 'Bootloader' Method
http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1717
HTH
Qman said:
Yea that’s a good place to start use the other XDA to copy it ROM+Boot to the SD card and use that to reflash your ROM. You do that by entering bootloader mode and select CE+Boot. Hopefully you won't get the dreaded Check Sum after the reload!
Do you have access to a PC SD card reader, because you're go to need
one!
Updating your Qtek ROM using the 'SD Card' or 'Bootloader' Method
http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1717
HTH
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It appears my XDA O2 has the 5.17 version of the bootloader. When I boot into the bootloader it says "GSM error" at first, when I press the action button, it says "GSM turn on" and after a while "GSM turn on failed!!" and freezes there. Is this the kind of an error that prevents me from flashing a ROM from a SD card even if I had one? Since it gets stuck with that GSM error thing, and never even actually goes to the bootloader menu... why do I need a PC SD card reader? wouldn't just using the other XDA to copy the ROM and then flash it to the broken one do the trick?
Thanks, for the reply btw, for a while I was thinking that nobody would help me - and my situation is hopeless. Not atleast there is some light at the end of the tunnel..
Try pressing the Calendar button instead of the Action.
BTW You would need a PC SD card reader to load the needed radio stack upgrade files on to your device if all else failed plus if the CE+Boot backup to SD failed with that other XDA you could use XDArit to write another ROM to SD.
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Qman said:
Try pressing the Calendar button instead of the Action.
BTW You would need a PC SD card reader to load the needed radio stack upgrade files on to your device if all else failed plus if the CE+Boot backup to SD failed with that other XDA you could use XDArit to write another ROM to SD.
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Thanks, that appears to work: the button on the left brings up the ROM+BOOT etc menu, and the button on the right (calendar) brings up the menu for setting the GSM (different options, like on, off, 900, 1800, etc). Since the local time is 00:36, I'll try the tricks with the other XDA O2 tomorrow..
You're right I'm sorry, its the Contacts button for CE+Boot!
WOW 00:36 its 14:47 here in LV, NV US anyhow good night and check you tomorrow.
My device: XDA O2, with wallaby boot loader 5.17
Tried to flash RSUv1.15(GPRS_421_ENG_O2) into it. Update froze at either 48% or 53%. Tried it 10 times over, while waiting infinitely but the device just auto-booted itself after each froze. Deleted the autorun files from the startup director on the XDA. After which it did not try the update at bootup anymore. Instead the device is now dead :
On boot it just gives a white screen and everything fails / nothing can be done. The device cannot be connected through USB, and nothing on either SD card of MM card will install.
I tried to flash wallaby-patch-tool.nb2 to fix the key problem with 5.17 bootloader but as GSM fails at the bootloader: it just ignores the disk. I tried the patch tool on a SD card and on two other MM cards it does not work on any of them: as the damn bootloader checks GSM first (and gives GSM ERROR)
Also since the device is trashed it does not apper to load its battery, I assume it must be quite dead soon. (is there any way to load a battery on a software-trashed XDA O2??)
I have another fully working XDA O2 at my disposal. That machine is running older version of CE, GSM and 5.15 Bootloader. I tried flashing the OS from that device to the SD card, succeeded in getting it there - but the broken device will not flash itself from the SD card since it has "wrong key", and the patch tool fails to work because the GSM fails before it even checks any cards in 5.17..
The GSM cannot be copied to the SD card from the working device, because copying the GSM requires connecting something called RS232 and running some program nobody has heard of..
Is there anything I can do? I even tried copying the 5.15 bootloader from the working device to SD, and flashing that to the 5.17 broken device: no success, since it fails the GSM at bootloader startup, and the card has "wrong key" anyways.
How can I recover from this?
When you do reply, please reply in full generously abundant and exquisite detail. I am unable to follow instructions such as "just do this and that" if you do give instructions please be very detailed: tell me where to load the files (paste the links) and preferably go step by step through the process.
I have noticed that some other people have this exact same problem. If you give good enough guidance maybe we can create a help file to address this same problem in the future as well.
Thank you in advance!
A further problem with the other XDA
A further problem emerged with the other XDA:
- now it only boots to bootloader, and refuses to power up properly
pressing the power button does nothing. Soft reseting does nothing. Hard reseting does nothing. The only thing that seems to work is pressing the powerbutton+softreseting at the same time == entering the bootloader mode. There the machine passes all tests and seems to be fully functional. however refuses to power up.
I tought maybe the SIM slot is improperly closed, tried closing it better, and manually pressing the switch inside - doesn't work either.
Also tired inserting, taking out, and reinserting the XDA to the cradle, with either the power button pressed at the same time or not (this seems to work sometimes when the XDA O2 in unresponsive) but that doesn't work either.
What to do? how can the device be powered up?
Still stuck with this same situation
Hi all,
I'm still stuck with this same situation. So far nobody has even tried offering any help to me. What can I do? Do you think I should just give up and toss the damn device to the nearest body of water I can see, or what?
look for "repair.zip" in the forum, for some people this helped.
XDA developer Itsme said:
look for "repair.zip" in the forum, for some people this helped.
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Tried that. That doesn't work since that repair requires that the device works as far as the today screen - my device dies out well before that. As described above it dies right in the start: just frozes up and displays a white screen with a blue bar in top, and after that does nothing, runs nothing, reacts to nothing, etc..
Any other ideas?
My phone is stuck on HTC SMART MOBILITY black screen, the one that appears right away when u turn ur phone on. I was trying to upgrade the new rom and it said everythin was finished and it restarted the phone by itself then it got stuck in this screen. The thing is that the USB it is not recognize either by the computer or phone so i cannot do anything with the computer in order to boot up. I tried hard resets and nothin. Any help or ideas welcome... thanks
have you tried using bootloader mode? if I'm not mistaken, you need to hold the Power and Camera buttons while resetting the phone. you could then try to flash a new ROM on the phone. hope it helps!
miguel is correct. Put it into bootloader mode like he said, then flash a ROM back onto it and you should be good to go. This happened to me last night and I freaked out a little bit, but everything was fine after I did this.
Help, I'm stuck too. My phone is now in a loop of the black HTC smart mobility screen. I entered bootloader menu and reflashed the 2.17 ROM. -Which completed to 100% and no luck. I've tried this twice. I've entered the bootloader and tried to flash the stock ROM. It finished, but has no radio? What shold I do, Please help!!!
I must also mention that I was in the middle of relocking the phone after I installed the leaked ROM when my computer got the BSOD.
Format a sd card to fat32, place the image on the sd card, name it TITAIMG.nbh and reset to BL it will auto flash the rom and works when this happens
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Format a sd card to fat32, place the image on the sd card, name it TITAIMG.nbh and reset to BL it will auto flash the rom and works when this happens
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By "Image" do you mean the rom .exe file?
johnannie said:
By "Image" do you mean the rom .exe file?
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not exactly, the .exe file is simple an auto extracting archive, if you extract it, you will get a bunch of files, one which is about 40-60MB in size and that ends in a .nbh extension, that's the one you need.
You guys are awesome. It worked Thank you!
So why does everyone mess around with "relocking" the device and then flashing the 2.17 ROM after trying the 3.16 version when all you have to do is flash is with an sd card? It's SO easy!!!! Thanks again!
johnannie said:
You guys are awesome. It worked Thank you!
So why does everyone mess around with "relocking" the device and then flashing the 2.17 ROM after trying the 3.16 version when all you have to do is flash is with an sd card? It's SO easy!!!! Thanks again!
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What radio are you using? Did flashing from the SD downgrade the radio as well?
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What radio are you using? Did flashing from the SD downgrade the radio as well?
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I'm pretty sure that it did. When I tried to downgrade to 2.17, the flash worked, but there was no Radio at all. So I tried to reflash the 3.16 and it flashed but didn't work (endless boot to the HTC Screen over and over)
So I tried the SD card method or flashing back to the 2.17 and it worked absolutely perfectly. The only issue was that there was no MSID or MDN but I wrote those down.
Same problem, but turns off
Hey.
I have the same problem, I'm stuck at the "smart mobility" screen. But my problem is that it turns down after some sek with the smart mobility screen.
What should i do??
hii
i have the same problem with smart mobility i bought the phone htc touch from e-bay (gray coulor) and i its didnt work from the begining and the problem is that i dont know what originaly rom it had.
i try to flash rom from the computer(vista) roms (blue, green, new blue,red, 1.11.707.1b_4mb ,e_1.11.707.1b_4mb _4.1.13.42, 1.1b_4.1.12.42_02.93.90_ship,) none of them work some of them update till 3% and some of them till 100% but very fast and then its reset and i get error 270
someone got an idea for me?
Hello,
I need help to!!!
I`m stuck on the same screen. I did the sd card thing but after going to BL screen it flashes for a second to a screen with "Loading" and then return to BL where it stays. Down on screen it says "Serial".
WHAT SHALL I DO? PLEASE HELP!
helo
hi where dose one get that atach file
where does one get the attach file to copy on the sd card, course my phone has also stuck on the smart mobilety black screen
miguelfp1 said:
have you tried using bootloader mode? if I'm not mistaken, you need to hold the Power and Camera buttons while resetting the phone. you could then try to flash a new ROM on the phone. hope it helps!
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thank you so much it work well
i hardly belive the guy at sprint store have my phone for one day and shake their head
Stuck on SMART MOBILITY
guys pls help,
My Phone is p3400i
I am stuck on the smart mobility screen..My screen says
ONBL 1.17.0000
SPL 1.07.Oref
GSM 02.79.90
OS 1.17.0.0
Pls also give the links of the files, to download, to solve the issue.
sethanuj said:
guys pls help,
My Phone is p3400i
I am stuck on the smart mobility screen..My screen says
ONBL 1.17.0000
SPL 1.07.Oref
GSM 02.79.90
OS 1.17.0.0
Pls also give the links of the files, to download, to solve the issue.
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turn on your device, remove and replace the batteries then go to boot loader mode ( hold the Power and Camera buttons ) you immediately install the rom upgradeshttp !!! You can download it at ://www.htc.com/www/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=10&cat=0&dl_id=609 good luck
hi to all friend
is there a way for copy arabic font to htc smart?
it's so necessary , i need it
plz help me
as soon as u can
tnx
smart mobility
hello friend
i am having htc p3400 i tried upgrading wm6.5 on it while installing it it shows congrats........ you have updated your rom but when it restart it only shows smat mobility nothing can be done further i tried it many times same problem occurs
one of us advised me to use the memory card techn...to place the image named TITAIMG.nbh but it doesn't solve my issue can any one provide me proper way to solve it
thanks in advance
Ok, I unlocked my phone the first time and it worked fine, from there I installed a new rom and everything was working fine. Decided I wanted to try something else so I unlocked again, but this time no roms work whatsoever, im just stuck at the screen with three colors. When I try to install a rom it gives me the progress bar but it stays at 0% until it gives me the 262 error. From there I recover back to the 3 color stage but no rom will get me past the 262 error.
Any help guys would be greatly appreciated.
are you running vista? if so i had the same problem. i had to install xp on a virtual machine to get anything to work :/ you could also try a trick... take out your micro sd and put it in a card reader, format it to FAT32, copy the ROM you want onto the blank card. rename the file to "VOGUIMG.NBH". then press the power, camera, and reset button at the same time. It should reboot and automatically flash your new rom.
Hello...
I have a T-Mobile G1 which I love very much, although I never have got around to rooting/modding it - I rely on it and didn't want to risk bricking it. Now it looks as if I'd have been better off living on the edge - at least then I'd have a better-than-stock SPL in place right now!
This morning, out of the blue, my phone rebooted itself and then stuck at the "G1" splash screen - would not respond to the power button, reset, etc. Had to take the battery out; when I put it back in, I still got stuck at the splash screen. Holding down Home while turning it on didn't get me to the diagnostics screen - just stuck.
So I started Googling, and it seemed that my best bet was to re-flash to RC29. I formatted my microSD card to FAT32, downloaded RC29, copied DREAIMG.nbh as the only file on the SD card. Put the SD card in the phone, held the camera button while turning on the power... result:
00018003
DREAIMG.nbh - FAIL
BOOTLOADER - OK
RECOVERY - OK
BOOT - Fail
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_V2 -
Update Terminate
UPDATE FAIL
When I rebooted the phone, the G1 splash screen flashed momentarily, to be replaced by the rainbow screen. Here's what that says:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.23.02
Sep 2 2008
And that's all I get. I've tried reformatting the SD card; I've tried a different SD card (a 1GB Transcend - the one I've been using in the phone - and a 2GB Kingston); I've re-downloaded the RC29 file from three different sources and verified that the MD5 and SHA1 checksums are always the same - even after copying to the SD.
MD5: 53840b90a0fe1bfab19fab8ef8fb9724
SHA-1: 2ce502a1232b26387aeafc2d2575d08571060cee
I've seen a bunch of other threads with (approximately) the same question, and - if there's any answer at all - the answer always seems to be "keep trying, it'll eventually work." Well, over the past few hours I've tried at least forty or fifty times... Any ideas? Or is my Precious a paperweight?
Thank you!
- I posted this on the modmygphone forum too - hoping to maximize my chances...
Just send it in for warranty. You've never rooted.
Tried with a gold card? I know so many guides that say make a gold card and every time I see a thread like this, I never hear a mention of one.
Of course, I've never downgraded so I don't really know.
Sorry, I couldn't be of more help.
re: Goldcard
As far as I know, to create a goldcard my phone would have to be working. Other suggestions I've run across involve fastboot - which would require an alternate SPL, which I would have had to install when the phone was working. As I said, I now regret never having screwed around with my phone before!
If ANYBODY can suggest something that doesn't involve going back in time and doing this a week ago, I'm all ears! (And if I've misunderstood, and there's a way to do either a goldcard or an alternate SPL now, I'm dying to hear about it!)
Is there ANYTHING besides the RC29 version of DREAIMG.nbh that I can try to load in the phone's current condition? I'll try anything at this point!
As to returning it under warranty - I've had it for a year and a half; the warranty expired months ago. I suppose that should teach me a lesson.
First: Recovery shows "OK so when you hold down the home button and turn it on, what does it show? Anything? Black Screen? Yellow triangle with exclamation?
If you get a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, open your keyboard and press "alt" and "L" together (at the same time) and you should end up in recovery where you can wipe (alt + "w") I think.
Second:
The only problem I had flashing the dreaimg.nbh was due to my sd card. For some reason, my transcend 2gig doesn't cut it. If I format it and put dreaimg.nbh on it and try to flash from rainbow, it does nothing. When I tried with my Kingston 4gig, it worked fine. Both cards work fine as mass storage so not sure why 1 works and the other doesn't.
I'd say buy another small but good named sd card and format to fat32 (not quick) and pop the .nbh on it and flash away.
I just rooted my wife's stock G1 yesterday and was able to root and register (without a dataplan) after a a few hours (slow downloads). I followed this process:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_G1/Dream_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod
Feel free to pm me if you need to and I can walk you through it...I know how frustrating it is and the process is fresh in my memory still.
When I hold down the Home button and turn on the device, the result is exactly the same as if I'd left the Home button alone: it boots to the rainbow screen. When all of this started yesterday morning - before I tried to flash anything - I wasn't able to get to the triangle screen then either. (What's the official name for that screen - Diagnostics? Maintenance?)
I've now tried three microSD cards: 1GB Transcend, 2GB Kingston, and now a 1GB Kingston. I've formatted them in the SD card reader of my HP dv7 laptop under Windows 7, formatting to FAT32 with an allocation unit size of 4096 bytes. I did a Quick Format the first time I tried the first card, but each time after that I've done a full format.
Also, this afternoon I decided to try something a little different - I found the DREAIMG.nbh for RC30. Downloaded it, copied it to SD, flashed... same result: 00018003, BOOT - Fail. I do realize that if RC30 had worked, I wouldn't have been able to root (I need RC29 for that)... but that's not the purpose of this exercise; I just want my baby back.
I appreciate any help - I'll PM you now.