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stuck at bootloader screen

I have a problem with my 8525 and cannot get it fixed no matter what ive tried. My wife was using the unit playing a game and she said a message window appeared that said something about being critically low on memory. She hit ok to close the window and it rebooted to the bootloader screen with the red/green/blue/white bars. I cannot get it to reset. Ive tried a hard reset, soft reset even tried reflashing but its just locked onto that screen. Ive tried removing the battery.
Anyone have any recommendations? Im running Custel's 2.5 pro cingular version with radio 1.40 and spl-2.10 olipro I dunno if that helps.
Thanks Weez

Anyone? or am i toast?

have u tried flashing the phone suing the micro sd card
tht might help

Did you check the TyTn Wiki section "Common Upgrade Problems?" There's a section on how to get the phone out of bootloader mode... Good luck!

artemis disconnecting during upgrade!

Hi, I have this strange thing: with no reason, the startup menu, became a black square which freeze the system, no respond at all. Rebooting is working fine except when pressing the windows symbol for the startup menu. My problem is that if I try to upgrade to 4.02, or even the official rom from xda my orbit gets disconnected with no reason. " disconected ,check the cable and try again" is the message. I have tried on Vista, on XP, I have tried several roms but...the same thing, at the stage when i get the upgrade progress bar on the computer I get disconnected. Any Ideea why?
I am running the version 4.1 with cube, no problems until yesterday.
Thanks alot for your ideeas.

Did you remove your sd card?

IT WORKED!!!!
Thanks a lot, it was as simple as that, I have managed to load the O2 original Rom, from now it's all simple.Thank you for the idea!

Unlocking my phone for the first time!

Well I'm going to unlock my phone (Sprint Touch) for the first time. I'm trying NFSFAN's wm6.5 ROM. Wish me luck. Hopefully my reading comprehension skills are up to the task so I don't skip a step and blow something up.
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Question 1:
When I'm going to run the unlock utility, should ActiveSync actually say that it is connected to the phone? When I get to the rainbow screen ("Serial") then plug in the usb wire, the phone switches to "USB" and I hear the "something's connected" noise in XP. ActiveSync, however, still says "Not connected"
...I seem to be stuck here, at the beginning. At least my phone still works
One comment: the NFSFAN 6.5 ROM FAQ seems to want me to run the unlocker with the phone at the Rainbow screen. The PPCGeeks thread by IMCoKeMaN seems to say that you just run the unlocker with the phone normally attached to ActiveSync without unraring or Rainbow mode... Who is right? Am I just confused?

It seems like ActiveSync actually connects to the activesync program on the phone, so when you are in the rainbow screen, it connects without the OS being involved and AS won't show as being connected. If I remember, running the unlocker will put it in rainbow mode and you don't have to do that first. But it has been a long time since I unlocked mine and I forgot the details. I do remember I followed IMCoKeMaN's directions to the letter. Good Luck! It is scary to start, but these guys have got this stuff down to a science!
David

for the unlocker you go throught activesync. then to flash NFSFAN's ROM put the phone into bootloader. You can flash the rom using activesync but i've just got into the habit of using manual bootloader.

Knave,
Please let me know if the W6.5 works well on the HTC Touch (Sprint). I am a bit reluctant to try it yet, but if you can do it successfully, and report on how it does, then maybe I'll follow your lead.
Thanks
QA

So, I'm trying again. This time I plugged the phone in while it was turned on on the standard home screen. I let ActiveSync show that it was connected, and I ran RomUpdateUtility.exe. I click thru a couple screens, the phone automatically goes over to the rainbow screen, and then the status bar screen. It sits at 0% for about a minute.
...and I get another ERROR[262]: Update Error.
I turn the phone back on and it reboots fine (I guess it never actually started writing to the Phone's memory, just like in my initial post.)

One thing before you start, qanda, do you know about Dashwire? It's a way to backup all your phone contacts & info to the web before you wipe the memory. I guess there maybe different backup services out there, but I like to use one just to be safe.
Ah hah! Now it's (ALMOST) working... Here's some stream-of-consciousness directions I'm typing as I do the flash procedure.
1. Plug in phone (phone is turned on, in the normal home screen state)
2. Make sure ActiveSync says you're connected.
3. Run the unlocker (the Vogue_unlocker_MFG_2.31.exe file). Do *not* extract the downloaded file and run the RUU.exe file yourself. It doesn't work that way. You just follow the directions here in the "DOS" looking window that pops up. It does something to the phone, tells you to unplug & replug, ... Eventually a ROM loading program starts & you follow those directions. Then you go back to the "DOS" looking window.
4. Phone automatically reboots and gets to the Windows Mobile initialization screen (tap here & there, etc). Then the phone starts loading the customization stuff automatically. (I was getting a bit worried here that it was stuck on the Windows Mobile 6.1 boot screen -- seemed to take an extra minute or two, but it eventually came up.)
5. Now I guess the phone is *UNLOCKED* but still running the stock Sprint WinMo6.1 OS. I can confirm that when I do the PWR-CameraButton-Stylus reset to the rainbow screen, I see the SPL-2.31.CoKe text in the red bar.
6. Next, I'm going to try loading the NFSFAN 6.5 ROM...
7. I'm back to following the instructions in the thread by codybear *explicitly*: unplug phone, 3-button-reboot to rainbow mode (displaying SERIAL), plug in phone (now displaying USB), run the RUU.exe inside the directory where I decompressed the NSFFAN ROM. Clicked thru the RUU.exe program & phone goes to percent-loading status screen. Phone reboots itself at 100%.
8. Phone reboots *slowly*, the Sprint Splash animation is replaced by an HTC animation. Whew! after several minutes I see a WinMo6.5 setup screen. I do the setup & it autoload customizations. Phone automatically reboots.
9. Still following codybear's thread, I do the RED-GREEN-Stylus hard reset. (You have to hold down the buttons until you see the grey Hard Reset Warning Screen.) ... another SLOW reboot & I go thru the WinMo6.5 tap-screen setup again
10. Like codybear says, I install the Sprint DCD cab that I had copied onto my memory card. Phone wants to reboot again, so I OK it. (Sprint has one DCD cab and another cab for MMS, so I do both.)
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Directions are now complete. Unfortunately when I try to do something with data service I get a "Error Code 1012 Data Provisioning Failure". It's late now, so I'll try to fix it tomorrow. This might help: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35433

Now I got everything working. I fixed the final error -- the "Error Code 1012 Data Provisioning Failure".
I initially tried running the IOTA thing via:
Run IOTA by going to Start->Settings->Personal Tab->Phone->Services Tab->Internet->Get Settings->Start
...nothing happened. The I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=410357
I did the RegEdit thing like it describes, setting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/DIM/EnableCurrentUserName value to 0. Then I reran IOTA, and all is well.
Then I reinstalled Dashwire, it sync'ed my contacts up & I'm back to normal!
Woohah!
btw...RegEdit is on the NSFFAN ROM under Start Menu-> System Tools

Renamed pim.vol now phone stuck on boot screen

I wanted to remove all the contact from my HTC, so following some postings on the net, I renamed my pim.vol file to pim_old.vol and turned my phone off, then back on. Apparently it should then create a new pim.vol file.
However, my HTC has been stuck ont he Windows Mobile boot screen for at least 10 minutes now.
Is the phone screwed, or would you expect it to take a long time to reboot?
Thanks.

Also, it made a 'pleep' noise when it brought up the Windows Mobile screen. I don't know if that is significant?

Hi there
Did you try soft reset, hard reset, take the battery out ? If yes can you get into bootloader and be ready to flash another rom ?

Hi,
yes I have tried all of those things.
Even after a hard reset it does the same, gets to the Windows Mobile boot screen and stays there. I don't think it gets far enough into the boot to connect it to a PC, Activesync said there was something missing and couldn't connect.

Hi
This is strange as you just renamed a windows file which should be corrected by a hard reset
Hard reset again and be patient (give it some time )
if not corrected Try flashing a rom from SD card

I left it for an hour after the hard reset, and still nothing. I had to take the battery out in the end to turn the phone off.
I have no idea how to flash from a ROM on an SD card?

I think you'll find the answer here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=406721
Good luck

If you hear the beep sound, you should be able to plug in your USB cable and activesync will know that your HTC is inserted.

I have tried that but ActiveSync says there are components missing and then won't connect to the phone.

Reinstalled Activesync?

[Q] Please Help - O2 xda Orbit is dead - ROM problem

Hi there, I've been reading the forum for about a week trying to find a fix for my deceased orbit xda.
Problem started when the phone started crashing, the screen was going white and needed re-starting. Eventually it failed to load and froze at the blue screen with the red writing!
so I started reading and tried soft and hard re-booting to no avail.
I have managed to get the phone into bootloader and connected a USB
it recognises the usb and installs as a mobile device on my laptop but here's where it gets tricky. I dunno alot about phone's and am struggling to understand some of the processes. I have tried booting off the SD card but it said invalid certificate (i used the artiemg.nhb file from rapidshare)
I have all the original paperwork and cd's for the phone but dont know what or how to flash a ROM.
what do I need and more important how do I do it without all the tech talk.
Its a WM5 phone - thanks
EDIT - Just to clarify, have just tried the romupdateutility on raving_nanza's sig but recieve an error - am running vista on my laptop

Update, I managed yesterday to get the phone to boot from the SD card and indeed it flashed it and WM5 is back up and running, the new problem is its network locked (to O2 i presume). I was using this phone on orange previously without an issue????
any Idea's other than paying imei check?

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danv6saxo said:
just tried the romupdateutility on raving_nanza's sig but recieve an error - am running vista on my laptop
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what link was it?
what error did you have?