Confused - HD2 General

Hy guys and girls.
I am a bit confused here and would like to ask for some help, by the way I already spent a lot of time lookign for answers here but I get more and more confused.
Well I wanted to try some Roms and I saw the high suggestions to install the HDPL first to avoid bricking my expensive HD2, well I tried but the problem is here.
FYI my HD2 is a Telstra version. It came with a black GUI style I guess it was the world wide version, but I am not sure as I did not recorded any info (did not thought on that), then I installed the original Australian Rom (at that time I was not looking for fancy Rom just for the latest upgrade and did not even know about cooked roms). Then I came back to the worl wide version because the autralian one was too bloated, not as nice as the black GUI and it was slower.
Finally I tried the HSPL2 to start tring with ROMs but it gave me an error message telling me I had the wrong version or something like that (I supposed because it is the Telstra version).
Then I tried the HSPL (older) but it gave me an error message telling me I need version 1.42.00. Here it get confused for me: When I do VolDwn + Power I get the following information:
PB81110 HX-BC
SPL-1.42.HSPL XE
0X05
CotullaHSPL 0x40
Serial
1st - Well I read that 1.42.HSPL was supported by HSPL so why it is not being accepted?
2nd - Why my unit is stating CotullaHSPL if I never installed it before? Cotulla comes with it?
3rd - Whats is HSPL in a interaction perspective? It is just a software that sit there and work alone without any GUI or it is something that does have a GUI that I can choose options and things to do? I am still lost on that.
4th - Sorry for the noob questions, but I apreciate if there is someone with patience to help me out (thats what I do when I can help someone).
Thank you
Felipe

Try reading the post about the HSPL:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611433
and this tutorial about flashing ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=609477
Concerning your questions (I'm no expert either, but here goes):
1. You already have HSPL, so no need to install it again
2. Cotulla is (one of) the developer(s) of the HSPL, sort of a copyright
3. HSPL is a peace of software that essentially allows you to install other (custom made) ROMs or ROMs with another language. It has no Userinterface, but loads the ROM on your device
4. Your welcome

Ok but how it happened to get in there if I could not install it?
Perhaps it came with Telstra?

felcas said:
Ok but how it happened to get in there if I could not install it?
Perhaps it came with Telstra?
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No, it will deffinately not have shipped with HSPL installed.
Sounds to me like someone already hspl'd it and installed a new rom. (black gui?)
did you buy it second hand?

samsamuel said:
No, it will deffinately not have shipped with HSPL installed.
Sounds to me like someone already hspl'd it and installed a new rom. (black gui?)
did you buy it second hand?
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Hell no I bought it on Expansys, however the box that it came on had a picture of a Telstra one, with blue theme, but when I turned it on it was the world wide black theme and not the Telstra blue one, I changed it latter.
I even tried to instal the HSPL two or three times but it always gave me error messages and never showed the progress bar.
This is too strange for me.
Now I am very afraid if I really have the HSPL installed or a bugged or corrupt HSPL on it because of my failed tentatives.
what you guys suggest me to do to be 100% sure I have HSPL on it before installing cooked ROMs?
Thank
Felipe

i also bought a telstra version t9193 too. The seller ask me for permission to install the Official Rom for me. They state that i will have connection problem if i choose to stay with telstra's rom. So let them install HSPL and Official Rom since i don't want to deal with the connection problem when i have the device. I believe your seller install the HSPL and Official rom for you because they know u will have the connection problem.

felcas said:
Hy guys and girls.
I am a bit confused here and would like to ask for some help, by the way I already spent a lot of time lookign for answers here but I get more and more confused.
Well I wanted to try some Roms and I saw the high suggestions to install the HDPL first to avoid bricking my expensive HD2, well I tried but the problem is here.
FYI my HD2 is a Telstra version. It came with a black GUI style I guess it was the world wide version, but I am not sure as I did not recorded any info (did not thought on that), then I installed the original Australian Rom (at that time I was not looking for fancy Rom just for the latest upgrade and did not even know about cooked roms). Then I came back to the worl wide version because the autralian one was too bloated, not as nice as the black GUI and it was slower.
Finally I tried the HSPL2 to start tring with ROMs but it gave me an error message telling me I had the wrong version or something like that (I supposed because it is the Telstra version).
Then I tried the HSPL (older) but it gave me an error message telling me I need version 1.42.00. Here it get confused for me: When I do VolDwn + Power I get the following information:
PB81110 HX-BC
SPL-1.42.HSPL XE
0X05
CotullaHSPL 0x40
Serial
1st - Well I read that 1.42.HSPL was supported by HSPL so why it is not being accepted?
2nd - Why my unit is stating CotullaHSPL if I never installed it before? Cotulla comes with it?
3rd - Whats is HSPL in a interaction perspective? It is just a software that sit there and work alone without any GUI or it is something that does have a GUI that I can choose options and things to do? I am still lost on that.
4th - Sorry for the noob questions, but I apreciate if there is someone with patience to help me out (thats what I do when I can help someone).
Thank you
Felipe
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felcas said:
Hell no I bought it on Expansys, however the box that it came on had a picture of a Telstra one, with blue theme, but when I turned it on it was the world wide black theme and not the Telstra blue one, I changed it latter.
I even tried to instal the HSPL two or three times but it always gave me error messages and never showed the progress bar.
This is too strange for me.
Now I am very afraid if I really have the HSPL installed or a bugged or corrupt HSPL on it because of my failed tentatives.
what you guys suggest me to do to be 100% sure I have HSPL on it before installing cooked ROMs?
Thank
Felipe
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Hello man, I'm brazilian to, so if you want send me a PM I will explain things better in portuguese
Think in SPL/HSPL/SSPL like a BIOS in a PC, it will help you to understand some things. The SPL/HSPL/SSPL are the first softwares that the phone loads.. Read more here: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=SPL Questions?
If you phone shows HSPL on the bootloader and it boots, probably your HSPL is not damaged.
Stock phones does not comes with HSPL (that is secure unlocked), it comes with SPL. Probably the seller flashed HSPL on your phone.
So, it is simple to know if you have HSPL or not:
Reset your device - press volume down - Read the screen and if it has HSPL or anything similar, you has it!
Another way is more objective:
Download a custom ROM, then try to flash it via MicroSD method. If it flashes, you have HSPL, if not (security error), you don't have it
Does not metter what version of HSPL you have on your device, it will falsh any custom ROMS. **be carefull** ..................READ READ READ.......................
I sugest Sternas ROMS (ARTEMIS).. It has PT and is very stable.. Take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612580
I hope it helps!
Have a nice flashing

Digao100nocao,
I tried to upload Artemis with the MicroSD but nothing happens, not even an error message.
I changed the name and formated the MScard and copied it to the card but as soon as I get into the bootloader nothing else hapens. When I restart the old ROM is still in effect.
I can only upload it with the CustomRUU, but doing so does not overwrite the HSPL.
As more as I try more it is confusing and weird.
To make things even more scary this morning my earpiece stop working, now I can't hear anything thru it, I hope this is some software problem and I can get it to work.
What I want to do now is just uninstall the current HSPL as I do not trust on it anymore and reinstall a fresh new one. Problem is that I can't find an old version 1.42 to install it thru the MicroSD, only .exe files.

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[SOLVED] Help, installed wrong ROM (european), now stuck with "Stick Together" screen

[SOLVED] Help, installed wrong ROM (european), now stuck with "Stick Together" screen
I bought a T mobile USA HTC HD2 phone in the U.S. and tried to install Artemis ROM which is for european phones only.
So now I'm stuck with the pink welcome logo ("stick together").
If I press the volume button and soft reset, I can see the screen with my HSPL.
I tried to do hard reset, but it didn't work.
Please help me how to roll back to original rom, or to install any eligible for T mobile usa rom.
Thank you!
Sweet, so that means you are able to get into bootloader?
Just flash task29 then flash a tmous rom
Thanks for the reply.
Could you please exlpain what task29 is and how to do this? Or where I can find the info.
I am a complete noob in this stuff (obviously).
Thank you
Remove SD Card, and Sim Card....
First get into bootloader by holding down the volume down button and power on the device.
next down load this file and run it as administrator: Follow the prompts and instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5848003&postcount=19
When it hits 100% get ready to hold down the volume button again.... the HD2 will reboot and holding down the volume button will get you back into the bootloader.
Now get a US compatible rom and flash it the same way you just did the Task29. This time when its done flashing remove the battery and re insert your SD card and Sim.... let the phone boot up and you will be good to go.
Hope that Makes sense lol.
illconn, thank you for detailed answer!
I'll try it when I'm home. The only thing though is where can I find the US compatible ROM?
update
I got, I thought I'd need official T Mobile's ROM from their web site, but I'll be able to use any of the ROMs available in XDA. Right?
to be safe i would use the any of the ones in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653114
Once you read up a little more on here, and understand how some of the things work you can see there are a few more roms that you can use.
But before you can do any of that you need to make sure your phone has the right HSPL... there is a SSPL but just do the HSPL its easy.... now if you have already done this then great. If not start by reading here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653614
GL and welcome to the world of custimization!!
Yeah, I decided to try to understand the process of changin the ROM.
Now I understand that SPL boots the device. And HSPL allows to boot custom ROMs.
So what is task29 for?
Task29 pretty much formats the internal memory.... although putting a new rom on the device erases, it sometimes leave bits and pieces of the old roms.... so its recomended you Task29 before a new rom so that you dont have any complications later. For example some people will have a lot of freezing, or programs crash, once they task29 and reflash problem solved.
HTH
Thank you!
And last thing, just want to make sure everything is ok, not to repeat the same mistake. When I go to the bootloader, I get Red-Green -Blue-White screen with this data:
PB81120 HX-B3
SPL-2.08.HSPL 8G XE
0x05
CotullaHSPL 0x40
Serial
That's okay to do the custom ROM, right?
a5med said:
Thank you!
And last thing, just want to make sure everything is ok, not to repeat the same mistake. When I go to the bootloader, I get Red-Green -Blue-White screen with this data:
PB81120 HX-B3
SPL-2.08.HSPL 8G XE
0x05
CotullaHSPL 0x40
Serial
That's okay to do the custom ROM, right?
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Yes that is correct; by it showing "CotullaHSPL" that means you HSPL'd your phone and can download any compatable ROM onto your device, but just as posted above use task29. I was afraid to use it myself but after flashing my phone now about 30 times I've gotten over it.
Here is the link to the stock ROM's :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655653
if you use the 2.10.0 it will be back to stock. (but you can still burn ROM's onto your phone) because it won't erase you HSPL, if you run it from your computer.
Make sense?
Guys! Thank you so much! I installed Kumar's ROM. It works like a charm!
I gained so much experience, and fixed the device. I'm so happy! Thank you again. Thank you
installed the wrong ROM for ATOM
i was looking for a WM 6.5 rom for atom and little did i realized that ive downloaded the ROM for exec. it did installed fine in my ATOM but it always bugs me when it is booting up. it only shows the boot screen with ATOM exec LOGO and suddenly shuts down. i was trying to install back the old rom but it says "The ROM that i am trying to install is not designed to work for this device...". is there any way i could remove the atom exec rom in my device and install my old ROM? i badly need help and this is the last place i could get them. thanks very much! any help will greatly be appreciated. More Power XDA-Dev Gurus.
My Device is: O2 ATOM
wrong ROM: O2 ATOM EXEC
wrong rom
is there anything utility that erases the wrong rom installed for XDA ATom. i installed the wrong rom for ATOM and i cant use the phone because it always reboots when i turn it on.
thanks in advance..
illconn said:
Task29 pretty much formats the internal memory.... although putting a new rom on the device erases, it sometimes leave bits and pieces of the old roms.... so its recomended you Task29 before a new rom so that you dont have any complications later. For example some people will have a lot of freezing, or programs crash, once they task29 and reflash problem solved.
HTH
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is there anything utility that erases the wrong rom installed for XDA ATom like the Task29?. i installed the wrong rom for ATOM and i cant use the phone because it always reboots when i turn it on.
thanks in advance..
Wow. Number one, triple posting THE SAME QUESTION. Uhm, no. Number two, this is the HD2 or LEO section, NOT THE ATOM ONE. You won' t get any help here, you need to go post in the atom section.
Gotta say....I did the same thing as |OP|....this thread is making me very comfortable to fix my problem. Kudos to you guys for being patient with |OP|...it helped another newbiew
I talked to the number on #1 post and all I got is that I must ship the old one first. I told him about my location that shipment would be problem (from me to them, I can arrange shipment to US address and resend to me). Damn, now I must get it on my own for $50 or how much they cost (no ebay, they are mostly scams). Plus I got no Transformers, the card broke down and I had to format it (didn't help for fixing the freezing issue).
I talked to them over Skype though, because.. well I live in Europe. I'm not sure he understood me well, I have a sore throat and I'm having obstacles talking .

Can't seem to instal ROM

Hey guys & gals,
Prob been asked many times but I can't find the right answer anywhere.
My friend has a HD2 on O2 network in the UK, we have installed SPL 2.08.HSPL
We then set the Radio to 2.07.50 as stated in the 'energy' rom thread.
We downloaded the Energy Dinik Glass ROM but every time we try to install this ROM we get 'error 244 "Invalid Model ID" '
Any ideas on what we are doing wrong?
thanks
Darren
wrong thread sorry
double check you 'really' installed 2.08.hspl. Many people choose '2.08.0000' in the hspl dropdown instead of 2.08.hspl
.0000 means stock.
.hspl means hacked
Boot into bootloader and see what it says next to 'spl'.
If it ends .0000 then hspl isn't installed.
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samsamuel said:
double check you 'really' installed 2.08.hspl. Many people choose '2.08.0000' in the hspl dropdown instead of 2.08.hspl
.0000 means stock.
.hspl means hacked
Boot into bootloader and see what it says next to 'spl'.
If it ends .0000 then hspl isn't installed.
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Yup definatley 2.08.HSPL, I checked this morning because I didn't believe he had done it by himself (hes not technical minded & gets me to do all his dirty work)
After HSPL I changed his radio as it was runing something like 2.07.51xxxxx
I was thinking maybe its a American ROM and he has a UK phone?
drunken_prozac said:
I was thinking maybe its a American ROM and he has a UK phone?
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wouldn't matter, tmous roms work fine on euro leo, just not the other way around.
not sure what to suggest. if anything occurs I'll be sure and post it.
in the meantime, i think I'd go back to stock (stock rom through sd card) and start over.
ok,
I downloaded the standard energy ROM and that worked first time!
he wanted the Glass version so I will look into it.
Thanks for your help and I will let you know if it is the glass ROM
Darren

Questions on SPL before I send for repair

Sending in TmoUS HD2 for broken digitizer repair.
I put it back to stock rom and removed HSPL, just want to make sure this is fine because I read everywhere about SPL being 1.4x or 1.6x, mine is 2.08.
This is what my SPL screen shows
PB81120 HX-B3
SPL-2.08.0000 8G XE
MicroP(LED) 0x05
MicroP(Touch) 0x40
The 1.42 and 1.66 were for the 512LEO. Your 1024LEO (TMOUS) started with 2.08. and since it is 2.08.000 and not 2.08.HSPL then you are back to warranty.
Off topic question, is the reset button yellow or red?
Thank you. My reset button is red. I did searching, turns out the red button HD2's have alot of problems compared to the yellow buttons.
mayurolla said:
Thank you. My reset button is red. I did searching, turns out the red button HD2's have alot of problems compared to the yellow buttons.
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It's a myth sir!
mayurolla said:
Thank you. My reset button is red. I did searching, turns out the red button HD2's have alot of problems compared to the yellow buttons.
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As Kurt says there is an anecdotal story still going the rounds about the reliability differences between the red and yellow reset versions of the TMOUS LEOs.
I guess there isn't. I heavily searched the forums and that's the conclusion I came up with.
Just this official communication of HTC:
The regular HD2 have a red reset button.
The T-Mous device have a Yellow button.
based on this we can conclude that almost 75% of the HD2 devices are regular devices. So, do you think that thy all have issues???
I have a TmoUS HD2 with a red button...
I just picked up a TMOUS Leo with a bad digitizer and am going to send it in for repair.
Appreciate the clarification on all of the details, so I can rest easy sending this device in for service. The former user was probably truthful in saying he hadn't modded it after all.
Also, mine's got the red Reset button, for what it's worth.
mayurolla said:
I have a TmoUS HD2 with a red button...
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first batch of tmous had red, but after a few weeks yellow started showing up (allegedly because america sees red spots as water damage indicators, amongst other conpiracy theories).
combined with the first tmous release roms being buggy and being quickly re-released, thats where the red unstable / yellow stable myth came from.
Trying to put my phone back to stock
Hi, I need to send my HD2 out for repair under warranty and I already flash my phone back to the stock rom. The only problem is that I still have hspl on my phone. How do I uninstall hspl and install the stock spl? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.
enyce42k10 said:
Hi, I need to send my HD2 out for repair under warranty and I already flash my phone back to the stock rom. The only problem is that I still have hspl on my phone. How do I uninstall hspl and install the stock spl? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.
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bootloader - usb - hspl4.exe - choose spl you want
Thanks Samsamuel! HSPL4 worked with no problems. Now I have another question but first I'll explain whats going on. I was running the energy2 rom for a while and loved it but just recently my touch screen stopped responding. So I hard reset it and flashed it back to the stock rom. Thats when I noticed that the SPL didnt change. I ran HSPL4 so now my SPL reads 2.08.000 instead of 2.08.HSPL. Now my question is...... since my touch screen still doesnt work, how can I check to see what actual rom is on it for warranty purposes or since the SPL is back to stock should I just not worry about it? I just received my replacement but I want to make sure I am good to go before I send back my original one. Can anyone give me some insight? It would be much appreciated. Thanks.
enyce42k10 said:
Thanks Samsamuel! HSPL4 worked with no problems. Now I have another question but first I'll explain whats going on. I was running the energy2 rom for a while and loved it but just recently my touch screen stopped responding. So I hard reset it and flashed it back to the stock rom. Thats when I noticed that the SPL didnt change. I ran HSPL4 so now my SPL reads 2.08.000 instead of 2.08.HSPL. Now my question is...... since my touch screen still doesnt work, how can I check to see what actual rom is on it for warranty purposes or since the SPL is back to stock should I just not worry about it? I just received my replacement but I want to make sure I am good to go before I send back my original one. Can anyone give me some insight? It would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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To check your ROM version from Home Screen touch on Start Menu/ scoll down to About phone/Software Information. Once there you will see your ROM version. If you have a T-Mobile HD2 and the ROM you flashed was the latest update from T-Mobile you should have ROM version 3.14.531.1 (0466) WWE.
enyce42k10 said:
but just recently my touch screen stopped responding.
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T-Macgnolia said:
To check your ROM version from Home Screen touch on Start Menu/ scoll down to About phone/Software Information. Once there you will see your ROM version. If you have a T-Mobile HD2 and the ROM you flashed was the latest update from T-Mobile you should have ROM version 3.14.531.1 (0466) WWE.
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or maybe a touchscreen free method would work better,,,,
go into bootloader, it tells you the spl there. for regular hd2 any 1.x or 3.x ending .0000 is fine, for tmous any 2.x or 3.x ending .0000 is fine.
What you can do to be sure, is to remove hspl first then then flash the rom, that way teh flash changes the spl to what it shouldbe for that rom.
So for you, you already removed hspl, so just run eth flash again over usb, and it will install that roms stock spl. so example if its a 1.66 stock rom, it will downgrade 2.08.0000 to 1.66.0000
Cool, that was gonna be my next step was to flash the stock rom again but I wasnt too sure. I'll try it out and let you know. Thanks again!
samsamuel said:
or maybe a touchscreen free method would work better,,,,
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Sorry my bad man I forgot they said the touch screen wasn't working. I feell like a moroon now lol....... I will have to pay closer attention from now on. Oh and samsamuel I have been reading alot of your post and I personaly want to thank you, you have taught me and I am sure others alot we did not know so kudoes to you my friend.
well thanks very much, you're very welcome.
I'm a fan of Karma, i'm banking on getting a 'congratulations, you win!' popup when i die.
No big deal T-Macgnolia, its a common mistake. You were only trying to help and I greatly appreciate the effort.
Thanks again Samsamuel. I flashed the stock rom again and now everything looks exactly the same way the replacement phone looks minus the working touch screen. lol! And I double checked the rom version by running the tmobile update rom again but only up to the screen where it shows your current rom version and asks if you want to update. Then I just cancelled the update once I am sure which rom is on there. So just in case anybody has their touch screen go out and they are trying to flash everything back to stock, they can try the steps that I tried to verify the rom. Thanks again everyone!
enyce42k10 said:
And I double checked the rom version by running the tmobile update rom again but only up to the screen where it shows your current rom version and asks if you want to update.
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thats a good check, but dont rely on it totally (Its right on this occasion, im just talking for info).
The updater pulls that version info from the roms registry, so you can make it say 'ive got a great big tonka'' if you want.
That is also the reason you get no info at all when you manually enter bootloader before running the flasher, because it cant access the registry from bootloader.

[Q] A Challenge for anyone who's up for it

My sincere apologies if this has been posted elsewhere (i can't find a thing and been looking all morning!).
I've ballsed up my HD2. Basically i tried to run sd card dual boot android thingy last night. Radio didn't upgrade as it should have and so anfroid didn't work either. So...today I tried downgrading SPL from 3.033 to 2.08.0000 so i could upgrade radio to be compatiable. To cut a long story short I used the downgrading post to do it and now i have upgrade rom error please try again. One positive note though....stuck on a lovely red green, blue and white screen (bootloader me thinks?) with spl showing as 2.08.0000.
Now....I thought i was slightly above average in terms of genereal public geeky know-how but this has certainly humbled me. I've been through the O SH*T I've bricked it (both me and the phone) and through dam....my wife will kill me, i'm now at denial thinking it will magically sort it self out (which it won't).
So please, apologies for the essay....can some help me out. Please go slow as I really can't do things without step my step instructions.
In a nutshell: can't get past bootlaoder and i wanna go for a poo because of it.
HELP!
Smiley
I have no idea about HD2 but most smartphones would have a recovery option in its PC software suite. Try that if all else fails.
nibras_reeza said:
I have no idea about HD2 but most smartphones would have a recovery option in its PC software suite. Try that if all else fails.
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I'm not sure that would work, plus i don't think I've got the disc (had hd2 for 18months now).
It says:
HX-BC
SPL-2.08 0000 8G XE
MicroP (LED) 0x05
MicroP(TOUCH) 0x30
Tried loading standard rom from htc site but after 1% it crashes.
Crashing your phone is definitely a cure for constipation!
HELP!!! Anyone? Tried HSPL and it didn't work, still stuck at bootloader. Have a bricked it?
You flashed the stock 2.08 SPL instead of Hard SPL. That is why it will not let you load another ROM.
Wil Badger said:
You flashed the stock 2.08 SPL instead of Hard SPL. That is why it will not let you load another ROM.
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Thanks for replying but, pardon my ignorance (i'm not very good at this stuff), how do I resolve this issue? is stock ROM the one that comes with the phone? I've ried putting different SPL through HSPL but stays at 2.08. What am I doing wrong?
thanks in advance
SMILEYSINGH said:
Thanks for replying but, pardon my ignorance (i'm not very good at this stuff), how do I resolve this issue? is stock ROM the one that comes with the phone? I've ried putting different SPL through HSPL but stays at 2.08. What am I doing wrong?
thanks in advance
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The SPL you put on there is stock, meaning locked so you cannot flash custom ROMs.
You need to run HSPL4 again, and flash HSPL 2.08 NOT SPL-2.08 0000.
THEN you can flash whatever the hell you want
Don't flash HSPL 3.03 unless you plan to just use a 3.14 based windows mobile ROM.
just tried that and it stops half way through process and put spl 20.8 0000 on it even though i asked for HSPL. whats wrong with it? any ideas? again, i appreciate your help. is this anything to do with radio (????what is radio??? lol)
now all hspl does is not do as i say, whatever i pick whether it be 2.08 stock and 2.08 hspl (or their 3.03 counterparts) it show spl of 2.08.0000.
to be honest i just want my trusty winmo back so i can make calls, to hell with android (for the moment lol)
Is it regular or tmous?
Regular - 2.x spls arent stock for regular, only tmous uses 2.x as stock, so that may be havjng an effect, though it shouldn't,,,,,
Run hspl2 (note that's hspl2) and choose 1.66.0000
If that takes ok, then go to htc.com and find a rom that your serial allows you to download and flash it.
Tmous - get latest rom from t-mobile.com and flash that. If usb flashing doesn't take try sd card flash.
In both cases if still no luck, try goldcard, pm me an emaik address and your cid and I'll make you one.
You could also try the "chill phone in bag in fridge for half hour before flashing" trick, which if it works means you have overheating issues.
Spl - any spl ending 0000 is a factory spl andwill not allow flashing except that phones stock rom.
just pmed you, dunno if i did it right, hopefully you got it. Unfortunatley hspl2 didn't work either, still 2.08.0000 on there. Can i work with this in any way? ie can i load another rom on rather than revert back to htc rom if it easier? This all began with wanting dual boot android/winmo but its gone belly up lol, still i suppose there are ppl that have bricked phones whch are worse off.
I don't even know how to load another rom! i'm the noob of noobs!
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SMILEYSINGH said:
I'm afraid that hspl2 didn't sort it out either, still shows spl 2.08 0000. Although it does say successful, when booting up it says failed and reverts back to bootloader. Should i be pressing any buttons while it boots up (i'm not - only vol down key when i need usb port to work).
Could i have a goldcard please? What is a goldcad and how do i use it? I haven't a clie as you can see. MY email is ***********.
I really appreciate your time, I understand you must be busy.
Thanks again
Smiley
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ah i was afraid of it not working, , next i would suggest try hspl4, choosing 3.03.hspl or 3.03.0000, though again, i suspect the same thing,,, no change.
No real answer as to why it does that, i suspect a bad nand (memory) block, perhaps some memory flag that needs to be set but gets corrupted, , or something.
All i can suggest is trying hspl2,3 and 4 to try and change the spl to anything, , you have a regular hd2, so theres no problem, it should take any spl.
Goldcard is basically a magic sd card that makes the phone think it is in the factory, and lets you flash any STOCK rom from any region and carrier, and the phone will accept it as its correct rom. You can make them from any 4gb or smaller sd card, but i need teh CID (unique serial) of that sd card to send you the image which you write to the disk.
Problem is, getting the CID, , if you have another windows mobile phone you can use for 5 minutes that takes sd cards) then you are laughing, if you don't then you may be in trouble (although again, this is pretty unlikely to work if you really do have the stuck spl/radio problem, so if you cant make a goldcard dont lose any sleep)
Anyway, if you can get hold of a running winmo phone and connect it to your pc, then have a read HERE
http://samsamuel.co.uk/news.php?id=8
If you cant get hold of a winmo phone, then you will have to google on how to find sd cid without winmo phone, , , ,get ready for an evenings reading and frustration!
SMILEYSINGH said:
Can i work with this in any way? ie can i load another rom on rather than revert back to htc rom if it easier?
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No, only stock roms will flash on 0000 spl's.
your phone, if acting normally, should always take the correct stock rom, but i have myself had issues flashing a correct stock rom when i left spl as 2.08.0000, until i downgraded to spl 1.66.0000, however the dowbgrade worked, whereas yours isnt taking.
As for which rom should always flash, go HERE and the second one down is t mo UK. If your serial gets rejected when you try to dfownload it, then its not the correct rom for that phone.
Download that, and rename teh file from filename.exe to filename.zip, then open the zip, inside is a bunch of files, one is called RUU_signed.nbh, extract that and rename it to leoimg.nbh and put it on your sd card (4gb or smaller, formatted FAT32) and reboot your phone into bootloader, where it should start to flash.
thanks for all your help.
At the moment its stuck on loading...has been for 15min, i think i'll reset it. I did manage to get it on another spl earlier this afternoon but it was 3.03 and i didn't think that was any good for me so changed it back. i'll keep trying to get a hspl on it, i take it that after that i can put any rom on it (cooked).
I'll try my wife's touch and see if i can make a goldcard.
Thanks again, let you know what happens.
jusr reset it and spl 1.66 is on there but only flashes up for a second before a white loading scren comes up. reset it a few times after that and still no joy. htc rom won't connect to it!
its working! the sd card was still in the phone and i had put something on there this morning (think it was a radio or something which caused loading screen to occur) windows just lkoadiong now, hopefully it will work. I'm still up for android dual booth tho lol. if this all works then i think i might wait. Samsamuel, i really appreciate your help in all this!
Thanks again!
Smiley
ps anyone readinf this...if in doubt just keep trying hsdp until u can do it in ur sleep, i must have done it 50 times today
Ah yea, leaving an inage on the card,,, bet you don't make that mistake again, hehe.

Updated ROM & Radio Now Runs very sow

I bought my HD2 after having the Desire and I got hold of the network unlock key so was free to use any network. As i'm on Three I updated with a Generic ROM and all was fine for around a week and then I got the White Screen but a Soft Reset got me back running.
Now my ROM will load but the phone is so slow I dont know how to get it back to speed. Ive put the stock T Mobile ROM back on but this does not help.
What Can I do? I think after reading that it may be a radio issue but im not that clued up here so thought i'd ask at XDA whichg ive been using for years.
If I could send it to someone to get sorted out that would be easier and i'd cover the costs,m postage and the drink for dong it.
Any advice or takers please?
Regards
Jay
jayknight71 said:
I bought my HD2 after having the Desire and I got hold of the network unlock key so was free to use any network. As i'm on Three I updated with a Generic ROM and all was fine for around a week and then I got the White Screen but a Soft Reset got me back running.
Now my ROM will load but the phone is so slow I dont know how to get it back to speed. Ive put the stock T Mobile ROM back on but this does not help.
What Can I do? I think after reading that it may be a radio issue but im not that clued up here so thought i'd ask at XDA whichg ive been using for years.
If I could send it to someone to get sorted out that would be easier and i'd cover the costs,m postage and the drink for dong it.
Any advice or takers please?
Regards
Jay
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The unlock key applies to the phone, not the ROM. So I would flash a new ROM. You don't mention if yours is US or Euro model, it makes a difference when flashing.
could the problem be 3.14 ROM on non 3.03 spl?
enter bootloader, what does it say on the spl line?
what version ROM is running?
samsamuel said:
could the problem be 3.14 ROM on non 3.03 spl?
enter bootloader, what does it say on the spl line?
what version ROM is running?
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This is info on the boot screen
PB81100 HX-BC
SPL-3.03.HSPL XE
0x05
CotullaHSPDL 0x30
Wheb
R 2 08. 50. 08--2
G 15.34.50.07U
D 3energy 8GU
My phone is a euro model and ive just flashed with an Engergy Leo21916.sense25.cookie.2.0.GTX.June01
Not sure what the radio is as included with the ROM
Please help. Ive tried all types of ROMS etc and im sure its just an issue of the wrong ROM & Radio.
Will install the ROM but will just loop on first install even if i reset throughout
Liuke I said before if I could send to someone to fix it I would be most grateful.
The stock rom would be fine but would prefer the unbranded if posssible
Many thanks
Jay Kay.
jayknight71 said:
This is info on the boot screen
PB81100 HX-BC
SPL-3.03.HSPL XE
0x05
CotullaHSPDL 0x30
Wheb
R 2 08. 50. 08--2
G 15.34.50.07U
D 3energy 8GU
My phone is a euro model and ive just flashed with an Engergy Leo21916.sense25.cookie.2.0.GTX.June01
Not sure what the radio is as included with the ROM
Please help. Ive tried all types of ROMS etc and im sure its just an issue of the wrong ROM & Radio.
Will install the ROM but will just loop on first install even if i reset throughout
Liuke I said before if I could send to someone to fix it I would be most grateful.
The stock rom would be fine but would prefer the unbranded if posssible
Many thanks
Jay Kay.
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NRG ROMS don't contain radios. You need to visit the first page, where they recommend radios.
I would suggest downloading the official ROM for your HD2 serial number from the HTC website. Then flash that from the SD card. This will put everything, including the radio, back on the device. Then you can go from there.
Many thanks for all the answers but their not helping unfortunately. I installed ther following a Laurentius26 ROM with the following radio 2.12.5.02_2 amd finally the phone booted up after a few hours and I could slowly make my way round the phone. To press the window key would take atleast 30 seconds top bring a response. I dont know what Is causing this and it seems like the wrong ROM & Radio is on as the phone used to fly on tjhe stock ROM.
Ive tried to reinstall the Tmobile ROM but it's just the same either way and any other ROM I try does the same.4
Is there anyway of cleaning off everything from the phone and starting again from scratch as it seems definantly that there is a conflict somewhere with the software.
I opened sys info on the phone when it was working and copied down the following just inase it helps.
OS Version 5.2.23148(23418.5.11)
Manilla Version 2.5.20212114.0
ROM Version 2.05 WWE
ROM Date 06/06/11
RADIO 2.12.5.02_2
Protocol Version 15.40.50.07U_2.12.5
Please HELP! Someone out there as i'm just about stuck and i've been playing with Smartphones since the first launch of the Orange Smartphone 10 years ago.
Many thanks in advance
Jay Kau
flash task29 THEN flash another custom ROM, this will ensure any leftover **** gets erased, you might have something in NAND carrying over from ROM to ROM, none of the current radios will slow your ROM down like you're describing.
It's either this or hardware.
also try the above with your sd card and sim removed, its not unknown for a faulty card to play havoc with performance.
I tried task 28 and it never let me press the volume down at 99% so dont know if worked. Still running slow but it is running.
Wouldnt of thought was a HW issue as it was working fine last week. If I need to return to HTC where would I do that in the UK after installing standard T Mobile ROM?
Many thanks and any further help going on Flash 28 and how to do it successfully?
Regards
Jay
sorry task 29 LOL
I attempted Task 29 but after my device went straight into loading a ROM. I thought that Task 29 removed all ROMS. Info etc so you had to reinstall. What am I doing wrong as I followed the instructions to the letter from one of the posts on this excellent site.
Am getting really annoyed now. Is there someone who could do this for me if i send and pay for return postage and a drink please?
Any further info and will try again tonight one more time
Many thanks
Jay
jayknight71 said:
I attempted Task 29 but after my device went straight into loading a ROM. I thought that Task 29 removed all ROMS. Info etc so you had to reinstall. What am I doing wrong as I followed the instructions to the letter from one of the posts on this excellent site.
Am getting really annoyed now. Is there someone who could do this for me if i send and pay for return postage and a drink please?
Any further info and will try again tonight one more time
Many thanks
Jay
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I know that this may sound strange, but try formatting your SD card. When my phone starts behaving badly, fully formatting the SD solved the problem. Checking it for system file errors usually gives the same results, but doing a full format using the SD card formatter at first gives better results.
you probably have a ROM loaded in your SD card.
if your SD card root has a file called LEOIMG.NBH then it will try to flash it immediately on booting the phone, it's part of the SPL instructions. Delete or rename that file or cancel the flash.
orangekid said:
you probably have a ROM loaded in your SD card.
if your SD card root has a file called LEOIMG.NBH then it will try to flash it immediately on booting the phone, it's part of the SPL instructions. Delete or rename that file or cancel the flash.
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I you mean me, no I don't flash through SD. but that's a good advice as well.
when the SD has severe System file errors, I noticed that my phone ran extremely slow. correcting those errors made my phone return to it's snappy self.

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