Hey guys,I am stuck for some time now with the 1.72 OTA and was unable to root.
Some time today I saw jkoljo's post with instructions to downgrade the 1.72 OTA for those who didn't s-off before they applied it.I asked there and I got a kind answer that I should use the PD98IMG.zip provided in jkoljo's first post from a member whose name is unfortunately escaping me right now.However,that didn't seem to be enough.I downloaded the PD98IMG.zip and copied it to my SD card's root folder(I use a 16GB Class 10 Kingston card),I rebooted into bootloader but when it checked for the image it found nothing.So what do I do?
I don't know if anyone has the same problem.Apparently the guide was written for those who hadn't s-off'ed,as jkoljo himself told me,but nothing was written for those of us who did get s-off.Probably it was considered that we knew all well how to downgrade,but that's something I don't do everyday.So if anyone can please guide me on how to do it I'd be very very grateful!
Many thanks guys!And sorry for being a nuisance to some!
as you seem like an experienced user i won't explain certain things i.e. what a gold card is LOL
but here goes,
try using a smaller SD CARD prefebly 4gb formated to fat32. transfer the file again, or redownload that file and transfer?
device branded?create a gold card?
if all fails, download the 1.34 RUU and find the rom.zip in the %temp% folder when you are running it (without the phone connected) not the whole process ofcourse just so it loads the rom.zip file in the temp folder that is done usually after it asks you to connect the phone.
if this is done copy this onto the sd card. re run the hack for the 1.72 and carry on with instructions, then carry on by following original root instructions.
hope to have helped.
peace
Yes try a smaller SD card. An SD card. Not a big ass SDHC.
Ok...I'll try a 4Gb one and see if it works!
And El_Nino9,I am a little experienced,but the fact that I might have a 0,0001% chance of bricking my phone makes me act frickin' stupid!
Anyway,can I do all that without also downgrading my radio?Or will I just have to reupgrade my radio afterwards?(God,I hate radio flashing! )
Thanks!
Well,I tried my freshly formatted 4Gb card(the one that came with my old Desire),I reboot with the PD98IMG.zip in my card's root folder,it goes into bootloader and when it starts searching for the image it says:
Code:
SD Checking. . .
Loading. . . [PD98DIAG.zip]
And stays there like...forever!What da f*ck do I do?I hate it when phones act weird!
Double check that the file name matches exactly what the bootloader is asking for. Linux is case sensitive.
Sent from my performance enhanced Desire HD.
Download the PD98IMG.zip file again, or exports from RUU ROM utility.
dr.m0x said:
Double check that the file name matches exactly what the bootloader is asking for. Linux is case sensitive.
Sent from my performance enhanced Desire HD.
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Well,everyone is using the PD98IMG.zip jkoljo provides in his first post along with the downgrading instructions,and I used it too.I didn't modify the name in any way.
Now,although I think that when using my 16Gb card it searches for a PD98IMG.zip,as I stated above,when using my 4gb card it says it searches for a PD98DIAG.zip and then freezes(yes,the bootloader) and I have to pull the battery.
I am redownloading the file now,but I don't think that's what's wrong...
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is it possible to do that?
I brick my Heral when I trying to patch IPL, now it stack in boot mode.
I try al avaliable on xda ftp rom updates but always I got "Incorrect file" .
My Herald is from Rusia (cyrylica on keyboard)
it is indeed possible to do so. i am not sure of any IPL/SPL requirements, but here are the instructions.
1. take your sd card
2. take the .nbh file of the rom and rename it to "heraimg.nbh"
3. put it on your sd card
4. put it in your phone
5. go into bootloader. if already in bootloader, soft reset.
6. follow the onscreen instructions
thats how i flashed ttran's first '209 rom
fzzyrn said:
it is indeed possible to do so. i am not sure of any IPL/SPL requirements, but here are the instructions.
1. take your sd card
2. take the .nbh file of the rom and rename it to "heraimg.nbh"
3. put it on your sd card
4. put it in your phone
5. go into bootloader. if already in bootloader, soft reset.
6. follow the onscreen instructions
thats how i flashed ttran's first '209 rom
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it shows only checking sd content ant after that it is stacking on bootloader informations (IPL, SPL versions)
what kind of card is it? I do not believe this is possible with microSDHC cards as well as cards of a certain (relatively high) capacity.
Make sure your card is empty except for the file and that is formatted to FAT16 ( I think)
indeed your card must be formated by Fat 32 (use your Windows Explorer to format the card)
Besides this issue, I'm not sure if it is possible to do so if your devide got stuck changing its IPL. Which one did you try?
To make sure; use the official RUU rom from HTC.
Download it; open the exe file with WinRar to extract the nbh file included and use this file to flash your device.
Good luck
dont waste your time, those methods doesnt work. If u r goin to try to... "recover" your device with this method... you're just wasting ur time (you'll end up with a Invalid Certificate error)
theres no solution
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indeed your card must be formated by Fat 32 (use your Windows Explorer to format the card)
Besides this issue, I'm not sure if it is possible to do so if your devide got stuck changing its IPL. Which one did you try?
To make sure; use the official RUU rom from HTC.
Download it; open the exe file with WinRar to extract the nbh file included and use this file to flash your device.
Good luck
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thank U for your's all help but I couldn't flash it. I try all avaliable rom updates from xda ftp extracted to micro sd card formatted to fat 32 under windows explorer but without positive results, mean couldn;t start flash process (probably cid lock blocked it)
ochman said:
thank U for your's all help but I couldn't flash it. I try all avaliable rom updates from xda ftp extracted to micro sd card formatted to fat 32 under windows explorer but without positive results, mean couldn;t start flash process (probably cid lock blocked it)
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It could be beacuse the ROM that you are trying to flash requires Hard-SPL.
jappo01 said:
indeed your card must be formated by Fat 32 (use your Windows Explorer to format the card)
Besides this issue, I'm not sure if it is possible to do so if your devide got stuck changing its IPL. Which one did you try?
To make sure; use the official RUU rom from HTC.
Download it; open the exe file with WinRar to extract the nbh file included and use this file to flash your device.
Good luck
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thanks work fine ( heradiag.nbh)
Hi,
I really struggling with the goldcard process.
I think the image file(s) I'm getting from QMAT are not correct.
I've tried the process twice with two different SD cards.
The SD cards are not recoqised once I add the image to the SD car.
Can somone check the attached files. The text file is the serial numbers for the two cards, and the zip file contains the image files I received.
You'll notice in a hexeditor that the image files contain lots of zeros in the first few blocks where I expected there to be data
Could a few people upload a working goldcard.img files so I can check the hex against mine?
I made some further progress by only transfering some of the hex over (the later part) to the SD card- at least this allowed the bootloader to recoqnise the SD card and try to load the nbh file.
HELP!
Did you formated you card with FAT32?
I had the same issue with an unbranded card, but after I chaed it with a "normal" one evrything went well.
Cheers,
Seba
PS: Perhpaps you get more success if you post here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591314
I'm using sandisk 2 gig cards. It fails with both of them.
Can someone post a working goldcard.img here??
Thanks
philtrick123 said:
I'm using sandisk 2 gig cards. It fails with both of them.
Can someone post a working goldcard.img here??
Thanks
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The one I was sent has a lot of 0s at the beginning and breaks the filesystem, but it didn't stop me from flashing the 1.61 update (via USB), and I'm pretty sure my device is vendor-locked. I'm not 100% sure it helped me either, but I'm not flashing again to test until something interesting comes out.
Once you've loaded the goldcard.img (which breaks the file system).
What exactly do you do to download the latest firmware.
When I activesync with the PC, and try and run the RUU_Leo....exe file it fails during install.
Can anyone explain how a goldcard actually works. What's on the goldcard that makes the phone take ROMS not meant for the device?
philtrick123 said:
Once you've loaded the goldcard.img (which breaks the file system).
What exactly do you do to download the latest firmware.
When I activesync with the PC, and try and run the RUU_Leo....exe file it fails during install.
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Get in the bootloader on the phone with it plugged in via USB and just run the RUU from the PC. Simples.
In what way does it fail?
When I get to the bootloader and try to run the RUU I eventually get an ERROR 262.
I'm still stuck
yeah is really enoying to do an update like that,wish they do normal one wwe and not this goldcard thingy,just wait mate for official update dont waste you time in this couse everyday there is a new updates on htc.com
Worked well for me with the SD distributed by HTC with HD2
philtrick123 said:
Hi,
I really struggling with the goldcard process.
I think the image file(s) I'm getting from QMAT are not correct.
I've tried the process twice with two different SD cards.
The SD cards are not recoqised once I add the image to the SD car.
Can somone check the attached files. The text file is the serial numbers for the two cards, and the zip file contains the image files I received.
You'll notice in a hexeditor that the image files contain lots of zeros in the first few blocks where I expected there to be data
Could a few people upload a working goldcard.img files so I can check the hex against mine?
I made some further progress by only transfering some of the hex over (the later part) to the SD card- at least this allowed the bootloader to recoqnise the SD card and try to load the nbh file.
HELP!
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You need to change the initial 2 characters of the SD Card ID to '00' before requesting the goldcard.img, as explained in the tutorial.
Thread closed.
Please use the existing Gold Card Sticky thread for problems.
Dave
Hey guys, I've tried flashing a custom ROM onto my HTC HD2 and when ever I restart the phone and load the BOOTLOADER, it only ever flashes the word 'loading' and then goes back to the normal BOOTLOADER screen. I've read various tutorials which say that the loading screen is supposed to stay and then you just follow instructions. I've followed all the instructions but it still doesn't work.
The ROM doesn't have a default loader, its just a file that ends with '.nbh.' I've formatted an SD card, renamed the file to LEOIMG.nbh and placed it in the root folder of the SD card but it still doesn't work.
Key to us helping you is this:
What ROM are you trying to load?
What radio have you got installed?
WB
a common mistake is not properly renaming the file. because of the pc hiding file extensions lots of people end up accidentally renaming it
leoimg.nbh.nbh
also, what size card are you using? lots of problems discovered with cards bigger than 2gb.
but the main question..... why are you using sd card and not usb? usb is wayyyyyyyy faster and much fewer pitfalls.
samsamuel said:
but the main question..... why are you using sd card and not usb? usb is wayyyyyyyy faster and much fewer pitfalls.
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Some people like me have to do it the SD card method because you cant run the .exe installer files on a mac
Halduck said:
Some people like me have to do it the SD card method because you cant run the .exe installer files on a mac
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ahhh of course,a mac.
always forget about them.think it must be because I haven't seen one for best part of ten years, hehe.
I seem to remember reading of people successfully using a virtual xp to run flashes, its just hspl that doesn't like virtual boxes.( could be wrong of course )
Im sending my phone back to htc so I flashed back a standard rom. I thought this would remove hspl but it didnt now Im ****ting my pants. How do i get it off?
Did you flash stock rom via sd card? That is the only way that flashing a stock rom removes hspl. Otherwise the much simpler method is to rerun HSPL2 and select your original spl (ending in 0000) - assuming you can remember which spl you were on.
how do i flash the rom via sd?
elgrego4 said:
how do i flash the rom via sd?
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Find nbh file of the rom you want, copy to root of sd card and rename it to LEOIMG.nbh, boot into bootloader and follow instructions. If it doesn't pick up the image, try reformatting sd card (preferably a small one ie 2gb) to FAT32 and retry.
Ive renamed the the file but bootloader does nothing, i only have a 16gb sd. I also put the whole rom on the card and selected it using file explorer and now the windows colour dots are just going around in a circle.
Did you copy just the .nbh file from the rom to your sd card and rename that and not the entire exe file? You also won't be able to flash via file explorer.
Seriously though if you can't flash via sd card (bigger sd cards don't alsways work - although my 16gb card does) just do the second and much easier option I gave you above, ie flash the rom via exe as you have done and then run HSPL2 and select your stock spl.
I cant do that cos now windows 7 wont install the bloody drivers lol. Im FUBAR'd
Be careful in your rom selection. This should ALWAYS be stressed when telling people how to do this. It's not simply a case of getting the one you want. You should always try to get the original rom your phone came with, or at a minimum one that the htc site recommends when you enter your country and phone serial. Flashing a bad rom via sd is pretty much the only way to brick your phone. This should not be forgotten or taken for granted.
That said, download the correct rom, rename to leoimg.nbh, stick it on the root of your sd card. Power off phone, insert sd card, hold volume down, press power.
(yeah I know clyde just typed the instructions, I just like them explained this way).
Sent from my HD2 NANDroid using XDA App
elgrego4 said:
Ive renamed the the file but bootloader does nothing, i only have a 16gb sd. I also put the whole rom on the card and selected it using file explorer and now the windows colour dots are just going around in a circle.
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Have you double checked you card is Fat 32? I couldn't get a leoimg.nbh file recognised, until I found a similar post saying that it had to be Fat32. My card was in plain old fat...
MattOG said:
Be careful in your rom selection. This should ALWAYS be stressed when telling people how to do this. It's not simply a case of getting the one you want. You should always try to get the original rom your phone came with, or at a minimum one that the htc site recommends when you enter your country and phone serial. Flashing a bad rom via sd is pretty much the only way to brick your phone. This should not be forgotten or taken for granted.
That said, download the correct rom, rename to leoimg.nbh, stick it on the root of your sd card. Power off phone, insert sd card, hold volume down, press power.
(yeah I know clyde just typed the instructions, I just like them explained this way).
Sent from my HD2 NANDroid using XDA App
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Good point m8, I assumed that as he had already flashed the rom via exe that he had the right one. (I know that's a dangerous assumption given the level of some of the users on this site as some shouldn't be authorised to use anything more technical than a tv remote - no offence elgrego4 ). Noted and I will include that important statement in future advice given
I've just seen from your signatrure elgrego4 that your rom is listed as LEO70 (ie WP7). Did you reformat your sd card after using WP7?
elgrego4 said:
Im sending my phone back to htc so I flashed back a standard rom. I thought this would remove hspl but it didnt now Im ****ting my pants. How do i get it off?
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Turn the phone off..Then turn it on while holding volume down. This will take you to the bootloader menu( rainbow color). Plug the phone unto your PC then flash the original ROM that you downloaded from HTC site.No need to sync..Hope this will help.
Hey man if you want to remove HSPL you can just run the HSPL program from your pc with your phone connected in bootloader. It's the same procedure as installing HSPL, but now you must select SPL 2.08.000 instead of HSPL 2.08 while running the program.
I did it this way while I had to send my phone back and had no problems with it =)
You can check your SPL version in Bootloader.
yes it was fat 32, ive borrowed a 2gig so i will try that next
Its flashing with the 2gb card so fingers and everything else crossed
Keep us posted pls. I'm thinking also to bring back because of pixel error on the screen.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
it says update success, do i just reboot it now?
rebooted, not bricked. Will check the bootloader in a minute
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it says update success, do i just reboot it now?
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Yes........
SPL-3.03.000 is on now. Thanks for the help guy Knowing my luck htc wont find a fault
Pleasure m8, good luck.
Was 3.03 your original spl? If so I guess you do know it's a mission to get back to flash hspl once you get your phone back. You will first have to downgrade your rom to get to a lower version spl and then run hspl.
Hello,
this morning I had a bad surprise. My HTC mini doesn't work anymore and now when I turn on, it get stucked on three color screen.
I use the HTC Sense 3.5 rom and, until today, all works great.
I try to hard reset the phone, to reinstall the original rom, but without any changes.
I would like to try some commands from adb or fastboot, but my phone cannot be recognized from this tools. I have try to change the USB driver, I installed the google driver, but without success. Only the htc ufficial rom is installed correctly but when I restart the phone, I have always the three color screen.
Anyone can help me?
Thanks, Alex
what is your os on your computer ?
if windows 7 64 bit install usb eugeniausb drivers and use mtty (you have to select the usb port there) console. phone has to be in tri color mode.
send "task 2a" to the phon, it should format nand and restore radio.
had this problem too, that was the solution
My OS is Windows 7 x64.
I have tried your drivers and now I can send commands with mtty.
I send the command that you told me and in the screenshot that I have attached you can find the results. Are errors normal??
My phone is always in three colors screen.
I must send other commands?
Thanks for the help.
yes, bad blocks are normal.
when you have finished restart the phone and flash official ROM for your device !
Thanks for your patience.
I have flashed the original rom, the whole process works fine, but when the phone is restarted (after completed the installation) the three color screen returns....
hmm, you could try task 28, task 29, then task 2a...
dont remember, i think i have used all of them
No success....:crying:
The three color screen is always there...
what does it show ? (best would be a picture of the screen)
In attachment a picture of the boot screen.
As I say in the first post I didn't do nothing for brick the phone. I only turn off the phone yesterday, and this morning I only turn on it.
Are there some commands that I can use in mtty to understand why the phone is bricked?
Thanks again.
hmm.. everything looks as it should..
i am out of ideas.. what about trying to flash a newer firmware ? (1.07.xxx is pretty old)
I have tried with a new version, 1.36 if i remember well (I don't have the phone here now), but the result is the same.
Anyway thanks for your support. I'll send it to the techinical support or I'll buy a new device.
asorcinelli said:
I have tried with a new version, 1.36 if i remember well (I don't have the phone here now), but the result is the same.
Anyway thanks for your support. I'll send it to the techinical support or I'll buy a new device.
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I can see your phone hang on spl 1.07 so mean your ruu not installed 1.33! I domnt think that your phone is bricked but I think you have not installed rom (fully) by RUU (mean all parts from ruu). I never success trought ruu (only if my s.n. match ruu! So you need to have gold card in order to install rom (nbh)! Your hboot is all time 1.07 so that mean you done installed only rom parts instead of whole RUU... so definitely you need gold card and you need to reinstall rom by sd card! Of course, always "task 29 than task 2a" before everything
How can I create the gold card?
Is there a tool that can I use?
Thanks!
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Now I've a GoldCard, but what file I must copy in the card and what name must have?
I have done several attempts, but I receive always the message "no image file"
asorcinelli said:
How can I create the gold card?
Is there a tool that can I use?
Thanks!
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You can not create gold card now without working windows phone, so you need to read cid from an working wince in order to generate gold card
munjeni said:
You can not create gold card now without working windows phone, so you need to read cid from an working wince in order to generate gold card
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I have created a Gold Card with another device and I follow one of the guide on Internet. I think to have done all correctly, and if I restard the bricked phone holding volume down I see for a very small time the message "no image file".
asorcinelli said:
I have created a Gold Card with another device and I follow one of the guide on Internet. I think to have done all correctly, and if I restard the bricked phone holding volume down I see for a very small time the message "no image file".
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You must to know:
- gold card created for android device will not work! You need gold card for wince!
- sd card can not be biger than 1gb (2gb not tested) !
munjeni said:
You must to know:
- gold card created for android device will not work! You need gold card for wince!
- sd card can not be biger than 1gb (2gb not tested) !
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Ok, I understand, and so I have a wrong gold card.
I have another WinCE Device and so I could build a correct gold card.
Can you provide me more information? How can I create a gold card for WinCE?
After creating the gold card, what can I copy in the SD? The .nbh of the official rom?
Thanks!
asorcinelli said:
Ok, I understand, and so I have a wrong gold card.
I have another WinCE Device and so I could build a correct gold card.
Can you provide me more information? How can I create a gold card for WinCE?
After creating the gold card, what can I copy in the SD? The .nbh of the official rom?
Thanks!
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You need revskills software for generating gold card for wince but free version only can read sd card cid, but if you no want to buy it I can generate one for you, just send me cid and I will generate! Chose photon in menu! Do not reverse cid! Search for right cid (you can see many cids but only one is right so see right disk size that match size of the your sd card and copy that cid!!!), than send me a cid by pm and I will send you back file!
About nbh, yes! You need to extract nbh file from ruu and rename it to PHOTIMG.nbh and copy it to sd card... reboot phone to spl and installation will update your photon (but only if gold card is right)!
munjeni said:
You need revskills software for generating gold card for wince but free version only can read sd card cid, but if you no want to buy it I can generate one for you, just send me cid and I will generate! Chose photon in menu! Do not reverse cid! Search for right cid (you can see many cids but only one is right so see right disk size that match size of the your sd card and copy that cid!!!), than send me a cid by pm and I will send you back file!
About nbh, yes! You need to extract nbh file from ruu and rename it to PHOTIMG.nbh and copy it to sd card... reboot phone to spl and installation will update your photon (but only if gold card is right)!
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Ok, Thanks for the info and for your help!
When I'll come to home, I'll send my CID to you!
I finally restore my phone!!!!!
The goldcard installation works fine!
I post a small resume for others people in case the problem come out to someone else.
After the first try with MTTY I try to follow the "Goldcard way". I try to use an old SD Card of 2GB.
First of all I use the guide for Android, but the gold card doesn't works. After I use the Windows CE way with the help of munjeni, but the result was the same.
In both cases the installation fail with the message "no image file".
Finally I change the SD Card and I use a new one (4 Gb size). I follow the Android guide and in theory I have generated a goldcard for Android.
I copy the PHOTIMG.nbh file in the SD Card and the installation works!
Thanks to schlund and munjeni for the help and for the patience!