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[guide] How to make an SD Rom Flash Image

[Your SD card will be formatted in a special format during the procedure below and you won't be able to use it for other purposes unless you reformat it again afterwards. Please be adviced that you will lose the backed up ROM on SD card when you format it afterwards again!!!!]
I successfully created a FLASH IMAGE on my SD card and afterwards flashed my T-MOBILE MDA from there.
The magic tool needed for this is the HTC mtty.exe (attached below)
You have to follow exactly the STEP-BY-STEP guide otherwise the procedure will fail! I will not be responsible for any damage on your device!
Please make sure that your battery is charged to at least 50% and also back up your device before following the guide below!
CREATING THE IMAGE ON SD CARD
STEP 1
Open ActiveSync (device not attached) and uncheck USB and COM port in Connection Settings. This is necessary to release the USB port for the mtty utility!
STEP 2
Get you an SD card of 128MB or bigger (fresh formated to FAT32) and insert it in your WIZARD
STEP 3
Set the Wizard in BOOTLOADER MODE by pressing and holding POWER + CAMERA and press RESET - if you got the 3-colored screen you were successful!
STEP 4
Connect the device via USB to the computer, then start the mtty.exe on your computer
STEP 5
Settings in the mtty.exe:
Port: \\.\WSCUSBSH001
(all other settings leave the way they are! Please pay attention that you write the port exactly as mentioned above: 2 backslashes followed by a dot and another backslash - this is not a typo!!! I attached a screenshot below)
STEP 6
Now click OK. You will get a notepad-like window with a blinking cursor. After hidding the ENTER KEY once you should see "CMD>"
Type behind that: r2sd all
STEP 7
The utility will start now to write your IMAGE to SD. Please do not interrupt the process! You can see its progress on a statusbar on the bottom of the device's screen. Wait until it shows 100%. Also: the CMD> will appear again on your desktop when it is done.
You created successfully your IMAGE on SD!
HOW TO FLASH FROM THE SD CARD ???
Turn of your device!
Insert the SD card with the IMAGE you've created
Turn on your device in BOOTLOADER MODE by pressing and holding CAMERA and POWER button and performing RESET
=> Now you need to be fast!!! A white screen will appear for not longer than 3 seconds asking you if you want to FLASH from SD card. You have to press the VOICE DIAL / RECORD button within that time frame otherwise it will switch to 'normal' bootloader mode.
That's it!
NOTE:
Do not wonder! You won't be able to read the SD card afterwards on a Windows computer - I just tried it. I guess the procedure above formats the card in a special format, at least Windows tells me that the card is not formatted! So, the draw back is that you can't use the card for other stuff but the ROM IMAGE!

Very nice article. A couple of typos, but overall very well written!
Just out of curiosity, I've seen another thread on making an SD image of a rom, but it indicates you have to be CID Unlocked for it to work. Is that true for this method also (I haven't compared the two)? Just curious as that is an important piece of information (either way) to make note of... So if someone with a CID Locked phone could try this, that would be great.
Also curious if this works for G3 and G4 devices.

I can't try it out on a CID locked device since mine is CID unlocked already!
The guide above is for real HTC technicans, so, I guess it should work either way!
If somebody has a still CID locked device: it would be great if you could give it a shot!

Does this uittlity make a ROM image as the OS is NOW (meaning with all tweaks and installs and everything) or just the basic ROM as you would get with a hard reset?

It is not a backup. It will put the factory ROM on SD card.
The actual image with all your 'tweaks and personalization' can be easily backed up to SD card by using SPB Backup or better SPB Clone.

Does this method work for wm6 ROM?I am a vista user

Not sure if the MTTY can connect from VISTA but in gerneral: it should work with any ROM version on your WIZ.

well,can we place our .nbf image file (wm6) on sd card and install it from the sd card?

Not this way! It will create a special formatted FLASH IMAGE from your installed ROM on SD. When you do it you won't be able to use the SD card for data storage until you reformat it again.
I am not sure if somebody came up with a solution for flashing nbf files directly from SD!
The procedure above is still helpful if you just need a backup of your shipped ROM or if you need to reflash an almost dead WIZ or if you have the need to reflash your WIZ on the go without a computer ...

Hi
I have a frozen **** brick which got stuck while upgrading (Dopodp800w) I tried to flash it thru sd card (which containes original nbh file in my doc folder).
When I try to invoke the bootloader it says "searching for sd card" then goes to 3 color band and nothing else happenes
Can you help me

Edit: Working like a champ.
But you need to edit the one in the topic. It dose not work. The one in the screen shot dose.
Thanks.

A couple of questions
Junner2003 said:
NOTE:
Do not wonder! You won't be able to read the SD card afterwards on a Windows computer - I just tried it. I guess the procedure above formats the card in a special format, at least Windows tells me that the card is not formatted! So, the draw back is that you can't use the card for other stuff but the ROM IMAGE!
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Great finding Junner!
Can I use "your" rom image to flash "my" phone? Or the image is unique for the one you got the image from?
Could you please investigate with your HTC Technician if this process is valid for both G3s & G4s?
Thanks!

Basically you will be able to use it on any phone!
My problem is that I only had 2 test devices: an European T-Mobile MDA VARIO and a 8125 from Cingular / USA. I could use one and the same image (SD card) on booth devices.
I have no CID lock and also no SIM lock on both devices, so, I can't give you a feedback on what happens if your device is locked.
Maybe somebody else has still a locked device and is willing to give it a try before unlocking? (But please somebody with experience! I won't be responsible if you brick your device! )

Is there any way I can take the Flash Image from the SD and convert it to nb file?

WizeMan said:
Is there any way I can take the Flash Image from the SD and convert it to nb file?
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Hmmm, you would have to figure out first in what format the SD card is formatted. Afterwards you might be able to find an application which can extract the file(s) from the card.
I did not want to digg deeper than I had to, it was only importand to me that I can flash from SD when ever I cross the ocean from USA to Europe. That saves me a lot of 'setting up's' ... ... just flash and load backup!

Not working on CID locked
Junner2003 said:
Basically you will be able to use it on any phone!
My problem is that I only had 2 test devices: an European T-Mobile MDA VARIO and a 8125 from Cingular / USA. I could use one and the same image (SD card) on booth devices.
I have no CID lock and also no SIM lock on both devices, so, I can't give you a feedback on what happens if your device is locked.
Maybe somebody else has still a locked device and is willing to give it a try before unlocking? (But please somebody with experience! I won't be responsible if you brick your device! )
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I tried in a G3 & also in a G4, both CID locked 8125´s. It didn´t work, see attached file for the message I got; looks for me that the CID unlock gives the proper security level to do make the command work. I´ll unlock one of them to see if the result is a different one.

Help with Goldcard.img

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

HTC HD MINI GOLD CARD not work

i have original PSAS latest version i am quite use to it but when i tried it for PHOTON it doesnt let me FLASH THE ROM
i am trying to flash chinese rom any clue whats wrong?

kabir_del said:
i have original PSAS latest version i am quite use to it but when i tried it for PHOTON it doesnt let me FLASH THE ROM
i am trying to flash chinese rom any clue whats wrong?
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Don´t use cracked version of PSAS.

HD mini goldcard also doesnt work for me... Says GOLDCARD function isnt implemented for newer devices

tramuyo said:
HD mini goldcard also doesnt work for me... Says GOLDCARD function isnt implemented for newer devices
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You have to buy or upgrade to new version.There is everything OK.Don´t try to find SN or crack. Does not work anyway.

Anyone can help me on a Goldcard creation??? (I know, too much to ask)

tramuyo said:
Anyone can help me on a Goldcard creation??? (I know, too much to ask)
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First install http://freewareppc.com/download/util...ryeditor.shtml or any others PPC registry editor
then open it and in key HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies\"00001001" if is 2 then change value from 2 to 1
(HKLM means HKeyLocalMachine)
Connect your mobile phone to Activesync or Win7 mobile phone centrum
Open Qmat 5.6 or PSAS
(must be registered version)
(under Win7 you have to run as Administrator)
1 - go to Calculators\Generators
2 - Generate HTC gold card
3 - chose PHOTON (I guess) and memory card in your phone (must to be formated in fat32)
4 - press get SD card serial from WinCE device
5 - save gold card image to WinCE SD
6 - Restart mobile.
7 - connect Active sync and start flash official shipped ROM
Enjoy

So this works to debrand the HTC HD mini?
Anyone tested?

Ganii said:
So this works to debrand the HTC HD mini?
Anyone tested?
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If you have latest PSAS then yes.

Ok,but with vodafone branding RUU 1.11.162.1,
so I can`t flash lower RUU GER or RUU Europe 1.07...
firmware,or I´m wrong?

Ganii said:
Ok,but with vodafone branding RUU 1.11.162.1,
so I can`t flash lower RUU GER or RUU Europe 1.07...
firmware,or I´m wrong?
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When you will have generated goldcard, you can flash any original shipped ROM.

Ok,sounds good,thanks
for reply!
Regards from Germany!

Johan Kraczmar said:
First install http://freewareppc.com/download/util...ryeditor.shtml or any others PPC registry editor
then open it and in key HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies\"00001001" if is 2 then change value from 2 to 1
(HKLM means HKeyLocalMachine)
Connect your mobile phone to Activesync or Win7 mobile phone centrum
Open Qmat 5.6 or PSAS
(must be registered version)
(under Win7 you have to run as Administrator)
1 - go to Calculators\Generators
2 - Generate HTC gold card
3 - chose PHOTON (I guess) and memory card in your phone (must to be formated in fat32)
4 - press get SD card serial from WinCE device
5 - save gold card image to WinCE SD
6 - Restart mobile.
7 - connect Active sync and start flash official shipped ROM
Enjoy
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I tried that but did not work.
I have the official version and recorded the PSAs
I think you have to install the rom by SD
How do I install the rom by Sd card, anyone know how to enter bootloader mode?

I have put the ROM on my PT HD mini.
I had to extract the rom and rename the file RUU_signed.nbh to PHOTIMG.nbh and copy to the micro sd then enter bootloader mode
To enter bootloader mode:
Pressing the volume - and the power button to same time and then follow the instructions of the screen
Before you have created de gold pass.

Tried both methods
When trying to flash from SD "PHOTIMG.nbh" with goldcard all i get is:
"0028002 Not allow"
I have Goldcard generated with PSAS 1.10 (registered).
When trying to update thru the flasher it hangs on 1% complainig on reseller ID.
Anyone have a solution to this?
thx...

Format SD card to FAT32 and try again generate de goldcard and copy de PHOTIMG.nbh do sd card
And try again flash from sd card

No luck...
I tried the following steps:
Format the SD to FAT32 while having it in a cardreader, under windows 7
Generate Goldcard Image from PSAS 1.10 (while card was in the phone) to SD
Copy the .nbh file to SD
Start phone with Volume down + power.
I still get the 00028002 Not allow
I also tried to manually copy the code from the image to SD by HxD, still the same problem.

You have this pass???
First install http://freewareppc.com/download/util...ryeditor.shtml or any others PPC registry editor
then open it and in key HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies\"00001001" if is 2 then change value from 2 to 1
(HKLM means HKeyLocalMachine)

Grunthoss said:
I tried the following steps:
Format the SD to FAT32 while having it in a cardreader, under windows 7
Generate Goldcard Image from PSAS 1.10 (while card was in the phone) to SD
Copy the .nbh file to SD
Start phone with Volume down + power.
I still get the 00028002 Not allow
I also tried to manually copy the code from the image to SD by HxD, still the same problem.
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just generate your goldcard with SD in other htc device
Works 1000%
in my case i use in HD2!
Regards

Didnt work
I tried to make the registry changes but didnt make any difference
I also tried to generate the card in another HTC but still the same.
I also followed the advice in PSAS forum but no sucess
Its like the phone doesent read the goldcard when in bootmode, but card is working good when phone is on.

Johan Kraczmar said:
Don´t use cracked version of PSAS.
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why the fcuk you think i have cracked version i have latest and its original and purchased including jtag module and what a looser you are when VIPER himself saying its not implemented it correctly yet than wtf you are misguiding people?
http://forum.revskills.de/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=630&p=3122#p3122
Its only not working in case of HTC HD MINI all other devices are ok

I Need Help?

Ok I really need help on creating a Goldcard. I read everywhere and I must be a morron. It Read that I need to get the CID of my memory card and that I can do it with another WMdevice. I can get another WMDevice but how do i use it to get the Cid. I believe i can figure out the rest. Its just the whole CID thing i cant figure out.I need a Goldcard for dummies guide. I do run WinXP if that makes anything easier or worst. Thanks the help is deeply appreciated thanks.

kgblabble said:
Ok I really need help on creating a Goldcard. I read everywhere and I must be a morron. It Read that I need to get the CID of my memory card and that I can do it with another WMdevice. I can get another WMDevice but how do i use it to get the Cid. I believe i can figure out the rest. Its just the whole CID thing i cant figure out.I need a Goldcard for dummies guide. I do run WinXP if that makes anything easier or worst. Thanks the help is deeply appreciated thanks.
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you also need a prog called qmat, though its not free for the hd2 enabled version, though the old version will be enough to get the cid, just not create the goldcard.
mind if i ask why you need g card? its not needed for flashing anymore, use HSPL
EDIT - oh, and if you are thinking of using it to change the language on your phone !!!STOP!!! there are NO non tmous official roms that will work on your phone, they will ALL contain a radio that WILL destroy your phone.

samsamuel said:
you also need a prog called qmat, though its not free for the hd2 enabled version, though the old version will be enough to get the cid, just not create the goldcard.
mind if i ask why you need g card? its not needed for flashing anymore, use HSPL
EDIT - oh, and if you are thinking of using it to change the language on your phone !!!STOP!!! there are NO non tmous official roms that will work on your phone, they will ALL contain a radio that WILL destroy your phone.
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long story short installed a rom on hd2 tmobile phone and it froze up i tried reloading different roms and nothing it would always boot back up to the bootloader screen even if it said install successful. so ive tried everything to try to recover it except the gold card method. I started with spl 2.10.000 now its on 2.00.1 and i want to get it back to 2.10.000 or get it to start up again. Also I did get qmat the trial anyways but how do i get the cid with that?

oops, biiig mistake, well im not even sure a GC will help, but anyway
get the free version from HERE (EDIT - oh you already got it)
run it with your other phone connected and the card you intend to use insterted, go to hardware forensics, winCE sd card utils, click 'get sd serial and Disk ID'
long number at top is your cards ID.

Doesn't that happen if you don't have a radio installed?

samsamuel said:
oops, biiig mistake, well im not even sure a GC will help, but anyway
get the free version from HERE (EDIT - oh you already got it)
run it with your other phone connected and the card you intend to use insterted, go to hardware forensics, winCE sd card utils, click 'get sd serial and Disk ID'
long number at top is your cards ID.
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i tried that it says device not connected. So do i need a working hd2 or is there any other way to do this? my phone only boots up the to the bootloader screen and says usb at the bottom. qmat is not recognizing it. If i need a working hd2 phone i do work at a cell store i can **borrow** one for a bit.

doesn't have to be hd2, no, any "working" windows mobile, with the sd card you want to use in it. connect the phone, connect to active sync (doesn't need to sync, choose "connect without setting up") then run psas

so i have the Goldcard.img i loaded it with hex editor and tried copying it over to my sd card then loading leoimg. Once i edit it i need to reformat the card there for erasing everything. What am i doing wrong? Thanks.

when you write the goldcard image, you are writing it to the header, not the card, so formatting the card shouldnt touch the header.
Why do you need to format the card though? start with a blank, freshly formatted card, , load the goldcard image (you cant just copy it on, but i guess you know that) then copy on leoimg.nbh and put it in your phone. wheres the format part come in? (not being sarcastic, it was 18 mths ago i did it)

[Q] Unable to reflash to stock ROM

Hi guys,
So recently my screen stopped working and I need to get it fixed. I want to revert the phone back to its stock ROM but I can't seem to do that. I downloaded the stock rom and followed this guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc89Gh0QpIY&feature=player_embedded
But, when I get into bootloader, in the white section of the screen it says Serial and it just stays unresponsive, it doesn't boot up like in the video. Any ideas on what's going on?

Did you rename the .nbh file to LEOIM.nbh? Also did you put thenfilenon the root(not in a folder) of your SD card? If you have done both of these then make a back up of you SD card and then reformat you SD card with a full format and not a quick format. Also the SD card method does not work well with larger SD cards so you may have to try a 2gig or 4gig SD card. Last you can use HSPL 4 to revert back to stock SPL just choose the SPL version from the drop down box when you run the installer, here is a hint the SPL's with four zeros at the end are stock SPL's.

Thanks for the reply
So, I tried reformating my 16 gb SD and still have the same problem. I then tried to do it with a 4 GB SD, same thing. So I tried it with HSPL but I can't sync the phone to my PC since it's in storage mode and with the touchscreen broken I can't adjust it to sync. I'm not taking the phone to a verified dealer so they probably won't care that it's flashed. The problem, from what I understand is that the digitizer is broken, so it shouldn't matter that the phone is flashed, right?
Thanks

You can connect it to the PC for flashing without Windows Mobile through the bootloader (3-colour screen). Just turn that on and connect it; Serial should change into USB and you are ready to flash.
About SD card method: Make sure the nbh file is named LEOIMG.nbh. The letters MUST be uppercase, else it might not work.

Spaqin said:
You can connect it to the PC for flashing without Windows Mobile through the bootloader (3-colour screen). Just turn that on and connect it; Serial should change into USB and you are ready to flash.
About SD card method: Make sure the nbh file is named LEOIMG.nbh. The letters MUST be uppercase, else it might not work.
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Thanks a lot, that worked.