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A realy surreal thing happened and my machine reset itself 96% into doing an upgrade to the latest rom. I have done this upgrade twice before with no prob (many thanks for a great rom and all the work involved writing and modifying it). Now the xda shows the upload screen at 0% with slight corruption on the display and I cant get it to poll for active sync to find it.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Use the bootloader method. This requires a Windows NT/2000/XP PC and an SD-card reader/writer.
DEAD XDA
Many thanks for your reply, What unbelievable support from a non profit forum/individual.
I will try it tonight and keep you posted.
Last thing is the power switch on the XDA, it`s faulty, do you know if its just a two pin switch arrangement with two sets ganged together. If so can I assume that its the top set connecting to the bottom set for the power on pulse ?
Once again thanks for the excelent support.
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BORIS said:
Last thing is the power switch on the XDA, it`s faulty, do you know if its just a two pin switch arrangement with two sets ganged together. If so can I assume that its the top set connecting to the bottom set for the power on pulse ?
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Not a clue what the power-switch setup is. Haven't ever seen info regarding that, so please investigate and post your findings here...
N.P
I know its a daft question but,
Im having trouble writing to my sd card to update the rom image, Has anyone got an old image that I can upload first, that is already with the right extensions for the upload.
While your thinking about that one i`ll sort out the switch and keep you posted.
Many thanks.
Leonard at PPC Techs just replaced the power switch on mine, the pin portion had broken off. He might be willing to tell you the pin arrangement, or could replace it for you. He charged $45 for the job.
The switch arrangement seems to be far more complicated than my first thoughts suggested, and now one of the pads has lifted making it almost impossible to enter bootloader mode. I am still looking into it with the rework station warming up as I speak, I am hopeing that tenacity and now pure bloody mindedness will prevail and I will get to the bottom of it.
Anyone know where I could get a circuit diagram for the little bugger ? (Not a block diag)
Many thanks BORIS.
BORIS said:
Anyone know where I could get a circuit diagram for the little bugger ? (Not a block diag)
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XDA-developer press-release. For immediate release.
Eternal gratitude of an entire community, a life-time supply of drugs, a suitcase full of dollars and 72 virgins on E await the HTC employee that liberates the contents of the PW10 development directory. The same goes for the TI-Berlin employee that liberates the source to the modem part. Daring Microsoft employees that have access to specific Phone-Edition sources are also eligible for interesting rewards. Ask on this forum for details.
Point taken.
With the help of Beyond The Tech and me stopping from being a complete wazzock I beat my probs!
My Findings:
1. DON'T BE A CRETIN LIKE ME - Turn OFF Zone Alarm! I had added it to my ZA list of allowed progs but it still didn't Sync properly
This was a reason my initial ROM upgrade failed. Turn that sucker off!!
2. BOOTLOADER is NOT backlit - so the screen looks very much like it is off but you can just see it saying Serieal v.xx blah on it.
3. Be kind & poilte to peeps on the board & be patient - it will pay off in the end.
4. Pray to God.
A lot.
Peace out peeps, I am off to make some calls n stuff!
Hooray for the human spirit and willing Technology!
lr
Don't forget to always do a hard-reset before updating your firmware, this avoids lots of problems.
Hi guys
Got my Polaris today... started ****ing around with soft-loading the SPL.
Well... as it goes, the display totally failed to initialise, which left me scratching my noodle somewhat; turns out it turns various **** on and off on the device to init it, which, since it's already turned on, is both totally unnecessary and causes a horrible crash.
so, made that lovely OnOff function do sweet **** all... and lo and behold the screen shows the 3 colours, and the custom version, lovely.
so... basically, it's working, however, you still have to unplug and replug the USB, which to my mind is less than satisfactory, so I'll make it work without a replug then release it for you chaps.
Cheers!
Olipro said:
Hi guys
Got my Polaris today... started ****ing around with soft-loading the SPL.
Well... as it goes, the display totally failed to initialise, which left me scratching my noodle somewhat; turns out it turns various **** on and off on the device to init it, which, since it's already turned on, is both totally unnecessary and causes a horrible crash.
so, made that lovely OnOff function do sweet **** all... and lo and behold the screen shows the 3 colours, and the custom version, lovely.
so... basically, it's working, however, you still have to unplug and replug the USB, which to my mind is less than satisfactory, so I'll make it work without a replug then release it for you chaps.
Cheers!
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Wow! smells good already
Cheers for the update Oli.
Been meaning to ask.. if it was possible to have some sort of fallback so we won't lose the warranty (2 years in my case). My volume rocker and wheel are a bit flimsy and I can see myself using this warranty to get them sorted later on.
Smells nice btw.
fallback? yeah, you can overwrite it fine, if you go out of your way to.
since making a replug unnecessary is proving to be a pain in the arse, in the interests of giving you guys something to actually use, I'll release something requiring a replug.
it's quite simple: tricolour screen appears on your device, "USB" appears at the bottom - you unplug the USB, then plug it straight back in and off it goes.
@Olipro
"Why are HTC such a bunch of bastards?"
The only people who like open source stuff are the great unwashed, ie. us out here in Mugsville. Improving devices without paying the Masters of the Universe for it ? Shrieks of horror ...
Hard question, please. I've looked and looked (and maybe missed the answer), but installing Hard SPL and then flashing new ROM's - can this be done using Win2kPro, or must it be XP or Vista ?
@Oli
If you have some time can you please look at graphic drivers?
Or at least at major problems like performance when touch screen and camera performance?
Many many thanks if you just try
One step at a time my friend! Oli is already doing great job and opens the doors for cooking! I think that man deserves some donation from all of us.
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One step at a time my friend! Oli is already doing great job and opens the doors for cooking! I think that man deserves some donation from all of us.
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Indeed so, but would anyone please answer my question:
"Hard question, please. I've looked and looked (and maybe missed the answer), but installing Hard SPL and then flashing new ROM's - can this be done using Win2kPro, or must it be XP or Vista ?"
I've also read Wiki back and forth on using an SD card to reflash (I would prefer this), but the Wiki entries seem to trail off onto some other device, never quite finishing. Done this countless times with Eten devices, but not HTC as yet (if I decide to purchase the P3650)
Olipro said:
Hi guys
Got my Polaris today... started ****ing around with soft-loading the SPL.
Well... as it goes, the display totally failed to initialise, which left me scratching my noodle somewhat; turns out it turns various **** on and off on the device to init it, which, since it's already turned on, is both totally unnecessary and causes a horrible crash.
so, made that lovely OnOff function do sweet **** all... and lo and behold the screen shows the 3 colours, and the custom version, lovely.
so... basically, it's working, however, you still have to unplug and replug the USB, which to my mind is less than satisfactory, so I'll make it work without a replug then release it for you chaps.
Cheers!
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The Cruise bootloader, is the same of the Kaiser mate!
I have tested it...
Bye
Hi everybody,
I am following xda developers a couple of weeks, and I saw that wonderful people came together in a spectacular site I have learned many things from you, thank you.
I own a Herald (I guess ) and trying to learn cooking my own ROM and I am still a beginner, rookie, junior whatever you call There is one thing I want to learn how can we control the LEDs of Herald. I mean I want to use i.e. the wifi LED as a SDCard read/write indicator like pc's hdd indicators, or the orange one for the internal storage access indicator. I searched everywhere found a couple of software like nueled, aksoft's LED Control etc. Any of them worked also I found the Allledmgr.dll tried with it and nothing. So is there a way to control these LEDs?
Thanks.
You can get LED activity using WM5torage.
It is just a simple check box. Of course the is only when you are using your phone as USB storage for your PC.
I see, thank you so much for your help neiltoe
Got a HTC P3450 that won't respond to anything. Plug in USB, nothing. Plug in charger, nothing. Hard reset, nothing.
Throw in the bin or is resurrection possible?
Can you try to press the power + camera button together?
Do you see a bootloader screen.
If the phone still wont start , it maybe one of these issues.
- Battery totally dead
- Motherboard Issue (Which you are screwed)
- Power button issue.
Ok I tried the power + camera button together and nothing happened.
I have two batteries and neither work. I tried power + camera button together with the unit plugged into the power socket and via USB and that didn't do anything either.
So I guess it's down to a bad motherboard or a power button issue. Although if it was just a power button issue the charge light or something would come on or something yeh?
100% no power on, everything tried
I bricked my ELF01000 but Dopod 601 China by ....
shameful mistake of rebuilding the ROM without erasing the "backup" word from: -
backup_GSM.nb
backup_IPL.nb
backup_mainsplash.nb
backup_os.nb
backup_spl.nb
hence now can't even power on from
1. camera+power+reset once and hold camera+power
2. phone dial and disconnect together + reset once and hold phone dial and disconnect
3. regular reset
4. battery removed - plugged in USB
5. battery removed - plugged in adaptor from mains
6. battery inside + USB or mains
7. battery from another elf with over 70% power
8. plugged into adaptor from mains overnight 8 hours
9. all no orange light on the indicator
Even if every software code is wrong, the indicator light should be ON right???
all failed
simply won't power on,
if only can get into bootloader >>...........
Ohmy, thats bad.
Could it be like a bad motherboard or connector issue?
actually it's not my own ELF, sorry!!! misinformed you all.
It's my friend's Dopod S1.
I've surrendered my ELF HK english WWE to him as a replacement.
Currently using Asus P552w GalaxyMini2, although much faster but extremely unstable and buggy
resisting to buy a blackstone , may be will try the rumoured release of LEO ????
Anyway, still hope someone can provide some light to this "can't power on at all issue".
cx5 said:
I bricked my ELF01000 but Dopod 601 China by ....
shameful mistake of rebuilding the ROM without erasing the "backup" word from: -
backup_GSM.nb
backup_IPL.nb
backup_mainsplash.nb
backup_os.nb
backup_spl.nb
hence now can't even power on from
1. camera+power+reset once and hold camera+power
2. phone dial and disconnect together + reset once and hold phone dial and disconnect
3. regular reset
4. battery removed - plugged in USB
5. battery removed - plugged in adaptor from mains
6. battery inside + USB or mains
7. battery from another elf with over 70% power
8. plugged into adaptor from mains overnight 8 hours
9. all no orange light on the indicator
Even if every software code is wrong, the indicator light should be ON right???
all failed
simply won't power on,
if only can get into bootloader >>...........
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If you are using a genuine htc elf.
You can try the gold card and unbricking methods at the htc upgrading forum.
cx5 said:
actually it's not my own ELF, sorry!!! misinformed you all.
It's my friend's Dopod S1.
I've surrendered my ELF HK english WWE to him as a replacement.
Currently using Asus P552w GalaxyMini2, although much faster but extremely unstable and buggy
resisting to buy a blackstone , may be will try the rumoured release of LEO ????
Anyway, still hope someone can provide some light to this "can't power on at all issue".
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Get an android phone, under htc, heard that it was better.
Hi Jeremy (nice to have someone to chat with, thanks)
I believe my friend's ELF is a genuine unit, it had pof's SPL 1.11. And a Chinese guy cooked his own rom and named it Guilin2008.02.22. Plus I could dump everything using the "automated backup.bat". Device ID by dsixda also read well.
The problem now is it could not even turn on to white screen or bootloader. I though at least it must have some power response, or else gold card unbricker won't start right?
So you recommend the "android" ..... I haven't study it at all..... though keep to WM, easy WMDC with outlook each..... plus I'm itching to get a bigger screen type, like blackstone, but ouch it's not only big, but expensive too.
Say, ELF's 200Mhz sometimes feel faster than Niki's 400Mhz (my director's unit), and also faster than Blackstone's 528Mhz (my CEO's unit). I think blackstone uses too many 3D ...... if I ever get one, must replace the rom with light versions...
Anyway, learning to cook my own now, only managed to dump, but still don't understand enough to cook.... well keep reading
Hello CX5,
Thanks alot for dropping by XDA, without you, there wont be me, either.
Yeah, I feel that those devices with more processing power, HTC would usually like to cramp lots of useless animations to the device, thus taking up more space and more power and make the phone slower, so you will buy a new set soon.
Talking about your elf, I cant really help, you may have to drop by your closest service centre for a checkup. I am only more technically inclined to software issues, so hopefully, someone with technical knowledge is able to help you with this.
Android is really a good OS, I managed to install it on my ELF recently, just to give a spin on how it works. Its great, good to use and most importantly, open source.
I seen the newspaper recently, and have you heard about that famous MP3 player brand called Creative, those people originated from my hometown, Singapore. They recently lauched a new phone which comes with their own OS or Google Android, and it cost around $120 USD for Telecoms to buy and rebrand themselves.
I clearly see Android being the next OS, and on top of that, Microsoft's Office is teaming up with Nokia, to install Microsoft Office Mobile onto Nokia Symbian phones.
With that,
I wish you all the best for your phone ( A New one, probably )
Jeremy
Thanks again Jeremy
yeah, my friend's send the wrongly_flash ELF to a hwardware repair, let you know outcome later.
say, just realized Iolite is 528Mhz, I'm able to get it at RMB 1.8k ~ USD225, was my favorite choice before laying eyes on Blackstone.
hmmmmmm. android good on ELF eh............
ok, study study study...................
Hahaha, you are from China?
I have so many China friends at my country in Singapore.
They do so well in maths and chinese, good talent!
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To be frank with you, just choose a phone you like, and suit your budget and get it. Its too hard catching what is new as there is something new everyday.
Even for myself, im studying too. So ya, money is quite hard to come sometimes.
Iolite sound great, Blackstone is better.
Blackstone has so many apps available, and they have more support in their community there.
Have you checked out the android phones, htc magic and htc dream?
They are quite cool.
Best Of Luck in Studies,
Jeremy
Hi again
Actually I'm Malaysian, working in HK, often visit to factory in China, while my main customers in Taiwan, finally with little visit to customers in Japan.
Anyway, I still like the Iolite design, but screen is not big enough , while blackstones screen is big and nice, but complaining it can't fit into pocket comfortable. Anyway......
I haven't got a chance to study the android, magic or dream. Too busy working. But will someday.
Yes, best of luck to studies.
Oh, all the best for your dream phone!