I upgrade the ROM fairly frequently on my Blackstone, usually with the latest Dutty release. This was fine up til yesterday. I installed Dutty's Holy Grail R0 ROM, and after installation, after about an hour, the device completely locked up. I pressed the reset button, and the device Hard-resetted, removing everything and going back through the setup screens. This happened a couple of times, so last night I put on a different ROM, Dutty's WM6.5 R15. The device locked up after about an hour, and wouldn't get past the "smart mobility" screen when restarted. This morning I loaded the stock (Orange UK) ROM back onto the device. I haven't had the chance to check if this problem will re-occur, but when I turn on the phone the colours are flipped (putting it to sleep and turning it on again fix this problem, but on a soft-reset it happens again). Seems I can't get anything right at the moment, can anyone suggest what might be up? Tech specs below:
UK Touch HD on Orange
USPL - used exactly as per the Dummies Guide.
Using Win7 x64 (yes, I've got the drivers installed correctly for USPL)
ROMs mentioned in post:
Dutty's Holy Grail R0
Dutty's W6.5 R15
I suppose you didn't install the stock ROM prior to installing the Dutty ROM. You MUST flash a stock ROM before you flash a home cooked ROM, since they work a bit differently when it comes to erasing data. USPL doesn't seem to be the best way either. I had similar problems like you when I used USPL.
So try the following:
Flash your SPL to OliNex
Flash your device with a stock ROM
Use HSPL to flash the Dutty ROM of choice
Ogredani said:
I suppose you didn't install the stock ROM prior to installing the Dutty ROM. You MUST flash a stock ROM before you flash a home cooked ROM, since they work a bit differently when it comes to erasing data. USPL doesn't seem to be the best way either. I had similar problems like you when I used USPL.
So try the following:
Flash your SPL to OliNex
Flash your device with a stock ROM
Use HSPL to flash the Dutty ROM of choice
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not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
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Could it be the SPL? Does USPL work with every ROM? The confusing thing is having flashed a stock ROM (the Orange UK ROM), while the device seems fine (apart from having to use 6.1!) it does suffer from the bizarre colour problem while starting up. If I were to flash the SPL to HardSPL, would I be able to undo this? I don't really want to get the phone to a state where I can't return it to the stock ROM/SPL if I need to return it.
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not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
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lol i was gunna say exactly the same thing
fredley said:
Could it be the SPL? Does USPL work with every ROM? The confusing thing is having flashed a stock ROM (the Orange UK ROM), while the device seems fine (apart from having to use 6.1!) it does suffer from the bizarre colour problem while starting up. If I were to flash the SPL to HardSPL, would I be able to undo this? I don't really want to get the phone to a state where I can't return it to the stock ROM/SPL if I need to return it.
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maybe you should try hspl rather than uspl, its a lot easer and more convient, and its eaaasy to go bk to your original spl if you need to
cortez.i said:
not sure where you got your info, but, you DO NOT have to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. if you're having issues, they could be solved by flashing a STOCK rom. i'm sure i've flashed my HD over 60+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so. i have not had any issues at all. in the original poster's case, it could be that the STOCK ROM he flashed requires an older SPL.
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Just sharing the experience from myself and several users at HTCpedia where flashing a stock ROM first is the general recommendation. You might have made it just fine with your HD without a "stock flash", but you may have different set-up of your phone (SPL, ROMs) than others. That's why I say play it safe and install the (latest) stock ROM and HSPL-OliNex. Seems to work for more or less everyone.
However, I agree that there is no definitive explanation to why you should flash the stock ROM, but it seems as if the flashing procedure of a stock ROM resets the memory completely, where a cooked ROM flash does not. Note that this well may be an issue with the wrapper and not the ROM, but that's another story.
Ogredani said:
Just sharing the experience from myself and several users at HTCpedia where flashing a stock ROM first is the general recommendation. You might have made it just fine with your HD without a "stock flash", but you may have different set-up of your phone (SPL, ROMs) than others. That's why I say play it safe and install the (latest) stock ROM and HSPL-OliNex. Seems to work for more or less everyone.
However, I agree that there is no definitive explanation to why you should flash the stock ROM, but it seems as if the flashing procedure of a stock ROM resets the memory completely, where a cooked ROM flash does not. Note that this well may be an issue with the wrapper and not the ROM, but that's another story.
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The best thing to do is use mtty to completely format your device and totaly remove the current os and any defragmented parts of older roms left in the memory blocks before flashing a new rom
Ogredani said:
Just sharing the experience from myself and several users at HTCpedia where flashing a stock ROM first is the general recommendation. You might have made it just fine with your HD without a "stock flash", but you may have different set-up of your phone (SPL, ROMs) than others. That's why I say play it safe and install the (latest) stock ROM and HSPL-OliNex. Seems to work for more or less everyone.
However, I agree that there is no definitive explanation to why you should flash the stock ROM, but it seems as if the flashing procedure of a stock ROM resets the memory completely, where a cooked ROM flash does not. Note that this well may be an issue with the wrapper and not the ROM, but that's another story.
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Think someone in HTCPedia was playing if safe by suggesting users flash stock rom before flashing cooked rom. Like cortez.i said above you DO NOT need to flash a stock ROM before flashing a cooked ROM. Some poeple occasionally experience issues with cooked roms and a solution can be to flash a stock rom. But like cortez.i I've flashed well over 200+ times and never flashed a stock ROM before doing so and I've never had an issue. It may be inexperienced users are doing something different which causes these issues or haven't followed the flashing process properly.
Hi. I've tried to install a few new roms to my device but after installing it i couldn't hear any voice in my ear when i was calling and the other person also couldn't hear me. After pressing the end call button the phone almost everytime frozen and i had to take out and put back the battery. Could you please help me with this problem?
Thanks
Hi, although you haven't said what ROM's you are talking about some ROM's require a radio update too. Could this be the case? It's probably better posting your issue in the custom ROM section.
i've noticed the same thing (so far i've tried only Energy ROMs)
i think ill be reverting to the original ROM soon
at a guess i'd say it was a radio issue, check out the radio thread in the roms section and upgrade to a newer one i.e 2.08 and this should solve the problem
Hi,
i don't know wht happen. After I have flash cook rom, my screen look strange after i reboot it.
But it becomes normal after i press the power button and on it again.....
No peoblem in flashing stock rom......
IT's so strange........
(Flash ROM using USPL 2.5)
Are you sure your phone is an original HTC Touch HD device? There are lots of good copies of this phone in Asia which I have seen with similar problems when flashed with non stock roms.
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Are you sure your phone is an original HTC Touch HD device? There are lots of good copies of this phone in Asia which I have seen with similar problems when flashed with non stock roms.
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Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.......
I bought it from HTC and it is normal when i flash the stock rom
is it because i am using USPL???
FWIW mine did the same after flasing EnergyRom the other day. It's a T8285 that's Telstra branded. No problem once I turn the screen on and off but it was a bit unsettling.
You need to have your SPL (bootloader) to 1.56. Something in the initialization of the palette changed about a year ago in the various MS ROM updates.
I seem to recall the way to upgrade (for stock SPL, you can also go with custom HSPL) is by simply applying the most recent factory ROM update.
So, if you went from (old) stock ROM to a custom ROM, you would see this. If next you go from custom ROM to a new stock ROM and then back to the custom ROM, the problem is gone.
Or thats how I recall this, it has been a year since I had this problem.
If you already have newer SPL, then I do not know what the problem is.
You need to have your SPL (bootloader) to 1.56. Something in the initialization of the palette changed about a year ago in the various MS ROM updates.
I seem to recall the way to upgrade (for stock SPL, you can also go with custom HSPL) is by simply applying the most recent factory ROM update.
So, if you went from (old) stock ROM to a custom ROM, you would see this. If next you go from custom ROM to a new stock ROM and then back to the custom ROM, the problem is gone.
Or thats how I recall this, it has been a year since I had this problem.
If you already have newer SPL, then I do not know what the problem is.
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thaank you!! You are right! it is normal now. thanks maybe this issue should post it in wiki.
problme with hd2 tmos i have a crash of the pross phone in a miui rom can someone help me plz ?
need more information, i honestly cant understand what your problem actually is
i flashed a miui rom mn my phone it flashed ok but when the phone starts it sayes the proses com.android.phone has stoped and the only option i have is fores close now if i install a htc rom i dont have that problme so what can i do?
if it does it on one rom but not another than sounds like issues with the rom or maybe the partition sizes and cache, have you tried to fix permissions?
yep many times maybe there is a whay to put the libs from a htc rom in to one of this roms and it can work but i have no idya how
i am wondering, does flashing new rom affect the hardware button issue on hd2?
HD2
gooding working for you!!!
Flashing a new rom shouldn't affect the functioning of your hardware buttons.
Although there are a few special occasions where the hardware buttons seem unresponsive due to a software fault.
If so i would recommend a reflash of the rom or try another rom