You've poss heard this un afore. But so far .. this `un aint been resolved, readers. Just got me a XDA Exec and daftily `upgraded' the ROM to exactly the same one as already installed (d'oh!). Aye .. but what happened was that the process failed just as the installation ended .. wih a communication error. Twixt PC and XDA. When I came to reboot .. the unit .. he dead!. The only spark of life is to hard reset. Do this . and you get the bootlaodaer screen showing the Serial 1.oo logo and Press X to quit and 0 to restore. You press 0 .. it just flickers the wee Red power light fleetingly .. but .. he dead, man!. And heres where the quandary comes in .. if you connect up .. even whenin the Bootloader screen. the unit is not seen as owt .. and Windows says its not being recognised when you plug it in .. so ActiveSync wont work and the ROM Updater cant see it .. failing before even trying to install. So there we have it. The unit has no ROM in it. Like a PC without a BIOS. Kinda Catch 22. ITs a dead unit ... only shwoing any life when yu do the hard reset. Shows a Bootloader screen. So do a soft reset? You get a dead unit again. If ou take out the battery and put on mains power ... then the red charge light comes on PUt in the battry.. unit goes blank again. Someone said you can link two XDAs together and do it that way. Really? Then how?. And how DO you get the PC to see it as a XDA?. Most infuriatingn. So really hardware wise its pristine .. its a software thingy!. If you know or even know a man who knows .. then point him/her this way and lets get this baby (XDA EXEC) back to post - resuscitated state Please. Cheers y'all in anticipation and sorry if this subject has already bin solved. Ive seen like-letters but no actual `fix' .. personally I think its return to Taiwan and get their EPROMmer guys to look into it. Can you help?Ta Bruce E Bonuspoints
Think you can edit your post and at least separate it into paragraphs?
Just some curiosity. I'd be willing to help, but I'm too lazy to read it like that.
If you bootup the XDA without the usb cable connected, when it goes into bootloader mode, it should say serial, if you then plug the usb sync cable, it should change to usb on the screen.
at this point, you want to run the rom upgrader software, it might take more than one try to get it to do the biz, I know, cause it took me three times via the sync cable when I tried to upgrade the rom via bluetooth (a mistake I won't be doing in a hurry ), thinking the cable connected was the usb sync cable and not the mains cable.
this might be of some help too http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=36115
p.s. take a deep breath and don't panic.
*edit* also found this, which might also help http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=37135
Exact thing happened to a friends JASJAR, this is what happened:
1. Same as above and it seems it corrupted the USB drivers so:
1.a. removed the USB drivers in device manager
1.b. rescanned for hardware changes to reload new USB drivers
2. Have to uncheck USB in ActiveSync Connection Settings
3. Hard reset your Universal till SERIAL shows
4. Plug the Universal and wait for SERIAL to change to USB
5. Unpack the ROM update to a directory
6. Delete all .nbf files except Radio_.nbf
7. Run the update (this will update radio only)
8. after Update, Hard reset ( __ + __ + Reset hole)
9. this should revive your Universal.
Then you can update normally again.
Don't forget to re-check USB in ActiveSync connection settings to enable active sync to work
Goodluck.... Just update us
Cheers for the responses .. EXEC lovers!. And sorry about the non-presence of paragraphs to the reader who doesn't like long sentences.. but thats nonstop streams of conscienceness f'yuz!
There .. happy now?. :twisted: Right .. will now nip off and read the links and take up the advice of the chaps who jolly well had the good decency to reply .. I'll let you know .. soon! Here goes, Ronnie! ...... :shock:
Cheers for the responses .. EXEC lovers!. And sorry about the non-presence of paragraphs to the reader who doesn't like long sentences.. but thats nonstop streams of conscienceness f'yuz!
There .. happy now?. :twisted: Right .. will now nip off and read the links and take up the advice of the chaps who jolly well had the good decency to reply .. I'll let you know .. soon! Here goes, Ronnie! ...... :shock:
:lol: Thanks to Messrs. WYTEY and in particular Mr. Jorgee ... MY XDA EXEC has risen from the dead! Thats right .. its back!. I WAS going to write and say it no go from Serial to USB ... mister!. But then tried it on missus's laptop .. it gets recognised.. but not on daughter's PC. Why Winston?. Then d'oh!. And Double D'oh!. The USB cable I am using is off an old memory card reader .. which cable is probably a bit crap. So I used the dedicated one... and .. voila! Back to life .. using the Radio ROM only. Tried the full install .. it no want to know .. back to lifelessness. Tried again .. this time its full and happy as it were. So once again great thanks directed to the Johnny JORG bloke and the WYTEY William whoc came to my assistance. You have just got me £500 of kit back!. I am writing to the Queen to see if you can both be knighted. I am also Royalty .. at least I think I am .. only today I cut this bloke up at a junction in my car and he called me a `Count'!. CHEERS YOU XDA HEROES!!!!!!!!!!
:lol: no probs
Glad to have helped in the resurrection of your phone. This wasn't the first time so I was kinda familiar with the process. Good thing that it was recognized in the laptop. How about now? Does your computer recognize it? My friends USB port of the PC suddenly wento into UNRECOGNIZED USB DEVICE mode mid-upgrading. Don't know what caused the problem though.
The unit has the `hump' now and then but now for general file transfers the cheap cable works fine . .when you do serious stuff like ROM upgrades.. tis the official cable. So its being recognised now and ActiveSync is fine. I do have probs finding a decent PDF viewer.. ClearVue and Adobe still cant display/flow the pages right .. never worked on the Nokia 9500 either really... and also want to know if its poss to use the videocam in MSN Messenger Mobile? But now.. its fine. it works .. and the upgrade fully happy! CHeers again!. Now . .whens the next upgrade coming? :roll: Aye!
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Hi,
I can not recall my password; kinda silly but real...
I don't want to make a hard reset and loose my son's pictures at his graduation ceremony.
Any recommendation?
Youy should be able to hook the phone up to your cradle & then browse using activesync to transfer all your wanted files onto your PC before you hard reset. Even if you only manage to sync as a guest, not a peer, file browsing should still work from the PC
Thanks for your response..
When I get connected via cradle, I get a message like "this mobile device is password protected. In order to connect to the device, you must enter its password."
So, I can not browse.
I feel like I need to hack my own device..
firdevs said:
Thanks for your response..
When I get connected via cradle, I get a message like "this mobile device is password protected. In order to connect to the device, you must enter its password."
So, I can not browse.
I feel like I need to hack my own device..
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There are only 4 digits.. maybe u can try all the combo.... :roll:
Earlier, it used to give a message telling it was the wrong password, when I enter directly from the device.
Now, it does not give any response, just waits.. I have soft reset device each time or reseat it to cradle to reactive ActiveSynch.
I wonder if it is blocked or not.. I might be trying hopelessly..
i'm facing the similar issue...
would a hard reset do the trick?
i think so.
you don't have nothing to loss.
same probelm
hey people,
i'm with the same problem i tried an alphanumeric password and now i cant get it right.. I tried to do the hard reset but i think i'm doing the soft reset. In the manual says to hold the power button and press reset. I did this millions times and stills asks for the device password!!
can anyone help me?
In case that this wont work is there anything i can do? developing it to the factory or something?
thx in advance..
Hey.... face the truth...
Hardreset it...
My Grandpa' told me long time ago....
"Isn't good to have all the eggs on the same basket"
Thanks Grandpa... i always record in two cameras, or imediatly synced my data for backup...
Oh yes... Skynight...
Does you have the original for BA manual? i mean maybe if you google a little or read the wiki pages can found how to perform a hardreset... or maybe i become a great guy and tell you where it is.... mmmm im hungry search please.
plz help me man..the manual says power and reset. i searched on forum and they said camera+power+reset would do it. when i do that way i only get a white screen with something written on it..I only had the pda for a couple of hours and it's my first pda, i'm kinda new in this "world".
can u tell me the right way to do it? In a electronic store it costs 50€ and i dont wanna pay that
thx
@skynight
You said you see white screen and something written on it? So what's written on it?
bootloader?
jejejeje
ok ok
check this out!
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BlueAngel_WM5_For_Beginners
Hi all,
my TMO-MDAIIIc stopped syncing over usb cable!
I do not have any clue why!
Last thing i remember i installed the OpenVPN-Client!
I did this before on Windows Mobile 5 without problem.. So i presume it's not caused by OpenVPN!
Nevertheless i wonder if anyone has experienced this as well? I tried to connect the device to several computers without even ActiveSync recognizing it. But loading the battery over USB still works!
I also do not get a "Network Interface" if i connect the cable.
I searched several forums and find out there were similar problems, but unfortunately no solution for me...
It seems not to have something to do with the "Notification deleted" problem..
As i can see several replog.exe notifications. Also the one about RS232 Connections... Is there any other Notification missing maybe?
I also tried to play with the USB-to PC option in the settings menu. No effect.
Im totaly clueless i can sync via bluetooth, and irda, and of course wireless (gprs).
Any help would be much appreciated!
Cheers!
Syn
My phone stopped working the same as yours about 6 months ago. I recently found out that it was because i charge my phone in my car, which can damage the USB Interface Board in the phone. (usually when you have the phone on charge, and then start the car, causes a spike in the current).
As far as i know, the only way to fix it is to send the phone back to the supplier, who will replace the board under warrenty.
Assuming you have the same problem
Hi, thanks for reply!
could be true! I also charge it in the car frequently... I didn't payd a lot attention to if i plug it beofre starting the car or after...
So my last try now seems to be a "hard-reset".
I'll let you know if it fixes the problem.... If not....
I may need to "downgrade" the phone b4 sending it right?
Cheers!
Syn
Synablade said:
Hi, thanks for reply!
could be true! I also charge it in the car frequently... I didn't payd a lot attention to if i plug it beofre starting the car or after...
So my last try now seems to be a "hard-reset".
I'll let you know if it fixes the problem.... If not....
I may need to "downgrade" the phone b4 sending it right?
Cheers!
Syn
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yeh, its probably a good idea to put the original ROM back on
What's really bugging me is:
Why is it still "loading" the battery after damage to the USB-Circuit??
Anyway.. i did the hardreset, and guess what...
no effect... my problem now is.. if usb stopped working.. how do i flash back to original rom? :->
bluetooth? *shudder*
Cheers!
Syn
hi,
I always clear the option usb to pc.I think this wil solve you problem
settings>connections>usb to pc
Cheers,
zaza
Synablade said:
What's really bugging me is:
Why is it still "loading" the battery after damage to the USB-Circuit??
Anyway.. i did the hardreset, and guess what...
no effect... my problem now is.. if usb stopped working.. how do i flash back to original rom? :->
bluetooth? *shudder*
Cheers!
Syn
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yeh, same as me i havent been able to flash a cooked ROM to mine at all. You can change the ROM by using the MicroSD, as long as you are USPL unlocked. There is a section in the Wiki about how to do it.
You cant change the ROM using bluetooth, caus half way thru flashing, whats gonna control the bluetooth??!
The Battery still charges caus the battery charging circuit is seperate to the USB control circuit
Are you guys running XP on your comp/laptop? have you turned off your firewalls? i had problems syncing on my laptop with xp, now i use my comp, but i found if i removed firewalls all was ok. if you have tried reflashing, or if you havent flashed any new software if you have tried re-sinstalling active sync, try the above, im sure its somethign simple
patterns said:
Are you guys running XP on your comp/laptop? have you turned off your firewalls? i had problems syncing on my laptop with xp, now i use my comp, but i found if i removed firewalls all was ok. if you have tried reflashing, or if you havent flashed any new software if you have tried re-sinstalling active sync, try the above, im sure its somethign simple
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I've tried everything... WinXP, WinXPx64, Win2000, Win Vista, active sync V.3-4.5... the only answer is to send the phone back to T-Mobile, they will fix it under warrenty tho, so it aint so bad.
hi thank you all for your replies!
unfortunately i think mugglesquop is right,
the device died from power overflow from car adapter...
funny thing here is: i use a motorola car adapter all the time! no problems.. then i changed to a tmobile provided adapter! And now it seems that tis one is vulnerable to power highs! Great!
You know what ? I love t-mobile for providing "cheap" "crappy" hardware!
actually im downloading the original rom i found and i will try to flash it back via sdcard. Then i will send it in!
Cheers!
Syn
What rom are you using ?
I had the same problem & i was using B&B4.3. It took me a couple of days of trying before i could get an activesync connection. I then flashed O2's mobile 6 Rom & hey presto everythings working again (now trying different rom). Not sure it was the Rom as only a few people seem to have experienced the problem. So it could have just been a coincidence. Also i would assume that the problem should be instant rather than after a few days of having the rom flashed. Have you tryed jiggling the usb cable about in the phone to try & get a connection ?
Synablade said:
hi thank you all for your replies!
unfortunately i think mugglesquop is right,
the device died from power overflow from car adapter...
funny thing here is: i use a motorola car adapter all the time! no problems.. then i changed to a tmobile provided adapter! And now it seems that tis one is vulnerable to power highs! Great!
You know what ? I love t-mobile for providing "cheap" "crappy" hardware!
actually im downloading the original rom i found and i will try to flash it back via sdcard. Then i will send it in!
Cheers!
Syn
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lol, gotta love T-Mobile... No WM6 update as well
Good luck getting ur MDA sorted!
I bought an O2 XDA Zinc just yesterday and successfully updated to WM6 (downloaded via official site: http://www.seeo2.com/user/XdaZinc/template/XdaZinc_WM6_Aug2007_WWE.vm)
My problem started when i was not able to make/receive any calls so i tried soft resetting the device. This did not solve my problem so i proceeded to hard resetting but still the problem persisted. To make matters worse i left the phone to charge for about 10mins and now the phone refuses to boot. It's completely dead. I've tried soft resetting and also removing the battery but still no luck...
Guy's if anyone has come across this problem then do help me out here...i'll wait for your replies before taking it to the customer care centre
breathe....breathe...phew!!...
i am patient...i hope that someone will give a reply with the solution soon
so,did u fully charge ur Battery before starting ur Zinc...?if ur phone cannot make/receive any calls,i think it's caused by ur ROM...u should flash ur ROM again...now u can find a nice battery for Zinc,try to starting ur phone after fully charged...i will post ur problem to some other PDA bbs later...u know,in China,we have a lot of Gosu~Good Luck
thanks for d reply man...didn't fully charge it but battery was about 50% when this happened...m gonna charge the phone for a few hours now and hope for the best
i forgot to mention that before the crash the imei showed some weird symbols like ";!?92:04..."
...so...how about now?it works...?
btw,do not use USB cable to charge ur Phone at the first time...in fact, can use AC as prossible as u can~
yeah i did charge with d provided AC charger for about 2-3 hrs...it did start once, passed d boot screen n froze at a white screen, so i restarted again and now it's as dead as can be...guess i have to visit the customer care...vil keep u updated...thanks
well,if u think it will take u a lot of time to solve ur promble through the official customer,i have some other advise for u~u can contact me with MSN.([email protected])...i can tell u the details~
MyLittleCat ... do any bbs in china show how to make or cook the zinc rom? i hv been searching high & low with no luck ...
regards
cruzzmz said:
MyLittleCat ... do any bbs in china show how to make or cook the zinc rom? i hv been searching high & low with no luck ...
regards
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I've been searching as well and haven't found any solution yet.
I have Zinc WM6 and looking for a better ROM then the one O2 supply.
Joining cruzzmz cry for help
it is really hard to even extract the rom .... been searching for a loooong time
cruzzmz said:
Finally after a long search i stumbled upon a china bbs ... & wz d help of google translate ....
this is a tool to extract the MarsII_G4.ABI .... hurrayyyyy
so i thanks this bbs ---> bbs.pdafans.com/viewthread.php?tid=434583&extra=&page=1
& the maker GanFan
but to be in the save side, ill quote the page
Hopefully this will help us to cook a better rom for our Zinc
Thanks again GanFan for the amazing tool
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Solution to make .abi file on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368401&highlight=zinc
Finally got the .abi file (thanks to cruzzmz) and have kind of got my zinc brought back to life and got wm5 installed now but system is very very slow n bootup takes forever...
jeez!!! this is becoming to be a real nightmare...thank god my Wizard does not give me such problems. anyway i'll try loading wm6 n report back
unem said:
Solution to make .abi file on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368401&highlight=zinc
Finally got the .abi file (thanks to cruzzmz) and have kind of got my zinc brought back to life and got wm5 installed now but system is very very slow n bootup takes forever...
jeez!!! this is becoming to be a real nightmare...thank god my Wizard does not give me such problems. anyway i'll try loading wm6 n report back
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good 4 u ... i think WM6 is much better
cruzzmz said:
good 4 u ... i think WM6 is much better
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well it is...infact all my problem started when i updated my wm5 to wm6...ended up not getting calls though network was detected...now after restoring wm5 phone is terribly slow and imei number doesn't show up at Settings page or either shows some weird symbols... *#06# fails too...waiting for activesync to detect phone (it takes 10-15 mins to boot phone) so that i can try wm6 upgrade again...i'll report later
well finally submitted the O2 Zinc at the customer care n it seems they'll report back only on wednesday...they said it might be mainboard problem...really??? let's see
Thanks guys for all the help...finally got my O2 Zinc back and they said that all the problem was caused by faulty PCB so they changed it as it was under warranty and now it's back to WM5 again....hmmm...wondering whether i should try upgrading to WM6 again...what say you?
no harm if u want to try
hey guys m back again with a different problem....now i got people complaining to me about radio like static noise while talking to me whereas i can hear them crystal clear.....anybody experienced this????
unem said:
hey guys m back again with a different problem....now i got people complaining to me about radio like static noise while talking to me whereas i can hear them crystal clear.....anybody experienced this????
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nope ...
maybe now ur mic got problem? maybe u should send it back to o2 since it is still under warranty right?
i have spent the last 2 days reading back posts concerning this problem and i am no closer to finding out the problem i have .
so far to date i have flashed and cooked ,xda2 xda2i uni touch so i have past experience
all i plan to do is a straight update from 1.37.405.1 to 1.93.405.1 which is the rom straight form htc
the problem i have is at 0% update activesync drops out windows then reconises new device (qualcom thingy) that when it goes tit shaped . the updater will now give me a 260 error .
i have tried all the obvious different usb , start in bootloader, turn of norton ,
i have noticed that the white band on my device never shows usb ? it is blank unless i disconnect the usb then it shows serial if i reconnect it still shows serial
this should be a straight forward update but its starting to p**s me off now i remember why i stopped playing with phones
all help would be appreciated i know it is something obvious but im missing it . it is definetely the crossover from active sync to updater that is the problem . but is it the phone or is it my comp . i had a similar prob on my uni and it turned out to be the hub i was going through so i now direct link for updates so it aint that this time
i cant believe how many people have had this problem and it doesnt seem to be dirrectly answered yet i think a sticky is required.
try a flash from internal memory ?!?
and disconnect UsB while flash,
OK first will start with a complain. Maybe I was unlucky but although I love my Touch Pro 2, I really feel like the Hardware is not that good... Today my screen completeled jamed up (White background with blue/pink/green dots). The phone is still working (I can receive calls, etc...) but cant see a thing
I doubt it's linked to my Windows ROM (Original one) since when I boot up I cannot even see the screen with the ROM/Radio and Booloader version. It's only when I switch the screen on and off that I get the jammed screen (Otherwise it's black). So I can try to Hard reset... but I believe it's rather the video controler that is dead
Anyway... since the phone is still working (Activesync works !) and I stupidly didnt backup my MMS and SMS... I was wondering if someone knew how to back them up from my PC (For contacts and emails they are already backuped through Outlook)
Thanks a lot in adavnce and good luck with your device... (I cnat be 100% negative, I know many freinds who had to return their ipHone... Just pissed off that it happens to me without any particular reason)
Btw anybody got the same problem with their phone and found a way to fix it ? I am just so pissed off to ahve to ship it and wait for weeks without any phone...
Try MyMobiler. I'm in a similar position, my touch screen has stopped working, I can "drive" the phone on my PC using mymobiler.
Good luck!
Gordon
Thanks gonna give it a try to PIM backup before a Hardreset
There are many free to try remote control apps for windows mobile, they work in the same manner as pc remote cotrol apps and allow you to fully control the device from your pc. Google will find them easy.
You can also backup the databases via activesync.
Have you tried a tv out cable, perhaps it's just the device's ribbon cable that is damaged............
Cheers,
Beasty
Looks great
But why the hell my PC is not laucnhing Acivesync when I connect my Touch Pro 2.............. Happened to me in the past with my Hermes and I have no idea why. I am offered to acces to the files or sync my media files but not to sync... Aaahh the worst time for this !!! Gonna google that...
I hope I dont have to enable it on the device... (It reminds me of soemthing on some custom ROMs where you ahve to allow sync through USB... (Though in tis case it's the original ROM and it still proposes to see the device files...)
**** Reinstalled the crappy Activesync (Or Mobile center for the new version) and it worked. Cant believe... the laptop is brand new. Anyway thanks a lot the Software is great and will allow me to save everything