Develop Bugs

Time to kill my Orbit and start again

It's running painfully slowly and the GPS won't work so I'm going to hard reset my XDA and get rid of the O2 crap, then install TomTom. I know all this stuff is here somewhere but I’m up to my eyeballs in tech articles so…. Questions:
1. Should I upgrade the ROM, and if so can anybody point me to a suitable ROM image? If I do this should I unlock it first?
2. What's the best way of getting a clean install - is it to hard reset then soft reset before the O2 stuff loads? Or should I go for a cosporate install option (is this available for the Orbit) And how do I hard reset?
3. is there an easy way of setting up the O2 connection settings afterwards or do I have to do it manually?
Lots of questions and not enough time….

Device Information Screen

After having WM5 for so long i deceided to take the plunge and flash my Vario 2 with the T-mobile WM6 on their downloads site.
The flash went fine and the Rom works quite good BUT i noticed that on the Device Information Screen it doen't tell me anything. ROM Version, ROM Date, Radio Version and Protocol Version nothing there. Hardware tab Gives me a load of squares and numbers. Identity Tab no imei number or model number and the call duration tab has nothing on it.
Can anyone help?

Can anyone help?

Thats fairly strange behavior. Have you tried a hard reset? Maybe something just didn't transfer correctly. What Rom did you flash exactly?
Try re downloading and flashing again. Maybe the DL was corrupted.

Thanks for the reply. I haven't tried a hard reset yet but i will try it later tonight. The ROM i'm using is from here http://www.tm-phonedownloads.com/
As far i could see the flash went o.k. I'll try reflashing as well if the hard reset doesn't work.

Do you have HardSPL v 7 on you phone? If so you should upgrade the OS & radio only as a general rule.
If you have the factory Boot Loader & IPL then flash per the MFG's instructions.
You can extract the OS & Radio from the Factory ROM using the NBH tool you can get on this forum.

Thaks for the replies. I got it working. I just uninstalled everything and then put it back on. I think it was either to do with one of the htc album cabs or htc home cabs that i installed.

htc hermes - freezing and doing hard reset after rom flash

hey,
i flashed a couple of roms from this site. before i flashed the newes hard spl according to the guide from the wiki. also i checked it hard spl installed succesfully, according to bootloader it did.
i am having problems with every rom here: the phone freezes all the time without any reason. nothing works, so i sot reset. then the phone starts new but does a hard reset on its own.
what can i do?

holzzelt said:
hey,
i flashed a couple of roms from this site. before i flashed the newes hard spl according to the guide from the wiki. also i checked it hard spl installed succesfully, according to bootloader it did.
i am having problems with every rom here: the phone freezes all the time without any reason. nothing works, so i sot reset. then the phone starts new but does a hard reset on its own.
what can i do?
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install a stock rom, install hard spl if needed and you should be good to go, the wiki section for the hermes has a list of stock roms.

but i would like to use a manilla rom...

after you install a stock rom and hard spl it... you can install a manila rom..

1) HardSPL your phone
2) Flash a OEM rom, use the AT&T stripped from my my 4hsared
3) Flash the cooked rom you want
If you want to flash a new cooked rom
1) Flash the OEM rom
2)Flash the cooked rom.
This stops random hard resets

where i can get the stock rom?
mind to give me the link to dl....
flash the oem rom mean the original rom is it?

yes the oem rom is the original rom
use this rom from veyka

Flashing Roms

Hello...I currently have wm6.1. I somehow have hosed up some stuff (it doesn't even connect to the internet - vzw said I probably need to do a hard reset).
My question is can I just re-flash the official vzw 6.1 rom over top of itself? Or must I do a hard reset and then flash 6.1 back?

jbsmith said:
Hello...I currently have wm6.1. I somehow have hosed up some stuff (it doesn't even connect to the internet - vzw said I probably need to do a hard reset).
My question is can I just re-flash the official vzw 6.1 rom over top of itself? Or must I do a hard reset and then flash 6.1 back?
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If you have 6.1 on your phone all a hard reset will do is reload the OS thats on your phone right now
red button+green button+stylus in reset hole until screen turn gray
follow directions and the 6.1 ROM you currently have will be on the phone as
brand new
Detroit Doug

Hard reset

Hey guys....it`s been awhile.
i`m trying to reset my Dash to factory settings to sell.I`ve tried both ways. hold soft keys,press power button for 1-2 seconds,i get the white letterings saying personal data will be lost,and will reset to manufacturer default.press send to restore manufacturer default.it goes thru its thing....(preparing your device,please wait.....) it goes thru cold boot config. when it restarts, it`s back to 3vo series rom.i`ve done the start/accessories/clear storage/1234/yes.
still same thing........weird....does the sim card need to be in phone to hard reset?

the hard reset does not remove the installed rom just the data to but it back to the default rom you must reflash said rom. the standard roms are in the wiki i think but sont qupte me. failing that they should be around on the forum somewhere so search and you'll find them. hope this helps

Stock ROMs in F.A.Q as paradox1985 states a hard-reset will only take you back to the base of flashed ROM not all the way back to stock.

Excellent .....thanks for your help.