***A bit of a warning to SDHC card users***
I've got my 6 Gb San Disk SDHC card (£35!) working a treat in Mescle's 3.01 lite rom but today I had a bit of a high blood pressure moment...
I was trying to reflash the rom and my device would not go into boot loader - just kept coming up with a white screen, didn't matter if it was boot loader from a ruu or manual via the buttons. I have now sussed this and my BP is back to normal. When you enter boot loader it looks for the SD card and obv. in boot loader mode it doesn't like the SDHC card type so just hangs! Remove the card and you can get into boot loader straight away.
So here's the tip - if you want to flash your device remove the SDHC card first.
Cheers
Alex
Thanx for the info, it has been noticed before. It's in the 6GB SDHC Thread. I had the same problem and realised it was the sdhc card. Usually it's recommended to flash roms without sd-card inserted.
dont most (if not ALL) rom cookers specifically say in their posts that in order to cook their rom, any SDHC card has to be removed first? i am sure i've read the warning in at least two of those posts.
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Hi,
Tried this rom, but file size mismatch (rom is only 41MB).
Read somewhere you have to flash this from SD card.
But : now almost everyone works with SDHC cards, and for all the roms that we flash, we have to pull out the SDHC card or flashing does not work.
Any other methods to flash this rom without card in it ?
Thanks,
Innovator
I've been asking the same question, but nobody answered.
I wish I could have this mini ROM.
Would appreciate all helps.
No other possibility....
... as far as I know. Either via activesync or via a non-sdhc card. Don't you have a "forgotten" sd-card in another phone?
Even the smallest card (from 64 mb or more) will do.
Good luck!
HJ
it gives " invalid certificate" error while trying to flash from SD card
any solutions to this prob..
much appreciated.
I flash this ROM using 2GB SD Card.
Your Device it should be Hard SPL first.
I flash this ROM using an old 2GB SD Card. Took few minutes and its done.
Okay first off im gana start off saying sorry im a complete newb and jsut got my first WM phone the other day i got the Verizon VX6900 and i wana upgrade to WM 6.5. Ive read over cody bear's FAQ for NFSFAN's rom several times and although im kinda scared to screw it up hopefully i wont brick my fone. my first question is i know you suppose to upgrade you radio first but especially since mine is 1.60.30 no where near 3.42.50. So can someone point me to a how to do it and do i have to get a verizon one because i saw a file to upgrade for Bell's radio and im not sure if thats the same.
Also can everyone put my fears to rest that im gana destroy my fone when i reflash it. It dosnt seem that hard im just kinda nervous.
Sorry again for being newb and making a thread there is just so much information and its hard to figure it all out without someone guiding you in the right direction
First you need to unlock your phone using the cokeman unlocker.
From there, if you have the SD card that came with your phone (the 512MB one). YOu can download a radio upgrade that changes nothing but the radio on your phone. This is a good idea as verizon can be tricky.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=389964&postcount=8
That file has the radio flash in it.
So to install it, you first make sure your phone is unlocked. Then copy the file from inside that zip to the SD CARD (note: the sd card must be formatted FAT32). Then enter bootloader mode by pressing holding down the power and camera buttons while pressing the reset button with the stylus. Do not have a USB cable plugged in. WHen the boot loader loads up it should be a tricolor screen that says COkeman unlocker or bootloader ver 2.41 or something like that. It will say serial at the bottom and after a few seconds ask you if you want to install the rom. If it asks you to confirm do what it says to confirm. IT shoudl flash then restart. When it restarts check the red text at the bottom and see if it says 3.42.50 next to r. If so you properly flashed your radio.
From there you can install ANY upgaded rom you like.
okay thanks i dont have the 512mb sd card i only have a 2gb sd card will that work?
As long as it is a regular microSD, not microSDHC. It should say so on the card. Mine 8GB card says microSDHC on the card itself. More than likely the card is standard SD (as I think SDHC doesn't start until 4GB).
So the requirements for flashing from the card are:
I think you need to have the device unlocked
microSD Card (NOT microSDHC)
Card has to be formatted FAT32
The file must be named VOGUIMG.nbh
No USB cables plugged in.
ok so im getting a little nervous i unlocked it and then flashed the radio update and it installed and says update complete update success but its not restarting do i have to restart it. did i just brick my phone?
Hard reset it yourself.
well i managed to get it to work and installed NFSFANs 6.5 rom and it runs amazing. i installed the vzw mms cab but i still cant get my MMS to work
nickbutterz said:
well i managed to get it to work and installed NFSFANs 6.5 rom and it runs amazing. i installed the vzw mms cab but i still cant get my MMS to work
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Read the FAQ for that ROM over on this thread HERE all your issues with MMS, GPS, ETC can be found there
Detroit Doug
Detroit_Doug said:
Read the FAQ for that ROM over on this thread HERE all your issues with MMS, GPS, ETC can be found there
Detroit Doug
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thanks man got mms working now just gata start working on the GPS. hrm just wondering if anyone else has this problem sometimes when i accidently click the persons name in the SMS thread the fone just freezes
Sorry, I'm another noob when it comes to flashing roms as well. Once you flash from the microsd, will the new rom be compatible with a microsdhc after its upgraded? Or can I only use Microsd from here on out??
Thanks for the help.
No problem. The only time you NEED a standard microsd card is when you are flashing a file to the device. To be exact, when you are upgrading the radio as all of the ones I have seen load from the microSD card, otherwise all of the custom roms can be upgraded over USB. The reason you need a standard microSD card to flash from the SD Card is that microSDHC requires a specific driver to be loaded and at the bootloader point that driver has not been loaded. This means at the boot loader point, the port can only funciton as a microSD port. Once the OS has loaded, the driver has been loaded as well, therefore it can read both times.
I have a Touch Pro2 (GSM) with energy 6.5.5 rom. I wanted to install a new rom.
OK I formatted my SD Card, backed up all my contacts with myphone.
I downloaded my desired rom, renamed it, put it onto my SD Card.
I removed the sd card and my sim card.
I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649191 this to format the main os. Phone restarted with just "touch pro 2" on the display.
I removed the battery, inserted the SD card (with the correct named rom).
I inserted the battery again and started the phone while pressing the lower volume button.
The red green blue white screen from my bootloader opened up. AT the top it says
RHOD00 32M SS-BC
SPL-0.85.OliNex
MicroP(LED) 0x0A
MicroP(KEY) 0x04
TURBO HW/TURBO SW
TP MFG DATA
... .... ... (some numbers) calibrated
and in the white area it just says Serial. Nothing happens. Is it safe to take out the battery and try to install the image with active sync??
Did you reformat sd card FAT32?
Did you install Hard SPL 1st?
Also, I have found on occasion, the transfer to the sd card isn't good, copy the .nbh file over again and try if you have done the 1st 2 things....
ultramag69 said:
Did you reformat sd card FAT32?
Did you install Hard SPL 1st?
Also, I have found on occasion, the transfer to the sd card isn't good, copy the .nbh file over again and try if you have done the 1st 2 things....
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Thanks! I already had hard spl. As I said, I was using a custom 6.5.5 rom before
I didn't have any access to the SD card because I don't have a card reader for micro sd (that's why I copied the file before I removed the sd from my phone)..
But I was able to get around the situation. The moment I plugged in the usb cable I was able to access the phone via active sync and I could flash it from within windows
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I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649191 this to format the main os. Phone restarted with just "touch pro 2" on the display.
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why did you do that?
also did you rename the rom to RHODIMG.nbh?
Because after I went from stock 6.1 to stock 6.5 rom suddenly the coreplayer and windows media player were suttering at ALL videos that worked perfectly fine before. I then tried an enegry rom.while it was good looking it made no difference in video playback.thats why I wanted to switch to another 6.5 rom that was using 2.1 manila instead of 2.5.
and yes i named that rom exactly like that! One last question. After having successfully hard spled the phone, is it now safe to install every rom i want without having the fear to brick my phone?
oh and btw. while the new rom really AMAZING videos still stutter 3d games work perfect but that damn videos not. and on a small note:the newest opera 10 mobile is INCREDIBLY fast!Finally a piece of software where I can see how fast the cpu really can be just flash is missing
I attempted to manually update to Froyo on a rooted (came to me that way) HTC Desire.
I used the manual method described at geekword.net (google for it, I can't post links)
Unfortunately, I didn't know I was meant to use a gold card for the update.
So what I ended up with is a failed Froyo update, after the post-update reboot, the progress count will never get to 100%, as the phone goes into a reboot loop.
This wouldn't be an issue if I could reattempt the update with a gold card - unfortunately, in its current state the phone can't even see the sd card for whatever reason - the card isn't corrupt as I can continue to run the update.zip file from it - not that it helps.
With the phone connected to the PC, I don't have option to mount as disk drive. I can get the CID using Klutsh's Gold Card tool, but because I can't mount the phone, I can't copy the gold card image over.
Is there anyway to get the image over to the sd card and complete the gold card creation without going via the phone?
I dont really know for sure what the answer is to your problem mate but in the hope of getting this thread started I would be looking to download the original branded ROM and restore it through the bootloader menu so that you can start over. This may or may not work but its what I would be researching first.
When i made my gold card, i had the MicroSD in the phone to get the CID, but then i wrote the image to it using a MircoSD-to-SD adapter, just using the built in SD card reader on my laptop. Hope this helps.
JP
jamesmcuk > I tried a stock Telstra rom (this is an Aus phone) found online, it came back with something along the lines of 'wrong bootloader version'. I have a feeling that bootloader for the phone was upgraded either during the first root (by the previous owner) or upgraded when I updated to Froyo.
Are there any official rollback methods for failed Froyo updates?
JPDyno > Could you please outline the procedure used to copy the image over to the micro SD? I have a goldcard.img file from the procedure that I've performed to date. Do I copy the img file over using a imageburner? Do I need to partition the sd card or anything? Kinda lost as to the steps since I thought the Klutsh tool would take care of the copying for me - but it needed connection to the phone.
Thank you both for your replies, hopefully I don't have a fancy brick on my hands
Your phone should have come with a MicroSD card adapter, which looks like a normal sized SD Card, with a slot at the back to insert your microSD into. So you take out your MicroSD card from the phone, slide it into the small slot on the adapter, and slide the adapter into your SD Card reader slot on your laptop/desktop. If you dont have an SD Card reader slot you'll need to get a USB SD or microSD card reader. Once you plug it in it'll automatically detect the card as a disk drive in My Computer. Then you can follow the steps in the Goldcard Guide (install and run the Hex Editor...open the disk drive and the img in the Hex editor and copy stuff over...yada yada...)
Just out of interest does it still do a constant reboot if you remove either or both the SIM and the SD Card.
Also I found this guide for restoring the Nexus 1 which being so similar should contain some good info although you will need to find the ROM for the desire rather than the ones they post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=614850
Yay, got it working!
Thanks for the prompt replies guys.
I followed the suggestions here (in using the sd card reader on my laptop), and used the steps starting with HxD from:
android.modaco.com/content/general-discussion/305672/creating-a-goldcard
I managed to get a goldcard, and successfully updated to froyo!
p.s. the phone reboots even without a sim card - never tried without the sd card though - I needed it since the update.zip was from the sd.
Now onto exploring Froyo!
For all of those still wishing to make a goldcard sans phone, you can also find it here
http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/
Get CID
At first I could not get the CID as well. The problem was, that I was in Fastboot mode. After changing into Recovery mode, I was able to use "adb shell" and then cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid to get my CID.
So now you can start to make your own Goldcard.
Hi,
Was running on LeeDroid 1.9, wiped and flashed for OpenDesire 3.4, came up fine then rebooted for the 3.4.2 patch and now my Desire just will not go past the HTC logo screen no matter what I do.
I can boot into recovery and have full access to everything, tried formatting the SD card and loading different ROMS but stuck @ the HTC green logo on white background.
Even Revoked3 again but the prob is not getting into the Recovery menu, its getting past that HTC screen.
Any info / idea's / help?
Thanks
Russ
If your phone turns on its not bricked, there will be a way to fix any issues your having, its just finding the correct one.
When flashing other roms did you wipe everything?
Data
Dalvik Cache
Ext parititon (if you have one)
Not wiping Dalvik is the number one reason roms get stuck bootlooping on bootscreen1.
Alternatively, it is booting but your not waiting long enough, you can always run adb logcat while booting to see if they phone is actually doing anything.
Hi,
Thank you for replying....
Figured it out that it is the SD card, here is the situation:
- Boot into recovery but cannot mount nor format the SD card
- Can see the SD card in MAC/ Windows and formated it Fat32
- Can boot without SD card
- Can boot with another SD card which is only 128Meg so cannot get LeeDroid back on it to reflash that ROM
I obviously need to format the SD card proper and it looks like I need to use Gparted but that looks like a HUGE Linux ISO download unless you know of a MAC version of it I can use?
Thanks
Found a 2Gig SD Card, got LeeDroid back on it, flashing and hoping I can boot with the original SD card so I can format with ROM manger but thinking it wont boot up with the SD card in regardless of the ROM, lets hope!
if you don't manage to boot it up. find this in the forum "PB99IMG.zip" w/o the quotes. format your sd card and put the archive in root of sd card. after that turn on your phone by pressing volume down and power on/off. wait till phone recognizes the archive and follow onscreen directions. phone should boot normally as unrooted. use unrevoked to root again and flash any rom you want.
post result.
Okay I am up but not on my original SD card, using a spare.
In recovery mode my phone refuses to mount nor format the card but can see it 100%
Seen some posts of a ADB cmd I need to use or is there something else I can try?
Thanks!
I ran "unrevoked" on my phone again and it booted when I had that problem.
But I took out the sd card when I did that. Not sure if it helps. But who knows.
Tried that, booting without the card is fine, with the card in is the issue, phone cannot see it.