Hi
I have been using WM devices for a long time but have never actually changed my ROM before. However, I have decided that it is time to start!!! and I want to change to teh latest HTC Rom for my Diamond (Orange UK). I have read the various threads on this forum, but before I start would like confirmation that the process I should follow is as follows.
For info, I have decided to use the official 1.93 HTC ROM (I know that some of the swift/dutty ROMS appear better - but I think I would prefer to stick with an official ROM for my 1st time!!)
1. Download Hard SPL, ROM and Radio files
2. Backup data etc (settings also?) using sprite backup
3. Install Hard SPL
4. Install ROM
5. Install Radio
6. Use HTC settings tool to restore settings
7. Re-install data using Sprite backup
In case this goes wrong..... is there a version of the stock Orange ROM anywhere that I can always re-install?
Also, 1 last question..... given that my Orange Diamond has an HTC ROM (no customisation)..... am I right to assume that once I have updated the ROM I will not lose anything (e.g. HTC apps/Opera etc) from my original ROM??
Thanks very much for your help
Rossy
You don't really need to update your radio if your handset is working fine.
You WILL need to reinstall your additional apps after a flash.
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7. and you might get big problem if you made a backup from a stock rom and put into a cooked rom, the registry get very messy. And vice versa if you made a backup from cooked rom and use that backup in a stock rom. So I adwise to make a backup..sure, but use it only with that rom you made the backup from!
adwinp said:
You don't really need to update your radio if your handset is working fine.
You WILL need to reinstall your additional apps after a flash.
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Thanks
By additional apps do you just mean non HTC things like TomTom etc
I assume Opera/google maps etc will be included with the HTC ROM?
Salut Rossy,
I'm thinking about doing the same, meaning flash my Orange Diamond with the latest official french ROM from HTC.
Actually Lommag made a dump of the Orange ROM here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405481
I didn't try it yet but let me know how things goes for you.
Good luck.
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Hi, i am a newbie. Read about ROM ....
May like to know if i installed a new ROM, like MARY xx.xx.xxx etc.
If i don't like it, am i able to uninstall and use back my original WM6?
Is it just uninstall from the Add/Remove Programe folder, then it will return to WM6, or do i need to download & reinstall the official WM6?
Thanks
You will have to reflash the original rom.. The roms you find in here are not addons, they are full operating system almost like the one you have on youre computer. Windows mobile roms are adapted to the hardware inside youre phone, so you must be sure you got the right one
kamikaze_sg said:
Hi, i am a newbie. Read about ROM ....
May like to know if i installed a new ROM, like MARY xx.xx.xxx etc.
If i don't like it, am i able to uninstall and use back my original WM6?
Is it just uninstall from the Add/Remove Programe folder, then it will return to WM6, or do i need to download & reinstall the official WM6?
Thanks
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1.) There is NO official WM6 rom for the htc P3600
2.) You can choose an other rom from the "Trinity Mobile 6" thread
3.) When you flash your device with a new rom every data will be deleted (contacts, messages ...), except data on the storage card.
But you can make a backup with PPCPimBackup and restore them.
br, chris
i would suggest you read up the guides prior to flashing to any cooked rom.
http://trinityguides.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=4&id=31&Itemid=66
you will need to read the following:
1. Trinity Upgrade Guide
2. Upgrade to Hard-SPL
3. Upgrade Radio
flashing to other rom may carry a risk. you need to be convinced to upgrade one.
about flashing back to original rom, simply install the official rom as per instruction, everything will be back to normal. good luck.
Thank you very much, for the information....
Good Day
I wanted to install PDACorner v22 RBSN over NRBSN and I flashed defore the See here for more info Dr Puttingham solution suggested ROM via SD.
I have done the SD Flash once more with my WWE ROM 3.54 and in both ROMS the ORDER of flashing parts on my Tytn 's screen was
Code:
IPL,Bootloader,ExtROM,GSM,OS
I know we all use dutty's nbh tool v1.1 for compiling RUU_Signed.nbh .
I dare to make a thought about this tool makes the RBS ROMS to Hard Reset, because it makes the order of flashing
Code:
IPL,Bootloader,OS,GSM
meaning it flashes the Radio after the OS.
Both Stock ROMS with EXTRom flashes the Radio before the OS.
So is there any chance of changing the order in dutty's tool and do the Radio flash before the OS???
In that way we can check if THIS is the problem (and solution) of Hard Resets
Please post your thoughts on my theory and I will contact dutty about this thread to see if he can change his tool
lagoskon said:
I wanted to install PDACorner v22 RBSN over NRBSN and I flashed defore the See here for more info Dr Puttingham solution suggested ROM via SD.
I have done the SD Flash once more with my WWE ROM 3.54 and in both ROMS the ORDER of flashing parts on my Tytn 's screen was
Code:
IPL,Bootloader,ExtROM,GSM,OS
I know we all use dutty's nbh tool v1.1 for compiling RUU_Signed.nbh .
I dare to make a thought about this tool makes the RBS ROMS to Hard Reset, because it makes the order of flashing
Code:
IPL,Bootloader,OS,GSM
meaning it flashes the Radio after the OS.
Both Stock ROMS with EXTRom flashes the Radio before the OS.
So is there any chance of changing the order in dutty's tool and do the Radio flash before the OS???
In that way we can check if THIS is the problem (and solution) of Hard Resets
Please post your thoughts on my theory and I will contact dutty about this thread to see if he can change his tool
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The only problem here, is that I remove the radio from my stock rom before flashing, and I have had no HR or freezing problems.
Edit: Though.. atm, a single rom flash doesn't last much more than a day...
interesting thread
I don't take shortcuts, I follow the dr's order down to the T, and does take a good half an hour to 45 min to get things running, I will monitor of quicker way of doing it, if it saves me time, I would love to know too, so .. here I am watching with anticipation.
zocster said:
I don't take shortcuts, I follow the dr's order down to the T, and does take a good half an hour to 45 min to get things running, I will monitor of quicker way of doing it, if it saves me time, I would love to know too, so .. here I am watching with anticipation.
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I'm from Mars m8
NEVER FLASH RADIO WITH CUSTOM ROMS TOGETHER
ONLY RADIO
ONLY CUSTOM OS
OR RADIO WITH OS FROM ORIGINAL SHIPPED HERMES WM6.1 ON mars
anryl said:
ORIGINAL SHIPPED HERMES WM6.1
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there's no official shipped wm6.1 for hermes as i know
I know all this about not flashing Radio all the time with roms. I just say that the sequense of parts is not the same.
It should be IPL,SPL, Nothing , OS without flashing radio and NOT IPL,SPL,OS, Nothing which is the case now
lagoskon said:
I know all this about not flashing Radio all the time with roms. I just say that the sequense of parts is not the same.
It should be IPL,SPL, Nothing , OS without flashing radio and NOT IPL,SPL,OS, Nothing which is the case now
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Whatever the order of the pices, wouldnt the firmwear still have to go to the same places in the chip? Or you would end up in brick town.
Didn't someone say the HR's where due to part of the chip not being overwritten, and when you flash another rom, (that isnt a FULL shipped) it ended up causing incomparability issues?
veyka said:
Whatever the order of the pices, wouldnt the firmwear still have to go to the same places in the chip? Or you would end up in brick town.
Didn't someone say the HR's where due to part of the chip not being overwritten, and when you flash another rom, (that isnt a FULL shipped) it ended up causing incomparability issues?
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Remember guys the Real Big Storage ROMs overwrite the ext_rom portion to use as the extra storage, since it wasnt designed to do this we can assume that sometimes it might not work correctly.
Sure the tools and everything work fine with it all most of the time.
The reason flashing an official ROM seems to remedy the issues with Hard Resets is that if you reflash everything, the flash memory is refreshed back to the correct OS and ext_rom arrangement, then flashing an RBS ROM onto this area should in theory work fine thanks to the "spring clean" of the memory area.
mrvanx said:
Remember guys the Real Big Storage ROMs overwrite the ext_rom portion to use as the extra storage, since it wasnt designed to do this we can assume that sometimes it might not work correctly.
Sure the tools and everything work fine with it all most of the time.
The reason flashing an official ROM seems to remedy the issues with Hard Resets is that if you reflash everything, the flash memory is refreshed back to the correct OS and ext_rom arrangement, then flashing an RBS ROM onto this area should in theory work fine thanks to the "spring clean" of the memory area.
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Thanks for clearing that up, though it was long those lines! (So close, but so far)
veyka said:
Thanks for clearing that up, though it was long those lines! (So close, but so far)
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It wasnt until recently that I experienced any hard reset issues with any of the ROMs here, i noticed that leading up to a Hard Reset or freeze at the boot screen things such as file operations and running programs seemed to fail...with access denied errors and etc..
Also programs failed to save registry data aswell, coreplayer repeatedly asked for the activation key (which ofcourse ive got).
Leading me to believe that the storage portion of the OS was not working correctly...and since thats the part we have (pardon the term) misused )) then perhaps a reflash to the old configuration to give the storage area a flat format would do the trikc...which it did.
So its definatly advised, even if you havent experienced the issues, to one in a while before you flash a new ROM, flash an official ROM which uses and ext_rom aswell to give it a quick clean out.
lagoskon said:
I wanted to install PDACorner v22 RBSN over NRBSN and I flashed defore the See here for more info Dr Puttingham solution suggested ROM via SD.
I have done the SD Flash once more with my WWE ROM 3.54 and in both ROMS the ORDER of flashing parts on my Tytn 's screen was
Code:
IPL,Bootloader,ExtROM,GSM,OS
I know we all use dutty's nbh tool v1.1 for compiling RUU_Signed.nbh .
I dare to make a thought about this tool makes the RBS ROMS to Hard Reset, because it makes the order of flashing
Code:
IPL,Bootloader,OS,GSM
meaning it flashes the Radio after the OS.
Both Stock ROMS with EXTRom flashes the Radio before the OS.
So is there any chance of changing the order in dutty's tool and do the Radio flash before the OS???
In that way we can check if THIS is the problem (and solution) of Hard Resets
Please post your thoughts on my theory and I will contact dutty about this thread to see if he can change his tool
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OK I FOUND IT WHAT YOU MEAN THE TOOL FOR IT IS htcRIE_0.4.0.49.exe as it opens the original ROM deletes ipl spl gsm and saves new orig rom with the order off flashing - splash splash extrom os
just a quick question for a stupid noob, ive flashed my diamond to Gen.Y TouchFlo3Dv2.1 VGA and im loving it, its taken a while but ive got it just how i want now, if i change the radio will i have to set up all my apps again
no.....
when i run the program its a ruu and i thought that would wipe all my apps and i would have to re install my apps, but your saying no, all my programs will stay and all the reg tweaks ive made will stay untouched .
It will wipe programs from your "phone" memory,not from the "internal" memory I think. But I think that the old ones will not be visible. Settings after flashing new rom will be removed. That's my oppinion
Radio...
Flashing a radio won't touch any of your programs or settings... it's in a different part of the ROM
Flashing a Radio..
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when i run the program its a ruu and i thought that would wipe all my apps and i would have to re install my apps, but your saying no, all my programs will stay and all the reg tweaks ive made will stay untouched .
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Hi Bazz..
What Benko said, short but sweet , is absolutely right.. Just use the CustomRUU.exe (flashing utility) and the radio file you want and flash as is (I have HardSPL on my phone allowing me to flash anything).. I applied the same Gen2.1 ROM (my compliments to Yozgatg for a great ROM ) not more than a week ago, tried the Radio 1.13.25.24 and then decided to go back to 1.15.25.14 (search on forums and you'll find it). I've been using that Radio for a good number or months and it's pretty reliable and good on battery (for HTC Diamond) so you might want to have a look and see what others have said about it
BTW - I flashed it as is and didn't have to re-enter any settings at all and my phone booted as normal after. If you sync your phone with your desktop PC make sure you get a sync BEFORE you upgrade just in case as it's better to be safe but like grahamkdt said I doubt you'll need it.
Yeah SRY, I ment the full rom flashing
Hello community,
first of all thanks for your great work here in this forum. I am using cooked roms in all my HTC (Universe, Kaiser, Trinity, Elf) but currently i am getting stucked with the question:
Is there a way i can backup a phone completely, meaning a complete dump of the ROM, contacts, messages, installed software etc etc...... So that I can try some other ROMs and in case i don't like them that i just can flash back the image and are 100% done.
I only found up till now that i need to dump my rom and in addition my software/contacts with e.g. SPB Backup.
Thanks in advance for every response.....
yeah, i was going to ask the same question...
Is that possible? Does anyone know it???
On one of the Poland boards about smartphones in Trinity section I've seen topic like this - one of the users made a full backup in SPB Backup in original 6.1 and restored it in one of the cooked roms, I think made by "great tomme45i" - he had errors, and he couldn't run his P3600. I think it's impossible to create backup with instaled appz, maybe it's impossible, but the roms have e.g. different languages - you install first WWE, then ITA rom. You can use PIM Backup and backup only PIM data - contacts, messages, tasks, calendar events.
Hi, for this purpose I am using Sprite Backup. It can backup everything so that when you test some ROMs and want to get back to original one you can then restore everything like it was before. It is not possible to make a full backup and then restore it on different ROM.
Newbie just get the Desire Z here
okay, the last time I flash my own phone is Dopod D900, which very simple to flash.. but that not the question I would like to ask right now.
I need u guys help me, as title above, which one a custom rom that working well and used original Gingerbread like Nexus S, original UI (not mod), stable, fast, and the function running perfect on Desire Z?
and one more newbie question, how to backup original rom (in case i need to go back to original rom), data like contact and message before flash it to custom rom?
thanks and really appreciate your responses
Um.. not exactly sure what you are asking for but here is a link to a stock Gingerbread ROM by xboarder56: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054574
It's apparently taken straight from the official OTA and is very stock. I've been using it for about 5 days now and really like it. The only thing I see missing is the cool little on/off screen animation but otherwise completely functional with no frills. Very easy to flash as well. I use ROM Manager (Clockworkmod) for backing up ROMS and phone numbers and all contact info is synched with my Gmail account, or otherwise is stored on the SIM. Not sure how Desire Z works or where you are located so I might not be much help on that.....
killswitch11 said:
Um.. not exactly sure what you are asking for but here is a link to a stock Gingerbread ROM by xboarder56: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054574
It's apparently taken straight from the official OTA and is very stock. I've been using it for about 5 days now and really like it. The only thing I see missing is the cool little on/off screen animation but otherwise completely functional with no frills. Very easy to flash as well. I use ROM Manager (Clockworkmod) for backing up ROMS and phone numbers and all contact info is synched with my Gmail account, or otherwise is stored on the SIM. Not sure how Desire Z works or where you are located so I might not be much help on that.....
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thanks killswitch11
okay look like very easy to flash
To Install
1. Boot into recovery (Hold camera and press power)
2. Perform a FULL DATA/CACHE WIPE
3. Install Zip from SD Card, and select Xboarder56_Pure/Stock 1.x.x
4. Boot into rom and reboot to finsh (Reboot after your on your main screen)
5. Enjoy
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but except that guide, the phone must be root and S-OFF first right before flashing to ROM?
and do you know what is the app that can backup current SMS on original rom, but can restore it again to custom ROM that we flash?
Yes, you must be rooted with S-OFF to flash the ROM. As for SMS backup, I'm not too sure. I use Titanium to back up my apps, but not sure if it will back up actual SMS content as well.
okay bro, thanks very much
really appreciate your response