Hello all. I've been flashing roms for ages and have ran into a strange problem. My buddy has an 8525 that I flashed a new rom onto (albeit ages ago. I think its one of CRCs older roms). I upgraded to Olipro 2.10 HardSPL and whatnot beforehand.
Now he started having an issue where he would see "No GSM". It would still boot windows. He gave me the phone to work on and I thought, hmm radio prob. So I looked on the Unbrick Your Hermes thread and found that I just need to flash the radio. I started the flash procedure as usual, but it just sat there at 0% for ages. I finally gave up and pulled the battery and tried to follow the recover procedure, but it didn't really work out as planned.
Now the phone just turns on to the tri color screen and says "USB" when its plugged in to the computer. The computer finds the device, but of course I can't get to it with activesync.
I tried to flash hardspl again and other stuff but the phone just sits there in the bootloader. I don't really know what the next step is and I don't want to make it worse, so I thought I'd just come and ask.
I will mention that I haven't worked with the low level stuff yet, nor do I completely understand all of the acronyms on the unbrick your hermes page.
Thanks all.
Just flash your phone(when in 3color mode-usb)with other radio or rom mate.
That is what i have done 3-4 days ago.
Did you try to flash from the SD card? I've had success that way when I was stuck.
flash using the sd card
paste the .nbh image an your card without creating any folder and rename it hermimg.nbh
the put the card into your phone and flash it directly from tri color mode
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I tried the HERMIMG.nbh thing. I'm sure i've done it right, but nothing. When I turn the phone on by holding power/ok and pressing reset, it flashes "loading" for 1/1000 of a second and then just sticks on the tri color screen.
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I flashed my phone a couple of weeks ago with Schaps 4.31 Rom. It has been working a treat ! This is the first time I flashed a phone and I followed MR.Vanx instructions.
All was working fine untill yesterday. I had my 3rd freeze of the day. Oh well I thought, thats 3 in 2 weeks never mind must just be having a bad day.
It got worse. I soft reset my phone and now all I get is the Olipro bootloader 3 colour screen ! So I took the battery out and left it for 2 hrs. Still the same.
Whats wrong with it ?
Does this happen like that ?
Can I recover or do I need to flash again or is this permanent ?
HELP HELP HELP
Anyone know ? Phoen still not working. Can someone help ?
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Unbrick
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<Sarcasm mode> Thanks. Like I never thought to look there. </Sarcasm mode>
I was more interested in the other questions I asked ... IE is this normal after 2 weeks operation ? etc
no, shouldnt happen like that. try putting the .nbh file on a sd card after formatting fat 32. rename to hermimg.nbh then put in phone. if you're in bootloader it should automatically start the flash. this should get you out of bootloader and back into windows. make sur ebattery is more than 50% by putting on to charge for awhile first. hope this helps. Cheers.
Thanks for the response.
I think I can do it via USB as usual I am just waiting for the phone to charge a bit first. Obviously with no OS I have no idea how much battery % it has !! DOH !
Oh well I will post back for those interested once I know if it is goign to work or not !
Previously been stuck on bootloader before, and I just flashed a different ROM via USB. This worked fine for me. Would also try what ultramag69 said previously
Suggested sd as this has become my favourite way of flashing. No chance of NASTY accidents like computer resets, someone unplugging usb or other little things t5hat seem to happen to people as they flash there precious hermes. Sorry if this sounds like a hard sell but I really believe this is the safest way to flash your device. I've even flashed below 50%... Plugged in power. Was in a rush and had no time. Its never failed while I have had bricks and glitches with the usb. And thats my two cents......
Well it just gets stranger, I waited untill the phone was fully charged. It was plugged in to PC via usb swtiched off so I could see the charge light go green. When I switched the phone on with USB connected to go to bootloader screen to reflash, it booted windows !
Its now working fine ! I did nothing except charge it.
How very dare it !
Suggest you check the device for bad blocks.
Put the device into bootloader, start mtty.exe
connect to USB and run the command "Info 8".....this will report if the device has bad blocks (three should turn up even on a normal device).
then run "task 2a" to fix any bad blocks that are evident.
It might be worth flashing a new ROM to it to overwrite any corrupted sectors, just as a precautionary measure?
Have you tried hard resetting the device by holding the 2 left and right buttons (below the screen) and then reseting with the stylus?
This will then ask if you want to reset to factory..or if you have a cooked ROM reset back to the cooked ROM?
Helped me out and then promptly re-ROM'd the thing...
Hope this helps.....
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no, shouldnt happen like that. try putting the .nbh file on a sd card after formatting fat 32. rename to hermimg.nbh then put in phone. if you're in bootloader it should automatically start the flash. this should get you out of bootloader and back into windows. make sur ebattery is more than 50% by putting on to charge for awhile first. hope this helps. Cheers.
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Ok had a problem today JASJAM seemed to loose phone reception has done this before , since I had the offical Telstra ROM on there for some time thought I would re-install , however stopped at 12% then was stuck on bootloader, tried the SD card method above get through the IPL , BOOTLOADER SPLASH 1&2 and EXTROM but seems to stay on GSM in the list any ideas as to what the problem maybe?
You need to loas SPL 1.01 MFG, then connect using MTTY.EXE.
after issueing:
USB>task 32 (you will get)
Level = 0 (now issue)
USB>set 14 0
USB>task 8
p.s. if you have other than SPL 1.01 MFG, you may need to use set 16 0 or other value. Do search.
Now the device should boot, if it does not:
Press the soft keys (the ones below CONTACTS and CALENDAR) together with the RESET. The device should go through installing windows procedure.
Good luck.
Simple.
I have a HTC touch with Bell. I flashed NFSFAN's WM6.5 onto it. I didn't use a cab, mostly because I couldn't figure out which one or how to....
When I power on my phone I get to the today screen and I can't do a thing. It shows the correct time, and flashed the green light... I can see the options, and if I press on the screen the phone vibrates.
What did I miss? Oh ya, and how do I turn off the vibrate on screen press when I do get this working?
Thanks!!
On subsequent restarts I find that I am sometimes unable to even get to the today screen and connecting to the PC is impossible.
Hope that helps explain it.
The question is, what did you flash it WITH!?
NFSFAN's 6.5 21198 V3 GENERIC CARRIER ROM
x01001010x said:
NFSFAN's 6.5 21198 V3 GENERIC CARRIER ROM
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did you update the radio first?
did you hard reset after you flashed?
did you flash this ROM via activesync or bootloader mode?
Detroit Doug
Yes I think I did update the Radio. I used the current bell version from HTC. (Radio Version 3.42.50)
Yes I have hard reset the phone. I noticed that it froze once after a hard reset and had replaced the start with customization. I left it for 10 minutes but nothing had changed so I reset it.
I entered bootloader on my phone, plugged in the usb cable then ran the loader on the pc and waited for that to complete.
x01001010x said:
Yes I think I did update the Radio. I used the current bell version from HTC. (Radio Version 3.42.50)
Yes I have hard reset the phone. I noticed that it froze once after a hard reset and had replaced the start with customization. I left it for 10 minutes but nothing had changed so I reset it.
I entered bootloader on my phone, plugged in the usb cable then ran the loader on the pc and waited for that to complete.
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OK, there is an issue with the flash from what it sounds and bootloader is done from the SD card NOT from a USB cable, try this...
- Using the original SD Card that came with the phone (or any SD card under 2GB in size) Format your SD card making sure it FAT32
- Copy the RUU_signed.nbh file over to the that card and rename it VOGUIMG.nbh
- Then flash via bootloader power+camera+stylus, it will pull the image to flash from your SD card automatically
- wait and then hard reset (red+green+stylus) after customizations/autotun occurs
then try using the phone, hopefully that will take care of the issue
Detroit Doug
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OK, there is an issue with the flash from what it sounds and bootloader is done from the SD card NOT from a USB cable, try this...
- Using the original SD Card that came with the phone (or any SD card under 2GB in size) Format your SD card making sure it FAT32
- Copy the RUU_signed.nbh file over to the that card and rename it VOGUIMG.nbh
- Then flash via bootloader power+camera+stylus, it will pull the image to flash from your SD card automatically
- wait and then hard reset (red+green+stylus) after customizations/autotun occurs
then try using the phone, hopefully that will take care of the issue
Detroit Doug
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Shouldn't be an issue flashing from bootloader mode via PC cable. Bootloader allows the computer to reckonize your phone as a usb device.
The 6.5. ROM is still a custom ROM, so the question is have you unlocked your phone?
If not unlock using imcokeman's 2.31 unlocker first, then follow dd's instructions.
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Shouldn't be an issue flashing from bootloader mode via PC cable. Bootloader allows the computer to reckonize your phone as a usb device.
The 6.5. ROM is still a custom ROM, so the question is have you unlocked your phone?
If not unlock using imcokeman's 2.31 unlocker first, then follow dd's instructions.
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Yeah the "I think " part got to me as well until I remember responding to a different thread of his helping him along in getting started to flash and in that one he had unlocked as was on his 3rd ROM by the end of it LOL so I believe he has successfully unlocked his phone, just the issue may be corruption in the flash of the 6.5 WinMO ROM
Detroit Doug
Ok. I will have to find my smaller card. All I have here is a 4GB one.
Thanks jmitr and Detroit Doug! I will try moving the file to the card. It will take me a few days to get my smaller card as I left it at the office.
Any luck yet? let us know how it worked out for you...
Detroit Doug
I will. I turned my office upsidedown looking for that little card... and it was at home by my laptop the whole time.
I have it now, and actually just came online to get the file names I need. I will keep you updated.
Well... that was a little different. I didn't get the customization the first run after the flash. I did however get it immediately after the hard reset.
So far (and about 10 min.) everything is looking good!
I will play with it for a while and let you know.
Thanks for the help!!
x01001010x said:
Well... that was a little different. I didn't get the customization the first run after the flash. I did however get it immediately after the hard reset.
So far (and about 10 min.) everything is looking good!
I will play with it for a while and let you know.
Thanks for the help!!
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No problem and welcome to the wonderful world of hard drug.... ummm I mean flashing, yeah flashing thats it
now that your hooked you can forget about sleep, family, a life, anything else
MUH HA HA HA HA ha hahhahahahahahahahahhaha
Detroit Doug
Oh ya! That looks like it did the trick.
It has been running since my last post without locking up... the internet works... and it is slick!
Thanks for your help Detroit_Doug and jmitr! I appreciate it.
Hey all, I just installed Oli SPL1.2 (should've taken ZakMcRofl) it worked everything was fine. Flashed WM6.1, no errors. Started it, saw the boot screen then just white screen and nothing else. Active sync cannot connect anymore to the phone.
I can get into bootloader usting Power + photo + reset but then the bloody thing does not recognize my usb.
Despite, I tried several times flashing another spl on it, even the original rom by htc nothing works. Keep getting the error 260.
(oh if in bootloader I pull out the usb cable there comes Serial on my screen)
Can someone plz help???
Flash a new HardSPL then OEM Rom using your SD Card. Then flashing Cooked Roms should be fine again.
Flash From SD
Hope this helps and works.
Well I just flashed my first ROM and thought I followed everything to the letter. I ran HardSPL, it completed, and I verified that it was done in the bootloader screen. Then I downloaded Energy 23544 with MaxManila Mar 09. Sync'ed with WMDC, Ran Custom RUU, It says it flashed ok. Now it just sits at the "Toch Pro2" startup screen. Can anyone tell me what I missed and if there is anyway to fix it?
Thanks
Steve
stisinai said:
Well I just flashed my first ROM and thought I followed everything to the letter. I ran HardSPL, it completed, and I verified that it was done in the bootloader screen. Then I downloaded Energy 23544 with MaxManila Mar 09. Sync'ed with WMDC, Ran Custom RUU, It says it flashed ok. Now it just sits at the "Toch Pro2" startup screen. Can anyone tell me what I missed and if there is anyway to fix it?
Thanks
Steve
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Need more info like who is your carrier...the problem you are describing sounds like you flashed a gsm rom (t-mobile and at&t) to a cdma phone (sprint and verizon). If that is the case you need to flash back to stock rom then grab the energy rom from here for the CDMA phone
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=86489
hopefully you did not brick your phone...good luck
Seems like you've done everything right. Just note that first time flashes usually take a while to load on the first boot before customization procedures.
If the phone doesn't budge, try a hard reset. To Hard reset your phone, Turn it completely off (remove and reinsert battery if needed), then hold down the Send and End and the power button. It should load the SPL and then ask you if you want to Hard Reset, press the Volume Up key to accept.
If the Hard Reset doesn't work, download a stock ROM, and flash that via the bootloader. If the stock ROM works, try to flash the Energy ROM again.
To enter the bootloader, Hold down the Volume Down key while turning on your phone. or hold it down and while pressing the reset button.
Hopefully you can get this sorted.
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Need more info like who is your carrier...the problem you are describing sounds like you flashed a gsm rom (t-mobile and at&t) to a cdma phone (sprint and verizon). If that is the case you need to flash back to stock rom then grab the energy rom from here for the CDMA phone
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=86489
hopefully you did not brick your phone...good luck
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That could be the case, but he sucessfully flashed a HardSPL, so he could just enter the bootloader and flash his stock ROM to continue operation of the phone.
When he responds about who his carrier is and which TP2 he has, we'll go from there.
I am on US Cellular and I did use the GSM ROM for some stupid reason. I can load the bootloader screen and am downloading the correct ROM now. I assume I then follow the load from microSD card procedures?
Thanks guys
You are lifesavers if I can get past this
stisinai said:
I am on US Cellular and I did use the GSM ROM for some stupid reason. I can load the bootloader screen and am downloading the correct ROM now. I assume I then follow the load from microSD card procedures?
Thanks guys
You are lifesavers if I can get past this
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Yes, with HardSPL you can flash the nbh file from the microSD card, but I recommend you flash using your PC via USB. It would save you the hassle of trying to find and extract the NBH.
Well it wouldn't update via the PC because it wouldn't connect. I did find and rename the nbh file and put it on another sd card. It is updating now with the stock ROM. Then its back to the drawing board if this works.
Thank - I'll update and give other noob idiots my story when all is good. (still having fingers crossed)
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Well it wouldn't update via the PC because it wouldn't connect. I did find and rename the nbh file and put it on another sd card. It is updating now with the stock ROM. Then its back to the drawing board if this works.
Thank - I'll update and give other noob idiots my story when all is good. (still having fingers crossed)
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Hmm... HardSPL usually enters USB mode when the bootloader is run and a USB cord is connected, but I'm glad you got your phone flashing either way. Good luck.
My problem was definitely the wrong ROM version.
For anyone else as dumb as me, this is what my problem was...
Everything seemed to flash ok originally (the program said it was successful). Then it restarted and the phone would not go past the "Touch Pro2) screen. There was nothing else on the screen.
and here is what I did to fix it...
Got another SD card and formated to fat32.
Extracted the proper original ROM.exe file using winrar.
Placed the .ngh file in the root of the card with the name rhodimg.nbh
Insert the sd card in the phone and restart into the bootloader screen
When it asked if I wanted to load the ROM, I of course did what it said
When it finished I removed the sd card and pressed the reset button
It took a while but everything loaded ok.
Then I started over with the ROM I wanted (this time using the correct CDMA version). Again everything seemed to go ok. This time when it rebooted, on the "touch pro2" boot screen there was additional text at the bottom indicating the cooked ROM I installed.
Thank you to everyone who helped me understand what I did wrong and I hope noone else is as dumb as me, but if you are there is hope.
Thanks
Steve
stisinai said:
My problem was definitely the wrong ROM version.
For anyone else as dumb as me, this is what my problem was...
Everything seemed to flash ok originally (the program said it was successful). Then it restarted and the phone would not go past the "Touch Pro2) screen. There was nothing else on the screen.
and here is what I did to fix it...
Got another SD card and formated to fat32.
Extracted the proper original ROM.exe file using winrar.
Placed the .ngh file in the root of the card with the name rhodimg.nbh
Insert the sd card in the phone and restart into the bootloader screen
When it asked if I wanted to load the ROM, I of course did what it said
When it finished I removed the sd card and pressed the reset button
It took a while but everything loaded ok.
Then I started over with the ROM I wanted (this time using the correct CDMA version). Again everything seemed to go ok. This time when it rebooted, on the "touch pro2" boot screen there was additional text at the bottom indicating the cooked ROM I installed.
Thank you to everyone who helped me understand what I did wrong and I hope noone else is as dumb as me, but if you are there is hope.
Thanks
Steve
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No biggie, you're very welcome. We all are noobs at some point of our existance and we all make mistakes. I'm just glad you were able to learn from yours and recover, in addition to pointing out to others what went wrong. Have fun with your new ROM.
~Joseph
stisinai said:
My problem was definitely the wrong ROM version.
For anyone else as dumb as me, this is what my problem was...
Everything seemed to flash ok originally (the program said it was successful). Then it restarted and the phone would not go past the "Touch Pro2) screen. There was nothing else on the screen.
and here is what I did to fix it...
Got another SD card and formated to fat32.
Extracted the proper original ROM.exe file using winrar.
Placed the .ngh file in the root of the card with the name rhodimg.nbh
Insert the sd card in the phone and restart into the bootloader screen
When it asked if I wanted to load the ROM, I of course did what it said
When it finished I removed the sd card and pressed the reset button
It took a while but everything loaded ok.
Then I started over with the ROM I wanted (this time using the correct CDMA version). Again everything seemed to go ok. This time when it rebooted, on the "touch pro2" boot screen there was additional text at the bottom indicating the cooked ROM I installed.
Thank you to everyone who helped me understand what I did wrong and I hope noone else is as dumb as me, but if you are there is hope.
Thanks
Steve
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Glad you got your TP2 back, it's not a nice paperweight
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it's not a nice paperweight
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Actually as paperweight's go, it's a damn sexy one
But I would prefer a working phone any day
I do have to say that I am drooling at the possibilities of this phone. Just have to take things a little slower.
I did the same thing basically. I tried a gsm rom on my us cellular phone. didnt know that they conflict at that point.
what rom do i need to flash to get my phone back?
Here is a good place to start...
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=98
I am very happy with the Energy Rom's, but that is a whole different discussion.
Or you can go back to the stock ROM which you can get at ppcgeeks also.
joseph881 said:
Seems like you've done everything right. Just note that first time flashes usually take a while to load on the first boot before customization procedures.
If the phone doesn't budge, try a hard reset. To Hard reset your phone, Turn it completely off (remove and reinsert battery if needed), then hold down the Send and End and the power button. It should load the SPL and then ask you if you want to Hard Reset, press the Volume Up key to accept.
If the Hard Reset doesn't work, download a stock ROM, and flash that via the bootloader. If the stock ROM works, try to flash the Energy ROM again.
To enter the bootloader, Hold down the Volume Down key while turning on your phone. or hold it down and while pressing the reset button.
Hopefully you can get this sorted.
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O Bless you Joesph881.I had same problem.Flashed stock Rom in bootloader.My life is back to normal.Again,thanks.
stisinai said:
Well I just flashed my first ROM and thought I followed everything to the letter. I ran HardSPL, it completed, and I verified that it was done in the bootloader screen. Then I downloaded Energy 23544 with MaxManila Mar 09. Sync'ed with WMDC, Ran Custom RUU, It says it flashed ok. Now it just sits at the "Toch Pro2" startup screen. Can anyone tell me what I missed and if there is anyway to fix it?
Thanks
Steve
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hit the red reset button on the right. mine did that also, and that is what I did, and it came back up without a problem.
STOCK ROM
FYI, the stock ROM, original ship ROM can be found here at the htc mobile phone product support page. It comes as an *.exe and you double click once in the bootloader screen and it works
I had a problem where I flashed with a new rom, and it went to the white screen. I had to flash with the original ROM and it came back to life! yay.
Got my tilt 2 all of yesterday. Had been using a fuze for a year and a half almost. Slapped the hardspl on after downloading the cab needed to get it into spl mode and flashed nrg's newest rom over sd card. All went well.
Tried to flash a new radio, 4.49.25.91. I was a little rusty on this part. I haven't flashed radio's in over 5 months or so. I renamed the file to RHODIMG.nbh and put it on the sd card i use to flash then initiated the flash.
Took all of 15 seconds, the phone restarted and went to the tri color screen but had funky text on top of the normal text saying something is wrong. I rebooted the phone and it went to that screen over and over without me putting it into tricolor. Now beginning to worry i reflashed nrg's rom over it and it seemed to go ok, however now when the phone gets to the AT&T screen it doesn't do anything for 30 second then restarts itself.
I've Tried Hard reseting, Reflashing a new rom, taking out the sd card, flashing over cable, soft reseting, and everything else i can think of.
I JUST thought to flash a different radio and hopefully that does something as i am Stumped and ONLY JUST BOUGHT THE PHONE YESTEREDAY.
Fuze lasted a year and a half, Tilt 2 lasted less than 12 hours.
Please, if you see my error tell me what i am doing wrong !!!!! I want my phone back !
Wow, i figured as a last ditch effort i would flash a new radio over cable and guess what problem solved :]
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