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what appen when all blocks are bad???

Hi all, flashing my last rom, I seen that the device wasn't upgraded, but old os remained into it...
I used mtty and task 32 : leve 0
task 28 says that os not found in memory
task 2a and info 8 tell me that all blocks are bad...
the device stasrt, windows runs, only, now I cannot reflash with other rom..
some helps??? suggestions???
bye!

ervius said:
Hi all, flashing my last rom, I seen that the device wasn't upgraded, but old os remained into it...
I used mtty and task 32 : leve 0
task 28 says that os not found in memory
task 2a and info 8 tell me that all blocks are bad...
the device stasrt, windows runs, only, now I cannot reflash with other rom..
some helps??? suggestions???
bye!
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ok, I've the solution, strange, but thrue.
I buyed yesterday a beautyfull, new minisd "4Gb", mounted it, and I discovered that if I run mtty with the 4Gb minisd into device, all blocks are bad
the rom wasn't updated into device if I flash one...
without minisd mtty give me all blocks ok, and flashing other rom, it will be uploaded into device...
ok, this is my cas, good also if someone have same problem, but my question now is, why with last 2Gb minisd this problem didn't present???
I flashed hundreds of rom with minisd iside and all ok...
my my new good, beautifull minisd 4Gb I spent a lot of time today to understand why all block were bad, this is the answer...
bye!
but the question still rests... why whit 2Gb sd all is ok, and with the 4Gb one not?!?!?!?

could this be part of the problem with ppl not being able to flash new radios to their device?

*sorry double post*

4Gb SD card MUST be a SDHC card, and these run on FAT32.... i think that might cause all problems...

Moaske said:
4Gb SD card MUST be a SDHC card, and these run on FAT32.... i think that might cause all problems...
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maybe, only I know that from yesterday I flashed 5 times again my ppc with different roms and all is ok if I remove it from slot!

ervius said:
but the question still rests... why whit 2Gb sd all is ok, and with the 4Gb one not?!?!?!?
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It didn't surprise me. To read files from the SD card, you need a hardware "driver" to communicate to the hardware and to understand the layout of the card, both physically - the SD/SDHC format; and logically, the file system on the card.
Remember, there is a distinction between the OS and the firmware - what an OS can do DOESN'T necessary mean that what a firmware can do, vice versa. Think it as the BIOS of your computer against your installed OS.
In this case, your WM6 can read SDHC because there's a SDHC driver in the OS. When you are doing an flash, all the vital functions that are needed are provided by SPL. If the SPL don't have the necessary "driver" - to read the SDHC, it will naturally bails out of the operations.
It's by design and is more or less expected. Period. Unless HTC is going to "update" their SPL to support SDHC as well, but who knows.

ww2250 said:
It didn't surprise me. To read files from the SD card, you need a hardware "driver" to communicate to the hardware and to understand the layout of the card, both physically - the SD/SDHC format; and logically, the file system on the card.
Remember, there is a distinction between the OS and the firmware - what an OS can do DOESN'T necessary mean that what a firmware can do, vice versa. Think it as the BIOS of your computer against your installed OS.
In this case, your WM6 can read SDHC because there's a SDHC driver in the OS. When you are doing an flash, all the vital functions that are needed are provided by SPL. If the SPL don't have the necessary "driver" - to read the SDHC, it will naturally bails out of the operations.
It's by design and is more or less expected. Period. Unless HTC is going to "update" their SPL to support SDHC as well, but who knows.
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ok, good answer!!
I know now...

I suffered the problem of bad blocks you mention with a defective 4GB mini SD (TopRam) and reported it in Pof's thread (unlock) two months ago. I was about throwing one SPV M700 out of the window. Hopefully, I removed the card at the last minute. The result was the same as you describe: no way to flash a new ROM. Partial flash seemed to work but then I realized the previous version was still there. Wen trying to flash the OS section in the rom, the Trini faded off.
I have had recently had another problem trying to update Radio Rom with no success (no mini SD and no SIM this time). I had Olipro's Spl v1.3. I installed Olipr's Spl v1.2 back (with SSPL) and could upgrade the Radio Rom.

Benzin said:
I have had recently had another problem trying to update Radio Rom with no success (no mini SD and no SIM this time). I had Olipro's Spl v1.3. I installed Olipr's Spl v1.2 back (with SSPL) and could upgrade the Radio Rom.
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I can confirm this.
My touchpad did not response correct so i decide to go back to the offical HTC ROM. The flashprocess finished at 100% with no error. After a reboot i can see that he radio was not updated.
After i go back to Hard-Spl 1.20 the radio rom i can flash the radio and the trinity accept it.

Upgrade to 8gb card

Guess the answer is somewhere, perhaps someone can point me in the right direction, how do you upgrade an Orbit to take an 8gb memory card? Thanks.

Get the SDHC patch, install it, soft reset and then insert the card. If you use the search function or look through the first two or three pages of the Artemis sub-forums you'll notice that you are not the first that asked this question

Flashed mine with Meschle Touch flash and bought an 8 GB Sandisk microSD, working perfectly.

I bought a Sandisk 8gb MICROSDHC card for my phone but the phone refuses to work with it. I've tried flasing my Orbit today which is on WM5 btw with the SDHC_WM6WM5.zip from this web-site but I'm having no luck. I can run the two cab files which look like there doing something, I then reboot the phone but still the phone does not see the memory card. The Windows folder within the SDHC_WM6WM5.zip has two files in there one called sdbus.dll and sdmemory.dll. According the the txt file within the zip file I am supposed to extract both the files to my windows directory on the main memory of the phone but unfortunately I cannot because on one of the files the SDBUS.DLL it complains of it being used by the system. I've tried reboots on the phone, factory defaulted it back, safe mode (kicking it), but still no joy.
PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP!!

Use this file: http://members.cable24.at/immogroup/HTC-P3300/SDHC-Artemis.cab and then soft reset.
If you ever upgrade your firmware be sure to take out the SDHC card - otherwise it won't even go to bootloader correctly.

Thanks for the link Registerme it's all sorted now.

upgrade to 8gb
hi i have read many comments about using this link;
http://members.cable24.at/immogroup/...HTC-Artemis.cab
i have clicked this link on my computer and it says "error on site"
i am not very clever with technical stuff and i would really like to know how you could upgrade to an 8gb card.... please could someone help me??
regards;
hello12345

here ya go

Thanks very much for this I can now put my tunes on the phone without removing my maps and charts

My Hermes is not accepting the ROM upgrade through MicroSD !!

Before when I had the MicroSD (2GB) on my Hermes I was using it to upgrade any O.S/Radio ROM directly without the P.C, but now after changing it to the (8GB) one (same brand -Sandisk-) I'm unable to do the same procedure, although nothing has been changed except the MicroSD capacity (8GB insted of 2GB)!!
Is there anyway to fix that?

the official Max. SD ccard for Hermes is 1 GB, and the experts on this website said the 2 GB card can be accepted also on Hermes...
I hope I'm wrong

farres said:
the official Max. SD ccard for Hermes is 1 GB, and the experts on this website said the 2 GB card can be accepted also on Hermes...
I hope I'm wrong
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The (8GB) I'm having is working fine and very well on the Hermes for the Programs, Camera, Games, etc..., but the only thing which is not working is the upgrade procedure only !!??

so, why dont you use the 2gb to upgrade with? I've got 3 sd cards 256/512 and my 2gb. use the smaller cards to flash with and the larger as my "working" memory. It maybe the os has sdhc support but not sure if the hermes does itself considering you are pretty much reformatting memory and re-installing an os. Might be that there is a certain size you can't go ove rwhen re-flashing. Just a though.... Cheers..

FirasKB said:
The (8GB) I'm having is working fine and very well on the Hermes for the Programs, Camera, Games, etc..., but the only thing which is not working is the upgrade procedure only !!??
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is it fat32 formatted? because that's what u have to use for the formatting method that may be your problem

it is because the SDHC is not compatible from bootloader as it does not use the necessary drivers from the OS.

ph03n1x said:
is it fat32 formatted? because that's what u have to use for the formatting method that may be your problem
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Yep, I've already done that, but it seems the problem is from the Bootloader as (miffymiffy) said. But in this case how can we solve it? Is it by upgrading the Bootloader, or what?

FirasKB said:
Yep, I've already done that, but it seems the problem is from the Bootloader as (miffymiffy) said. But in this case how can we solve it? Is it by upgrading the Bootloader, or what?
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as far as i know you cant solve this problem SDHC is only supported in ROM
maybe one day someone will add it to Bootloader but for now just use the 2gb card..

Will Fat format also work? or will only Fat32 work for bootloader?
thanks in advance.

calculus said:
Will Fat format also work? or will only Fat32 work for bootloader?
thanks in advance.
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The Bootloader can only accept the FAT32 format.

4 gb worked on my hermes

sphynx88 said:
4 gb worked on my hermes
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They are talking about flashing from SDHC. 8Gb doesn't have problem for other purpose.

Help Me How To Install New Rom Without Pc
Hi,
Anybody tell me how i upgrade my rom through MicroSD because my mobile is not connect with PC.
thanks in advance

ialwaywanted said:
Hi,
Anybody tell me how i upgrade my rom through MicroSD because my mobile is not connect with PC.
thanks in advance
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First off, please don't cross post. You posted the same question in two different threads.
Second, your question is answered in the wiki. I know this for a fact as I added the link to it from the main Hermes page (and just updated it not long ago).
Go read it and if you have a question about the procedure, then ask.

the reason it won't flash is that SDHC isn't compatible with the hermes without installing windows mobile 6 (early versions didnt work) or 6.1, and bootloader mode (used to flash from sd card) is out of the windows 6/6.1 operating system (which is used to read the card) so this is why the card cannot be read,
Similarly windows mobile 5 doesnt ready cards over 2gb as they are SDHC
hope this helps and you understand my explanation

Can't recognize 8gb SDHC with sdhc patch!!!???

I have 8gb SDHC microSD which i've used before with my touch dual with no problems.
I installed artemis sdhc.cab but nothing happened...
please help...

xmarkom said:
I have 8gb SDHC microSD which i've used before with my touch dual with no problems.
I installed artemis sdhc.cab but nothing happened...
please help...
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I have the same problem. I bought myself an 8gb SDHC card, not knowing that my device wouldnt recognize it.
Has anyone, yet, found a way to run sdhc on the HTC Wizard? I saw a lot of comments that this isnt a hardware problem, but software, and still none of them saying an exact way to do it, or if its impossible. ...
I`m using the MSD WM6.5 Rom
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someone said that one of the ways to enable sdhc on ur device is to install a rom that supports it - is there one for the wiza?

Vik Vasilev said:
I have the same problem. I bought myself an 8gb SDHC card, not knowing that my device wouldnt recognize it.
Has anyone, yet, found a way to run sdhc on the HTC Wizard? I saw a lot of comments that this isnt a hardware problem, but software, and still none of them saying an exact way to do it, or if its impossible. ...
I`m using the MSD WM6.5 Rom
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someone said that one of the ways to enable sdhc on ur device is to install a rom that supports it - is there one for the wiza?
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i've found the problem.
It is "hardware" thing, probably sdhc are bigger by ~ 0,5 mm and you must try couple of times to put card the right way.
By the way, you also need Artemis sdhc driver (cab file).

HELP! micro SDCH does not work!

Hi there.
I'm having a very strange problem and could not solve it so far.
I have a T-mobile MDA III. When I wanted to install a new 4GB micro SDHC, I downloaded the patch, ran it on my MDA, rebooted, inserted the memory and it all worked perfectly.
Then I got an HTC P3300 (for spare) and wanted to do the same. Installed the patch, rebooted, inserted the memory... but the phone does not recognise it.
I than ran the "go back", rebooted, inserted the old 2GB memory but now the phone no longer recognises it.
So, the MDA works ok with 4GB memory.
P3300 does not recognise 4GB memory and after "going back" does not recognise 2GB memory.
Without memory the P3300 is pretty much useless.
Can anyone please shed some light on this, please....
Thanks.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=345038

braulio_holtz said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=345038
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This is precisely where I got the .cab's.
And in my MDA everything works fine.
On the P3300 the 4GB memory is not recognised.
And after installing 'back2original', no memory at all is reconised, not even the 2 GB microSD (not SDHC) that I used before.
One more detail:
on MDA I have WM6
on P3300 I have WM5
Is there something specific to WM5 to teawk about?
Thanks.

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my advice is to try flashing to a differant rom..
with a few roms i too have not been able to access my memory card..
just flash to something else
click on my signature for Uspl 1.11.cmon
youl need that to flash roms

raving_nanza said:
my advice is to try flashing to a differant rom..
with a few roms i too have not been able to access my memory card..
just flash to something else
click on my signature for Uspl 1.11.cmon
youl need that to flash roms
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Yeah, I fear that's the only solution.
(btw, why old 2Gb sd cannot be accessed? what happened?)
I've been looking for the official WM6 rom from HTC but it no longer is on the site. Where can I find it?

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wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Artemis_Upgrades

raving_nanza said:
wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Artemis_Upgrades
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Thanks.
PS - Links to originals are broken, like a number of others.

Have you tried reading the card on the PC? See how it's partitioned and what kind of partition it is. Usually, you should use FAT.
I had this issue before (on my Polaris) and a format helped.

NeoS2007 said:
Have you tried reading the card on the PC? See how it's partitioned and what kind of partition it is. Usually, you should use FAT.
I had this issue before (on my Polaris) and a format helped.
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The microSDHC was (is) formated FAT32 with only one partition. On the PC it worked fine.
Anyway, I flashed a ROM (could not find HTC original WM6 though...), applied the patch and now the 4Gb micro SDHC is working.
Still, I could not explain why, in the first try, the old 2Gb microSD stopped working.

I recon it's working now?

NeoS2007 said:
I recon it's working now?
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Yep... but it was a real pain in the royal a**...