hi all,
i'm hoping someone might have some suggestions to fix my x50v. i have been given an x50v that wont turn on, so far ive
- checked the backup batt holds charge
- lock switch works
- battery cover switch works
- reflashed wm2003se rom
- reflashed wm5 A02 bootloader and rom
the reflashes will complete sucessfully but when i do the hard reset after flashing the rom it is still dead. the only key combination that will show anything on the screen is wifi+power+reset and the bootloader comes up.
does anyone have any suggestions? I've searched the forum for days looking for things to try, seems like a common problem.
bump... anyone???
Not sure if you've still got the same problem but it sounds identical to what happened to me after flashing WM5 A02. I'd successfully gone from WM2003 > WM5 A01 but after A02 it just wouldn't boot. I could still get to the bootloader but no amount of flashing got it working.
Eventually I tried flashing LennySh WM6.1 A09 just see if it would work, it didn't. Still same problem. So I gave it up for dead. Then a few weeks later, I came back to it, the charge had gone completely. Plugged it in, let it charge a bit, switched it on and bam, it began the boot process and worked just fine.
I've no idea why, I was shocked, maybe something to do with the battery dying completely. But I'd done multiple hard resets, recovery attempts all with no luck. So why it just started working I don't know. But if you've left it in a cupboard somewhere and given up on it, it might just be worth giving another try!
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First, I would like to thank everyone on this forum for valuable information. I have been able to flash a Blue Angel and more recently a Universal (SPV M5000) with a Jasjar, O2 and Qtek ROM.
I have researched the forum but have not found any answer close to my problem.
After the lastest update (O2 Exec just released), I did not reset the unit properly and now my screen is completely dead/blank. I tried to reflash but it is no longer recognized (will not power back up)
No possibility in putting in Boot loader mode (power+light+reset) or doing a hard reset (the 2 _ and reset).
has anyone experienced this and can I revive it, at least, bring it back to a boot loader so I can reflash? Thank you to all :roll:
Just a thought. Have you tried leaving out the battery pack for a while, say an hour or better overnight? Might be worth trying the hard-reset sequence with the battery still out, then insert the battery and hard-reset again. If it responds, try flashing again.
It is possible to get the Universal in a totally confused state. Mine does this everytime if I power down the workstation *without* first disconnecting the Exec from the USB-Sync cable. Fortunately, it will respond after a battery out plus reset, then battery in plus soft-reset, so I don't actually have to clear the memory.
Hope you dig yourself out of the brown stuff!
i am trying this at the moment as I do not know what else to do. I will put the battery back tomorrow in hope it will restart again.
Thank you for the advice
i am trying this at the moment as I do not know what else to do. I will put the battery back tomorrow in hope it will restart again.
Thank you for the advice
claudef said:
i am trying this at the moment as I do not know what else to do. I will put the battery back tomorrow in hope it will restart again.
Thank you for the advice
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No to do that , connect ypur ppc to pc amd flush again after finish just push reset buttom , you will be ok, otherwide try one more time
Unfortunately, I cannot flash because it will not power up or start the boot loader. The pc does not recognize the device
claudef said:
i am trying this at the moment as I do not know what else to do. I will put the battery back tomorrow in hope it will restart again.
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That worked for my when I was flashing my JAM, no problems. Scary, but successful. Think I may have left it a couple of days, to be sure. I then reflashed it successfully.
Although I refused to flash my Exec - too damned expensive to replace, and the ROM is 95% as good as it needs to be.
well i just downloaded and proceeded to flash the latest ROM from clubimate..
everything went normal, upgraded Radio, ExtROM, and CE ROM, then i was asked to unplug the device, and cold boot it, which i did.
after clearing the storage, the device reset, showed the splash screen, the version strings (latest ones) and stayed there.. i kept it for 15 minutes to no avail..
i reflashed again from the bootloader and still the same behaviour
Radio ROM takes 20 minutes to flash, EXT Rom takes less than a minute, then when CE flashing is done, i cold boot.. again it gets stuck on the boot splash screen
i tried a different PC, different cable, older ROM version.. all the same..
any clues as to what may have gone wrong here?
Thanks in advance
me too
Got the same problem and same description of proces
well,
i tried flashing the radio rom again, tried every mtty trick in the book and still got nothing.
eventually i've taken the phone to i-mate service center, and it's been there for a week
they said the motherboard is faulty and needs replacement, i'm suspecting the flash chip has gone bad.
now i'm not sure if this applies to all of us here with the same symptoms after the upgrade, but i really find it strange that after all these years with i-mate devices, upgrading, downgrading and flashing different roms, half the forum hits the same dead-end when a new update comes out from i-mate and they try to flash it on.
something is strange about the latest rom. i just wish i knew what it is
AntiProxy said:
...i'm suspecting the flash chip has gone bad...
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you bet it is!
buzz
HELP PLEASE BUZZ
I have upgraded to rom JASJAR_WWE_13076_164_10900_wwe_ship
when rebooted I just get blank grey screen.
after messing about with mtty I got it so I can reinstall it again at last but then same problem.
Any I deas Buzz you da man
Cheer in advance
Jon
same problem here
damn, same problem with me
its not recognized by the pc and there is absolutely nothing on the screen
anyone found a solution for my thousand dollar paperweight?
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after clearing the storage, the device reset, showed the splash screen, the version strings (latest ones) and stayed there.. i kept it for 15 minutes to no avail..
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I now have the same problem as well. I however received this through the trials and tribulations of getting my JJ into the damn bootloader...
Hi,
I had the following issue recently with bootloader:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375685
Thanks to all those of you who replyed.
Well I now have some further info but the problem is slightly different. The fix for my problem last time seemed random, I hooked up to my pc and the phone started booting fine.
So I have been using my phone fine for X number of weeks, no changes software adds updates or anything applied.
I have been using SPB Backup (A+ s/w) to do nightly scheduled backups, followed by a reboot. Two nights ago I found my phone on the bootloader screen !!
I hooked my phone up to my pc ready to re-flash it, and switched it on (the phone). Low and behold the phone booted fine. So off I trundled with a "working" phone.
This morning I woke up to a bootloader screen ! As a side niote the phone is on charge all throughout the night so as I get no issue during backups.
I hooked my phone up to my pc and switched the phone on and voila, it booted. So I set about doing the mtty.exe tasks listed in the above post. I ran "info 8" as suggested in the above thread and my output was identical (barring checksum values) to that described here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_BootLoader
Nothing strange that I could see and when I ran "task 2a" it appeared to do nothing.
I have re-flashed my ROM (Schaps 4.31) and the flash worked fine except when it re-booted, it went to bootloader. A quick phoen switch on with it hooked up to the pc via USB and it booted fine.
So quick summary:
Reboot of device causes bootloader screen to appear. Hooking it up to PC via USB and switching it on allows normal boot and the phone is fine then as long as it doesn't reboot.
Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this problem ??
ps Sorry it was a long post, thought I had better explain everything!
Dave
HARDSPL7 Olipro 2.10
HERM 300 - T-Mobile MDA Vario II
Schaps 4.31
Someone else has the same issue on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=381279
But, I think I have solved my problem (not sure if it is permanent) by powering the phone off and on. Not resetting, just a simple power off. I spoke to a colleague who said the way it shuts down is different to soft reset (makes sense) and I haven't powered my phone off properly for a long time.
I have tried soft reset a couple of times since doing this and it hasn't gone to the bootloader screen once.
Maybe this is the simple fix.
I will keep you posted.
My fix didn't work.
Can someone give me some idea what I should see when I run "task 2a" in mtty ? I ran it and it just gave a blank line and then went back to the prompt.
Help
might be dumb question but did you try reinstalling hard spl? might fix. also I would try to reflash to stock rom. wouldnt hurt, then flash to rom of choice. Cheers....
as for mtty it will flash up the bad blocks and tell you if its repaired or not. if there was no response then it means there were no bad blocks...
Hey guys, I've updated to wm6 and sometimes after my p3300 started to either black out or get into a irresponsive mode where the screen is just lightly on. No buttons replies! Once its happens the only solution is to do a soft reset and then pass to phase 2, try to restart it. That bad boy gets stuck directly at the loading process and its maybe - with luck- that it will go through the os loading after 10 tries and soft resets. The phone can work then from five minutes to ten hours and will get stuck again. What is Happening???!!! Also I don't think its the battery cause it does the same thing even with full battery. Last detail, I just passed the warranty limit and its too late to send it back. What can I do??
Did you updated with the official Rom?
Try to flash it again.
Or just try it out a cooked WM6.1 ROM. I recomend Artemis touch Vanilla 4.02.
Cheers
You tried a hard-reset?
babar_almighty said:
Hey guys, I've updated to wm6 and sometimes after my p3300 started to either black out or get into a irresponsive mode where the screen is just lightly on. No buttons replies! Once its happens the only solution is to do a soft reset and then pass to phase 2, try to restart it. That bad boy gets stuck directly at the loading process and its maybe - with luck- that it will go through the os loading after 10 tries and soft resets. The phone can work then from five minutes to ten hours and will get stuck again. What is Happening???!!! Also I don't think its the battery cause it does the same thing even with full battery. Last detail, I just passed the warranty limit and its too late to send it back. What can I do??
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did u run a uspl first?
jahrami said:
did u run a uspl first?
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If he upgraded it, then he didn't need it or it was the original WM6 ROM.
The problem was after upgrade!
Flash it again or do a hard reset!
Cheers
Thanks for the help. Yeah I installed the touch Vanilla 4.02 cooked WM6.1 ROM. And I believe the uspl was in the file. As far as I remember I ran it but had no feedback whether it worked or no...
Would a hard reset get the bad boy back to wm5 or reboot with wm6.1?
I *should* reset/default to factory settings for whatever ROM was last successfully flashed to the device. You will lose any installed programs/data so so a PIM backup/ActiveSync before hand if required.
A while back I upgraded my imate PDA2k from WM2003 to WM6 and it was working fine, a bit slow but everything was working
however recently I left the wifi on and left the phone at home and I guess all the battery was drained or something
I couldn't turn the phone on, so I decided to charge the battery and try again
The phone boots, enters windows, comes to the homescreen and then freezes (totally unresponsive... buttons dont work, touchscreen dont work)
So then I tried to downgrade the ROM back to WM2003 by following the wiki but I cant seem to be able to do so.
could anyone help guide me side by side?
Thank you,
Chan
UnholyGod said:
A while back I upgraded my imate PDA2k from WM2003 to WM6 and it was working fine, a bit slow but everything was working
however recently I left the wifi on and left the phone at home and I guess all the battery was drained or something
I couldn't turn the phone on, so I decided to charge the battery and try again
The phone boots, enters windows, comes to the homescreen and then freezes (totally unresponsive... buttons dont work, touchscreen dont work)
So then I tried to downgrade the ROM back to WM2003 by following the wiki but I cant seem to be able to do so.
could anyone help guide me side by side?
Thank you,
Chan
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You have to put the device in bootloader before up/downgrading. Don't worry if ActiveSync doesn't see it (in fact, you should kill ActiveSync before flashing). Good luck
if you follow the procedures in my thread linked in my signature, you will succeed. it covers the complete down- and upgrade procedure.