hello, really need help upgrading my MDA Vario II (Hermes 300) from WM5 to WM6. Can't seem to make a ROM work, have tried the SD way and it just doesn't seem to pick anything up.
I am running
HERM300
IPL-1.04
HERM300
SPL-2.10. Olipro
Am I just using the wrong ROMs or am I doing something wrong?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Make sure your sd card is:
1. Smaller than 2 gig (non sdhc)
2. Formatted fat32 (not fat)
Then make sure the file is named hermimg.nbh (as in hermes image) and you should be good to go.
I've got a 2GB Micro SD card, formatted FAT32
well I've got no .nbh file with the rom, the rom is just an .exe that I cannot change. I'm guessing thats where I am going wrong is it? I need to put a .nbh file with the rom?
Many Thanks
Ahh, ok, your trying to install the stock shipped rom (upgrade), it sounds like.
You can use something like 7zip (I use 7zip, but it's just personal Preference) or winrar to extract the exe, the stock rom will need to have the 2nd exe extracted as well (there is another exe inside the original exe). Then the nbh file will appear that can be renamed and put on the sd card.
Also, what rom are you trying to install? Just to be sure.
If it's one of the ones from this section of the wiki you should be good to go.
Or if it's one of the "custom" roms found here in the hermes section of the forums, you should also be all set.
thanks very much for your help, followed what you said and it worked perfectly.
Thanks again!
Glad it worked!
Thanks for helping out boog. Closing thread.
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Hi there,
there was a situation, when someone needed to grab, fast and invisible, a ROM dump off of a device at some exhibition...
Well i wrote this bad and nasty tool to do the dirty work... )
all you need is a SD card and this tool.
Setup
- rename 'grab_it_xx.exe' to 'autorun.exe'
- create folder '2577' on your (empty) SD/MMC/Mini-SD card
- copy 'autorun.exe' to this folder
That's it for the "setup" )
Usage
Now every time, when you insert this card into PPC it will grab the ROM image and save it into root of the card as 'dump.bin'.
It will show you a tiny red progress bar at the very bottom of the screen.
Once done, it will beep the default sound.
Message boxes are only shown in case of error.
IMPORTANT NOTE (thanx MDAIIIuser)
YOU MUST NOT put it back into another device!!!
YOU MUST LOCK THE SD CARD FIRST!!!!!
or read the SD with card reader on your desktop PC.
Otherwise, you will rewrite the dump with your own ROM!!!!
This ROM dump file can be then further processed and converted to flashable formats.
it is a real spy tool ))) i mean 007 kind of... )))))
Now there are few new versions.
They are for grabing different amount of ROM.
Please note, that you will need a card which is bigger than the ROM size.
32MB dump -> fits onto 64MB card
64MB dump -> fits onto 128MB card
128MB dump -> fits onto 256MB card
THANX for pieces of mamaich's code...
Enjoy
buzz
WOOOWWWWWW very impressive buzz .. You REALLLY ARE AMAZING .. AND THE KING OF WM2005 ROM indeed
this is best tool EVER...
NEWEST TOOL for COOKING ROM ..
im totally impressed buzzz .. this TOOL IS GREAT
I LOVE THIS BRO so much >>.. especially the Progress bar .. no one will suspect this
you are GREAT .. TOTALLY the GREATEST
TINIEST TOOL FOR COOKING ROM ..
Absolute
yeah...a real mission impossible
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THANX toe MY BROTHER )
...same as you are the MR. REGISTRY MASTER
buzz
THANX jojo MY BROTHER )
...same as you are the MR. WM2k5 THEMES MASTER
buzz
Think ir about time you got a BA Buzz.
Cool
why not...i am now searching a cheapest 2nd hand BA in town (got no money enough to buy a brand new) :lol:
buzz, can we use 256 mb SD cards? and how we convert the dump.bin into flashable?
Riddler said:
buzz, can we use 256 mb SD cards? and how we convert the dump.bin into flashable?
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sure u can!
any size will do, but if u have 64MB SD only, it will go up to approx 58MB and will quit with error message "Card full"...
However, 58MB of ROM will be saved there anyway..
i can maybe build it to grab 32MB only, additionally...
for conversion, it's not that easy... send the dump to me or someone, who knows what is he doing... mamaich, itsme and such.. )))
buzz
OK, here is a newbie question, but here it goes:
A week ago I bought a originally packaged 512 MB SD card. When I inserted it in my phone, it showed there was TomTom Mobile already present on it. Now when I read this thread I remebered there was also a folder called 2577 on it and folder map contained a file called autorun.exe...
Does this mean that this was grabbed from a device somehow, or it this autorun.exe and 2577 folder thing just the way that self-installing cards operate? So basically: when one buys TomTom on a SD card, does the autorun file in the 2577 folder ensure that TomTom is automatically installed once inserted to the device? So that the ROM grabbing in this thread is done in the same way, but this autorun does not install software but grabs the ROM? Or was my SD card used in the same way for grabbing TTMobile?
Anyway, if the autorun 2577 trick is used for auto-installing software from SD card, then very nice work in making it a spy tool!
Koksie said:
OK, here is a newbie question, but here it goes:
A week ago I bought a originally packaged 512 MB SD card. When I inserted it in my phone, it showed there was TomTom Mobile already present on it. Now when I read this thread I remebered there was also a folder called 2577 on it and folder map contained a file called autorun.exe...
Does this mean that this was grabbed from a device somehow, or it this autorun.exe and 2577 folder thing just the way that self-installing cards operate? So basically: when one buys TomTom on a SD card, does the autorun file in the 2577 folder ensure that TomTom is automatically installed once inserted to the device? So that the ROM grabbing in this thread is done in the same way, but this autorun does not install software but grabs the ROM? Or was my SD card used in the same way for grabbing TTMobile?
Anyway, if the autorun 2577 trick is used for auto-installing software from SD card, then very nice work in making it a spy tool!
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no way man!
This '\Storage Card\2577\autorun.exe' is an official M$ way of autolaunching programs from SD card, well described in MSDN...
If you put calc.exe into this folder and will rename it to autorun.exe, it will be automatically launched upon inserting this SD card in. So your calculator will pop up...
i just used this feature for dumping ROM automatically. Of course my autorun actually is a dump program, unlike the one from TOMTOM, which is to launch the setup of TOMTOM... )
hope it's clear
buzz
Hicks. Upload 64 mb
1. will kill my internet bill.
2. my country isp connection speed very low. I d/l rom magician (around 30-60 mb) from xda ftp takes 2 -4 days with many times resume.
Buzz,
The way I see it is that after mr happy puts the renamed file on the sd card and the the sd card into the device, it dumps the rom. (auto*.exe)
Now if he puts the SD card back into his own device... will it dump that rom over the same 5.0 dump ?
So does it dump on same file name or increment the dump name by 1.
Does the guy know about the danger?
Sorry to ask but I would hate to see dumpped 5.0 rom dumped..
May be its not a problem.
MDAIIIUser said:
Buzz,
The way I see it is that after mr happy puts the renamed file on the sd card and the the sd card into the device, it dumps the rom. (auto*.exe)
Now if he puts the SD card back into his own device... will it dump that rom over the same 5.0 dump ?
So does it dump on same file name or increment the dump name by 1.
Does the guy know about the danger?
Sorry to ask but I would hate to see dumpped 5.0 rom dumped..
May be its not a problem.
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oh ****... good point!!!!!
so YOU MUST NOT put it back into another device!!!
YOU MUST LOCK THE SD CARD FIRST!!!!!
or put it into card reader on the desktop PC...
buzz
Great Buzz !!! Thanks for your good job
is it possible to extract files from the dump.bin file ?
TofClock said:
Great Buzz !!! Thanks for your good job
is it possible to extract files from the dump.bin file ?
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...it depends, which ROM you just dumped...
it's kind of hard with wm2k5 for HIMALAYA, coz it is compressed the way, that standard dumprom.exe doesn't understand... however... )
buzz
Woooooooooow ..... :evil:
At this time , ther's any issue to extract files from wm2005 rom ?? ( except the first xip section with mamaich's soluce )
Damn....this is great!..
Now the Search of a WM5 Magician starts......
Buzz,
Another great tool from you
o)))))))
You never stop amazing me
buzz is buzz lol
can you put a fake picture like a benchmark tool or settings or something
and make the dump in background?
thats a spy ....i lighter is a tape recorder ....a sd card is a dump machine
well i will soon have
buzzdumpmachine 1.0 in my wallet lol
the cooker cooke a tasted one once aggain
A couple of questions about upgrading to WM6 on my Axim. I am currently running 2003ce on my Axim, Vista on my computer.
Is the upgrade to WM5 done by the flash method on a SD card as described for WM6?
Can my current programs be restored from a backup or must they be reinstalled?
I'm rather a newbie at this, so thanks for the help so I don't turn my PDA into a brick.
You put the Rom onto a SD Card then go into the bootloader and install it. I dont think you can backup your programs unless you save the .cab's to another SD card or a CF card. Bricking doesnt mean that your Axim will never work again you just have to flash it back using the official rom. Only if the bootloader is tampered with will not work what so ever which shouldnt happen with most roms plus i made the silly mistake of trying to install WM6 on my X51 mid and it bricked but its working fine now after flashing back with the orginal rom.
The contents of the WM5 archive is very different from the WM6 archive. I'm guessing WM5 is applied differently than WM6. There are 3 exe files in the archive. Aximupdate.exe, Fullscreen.exe, and Enterbootloader.exe as well as other dll''s and img files.
If it applied through activesync, I may have a problem with vista. Vista would hang when I tried to update the 2003se Rom. I had to use my laptop which is running XP.
Any help with this is appreciated. I searched for this topic, but have not found anything.
Can someone tell me can i upgrade my axim x30 wit wm6?
Now i have wm 2003
Links download A12 (WM5) for X51 ?
Can anyone tell me how to use the WM5 archive to upgrade from 2003?
Thanks
Edit: I see that I dl'd a different image file than the one in this thread. The one in this thread contains the flash files for WM5. I think the only thing is I have to rename the bootloader files, from reading other messages in this thread.
So I've flashed my Hermes more times than I can remember. But I'm reformatting my laptop to a minimal installation state. I don't want to install active sync unless I have to. The only thing I ever use it for is to flash my Hermes. So I'm going to try the SD Card method found here: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_SDCardFlashing
My questions are:
Is this method still valid? Much has changed since this was posted, and I wanted to make sure that each step was still correct.
From the wiki: "SuperCID devices are able to flash any NBH image using this method." I have my Hermes with Hard-SPL-V7. That covers the SuperCID part right?
I will be flashing my Hermes to K's final 6.0 ROM. He has a feature to auto install cabs found on the SD card. I've done it before flawlessly. The wiki calls for a reformatting of the SD card. Is it ok if I still put cabs and the config file on there to auto install the cabs?
EDIT: Looks like I haven't been keeping up. Seems like this is now called User Customization and is pretty wide spread. So to rephrase, can an SD card be used to both flash and provide user customization?
This last question is just curiosity. I haven't tried any 6.1 roms yet. I was waiting for kin0kin to make a non beta one, but it looks like he's stopped development. Are the 6.1 Roms still unstable? Which one most resembles K's roms (stable, no bloat)? I never tried any other cooks outside of vp3g and kin0kin because it seemed like other cooks were more about making as many new roms, as quickly as possible rather than hammering out one very stable rom. Now that kin0kin isn't making a 6.1, who should I turn to?
You should be OK with Hard SPL ver 7 installed. And yes, you should still be able to put the auto config file on the sd card. I generally got the ****s with backing up my sd card to pc, formatting and then having to transfer EVERYTHING back onto the card so just usually put the .nbh file on my sd card AS IS... Never had a problem with flashing. I think we are told to reformat the card as a safety precaution but I've never had problems.
As for wm 6.1, It depends, as what is stable to one person insnt to another... Its common belief that if you flash a stock rom first you wont have any troubles... If you want to try there a few lean roms, FariaDrP clean rom, Hermes_ShadoW_2.1_CE, PV DVH G&C and the "unnamed" wm6.1 to name a few. A search on the forum should find these for you... Cheers, and happy flashing...
thanks for the response.
When you say AS IS, do you mean you don't rename it or anything. Or as in, just putting it on there without reformat AFTER the renaming.
For the 6.1, when I say stable I mean everything works as advertised. No adverse effects like hangs and shutdowns. Is the upgrade even worth it? Is it actually faster? I don't use IE, so that upgrade isn't really needed.
As you've already formatted the card fat 32 to use I just put the .nbh file onto the root directory BUT rename it "hermimg.nbh" otherwise it wont be recognised as a os flash. cheers...
Hey I want to add in a extrom for the first time on my siemens sx66. I read all the instructions and everything on the wiki. But they tell me I need a unlocker tool for it. I tried to find every link possible for it, but they all give me an error so Iam guessing there dead. Can anyone post up a new one please.
here you are, the unlocker and the repart doc
Thank you so much, appreciate it.
Okay, I downgraded back to wm2003, made it so total storage is 60mb. Now I upgraded back to wm6.5 explode. So now I just unhide, unlock and then just copy the extrom zip file to the extended_rom file???
Actually, I was reading another post of yours, and I remember you saying to put the /extrom folder in a sd card?? I dont remember reading that in the wiki. But anyways you think you could provide me with instructions on how to do that. I have the sd card.
by resizing the old extrom folder to (probably) 128kb, as suggested in the wiki, you don't have the old space to park the extrom, still the sd card has an autorun, as you might have experienced before, if for example there is a folder 2577 on the card, whatever is in there runs, when the card is inserted, but don't mind about that, just an example.
you have a file extrom.zip or something comparable, just unpack it and put it on the sd card, so that it shows EXTROM\ with a bunch of cabs in there and a cfg.txt, an autorun.exe and a picture custom.bmp.
- the autorun.exe is what executes the entire thing when inserted
- the cfg.txt holds the config, meaning it describes what happens there, there is a list of cabs in there, and how to process them,
- the cabs are the installation files of the programs to be installed, if you are uncertain, whether you need each one of them, maybe googling the name helps you determine that.
- the custom.bmp is the picture showing while installing the extrom and so rather uninteresting for you.
remember to make sure, the list of cab files in the folder is the same as listed in the cfg.txt, having it downloaded and extracted that is the case by default, but if you want to customize it, remember that simply copying the files into the folder is not enough, they need to be listed in the cfg.
i personally for example remove the adobe reader and arcsoft mms from extrom and put own apps in there.
every program in there is installed to the system storage, so make sure you don't stuff your device with to many apps that maybe you don't need.
Yay it worked!! Hey thanks alot for the help, didnt think it be so simple. Anyways, thanks again.
Heh I wrote this on my BA, more reasons to love this thing.
Hi,
is there a way back to Windows mobile after NAND installation of android. Need instuctions.
thanks,
t0nNe
tonne99 said:
Hi,
is there a way back to Windows mobile after NAND installation of android. Need instuctions.
thanks,
t0nNe
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I think you've missed the sticky...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=680518
It also explains how to get back to WinMo.
Hi,
I think I followed all instructions to switch back to WiMo in the sticky thread.
For a second the display shows a screen with four colours:
KAIS130
SPL-3.28.0000
CPLD-8
Then the screen turns to grey showing:
Loading ...
but nothing else happens.
Data on my sdcard:
KAISDIAG.NBH form the sticky thread
KAISimg.nbh (renamed RUU_signed.nbh) form rom file from this thread:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=379554
Do I have the right files on my sdcard?
My phone: T-Mobile MDA Vario III
Any suggestions?
thanks,
t0nNe
Thats not a stock WM rom, I'd recommend looking for Kaiser_HTC_ASIA_HK_WWE_3.34.721.2.exe
That is the last HTC stock rom, and should flash either from Bootloader using USB, or by extracting and renaming RUU_Signed.NBH and flashing by SD card.
Note that it is safest to Format the SD card before copying files and flashing, just to make sure that there are no other files or folders that could possibly confuse things.
Things to check, if using bootloader and USB, make sure you remove the SD card first. Before you enter bootloader unplug the usb cable too, now camera+power, the bootloader screen should display 'Serial' on the bottom white area, after this plug in the USB cable, it should now say 'USB', once this is showing run the file above and plunge you back into the hell that is WM
For SD card method, make certain that only the KAISimg.nbh file is on SD, and when you enter bootloader mode note that it may take a little while to read and check the NBH, since it is around 100MB, so be patient.
Hi zenity,
I deleted the KAISDIAG.NBH form my sdcard and took the renamed ruu_signed.nbh from mda-vario.exe from german t-mobile site.
Now it works fine.
Thank you for your support.
t0nNe
This happened to me last week. I wanted to check how WM used to look on the Kaiser, and I got into the same issue...
Man, WM on Kaiser looks terrible! Android is much faster and more usable than WM, even with the latest ROMs.
I'm not saying that WM is not a capable OS, it's just very hard to use on a small screen. On my HD2 at least, it runs quite fast to compensate for any aesthetic issues
tonne99 said:
Hi zenity,
I deleted the KAISDIAG.NBH form my sdcard and took the renamed ruu_signed.nbh from mda-vario.exe from german t-mobile site.
Now it works fine.
Thank you for your support.
t0nNe
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Glad I could help, and it's a good thing to have that file if you ever decide that WM is not as much fun as Android, ( I give it a week maximum before you reflash ).
hello devs,
tonne99 said:
For a second the display shows a screen with four colours:
KAIS130
SPL-3.28.0000
CPLD-8
Then the screen turns to grey showing:
Loading ...
but nothing else happens.
Data on my sdcard:
KAISDIAG.NBH form the sticky thread
KAISimg.nbh (renamed RUU_signed.nbh) form rom file from this thread:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=379554
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my KAISER is:
KAIS130
SPL-1.94.0000
CPLD-8
zenity said:
Thats not a stock WM rom, I'd recommend looking for Kaiser_HTC_ASIA_HK_WWE_3.34.721.2.exe
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where can i find a stock ROM? could you give me a link for Kaiser_HTC_ASIA_HK_WWE_3.34.721.2.exe
tonne99 said:
Hi zenity,
I deleted the KAISDIAG.NBH form my sdcard and took the renamed ruu_signed.nbh from mda-vario.exe from german t-mobile site.
Now it works fine.
Thank you for your support.
t0nNe
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or a link for mda-vario.exe
thank you very much...
zenity said:
... only the KAISimg.nbh file is on SD...
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hımmm...
i think it's ok...
i'm waiting
i'm so excited
i want to donate to you zenity
but i don't know how to donating...