I’m attempting to upgrade my (Cingular) HTC8125 G3 Wizard to Windows Mobile 6.0 and ran into a problem which I can’t seem to find that anyone else has encountered.
Months ago (maybe even a year or 2 ago – I don’t remember) I was about to do the upgrade to WM6 but didn’t really get around to doing so. All I did then was download and store on my PC a couple of files including /lokiwiz03a.zip. When I tried to use that file after following the script and having everything go perfectly up to that point I ran into the problem of not finding /lokiwiz.bat in the unzipped archive. The only .bat files I have are /LokiwizMSL.bat and, /EnableRapi.bat (in the /UTIL subdirectory). LokiwizMSL.bat seemed to run perfectly and even reported a Simlock Code but at the end I don’t think it actually unlocked anything except RAPI.
So, I went out into the internet wilderness and found and downloaded /lokiwiz.bat - but when running that didn't solve the problem I took a closer look at the .bat file alongside my lokiwiz archive and found I was also missing two /UTIL files: /pdocwrite.exe & /preboot.exe
Obviously there's a problem with the “03” version I have and I tried to download Lokiwiz02b.zip (826.1KB) from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=249474 but every time I clicked on the link I got a blank screen.
Right now I’m sitting with a phone that isn’t quite a brick but sadly short of its potential. Please advise urgent!!!!!!!!!!!
Many thanks,
George
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Apologies in advance for the newbie question.
I have a new SPV-M5000 locked to Orange. I think I have all of the files that I need to unlock it, and using all three hands I managed to get it into bootloader mode, but when I try to run MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe I get the following error: "MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe is not a valid Win32 application"
I hope that I am making some kind of really dumb (and therefore easily fixable) newbie mistake here. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Upgrade utility
Hi.
I have the same issue and posted the following on Buzz's site (buzzdev.net) over a week ago but have had no replies. Hopefully someone with an answer will reply to you here?
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Having read pretty much all the forums on Universal software optimisation starting with craigiecraigie4's excellent guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=31697&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 and extensive reading on the wiki site and of course Buzz's brilliant work throughout this and other sites, I finally feel ready to take the plunge with updating my new o2 xdaExec using o2's 1.30.107 WWE ROM, Dopod's 1.11.00 Radio and my own Extended ROM creation (yet to be made as I want to do 1 bit at a time). I thought I'd put Jasjar's extended ROM (164 I think) on until I have got use to modifying the Ext ROM image as I want.
However, I need to use Buzz'y MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe program as the standard installer is telling me there is a country error. Fine, so I have that downloaded BUT when I try to run it, my Windows XP system tells me that it is not a valid win32 application. Am I missing something here? Have I downloaded the wrong program or is there a problem with my XP? I don't appear to have this problem with other programs.
Hope I have included enough info for someone to tell me where I am going wrong.
HELP................
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I have just downloaded a version from this forum (about half way down) - I haven't had a chance to test it yet but it IS different and if I run it without connecting my Universal, it does run the program but fails as no PPC device connected so it may be the better version. I will try it tomorrow but if you test it first, let me know
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=54210&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25
O.K., that file seemed to do it.
I have now flashed my ROM with the latest non-Greek QTEK build, UNI_QTEK_13077_176_10900_WWE_Ship.exe, and then copied UNI_Unlock_v1.exe onto a SD card and ran it. I got a successful unlock message.
However, when I put my SIM into the phone, it booted up to a plain screen with a title bar of "Simlock" and the following message: "Network is locked, Please input unlock code".
Did I miss a step somewhere? Is it possible that the SIM itself could be locked (it's a brand new Cingular SIM) somehow?
Yes you did miss a step, in fact you missed lots of steps.
Go back and read the readme.txt file that came with the unlock program, everything is explained very clearly in there what you need to do!
Hello!
I recently bricked my MyPal A626. In the last weeks I tried several things but until now I weren't able to figure out how to fix this thing.
I know that you can flash the ROM via the USBLoader.exe over USB. But I need a .nb0 file for this.
Perhaps there is someone in this board who can help me out with this file?
You should be able to dump the rom with the itsutils over RAPI.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=XdaUtils
It should be something like this:
1) pdocread -t
2) pdocread -l
3) pdocread 0x0 xxxxxx nk.nb0
One of the first commands gives you the length of the ROM.
I can't test it by myself because my device is bricked.
Perhaps it would be enough if somebody with an A626 can execute the first and second commands and post the output here.
It would be very great if somebody can help me!
BTW:
I have got a Backup... But the bootloader doesn't want this. It reads everything from USB but it isn't flashed. And I have absolutely no idea why.
I can upload this file to rapidshare if somebody wants to look at it.
I really hate to ressurect an old thread, but I am having the exact same problem. ASUS tech support has been rather less than helpful. They won't provide a NB0 file to end users, nor any fix tools that would work with the encrypted image or anything like that either. They told me I have to RMA the thing after passing me back and forth and giving me the runaround for about an hour or more even. Only, I STILL haven't gotten a response from the RMA department even... The person I tried to do this update for REALLY needs her PDA back already and I find this whole situation to be quite unacceptable. I only had to attempt to use the update in the first place because they made a screweup that makes the SD card inaccessable without reinserting after pressing the power button... A pretty big screwup IMO considering that good PDA practices really requires one to run as much as possible from the SD card for the sake of wasting less resources in a device that already has all too few resources to begin with... (Then again, MS still hasn't caught on to the fact that minimizing rather than closing programs on a device that has so little memory is rather less than ideal, so I guess there's nothing new in that area.) The funniest thing of all is that I wasn't trying to modify it or anything like that, I just did the update right by the manual needing only to get the SD card fix and it STILL went wrong (especially I find it annoying that the update process did a checksum on the update.img file and reported that the file was actually correct, then it fails AFTER completely flashing and doesn't bother to make any kind of recovery.
If anyone could help me out with a NB0 for this thing, I'd REALLY appreciate it. I just want to get it up and running again so she can use her PDA for getting organized as she has been desperately needing for so long.
BTW, should the OP ever read this, I have noticed that if you send the right things, it WILL try to flash. I once sent the update.dat file in the hopes that it might include information needed to make the flash work (it was my hope that the process was a little smart and that it would, therefore, use the DAT file for information on the flash and then include the needed image.) The device actually did make a flash with this file. Of course, the flash obviously didn't work, but the point is that it can do a flash through this method if you send what it's looking for.
GOOGLE this A696_dump_wm5_eng.rar
No good. All two links Google finds are dead (I see two different posts in two different forums, but actually each link to the same links and these are both dead.) I did see a reference to a "A696_dump_wm6_2_eng.rar" but it too is dead. (One of those two forums was this one, I see, surprisingly enough considering that the first thing I did was run a search as is evidenced by finding an old thread -- but then I must admit that I was searching for A626, not A696...) The next closest I can find through this search is a Russian dump for an A636N. I don't have an A636N and I can't read a word of Russian. That link is still alive, but I'm not even going to try it since even if it were actually compatible with the A626 (and I'm betting it's not) it still would be as good as a brick to me still.
But anyway, is the A696 ROM actually directly compatible with an A626 system?
EDIT: I stand corrected! The link for the 6.2 update on the A696 isn't dead after all. When I tried last night it would just spend a REALLY long time trying to load and eventually either time out or produce a database error. When I tried today though, it did sucessfully download. Looks like it does work. Thank goodness because the PDA's owner really needs a working PDA, and ASUS seems rather less than helpful...
Nazo said:
But anyway, is the A696 ROM actually directly compatible with an A626 system?
EDIT: I stand corrected! The link for the 6.2 update on the A696 isn't dead after all. When I tried last night it would just spend a REALLY long time trying to load and eventually either time out or produce a database error. When I tried today though, it did sucessfully download. Looks like it does work. Thank goodness because the PDA's owner really needs a working PDA, and ASUS seems rather less than helpful...
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626,686,696 are same series.. aka. asus 6x6 or the cannes. if you go to asus website. there is a single rom for these 3 models.
what's the 6.2 update you are talking about ? anyway.. let me know if you still want the 6x6 wm5 dump file. I can upload it to somewhere..
Well, I went ahead and flashed despite worrying about model compatibility. I figured they were the same basic hardware, but I figured that it was always possible that there could be important differences such as memory latencies or such that could make it incompatible perhaps even to the point of danger. But, it's just the software end of things more than anything else, so I figured that it couldn't brick the PDA any worse than it was already bricked and went ahead. As you say though, I have noticed that you are correct that they do use the same ROM for all three models on the official site anyway, so it works 100%.
As for the 6.2, it's in the link I provided to a topic here on this forum. The only other result you'll find on google is just a site in Russian or whatever where they repeat the exact same links for each of the files so you might just as well use this one. It's hosted on MediaFire which was really screwed up when I posted that it was a dead link, but it seems to have recovered and I was able to download that updated ROM from there. I think that you may have to look on the previous page from the link I gave though.
I must say though, I'm glad to have found that one. I HAD to do the update. You see, it was more than just an update to WM6.2. It also included a lot of bugfixes. The most notable being that the system would no longer recognize the SD card after a suspend for a while (or several suspends -- I never was sure just which was the culprit.) Resetting or ejecting and reinserting fixes it, but she was having troubles with this because she isn't exactly the most technosavvy person I have ever known. The SD card dissapearing bug was a fatal flaw because she must load up things such as books and such via SD card and all of it together adds up to well over what can fit safely in internal memory and the file storage combined (but which easily fit an a 2GB SD card) and I needed that update, so if I had to get the WM5 ROM again I'd have to just update again and again as many times as it took to get past the bricking. This way I needed only load up the ROM once and that was it. ASUS really needs to create a tool that can load the encrypted ROM from a PC like HP has done (I've bricked my h1945 PDA while attempting to update it once before and was able to fix it quite easily just as soon as I figured out how to get into the so called "parrot mode.") and such so we don't have to resort to such means to fix them...
Anyway, now I need to get started on loading up all of the stuff she needs.
I just bricked my A363N - WM5.0->6.0 upgrade failed (SD card read error).
Now I'm trying to make it work again.
Russian WM5.0 doesn't work - stops on the calendar screen.
I wonder if I can try to upload update.dat file from the Asus wwe.rar
with SD card inserted and containing Update.img.
Is the update.dat file in .nb0 format ?
Is the A636 actually the same series? If not that post belongs in an appropriate thread instead. If it is, why are you trying to use the Russian update? Just use the plain English one. Here, it's in this post on this site: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1495484&postcount=126 I checked and the link is still alive right now.
Yeah, very cool.
I remembered this post 10 minutes ago.
I will try the 696 firmware... Lets see if we can get this ****ing machine running the moon
Meanwhile i tried several things with the update.img file. The "Encryption" is a simple xoring with 0xd0 ^^
But even if you xor the whole file with this value you still don't have a valid nb0. I tried it many times to cut out the firmware with an hex editor on the obvious places in the file (go and see yourself if interested) but all this didn't work.
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It doesn't seem to work for me... The file gets flashed and the device reboots.
After that it still gets stuck at the blue asus screen but it is recognized by the computer as a RNDIS device.
another edit:
WOAH... I tried it again and now it works.
It seems that the battery was empty because of all the previous tries.
Unsuccesfull rom flash
Hello,
I bricked my 696 asus, trying to do un update from the asus site.
Can you tell me some methods to repair it, using the sd card, because the method with usbloader.exe and nk.nb0 is not working ("USB pipe opening error", I tried on several computer and many usb ports).
Also, how can I transform the nk.nb0 flashing image into a *.dio image (I understand the last one can be used to boot and repair automatically from the SD card, it is real???).
10x a lot
Still not working
any new idea to reflash rom foa a696 ?
Hello to you
any news about how to make rom upgrade foa asus a696 ?
Hey everyone, this is my first post here so I'm not entirely sure this is the right place to pose this question. Earlier today, I made the decision to upgrade my Dash to WinMobile 6.1 using the resources here at this forum. The upgrade went nearly flawlessly with the excption that I need to copy the correct keyboard settings cab file still. However, I'm unable to do that because of Activesync.
I had 4.2 installed on my laptop and it never gave me any problems. Unfortunately, the phone displayed a message that I needed to upgrade to 4.5 in order to connect to the PC using Activesync. I downloaded the file from Microsoft's website and tried to run the install program. After clicking the "install" prompt, I get the following error message: "The System Cannot Open the Device or File Specified" Retry or Cancel. Retry gets me no where. I have spent at least 5 hours not trying to find a solution to this problem including a LOT of searching on Google, here, Microsoft's site and other places. NOTHING. I've seen a couple of references to this problem but no definitive solution to the problem.
A few things I have tried: Disable Firewall; uninstall Activesync 4.2 (curiously, after using the Add/Remove Program tool in the Control Paner, there was still an Activesync folder and dozens of files on my hard drive...I manually deleted as many of these as I could); Ran a file called "fixmapi.exe"; and I downloaded the upgrade file from multiple sources, all of which were suggestions I came across during the day.
I'm sooo frustrated because I can't update the keyboard map, I cant synchronize the hundreds of contacts and calendar items I have in Outlook, the phone feels completely useless to me at the moment and I cant believe that this is such an unusual problem (which is my conclusion based on such a complete lack of guidance on this issue).
anything anyone can offer will be HUGELY appreciated!
After spending many months waiting for the official WM6.1 ROM...
After following the firmware upgrade instructions explicitly (including the notes on Vista)...
I now have a bricked 9502!
The phone just simply tells me to reconnect and try and run the upgrade again immediately after it is powered on. (That doesn't work) I've been searching high and low for a method to reload the firmware.
As anyone who has dealt with iMate knows - their support is worse then useless. Its infuriating! (If you ever do get connected to their online support, they will simply disconnect the session if they don't have a quick answer)
...anyway...
I have the IMAGEFR.mbn and CP.mbn files extracted from the install set and copied to an SD card installed in the unit. I just can't find any info on how to get the phone to load the two firmware files from the card at boot time. (I'm pretty sure the USB connection is going to be useless).
Beware: All this may be due to the fact that Vista-64 wasn't a supported update environment (although the ReadMe specifically gave instructions for Vista - it did not specify 32 or 64).
Help is appreciated!
evanevery said:
After spending many months waiting for the official WM6.1 ROM...
After following the firmware upgrade instructions explicitly (including the notes on Vista)...
I now have a bricked 9502!
The phone just simply tells me to reconnect and try and run the upgrade again immediately after it is powered on. (That doesn't work) I've been searching high and low for a method to reload the firmware.
As anyone who has dealt with iMate knows - their support is worse then useless. Its infuriating! (If you ever do get connected to their online support, they will simply disconnect the session if they don't have a quick answer)
...anyway...
I have the IMAGEFR.mbn and CP.mbn files extracted from the install set and copied to an SD card installed in the unit. I just can't find any info on how to get the phone to load the two firmware files from the card at boot time. (I'm pretty sure the USB connection is going to be useless).
Beware: All this may be due to the fact that Vista-64 wasn't a supported update environment (although the ReadMe specifically gave instructions for Vista - it did not specify 32 or 64).
Help is appreciated!
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I've read many posts around stating that upgrading WM devices through Vista has proven to be a nigthmare for a lot of devices.
If possible, try to get a WinXP equipped machine, and perform the SW upgrade there normally (i.e. by clicking on the EUM SFX executable file on the PC).
You see, I upgraded mine through my XP lappy, and the process simply ran flawlessly.
Just my 2 cents...
Cheers!
Carlos
the problem is not in the vista, i flash using vista ultimate and no problem, u can unbrick by
pressing fn button and call (green) button then press the reset button, without let the 2 previous button go until u can see the imate logo or hard reset message.
I hope this can help.
thanks a lot i have unbricked my imate
thanks a lot by your code buttons i have unbricked my i mate
Hi, Need some help here....tired of the same whole mix-mash from htc (recycled phones) so going back to basics - htc s620 (wm6) + my just acquired used 4700. Intend to upgrade it to WM6.1, I've been using htc phones so I am used to rom flashing... or so i thought. I downloaded some of the wm6 and 6.1 roms only to find that dont come with an ruu built in. Not a problem I thought,just get a carrier and replace the nbf file. Unfortunately despite an extensive search on brighthand and here and yahoo searches galore i havent been able to find a suitable guide with the necessary utilities to carry out the flash. The "universal bootLoader" no longer seems to be around (404 errors) samething with other Ruu's (from ru websites etc) yet I can still see thru the long 220 - 251 pg threads that people are flashing with something. In the interest of new 4700 owners would it be possible to have a particular "How-to-flash" thread possibly as a sticky? If not at least can someone help me with a how-to guide and any link to the relevant ruu or bootLoader utility for the rom flash.
Thanx all appreciate it.
You can find all the neccessary information on this page; different ROM's, a bootloader, and instructions in PDF format..
Thanks a lot ridolfo. that has helped a great deal. Slight problem that you hopefully know a way around. After downloading the BootLoader.exe rar file, I tried to open it to proceed but it kept on coming up with an error... "windows cannot open the selected path file...you may not have the appropriate permissions to open them" I just cant get past that altough it has apparently opened and expanded showing a whole lot of other files but i cannot basically get past that stage to run the rom nbf file... Any ideas please?
Right sorted!
Very simple but unexpected solution especially since i hadn't seen the issue mentioned elsewhere.
Simply disconnected all connections to the internet especially wifi (for safety/protection etc) and then disabled zone alarm!
Everything went thru as normal,updated and now just waiting for boot-up.
thanx a lot Ridolfo!!!