Rom appears to have screwed my Diamond.. - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development

Hello,
I have been flashing roms on my diamond for a while now, however the other day I tried one and now regardless of which rom I flash and which way I flash it (activesync or from storage card) after it completes the customizations and resets it runs the customizations again, resets, runs customizations..., you get the picture.
UPDATE: Its seems to be getting worse.. sometimes I freezes at the splash screen after the 1st or 2nd reset.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know how I can break out of this loop??
I would really appreciate any help as I love my diamond and can't afford a new one lol

I'm no expert... but I had similar problems with some cooked roms.
My solution was to update my HardSPL to 1.93
Also, don't forget to do a Hard Reset after flashing the rom and also try flashing a new rom from the internal memory.
Hope it helps.

Had the same issue a while back. Try MTTY here, solved all my problems.

Maybe you can try to flash a stock rom first, then do hard reset.
Then you can flash the custom rom you like.
I had a similar problem as before. I found it helpful to do it that way.
Hope it helps.

Thanks for all your help guys!
MTTY seems to have done the trick.. though I'm a little scared to flash a new rom now lol

great to heard that you solved your problems! I also face the same problem especially if flashing between wm6.1 to wm6.5 or the other way. Just MTTY then problem solved!

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Asus P525

Hi everyone,
i've installed in my 525 the modified ROM. Very Cool.
But now i have to sell it and i need the italian ROM.
do you know where i can download it?
Thanks
Did you find the italian ROM? I'm in the same situation and I do not know how to flash it back with italian rom. Thanks
I need to flash again the ITA ROM... I have some problems that not resolved witha Hard Reset... does anybody can help please? THANKS
I dont think Italian ROM is available for download yet.
You'll have either to wait until ASUS will release some Italian ROM upgrade, or somehow find a way to "dump" original ROM from another Italian P525.
I am afraid you've made a mistake flashing a custom ROM without figuring out the proper ways of "rolling back"
well, I didn flashed any Rom in the P525.
I installed a freeware Today plugin that crashed my system. After the installation the P525 freezed, also after a soft reset the system did not loaded properly crashing and freezing after the boot and forcing me to remove the battery everytime cause the soft reset button didnt worked correctly (I mean pressing it started the soft reset but the systme didnt load). So I decided to Hard Reset the Device but also in this case the system crashed after the calibration procedure or even during the procedure itself.
After a couple of HR and several SR now the system boot but it seems "unstable" and sometimes it freezes suddendly without a particular reason.
That's why I'm asking to flash ROM from the beginnig...it sounds strange to me but could be possible that the ROM has been changed by that plugin or some unlucky circumstances damaged in some way the ROM and this problem occurs everytime also after an HR? What can be happened?
Now I have 2 choice:
1) Looking for an ITA ROM (it's v 3.30+ phone 4.5.0 and still no upgrade from Asus even it was announced for last December!). In this case can I have access to another P525 to get the ROM in some way? If possible can someone explain the procedure?
2) Flashing an English ROM (v3.32+Phone 4.6.0).... and I'd prefer it since there has been some important fixes in the latest ENG ROM. But I'm afraid I will loose ITA T9 dictionary. If someone can help me explaining how to install other T9 dictionaries in a ENG ROM I will install the ENG ROM for sure.
Also I'd like to make some experiments with a WM6 ROM in a P525... since I want to reflash everything it could be the right moment to experiment... any suggestion?
Thanks a lot to everyone for help... I'm still novice but I'm learning a lot from your posts!

Resetting and turned into a hard reset?

any time now on any rom, i'll soft reset my phone and all of a sudden it goes to the windows mobile start screen with the screen calibration.. (basically a hard reset to a clean os)
how do i fix this, i been trying to find a solution to this problem for some time now but haven't got a concrete find for it
ezsoulja said:
any time now on any rom, i'll soft reset my phone and all of a sudden it goes to the windows mobile start screen with the screen calibration.. (basically a hard reset to a clean os)
how do i fix this, i been trying to find a solution to this problem for some time now but haven't got a concrete find for it
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I am sure I have advised this when you wrote on one of the threads. Try flashing a shipped rom first, it is in my 4shared, doesn't matter if you have AT&T 8525 or not as it works for my jasjam. Flashing too many radios may kill your phone. So ... flash that and then flash the one you want ..
I have not in my time flashing my phone and my customer's phone that a soft reset causes a hard reset after following the doctors instructions
i will try that but what does the regular att rom have that customs dont to stop this from occuring
ezsoulja said:
i will try that but what does the regular att rom have that customs dont to stop this from occuring
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As I mentioned no issues for me yet touch wood/knock on wood as your part of the world probably accustom to.
ok so far so good, no more hard resets but i just wondered what the original att stripped rom is actually doing to stop this from happening and how much more to reflashing the roms before it happens again..
it has something to do with the big storage/non big storage flashings etc and that shipped rom sorta resets it all to an acceptable state to the phone's brain so to speak .. the doc's never wrong
ezsoulja said:
ok so far so good, no more hard resets but i just wondered what the original att stripped rom is actually doing to stop this from happening and how much more to reflashing the roms before it happens again..
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In a normal rom, the flash rom is split into two pices, ext rom and storage rom.
In a bigstorage rom, this boundery is removed.
Now, over time, this causes instability in the way windows access and manages the rom, leading to data loss (random hard resets).
Flashing a OEM rom with a OS partition and a Ext rom parition acts as a spring clean on the memmory layout, thus, stability.
As with windows, most things are solved by formating your HDD and starting again, its the same kinda thing!
Great.. Thanks guys, im back to normal now with no hard resetting.

How-to fix: Problems with Bootloader ... and flashing.

Hello,
Does someone else have a similar problem?
Intro: some month ago I have successfully flashed my first HardSPL (1.40 OliNex), new radio (Radio v1.00.25.05) and several ROMs. Usually I flashed them directly from internal memory since I’ve found this way quite comfortable and IMHO also safer.
However, for flashing this way you have to able enter your bootloader...
And this is my first problem: after entering my bootloader I’ll get (after a while and a short show up of bootloader’s colorful screen) a grey screen with a message Trigger usb host…
After a while it is getting even scratches … and search and search ... so the only soft reset helps.
Does somebody possibly have a similar experience? Any tips?
FYI: my last ROM was A.Z.T.O.R. V7, however I admit, I didn’t make any hard reset after flashing (due to a mistake). Now I wanted to install a Duttys ROM. Since he recommends a newer version of HardSPL (1.93) I’ve been trying to upgrade… btw can somebody tell me where I can find it!? (I know where is the link, I have downloaded it personaly several times from differenet places, however there’s always written “signed” version on the *.nbh file! Is btw 1.93 signed version only?
And why can I see always just 1.40 in bootloader even when I’ve flashed 1.93 already?
And however I should rather ask this question Duttty personaly in his threat, why there is mentioned in bootloader ROM version 1.99 for V3.1 Duttys ROM?
Can you help me please to get out of this mess?
Many thanks in advance!
Regards, Marek
PS: Very last important question: when should I make the hard reset after flashing? Since it seems that my button tricky thing doesn really work, I am able to reset my XDA just from the menu... is there any problem? (When letting the system to start up properly first?)

Problems with Radio flashing via SD-card

So I have problem, I updated rom from sd card, it worked nicely, but when I try to update Radio, sd flashing app freezes in 'Update in Progress' state, in about 10 percents.
It takes about 1/2 hour to flsh radio rom. DON'T interrupt the flash or you will get a brick...
I will try it to leave flashing for several hours even status is not moving..
ultramag69 said:
It takes about 1/2 hour to flsh radio rom. DON'T interrupt the flash or you will get a brick...
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I think what he is saying is if this happened the first time you tried flashing the radio you might have a brick at this point..
Best idea would be to try and flash shipped stock rom, you might get lucky and fluke it... WM06 from the carrier you originally had would be ok too as the radio might be able to be fixed but don't count on it...
Theres been limited success...
Good luck...
I managed to flash rom called Manilla 2d, sometimes I have no gsm message sometimes not, I tried to use mtty to access radioloader but there are always error message. It is possible to check physically(by opening case) if the radio stack is destroyed?
I installed WM5 via sd-card with radio rom, it was going really slowly, I thought it freezed again, but then finally it started moving, and finished instalation. Even now I cannot remember how many procedures I have done many different roms, radios, mtty procedures........ and finally radio works, wm works
Cool, glad to hear it.
Now would be a good time to flash Hard SPL V7. It can help you out of perilous situations. Please remember though, even though it worked this time round, it may not again. I personally DON'T flash the radio rom unless I REALLY have to. Either use cooked roms or edit the originals using Rom Koch. You can remove the rdio part and flash just the os.
Cheers...
ultramag69 said:
Cool, glad to hear it.
Now would be a good time to flash Hard SPL V7. It can help you out of perilous situations. Please remember though, even though it worked this time round, it may not again. I personally DON'T flash the radio rom unless I REALLY have to. Either use cooked roms or edit the originals using Rom Koch. You can remove the rdio part and flash just the os.
Cheers...
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Great advice there. Find a radio you like and stick with that. With the Hermes being end of line there, you won't see many if any new Radio's available. In my experience the best ones to date are either 1.47 or the 1.56 radio.

Problems after flashing roms.

After flashing some of the recent roms here on XDA, I seem to be having a bit of a problem.
After installing some programs,the program icons change in to windows logos and i'm unable to use them and my phone locks up instantly and only a hard reset will work.
If i do a soft reset i only get to the windows mobile screen or htc startup animation screen, then it freezes.
I have been flashing roms for a couple of years and have never had this problem,any help would be appreciated.
owz206 said:
After flashing some of the recent roms here on XDA, I seem to be having a bit of a problem.
After installing some programs,the program icons change in to windows logos and i'm unable to use them and my phone locks up instantly and only a hard reset will work.
If i do a soft reset i only get to the windows mobile screen or htc startup animation screen, then it freezes.
I have been flashing roms for a couple of years and have never had this problem,any help would be appreciated.
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There's not alot we can tell you if you don't tell us about your device, rom, radio, hardspl etc setup.
I'm using C.T 6.4 original touchflo but have tried others. I have olinex 1.40 spl
and have a DIAM 100 model and radio 1.00.25.05
Try another ROM.............there is that freak of nature possiblity that the Hard SPL is incompatible (rare).
If another Rom persists, then move to Hard Spl 1.93. I know some Chefs recommend a specific Hard Spl at times but again it's rare.
Can i just flash 1.93 spl over 1.40 spl, or is there a different way of doing it.
*Edit* I just tried to install 1.93 spl and it didnt work it still says i have 1.40 spl,what am i doing wrong ?
These Hard SPL developer's edition has write protection. What you need is an APP called Jump SPL....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3328000#post3328000.....POST #10
I'm using CT 6.4 OrigTF Full with HSPL 1.93 with absolutely no problems (apart from a landscape bug that I solved by installing the original Diamond Volume Control). I highly recommend it, for me it's the best I've ever used in terms of speed, stability and functionality. Remember to Hard-reset after flash. You migh also have a bad flash or a bad download. If changing HSPL don't work, try to download the ROM again and re-flash.
When I upgraded HSPL from 1.40 to 1.93 I used a version with jump-SPL included, don't remember where I found it though.
Good Luck!
I always do a hard reset after a flash and have tried numerous roms but seem to have the same problem with all the roms.
Think i might have a problem with my diamond
Thanks for all your suggestions.
hello. I have a problem. I wanted to put new rom on friend`s Diamond but when it finishes, it says error 270, the image file is corrupted.On Diamond:Upgrade rom code error, please try again.What can I do now?I made soft reset and repeated again, nothing changes.I cannot even turn off the device.It only shows tricolor,security unlocked.(RUU Diamind HTC WWE 2.03.405.2 Radio signed diamond 52.51.25.26.1.09.25.23 ship.exe (100MB))
I am ok.Made it with a different rom.
O.k. I've tried a few different roms and hard spl today, and deleted my internal and phone storage and my phone is still not working properly.
It works fine after a flash and hard reset, but as soon as i turn it off then back on it freezes either on the diamond black boot screen or windows boot screen.
Looks like I need to get a new phone
Don't know if this is of any help but, when i cooked some roms for my "Artemis" i would get this sort of error if the rom was a little too big (I had added too many programs <5mb too much it would build and flash without error) it would work for a few days the slowly start to loose programs as if it had a virus or something deleting stuff slowly.
the only way to fix it was to flash a stock rom inc ipl,spl and radio then re-flash a custom rom, (a new custom rom alone would not cure it) i think the rom when flashing filled the area designated for the rom then started to overright the spl or ipl
just a thought? i don't know weather the diamond would suffer from the same problem with a bloated rom!
dose anyone know what the max size for a diamond rom is?
what happens if the rom is a little too big say 2mb?
Thanks,I've just flashed the new windows 6.5 rom which is working at the moment,but if it fails i'll give your idea a try.
owz206 said:
Thanks,I've just flashed the new windows 6.5 rom which is working at the moment,but if it fails i'll give your idea a try.
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Man i had almost the similar issue in the recent times .. The only work around is to download and flash a stock Rom ( no matter which one it is ) , like what explained in the previous post . Use the stock fr a day or 2 , then flash it back .

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