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Can't get to bootloader!

When ever I try to get to bootloader mode, my phone just comes up to the tri-color screen. I press and hold the left OK key along with the power button, then do a soft reset. I only get to the tri-color screen. Can someone help me out with this please...I'm trying to upgrade to a WM6.1 rom on my 8525 via SD card.

1jaxstate1 said:
When ever I try to get to bootloader mode, my phone just comes up to the tri-color screen.
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the tri-color screen is the bootloader. (read the wiki)
wfg
starbase64

1jaxstate1 said:
When ever I try to get to bootloader mode, my phone just comes up to the tri-color screen. I press and hold the left OK key along with the power button, then do a soft reset. I only get to the tri-color screen. Can someone help me out with this please...I'm trying to upgrade to a WM6.1 rom on my 8525 via SD card.
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The tri-color screen IS the bootloader. I have found with my 8525, that if you turn the device off (power button for 5 seconds, then tap OK), all you need do is hold the side OK and the power button together for a few seconds. No need to find the reset hole if the device is OFF.
If you have an SD card in the device (with a copy of HERMIMG.NBH on it), the Tri-Color screen will come up, searching the card. When the NBH file has been found, it will show you the various parts that the file includes, and prompt you to press the power button to begin.
It's really easy this way. I rarely flash through USB anymore.
Hope this helps,
-pvs

Wow..thanks for the speedy response. I'll give it a try. Thanks again.

When I try to upgrade via SD, the bootloader never reads the SD card, it just sits...and says serial at the bottom of the screen.
When I try to upgrade via USB, after I start the RUU, the active sync connection is broken, and the phone goes into the bootloader screen and just sits...and says USB at the bottom of the screen.
If anyone has had this problem, please let me know. If not..I guess I'll just have to go out and buy a Tilt.
Current ROM: 2.15.502.3
Current Radio: 1.40.30.00

SUCCESS!!!!
Thanks for your help. My company has the firewall on and it, for some reason was killing my active sync connection. I was able to upgrade via USB. And this ROM is looking great starbase64

1jaxstate1 said:
When I try to upgrade via SD, the bootloader never reads the SD card, it just sits...and says serial at the bottom of the screen.
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1) Is your SD card freshly formatted (FAT32)?
2) have you installed HardSPL? If not, do it.
3) Are you sure you spelled the name of the NBH correctly? HERMIMG.NBH
4) Copy HERMIMG.NBH to the root of your SD card
5) Shut off the device (power off all the way)
6) Insert the SD card with only the one file (HERMIMG.NBH) on it
7) Press the side OK button and the power button simultaneously for a couple of seconds
8) your device should start up, and the bootloader will look for the HERMIMG.NBH file
9) If all the above is done corectly, your device SHOULD find the NBH and tell you what parts it contains, then ask you if you wish to proceed, by pressing the power key. If this isn't happening for you, I'm afraid I don't have any other suggestions for you.
1jaxstate1 said:
When I try to upgrade via USB, after I start the RUU, the active sync connection is broken, and the phone goes into the bootloader screen and just sits...and says USB at the bottom of the screen.
If anyone has had this problem, please let me know.
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Others HAVE had this problem. You need to disable one of the settings in ActiveSync, but I don't remember which one. Try doing a search under the main HERMES forum, including all subforums. This is one of those questions that gets asked a lot, so be prepared to sift through all the repetitive threads (GOD, if only people would SEARCH first!).
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If not..I guess I'll just have to go out and buy a Tilt.
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You might want to read THIS, first
Good luck,
-pvs

when you say copy the .nbh file to the root of the SD card what exactly do you mean. When i put the SD card in there and format it its completely empty with nothing there, then the only option i have is open the SD card folder and put it in there, is that correct?

okay so i just did the SD card flashing, said on the screen it was flashing and did the whole thing fine. Told me it was complete so i pressed the power the button to restart the phone and no matter how many times i restart the phone it just boots into Tri color screen and says serial at the bottom.
I tried soft reset and removing the battery no matter how many times i do it, always comes back to Tri color screen.. help!

ahhhhwhoa said:
okay so i just did the SD card flashing, said on the screen it was flashing and did the whole thing fine. Told me it was complete so i pressed the power the button to restart the phone and no matter how many times i restart the phone it just boots into Tri color screen and says serial at the bottom.
I tried soft reset and removing the battery no matter how many times i do it, always comes back to Tri color screen.. help!
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Hmmm, I typically do a RESET after the flash process completes. Never tried shutting down using the power button. So now your device is stuck in BL? I'm not sure of the procedures you need to try to escape that one, but I KNOW it's been discussed here in the forums. You MIGHT try flashing a different ROM. It might be the simplest way to recover. If that doesn't work, you might want to check the Wiki HERE.
Good luck!
-pvs

Diamond not conecting

I want to upgrade rom on may diamond but when conect the phone to my conputer the phone it just starts to charge. The computer does not detect him and I have activated usb conection on the phone.
I am using a standard miniusb cable used also for canon fotcamera, Nokia N95, motorola V3 (v360 L6, L7 etc.)
I did instaled Activesync on my computer but still no result.

You did no say which Win OS you are using - If Vista then you do not need activesync (AS) but windows mobile device centre or any other Win OS Before Vista then AS is what you need. AS needs to be installed before you connect your phone to the PC.
Have you restarted your PC first before install - this also helps sometimes

Try this....
Start>Settings>Connections>USB to PC and here ....uncheck the box Enable advanced network functionality
Just a reminder to please use the Internal Method when flashing a new Rom or Radio. Do not rely on your PC as errors occur more frequently.

R3PUBL1K said:
You did no say which Win OS you are using - If Vista then you do not need activesync (AS) but windows mobile device centre or any other Win OS Before Vista then AS is what you need. AS needs to be installed before you connect your phone to the PC.
Have you restarted your PC first before install - this also helps sometimes
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I am using Win XP SP2 and I have tried every thing that you said but nothing.

band27 said:
Try this....
Start>Settings>Connections>USB to PC and here ....uncheck the box Enable advanced network functionality
Just a reminder to please use the Internal Method when flashing a new Rom or Radio. Do not rely on your PC as errors occur more frequently.
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I did uncheck that box but without any results so now I will try internal method. But I'll have to send the file to the phone via bluetooth and see if it works.

band27 said:
Just a reminder to please use the Internal Method when flashing a new Rom or Radio. Do not rely on your PC as errors occur more frequently.
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How much is it supose to take "Internal method"?
After pressing Vol_Down + Back button it showed the three color screen then it changed to a white screen with loading on it and it stays like that (after pressing Vol_Down + Back button I didn't press nothing else).

The Internal Method shouldn't take you any longer then 2 min. or so.
Once you have started the flashing to begin in the Grey menu....it will eventually say OK...OK
and yes
at this stage you soft reset and press vol down and centre round button.
Grey menu then gives you a choice to reset back to manufactures settings which is what you want (vol UP)......this should take an additions 2 min. if that.

band27 said:
The Internal Method shouldn't take you any longer then 2 min. or so.
Once you have started the flashing to begin in the Grey menu....it will eventually say OK...OK
and yes
at this stage you soft reset and press vol down and centre round button.
Grey menu then gives you a choice to reset back to manufactures settings which is what you want (vol UP)......this should take an additions 2 min. if that.
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I have tried everything that you said and nothing.
The only diference is that now when I conect the cable to the phone it asks me witch mode to conect it (Activesync or storage), but the computer still doesn't see's it.

Tried another USB-cable?

chribruu said:
Tried another USB-cable?
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I tried with 3 diferent cables.

Have you tried putting your device into bootload mode (soft reset & vol. down) and the connecting to your pc. The bottom of your coloured screen should switch from serial to usb....If this switches to USB then you are good to go with downloading what ever Rom using the RUU_
Keep me posted...

band27 said:
Have you tried putting your device into bootload mode (soft reset & vol. down) and the connecting to your pc. The bottom of your coloured screen should switch from serial to usb....If this switches to USB then you are good to go with downloading what ever Rom using the RUU_
Keep me posted...
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It doesn't switch's to usb it only shows "serial". If I put it into bootmode while it is conected to USB it shows nothing, not "USB" or "Serial" it's blank.
I am begining to belive that there is a hardware problem in my phone.

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Upgrade ROM code error

I have flashed many Custome ROM's before. I have HardSPL installed on my phone.
I tried flashing to a ROM (I forget which one now, I think Cloudfa or something) and it stopped at about 15%. The Update utility stopped as well.
I cannot connect to bootloader at all. I tried holding down on Volume down/Reset to enter bootloader, but the thing is that it's already in bootloader with the message "Upgrade ROM code error, Please try again"
ActiveSync doesn't see my phone either. In fact all it does is just sit on the bootloader screen with that error...
Please Help... Thanks You...

A normal soft reset still brings you back to Bootloader?
What happens when you plug in your device? Does it not change from serial to USB at the bottom?

band27 said:
A normal soft reset still brings you back to Bootloader?
What happens when you plug in your device? Does it not change from serial to USB at the bottom?
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Sorry. Yes it does show USB when plugged in, but won't respond to anything that I have tried software wise. It does not switch from this bootloader/error screen at any point. Even after I pull my battery and turn it back on...
I have yet to come across a thread which has this exact problem...

jzalapski said:
Sorry. Yes it does show USB when plugged in, but won't respond to anything that I have tried software wise. It does not switch from this bootloader/error screen at any point. Even after I pull my battery and turn it back on...
I have yet to come across a thread which has this exact problem...
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Have you tried flashing a different ROM while in bootloader?

^^ Yes. It give me an error on my computer...
I would like to try the internal flashing method but I don't seem to have a way of getting at my Storage Card.
I found this thread with a similar problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480022
I WAS just able to get off of that screen I was talking about, but the best I get is to the Touch Diamond Screen that lists my ROM and such. So no real progress.
I have a feeling that I would resolve my problem if I could Flash from the Interanl Storage...

Have you tried hard resetting the device?
Pull out stylus and Holding....1) Vol. Down 2) Center Round button 3) then press red button aka soft reset with stylus

Nothing...

im stuck
hi all i am very new to this im not sure what i have done or how to fix the problem i download these this morning and they worked
rom version 1.57.831.1(47324)wwe
radio version 1.14.25.24
protocol version 52.64.25.34u
when i bootload in tri colours screen it shows
BLAC100 32M
SPL-1.56.OliNex
MicroP-Blackstone (led)v6
if it shows that i must of done something right i think of what ill read
and i have windows 7 ulitmate and i have Miri_WM65_21815_V19.0_Premium
when i double click on the BLACKSTONE RUU WRAPPER it crashes then i rename a new folder and done it from there and it works but it comes up wit error 208 file open? then i got told to rename to ruu_signed.nbh file to blacimg.nbh and to store it in the root of my sd card done that then somehow i got it to come up to the screen by Turn off the phone, press and keep pressed volume down button and while keeping it pressed turn on the phone then i see a message "Press power to flash your device" and i press power to flash got to 0% and it crashed and come up with Upgrade ROM code error plz try again and stuck in bootloader mode but now it wont even turn on its dead it wont turn on no matter what i do can someone plz help
all i want to do is get windows mobile 6.5 working i cant understand that it can be so hard to do
thanxs blueboys25!

Neeed DOCTOR for my HTC

Hello All,
My HTC Diamond Handset serial no is HT826K******* Tryed to change the ROM , but after reaching to 100% also the completed mesage is not coming . When I press the reset button Tri colour screen appears with error messgae " Upgrade ROM code error Please try Again".. . Please help

You probably don`t have the correct update package for your device... If you really want to update to this rom then you need the HardSPL. Install the HardSPL 1.93 Unsigned Developer edition.

do you have Hard-SPL?

I Recently updated through ROMUpdateUtility know i see touch diamond screen with RUU_Signed_1_93OliNex_HSPL_UnsignedEdition ...Please help

just flash another ROM while in bootloader and connected to usb. I would suggest to use a simply rom.

Hi,
But How , I am not able to copy the file to Internal memory as when I connect to laptop the the internal memory is not visible:

you don't need to put the nbh file in internal storage. Turn your device off. Press and hold the volume down button. While doing so press the power button. Keep holding the volume down button pressed until you see the multi colored screen which is called the bootloader. At the bottom it should say Serial. Using the USB cable with which you sync to your PC, plug the cable in to your PC and then plug the other end into your device.
The multi colored screen should soon say USB at the bottom of the screen. You are now ready to flash a new ROM. Just run the RUU as you would normally.

I did that; know I got the tri colour scree ;which says USB in white area know how to run RUU , my htc is connected to my laptop

create a folder on your pc and name it anything. now copy the nbh ans ruu.exe in that folder. run the ruu by double clicking it. this should be done when you get usb on your screen, if done correctly you rom flash should start flashing and a bar will appear on your phone.

Thanks All
Hi All,
Problem got fixed .
Solution used:-
Unsigned-Hard-SPL-Diamond-OliNex(2)

rumbles said:
you don't need to put the nbh file in internal storage. Turn your device off. Press and hold the volume down button. While doing so press the power button. Keep holding the volume down button pressed until you see the multi colored screen which is called the bootloader. At the bottom it should say Serial. Using the USB cable with which you sync to your PC, plug the cable in to your PC and then plug the other end into your device.
The multi colored screen should soon say USB at the bottom of the screen. You are now ready to flash a new ROM. Just run the RUU as you would normally.
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so wut happens if i get no usb then wuts the matter ???
need to know what problem i have becuase i can never connect the fone via usb

Dynomite232 said:
so wut happens if i get no usb then wuts the matter ???
need to know what problem i have becuase i can never connect the fone via usb
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Do you have the correct drivers installed?
Or Windows Mobile Device Center?
I think you need that I'm not too sure, I do anyway

[Q] Light NHB removal.

So I currently have LightNHB flashed. Since WinMo wont work via USB until I check that one option (forget off hand) I can't establish a USB connection to flash my phone. I tried putting the RAPHIMG.nbh into my SD cards root but that also didn't work, during the boot it said there were no images to flash.
So I removed the Android OS files and reformatted my SD card then places the img file into the root again, and again no image was found.
How would I fix this issue? I cannot seem to flash my phone back to a different WinMo rom.

Got into LightNHB and it has no settings for the USB, it's all in ITA and only one thing I could find in the menus and it gives an error that the file cannot be found. Talk about bare-bones, no wonder I couldn't get this to connect to USB, I don't think it has the ability to.
Ideas?

Pull the battery, SIM(if you have one) and microSD card out.
Press and hold the volume down button while plugging in the USB cord and it should take you to the tri-color screen.
If you haven't already let go of the volume down button, do so now.
You should be ready to flash another ROM!
n-Joie!

R^7Z said:
Pull the battery, SIM(if you have one) and microSD card out.
Press and hold the volume down button while plugging in the USB cord and it should take you to the tri-color screen.
If you haven't already let go of the volume down button, do so now.
You should be ready to flash another ROM!
n-Joie!
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Didn't know I could be like that but, sadly, error 260; followed to the letter :/
I can't get it to recognize .nbh. When I was able to get into the WinMo of LightNBH it seems it's WM5? CDMA? On my GSM phone... I know my version is dual CDMA and GSM. Though I use the latter.
It has HardSPL because Tri-colour screen says 1.90.OliNex

Can you get it to recognize USB in said bootloader mode? You should be able to flash from your PC using bootloader mode...

arrrghhh said:
Can you get it to recognize USB in said bootloader mode? You should be able to flash from your PC using bootloader mode...
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No, from what I can gather LightNBH doesn't have the stock USB connection info included in WinMo. Settings > Connections was empty. In fact all of it is empty (settings), I couldn't get to my SD card to run cab files to give me control over my phone.
Is there anyone else running the LightNBH flash that can confirm this? I can't even establish a USB line within Android.

Ventrik101 said:
No, from what I can gather LightNBH doesn't have the stock USB connection info included in WinMo. Settings > Connections was empty. In fact all of it is empty (settings), I couldn't get to my SD card to run cab files to give me control over my phone.
Is there anyone else running the LightNBH flash that can confirm this? I can't even establish a USB line within Android.
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Hrm, I figured bootloader mode would be separate from WinMo entirely... so not having usb drivers in WinMo should effect it.
So you're saying when you're in bootloader mode, and you plug in USB it still just says "serial"?

arrrghhh said:
Hrm, I figured bootloader mode would be separate from WinMo entirely... so not having usb drivers in WinMo should effect it.
So you're saying when you're in bootloader mode, and you plug in USB it still just says "serial"?
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It doesn't even say serial.
Code:
RAPH100
SPL-1.90.OliNex
MicroP-Raph (LED) v13
MicroP-Raph (KEY) v5
PSOC-Raph STAGE_CVT v0x36
That's all my boot-loader says and I didn't think drivers had any effect here but as it sits I get an error 260 unable to connect from the ROM updater's that came with Monfro, TAEL, and Energy, as well as Task_29.

Erm... It should definitely say "Serial" near the bottom. Give it 10 secs or so...
When you plug into USB, that should convert to say USB...

Did you remember to rename the .nbh file into "RAPHIMG.nbh"? You could also use a sd card adapter or another device that has working usb storage that takes micro sd cards and then drag the .nbh file on the sd card via another device.

See what happens when we get in a hurry? At least that's how i ended up with Litenbh on my TP stuck in a boot loop.
I tried the PWR + VOL DN while soft resetting. No luck. Then i was going to try holding those 2 buttons while plugging it in to USB, I was holding the buttons as i unplugged it. It jumped to the serial screen as soon as i unplugged it.
I'm sure you have gotten this fixed or a new phone by now, but in case ur as broke as me, and still playin with a TP cause you HAVE to.
Maybe this will help. Hold power + volume down while plugging/unplugging it from the PC. Might get lucky like i did.
I know it says Development discontinued, but the TP is old enough that the info i'm looking for is getting buried. Most d/l links i find are dead now, so i'm getting jumpy on the clicker finger.
But I for one think this link and the file itself needs to be taken down. I know it's only 2 of us so far, but dangit what a pain!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=601751
EDIT: Wow i didnt realize this thread was that old also.
Alltel Touch Pro (yeah it's old, and the keyboard doesn't work)
Using Updated Alltel ROM from HTC site.

Hmmm...
FroYo thread
Gingerbread thread
And yes, this are continuing projects...
Please read the first few posts before attempting anything. It's really does not hurt to try but your experience may vary slightly if you don't know what you are doing.
On that note, I am PMing the thread OP/forum mod to see if there is a way to link to the continuing project threads.
Actually the first post in that thread that you make mention of, has a link to the continuing project.. heh