Is as simple as following these steps, correct? I just want to make sure i'm not missing anything.
Flashing Via MicroSD Card
1. Make sure your microSD is Formatted to fat32 (you dont have to delete all files but it is safer if you do)
2. Download your prefered Rom from the Rhodium Rom Develpoment Page and unzip/unrar it to your PC
3. Goto the Roms Folder and rename the .nbh file to RHODIMG.nbh
4. Copy the RHODIMG.nbh file to the root of your MicroSD Card
5. Plug the MicroSD Card into the phone
6. Enter the BootLoader screen, you will first see a tri-color screen with the phone and SPL Information at the top
7. Follow the On Screen instructions to start the update
8. After flash has completed, press the reset button with the stylus to reset the device.
Just flash any WinMo ROM as you would flash any WinMo ROM. You can feel free to flash WinMo via USB or SD, either method works.
You only are forced to flash via SD when going to LK/Android. For whatever reason, we never could figure out how to get it to work via USB.
Yes. If you follow those instructions you will get whatever rom is on your SD card loaded to the phone.
Related
It worked for me.. so here is what i did...
1. I unlocked the phone (SIM/SuperCID) using HTC Hermes SIM & CID Unlocker Available (v3a) (this took about 10min) also, donate if it works for you! NOTE: For this I used Windows XP through Parallels.
2. formatted my microSD card with Flash Format. Its shareware, but you can use it fully for 10 days, and you only need it for 10 minutes. You can d/l it by going to the site on your mobile. NOTE: I also heard that you don't need to format the card, since some people keep important files on the microSD card. Do this at you own risk; I'm just saying the procedure I followed. Either way make sure the card is FAT32.
3. copied the ROM to the microSD and renamed it to HERMIMG.hbn. In my case it was vp3g's. To do this i unRAR-ed the file from his rar link and renamed RUU_signed.nbh to HERMIMG.hbn and then copied it to the freshly formatted CF card with a CF card copier. (I use a Mac, but any old PC computer should work, even *gasp* Linux)
4. i copied Des' SSPL program in My Documents on the phone.
5. i crossed my finger and ran: SSPL-HERM.exe
thats all... it went into the flash screen.. and so it worked...
thanks for the help to Izzard_UK and todd_jg
themilkman said:
It worked for me.. so here is what i did...
1. I unlocked the phone (SIM/SuperCID) using HTC Hermes SIM & CID Unlocker Available (v3a) (this took about 10min) also, donate if it works for you! NOTE: For this I used Windows XP through Parallels.
2. formatted my microSD card with Flash Format. Its shareware, but you can use it fully for 10 days, and you only need it for 10 minutes. You can d/l it by going to the site on your mobile. NOTE: I also heard that you don't need to format the card, since some people keep important files on the microSD card. Do this at you own risk; I'm just saying the procedure I followed. Either way make sure the card is FAT32.
3. copied the ROM to the microSD and renamed it to HERMIMG.hbn. In my case it was vp3g's. To do this i unRAR-ed the file from his rar link and renamed RUU_signed.nbh to HERMIMG.hbn and then copied it to the freshly formatted CF card with a CF card copier. (I use a Mac, but any old PC computer should work, even *gasp* Linux)
4. i copied Des' SSPL program in My Documents on the phone.
5. i crossed my finger and ran: SSPL-HERM.exe
thats all... it went into the flash screen.. and so it worked...
thanks for the help to Izzard_UK and todd_jg
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
can be a bit easier: after step 3 just bring your device into bootloader (softreset whle holding the 2 upper keys) and the hermimg.nbh wil be loaded.
possibly, that can work for some... it did not work for me, however. but good idea!
OK. Have a Dell X51V. Tyring to download some of the updated ROMs. I've downloaded a couple ROMs but can't seem to load them. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. This ois what I'm doing:
Download ROM
Unzip to folder
format 512 MB SD card (fat32)
copy zip contents (.nb0 and .crc) to root of SD card
insert SD card into PDA
wireless button + power button + reset
I see the ROM loader screen (SD Image Update A10_G4) but I do not see a list of available ROMs to pick from so I can't load any of them...
Anyone have an idea?
| have exactly the same problem. Can anyone help please?
Sounds like you're doing everything correctly. All I can suggest is to try using another SD Card (but stay away from SDHC - they won't work).
I have a TyTN II that I flashed WinMo 6.5 onto a while back. Now I would like to put Android on it but am having some trouble.
The bootloader screen reads:
TITA100
SPL-2.47No2Chem Titan SPL EVT
CPLD-9
I can't figure out why it won't let me flash a different NBH via SD or via PC.
Do I need to put HardSPL on it instead? (I've tried -- to no avail).
I've read a lot of threads and tried countless different things but nothing works. When I try from SD it says "no image file". When I try from PC it says "The update utility cannot connect to your PDA phone. Please check that your USB cradle/cable is connected properly between the PC and your PDA Phone."
Please help. Thanks.
By the looks of it you already have HardSPL installed.
What I'd do as a last resort (and what I had to do on my WinMo 6.5 Kaiser, in fact!) is put it into 3-color/bootloader mode:
* Hold Camera + Power buttons together and reset with stylus
and then flash whatever ROM you like onto it via USB. Note that you MUST REMOVE YOUR SD CARD to enter the bootloader.
Alternatively flash a newish stock rom, ( Kaiser_HTC_ASIA_HK_WWE_3.34.721.2.exe recommended, search for this exact filename, it's the last full 6.1 update for kaiser, and has 1.70.xx.xx radio), this will pretty much clean out anything a custom rom has tucked away in little dusty WM corners, I actually prefer to flash from SD, it's faster, and to a large extent safer, no chance of an accidental usb disconnect, of course you must do a little more preperation, but provided you have HardSPL, an sd reader and microSD adaptor then it's real easy.
Grab a handy MicroSD, format it FAT32, (remember to check it's FAT32, not FAT), then get the ruu_signed.nbh from the stock rom, copy to SD, rename to KAISIMG.nbh, then safely remove the SD, (don't just pull it out, that can leave unwritten data in buffers, and corrupt the files you copied).
Then pull the battery out of the kaiser, insert the SD card, replace battery and hold down camera button while you press Power key, this should boot to Bootloader ( tricolour screen) and start up the SD upgrade process, this checks the file, then asks you to press the power button to flash it, it will install, and once 'upgrade complete' shows, pull the battery again, then reinsert and restart.
Once you have a stock rom, go here :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=680518 and carefully read through the process before continuing from step #4, since you already have HardSPL.
Any problems, just post and someone will probably have the answer
zenity said:
Alternatively flash a newish stock rom, ( Kaiser_HTC_ASIA_HK_WWE_3.34.721.2.exe recommended, search for this exact filename, it's the last full 6.1 update for kaiser, and has 1.70.xx.xx radio), this will pretty much clean out anything a custom rom has tucked away in little dusty WM corners, I actually prefer to flash from SD, it's faster, and to a large extent safer, no chance of an accidental usb disconnect, of course you must do a little more preperation, but provided you have HardSPL, an sd reader and microSD adaptor then it's real easy.
Grab a handy MicroSD, format it FAT32, (remember to check it's FAT32, not FAT), then get the ruu_signed.nbh from the stock rom, copy to SD, rename to KAISIMG.nbh, then safely remove the SD, (don't just pull it out, that can leave unwritten data in buffers, and corrupt the files you copied).
Then pull the battery out of the kaiser, insert the SD card, replace battery and hold down camera button while you press Power key, this should boot to Bootloader ( tricolour screen) and start up the SD upgrade process, this checks the file, then asks you to press the power button to flash it, it will install, and once 'upgrade complete' shows, pull the battery again, then reinsert and restart.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I explicitly followed these instructions and it still says "No image file" when in bootloader mode with the SD card in and the image file I extracted from Kaiser_HTC_ASIA_HK_WWE_3.34.721.2.exe renamed to KAISIMG.nbh. It only flashes the message for a split second and then goes back to the bootloader screen.
Is there any way to tell for sure if I have Hard SPL or not?
Is there anything else I can try?
It no longer boots past the second boot screen. Did I brick it?
I ran the following commands via MTTY version 1.42:
set 14 0
task 28 55aa
When it tries to format the device it returns "badblock 1024"
When I run 0 to reboot the device it does not respond.
Not sure what to try next on this. I was able to get the "boot" command to work using MTTY but it would still not boot to WinMo or boot an image file in bootloader mode.
If anyone else has had the bad blocks problem, please let me know how you fixed it.
Sent from my HTC Vogue FroYo using XDA App
Bump
Sent from my HTC Vogue FroYo using XDA App
Have you tried another SD card, maybe the card is bad, also have you checked that is is formatted as fat32? I would try reformatting the card (full not quick) and putting the file back on the card.
I am having a strange problem when I try to flash a rom. When I boot into recovery and choose file from SD card it is showing a listing of files that do not correspond to what is on the SD card, they are an old listing of files.
If I take out the SD card and go in it correctly shows no files. I have done a complete format of the SD card and put the ROM on and I can see it fine in Windows but when i reboot the old files are listed....Also I can see the correct ROM ok within the phone when using ROM Manager but then it reboots into recovery and then can't find the file!!
It must be some issue with the SD card any idea how i can fix it?
deeeez said:
I am having a strange problem when I try to flash a rom. When I boot into recovery and choose file from SD card it is showing a listing of files that do not correspond to what is on the SD card, they are an old listing of files.
If I take out the SD card and go in it correctly shows no files. I have done a complete format of the SD card and put the ROM on and I can see it fine in Windows but when i reboot the old files are listed....Also I can see the correct ROM ok within the phone when using ROM Manager but then it reboots into recovery and then can't find the file!!
It must be some issue with the SD card any idea how i can fix it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you rooted you phone eg. with unrevoked 3...?
Yes I have, everything has been working great until now.
I can still use everything in the phone and apps2sd+ is working. Astro file manager lists files on sd card.
but in recovery there are old folders and an old rom that i flashed a while ago.
WTF
i think flash orginal again...maybe from provider´s site (on my o2 site is a original) or from xda devs rom´s thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
and start from zero:
unrevoke again....change radio...change rom...
with kind regards...Alex
edit: if you don´t have it...make a ext3 with rom manager
recreated the partitions in linux and everything is ok now...strange
While on the below thread .. I eventually ended up making my TWRP to format my data, system, cache, as well as internal storage!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46522379&postcount=364
Now it is all gone. successfully.
Note, when i formatted the internal storage - it did ask me to restart to update the partition tables. I did that. I warned me that there is no OS. I went ahead and restarted in recovery. I could browse using TWRP->advanced->file manager and see the zips on external sd card.
I had gapps and rom zip files copied on external SD card. When I try to flash those in TWRP, it throws an error - E: unable to open zip file!
Now I can not flash any of those! there is no OS also on the phone! I suspect that the external SD card is corrupt! I have good zip files on my computer (it has no working sd card reader).
Is there any way, i can transfer these zip files from my computer to phone's internal storage from where i can flash them?
please help!
rohit.bhosale said:
While on the below thread .. I eventually ended up making my TWRP to format my data, system, cache, as well as internal storage!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46522379&postcount=364
Now it is all gone. successfully.
Note, when i formatted the internal storage - it did ask me to restart to update the partition tables. I did that. I warned me that there is no OS. I went ahead and restarted in recovery. I could browse using TWRP->advanced->file manager and see the zips on external sd card.
I had gapps and rom zip files copied on external SD card. When I try to flash those in TWRP, it throws an error - E: unable to open zip file!
Now I can not flash any of those! there is no OS also on the phone! I suspect that the external SD card is corrupt! I have good zip files on my computer (it has no working sd card reader).
Is there any way, i can transfer these zip files from my computer to phone's internal storage from where i can flash them?
please help!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's no way to effectively access internal SD without having been mounted first.
But there are two ways you can do this.
1. Take the MicroSD Card and insert into the PC via Card Readers.Then copy the zip files there. Properly eject the card from PC then insert it into the phone. Now TWRP will recognize the files and flash them. If it still does not then its a bad download so download again. Also while there, get the MD5 values as well for your zip files. This allows the recovery to validate the files. If you still have errors then roll back TWRP to version 2.5.0.0
2. Put phone in download mode. Use Odin on PC to flash one of the rooted stock roms. After that, proceed to re-download on phone and try again.
P.S. - I typically never let Recovery to format my external card. Then the file system issues start popping up.
EDIT - I noticed from your other post that your PC does not have a working SD Card Slot. In that case, you could put the card in another phone and then copy the files to this sd card and then use that way.
Perseus71 said:
There's no way to effectively access internal SD without having been mounted first.
But there are two ways you can do this.
1. Take the MicroSD Card and insert into the PC via Card Readers.Then copy the zip files there. Properly eject the card from PC then insert it into the phone. Now TWRP will recognize the files and flash them. If it still does not then its a bad download so download again. Also while there, get the MD5 values as well for your zip files. This allows the recovery to validate the files. If you still have errors then roll back TWRP to version 2.5.0.0
2. Put phone in download mode. Use Odin on PC to flash one of the rooted stock roms. After that, proceed to re-download on phone and try again.
P.S. - I typically never let Recovery to format my external card. Then the file system issues start popping up.
EDIT - I noticed from your other post that your PC does not have a working SD Card Slot. In that case, you could put the card in another phone and then copy the files to this sd card and then use that way.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do I flash CM or MIUI ROM using odin? I am trying to search the forums but unable to find anything! odin needs a tar file and all these roms come with zip file! What do I do?
You can't unless the dev specifically made an Odin flashable version, which they never do. Flash the stock root66 firmware with odin.
You can't access the internal storage simply because it's not there anymore. When you chose to format data, it completely wiped out the /data partition. Your internal sd is really located at /data/media, but until you can reboot, this won't be recreated.
I doubt the external sd is corrupt or you would've seen issues before your wiping frenzy. But you can use adb while in recovery to connect the phone to your computer. Search for adb sdk install guide, or similar.
Best option now is to try Odin flashing the root66 firmware.
Oh, and you probably know by now, but never format system! This should only be a last resort type thing imo. Never understood why people recommend it for things like prepping for a Rom flash. The Rom will format system during install anyway.
Sent from my SGH-T999V using Tapatalk 4
I used this
http://apcmag.com/how-to-unroot-your-galaxy-s3-and-flash-it-back-to-stock-rom.htm
and got the stock rom back. appeared like that was the only way to get back to running system. Now it's alright.
to my surprise, following problems disappeared.
1. The SD card no more automatically ejects!
2. battery lasts longer!
3. no random reboots at all!
never thought .. i would feel good getting back to stock rom !
Isn't that exactly what we were telling you to do in the first place though? Use odin to flash stock/root66 firmware? I think you just took the long way is all. I also have all that firmware hosted so people could download it much faster than by using sammobile or samsung-updates hotfile downloads.
Either way though, glad you got it running again!
Just posting so others know if they come across this in the future.
Sent from my SGH-T999N using Tapatalk
yes guru! you said it.
I tried adb route too ... but for some reason it never detected my device. I tried removing, installing drivers, getting sdk and all. then tried the odin route.
Now will stay with this rom for some days ... before I get back to MIUI ... want to see it working ... for some reason it was continuously making my phone reboot! now that it is a clean slate, i hope this time, it will work!
fingers crossed!
If you want to try adb again for anything in the future, there's a different driver pkg that would probably help there. Adb universal drivers. Theyre in my driver repo with the rest if you ever need them.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk
just copy the zip file on your phone storage
ROM zip files corrupted on external SD!
i think just change your sd card
and its work for you
this happen because of croupted sd card
I have same problem when flash the rom through tarp it shown zip file is currupt. Any one help me I tried more method but I failed every time
ashiqpm14 said:
I have same problem when flash the rom through tarp it shown zip file is currupt. Any one help me I tried more method but I failed every time
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I used this
http://apcmag.com/how-to-unroot-your...-stock-rom.htm
and got the stock rom back. appeared like that was the only way to get back to running system.
Did you try this?