wm5 rom upgrade - HTC Hurricane

what about wm5 for this smartphone? any informations? thanks

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I'd look at stripping the c500 wm5 rom replacing the joystick driver, the screen driver and adding the sda music buttons driver.

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hi guys,
i just posted at spv-developers but no one seems to have a bigger interest in bringing WM5 to the Hurricane Devices
(except mob who is on both forums too :lol
So now i think rather than stripping it from c500 and replacing drivers it would be better/easier? by adapting the OS from a new Tornado ROM like the SP5 because its the same hardware (display,cpu,keboard) just without the possibility of wlan...
Another point would be that the C500 WM5 ROM was just a leaked beta without MMS support right?!?
So i took the newest SP5(Tornado) ROM and the newest available ROM for the SDA2 (Hurricane Device) and load them into the newest NBFTools wich supports now Tornado ROMS too.
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So as you can see the only thing that changed is the Order(STart Adresses) in the ROM and the OS size...
So my first thaught was to extract the OS part with the NBFTools and create a new nbf File via typhoonnbfdecode.pl with SPL,IPL GSM and splash screen of the original SDA2 ROM and put the WM5 OS Part of the SP5 Rom in it.
But then the GSM and Splash Screen Start Adresses wouldnt be correct because the OS Size of the Tornado ROM is bigger
So is there any way of changing the GSM/Splash Screen Start Adresses in the Boot Loader, or maybe a way to update the boot loader so it can load the new ordered Tornado ROMS??
Please help, would be grateful for any info
Greetz,
N0rd

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hi,
I have searched the whole net also and wondered why not may pple are interested in upgrading the O2Xphone IIm to WM5.
I agreed that your way of upgrading the phone is better as it uses the release version of WM5

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N0rd said:
But then the GSM and Splash Screen Start Adresses wouldnt be correct because the OS Size of the Tornado ROM is bigger
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Gsm and Splash screen looks the same to me, same wdata start on both roms.
Or is wdata just a generic term and has nothing to do with the actual start address?

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ok, how do I re-encode?

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voided said:
[..] I have searched the whole net also and wondered why not may pple are interested in upgrading the O2Xphone IIm to WM5.
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The O2 XPhone 2m is a HTC Typhoon/Feeler Smartphone with a 176 x 220 Diyplay not a HTC Turricane with a 240x320 QVGA Display.
You could update that to WM5 with the MPX220 ROM. Please see in the other Threads and dont post here
mob453 said:
Or is wdata just a generic term and has nothing to do with the actual start address?
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Mhm i dont know, but you are right, the start adresses are exactly the same
The only thing thats confusing me is that the index is in a other order.
You can see that also in the HTC NBFViewer output:
But what i thougt is that the start adresses for the GSM and Splash Screen (wich come after the OS in the Hurricane ROM) would change to some higher (false) address if you put a bigger OS part in here!!???
Because (like u mentioned on spv-dev) the SP5 WM5 OS Part is nearly 10MB bigger :roll:
mob453 said:
ok, how do I re-encode?
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http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=RomTools/typhoonnbfdecode.pl
perl typhoonnbfdecode.pl
-s
-r os=OS.nb
-r ipl=ipl.nb
-r spl=spl.nb
-r splash=Splash.nb
-r gsm=gsm.nb
-p device=SP3i
-p language=ENGLISH
-p magic=HTC
-p operator=CDL___02
-p flags=17
-p version=2.0.33.21
-p blversion=2.0.3.23
-c nk.nbf

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so... i tried to compile the ROM with typhoonnbfdecode.pl by myself but i get the following error:
read 00000800 for ipl from 90000000-IPL.nbno BIPO at 0x614 in IPL image
Perl is properly configured and i invoked following command
Code:
perl typhoonnbfdecode.pl -s -r os=TornadoOS.nb -r ipl=TurricaneIPL.nb -r spl=TurricaneSPL.nb -r splash=TurricaneSplash.nb -r gsm=TurricaneGSM.nb -p device="SDA II" -p language=English -p magic=HTC -p operator=TPMTMO05 -p version=1.5.331.4 -p blversion=1.0.15.84 -c sda-spl.wm5.nbf
I think its a problem of the script wich cannot handle turricane/tornado ipls???
Any solution or a other idea to bild the ROM nbf ??
So long,
N0rd

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I'm russian student
I bought Qtek 8200. I will give you webmoney(5-10) if you make WM 05 for Qtek 8200. I think it's good idea to give money to developers
Because this model is not very popular, but i want new life for my smartphone.
Sorry for my english

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hehe money is alway welcome :lol:
20-30 more of you guys and i would try it because i could by another phone if i break it :roll:
So without jokes: My theory sounds good but I NEED INFO
The biggest and most important question is:
Is the HTC Tornado and HTC Hurricane Basic Hardware the same? and furthermore Does the Tornado SPL/Bootloader (wich can handle WM5) work on Turricane Device??
And i dont want to break my 250$ Phone so i dont like to try that myself
Any Hardware Info would be welcome
So Long,
N0rd

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Vitoss said:
I'm russian student
I bought Qtek 8200. I will give you webmoney(5-10) if you make WM 05 for Qtek 8200. I think it's good idea to give money to developers
Because this model is not very popular, but i want new life for my smartphone.
Sorry for my english
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:shock: You have a QTEK 8200 :shock:
Where can I find the rom updates for those HTC HURRICANE generic devices?

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N0rd said:
The biggest and most important question is:
Is the HTC Tornado and HTC Hurricane Basic Hardware the same? and furthermore Does the Tornado SPL/Bootloader (wich can handle WM5) work on Turricane Device??
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I'd say it can.
the sp5m update works til 71-72%, then you end up with a paperweight.
If it works the same way as a PPC update:
Radio updated
CE Rom updated
Extended Rom updated
Now if the nbf is split into the order it is flashed, the Hurricane hangs 30,106,726 into the update. which fits exactly into the OS update part.
now if you apply the same sum to the SDA II rom, thats roughly the end of the OS part. 30,106,726 almost completely matches it. this suggests to me that something is telling the update it has finished the OS part, when it hasnt.

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mob453 said:
Where can I find the rom updates for those HTC HURRICANE generic devices?
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There are no generic devices...
QTEK 8200, SPV C550, SDA 2..... they're all HTC HURRICANE Devices, just branded by Qtek, Orange or T-Mobile.
The SDA2 Rom i used for comparison is located here:
http://www.iris-global.com/t_mobile_download/download_manager_sda_2.html
Right DL Link: http://www.iris-global.com/t_mobile_download/files/TE_TMOUK_101584_13145_0160_Ship.exe
You can download the WindowsMobile I-Mate SP5Rom i mentioned from the I-Mate FTP: ftp://ftp.clubimate.com/i-mate_SP5_WWE_1.5.331.4.exe

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mob453 said:
I'd say it can.
the sp5m update works til 71-72%, then you end up with a paperweight.
If it works the same way as a PPC update:
Radio updated
CE Rom updated
Extended Rom updated
Now if the nbf is split into the order it is flashed, the Hurricane hangs 30,106,726 into the update. which fits exactly into the OS update part.
now if you apply the same sum to the SDA II rom, thats roughly the end of the OS part. 30,106,726 almost completely matches it. this suggests to me that something is telling the update it has finished the OS part, when it hasnt.
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Mhmm so its crashing when flashing the IPL Code?!?
I think it just happened because he used the normal SP5 Updater program

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-t tornado nbf file large header?
ok split the .nbf's into .nb but I cant recompile them? I'm using the same procedure as Nord.
edit: scratch that, got to exactly the same point, I'm wondering if putting -t before it all then compiling will work?
downloading a sp3 rom to look at the problem.
edit: sp3 IPL in same place as Hurricane and Tornado.
Ok used Typhoon IPL, now it's not happy with the SPL, now using Typhoon SPL, nope it's still not happy, there is no BOOTLOAD.
Seems a Hurricane specific nbfdecode.pl is needed

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In Russia
Qtek 8200 cost >=420$
Qtek 8300 cost >=520$
Qtek 8310 cost >=540$
Sorry for offtop:
Russian life:
Month Salary of people in Russia is about 500-1000$.
Students have 25-50$ per month from University.
In rich families month salary >=2000-3000$.
In very rich (as me) >=4000$
In very-very rich =>1000000000$ (Roman Abramovich(Chelsy) is from my city(not Moscow)
Flats (70-80 sq metres, 2-3 rooms) cost >=50000-60000$
In big cities >=80000$

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Vitoss said:
In Russia
Qtek 8200 cost >=420$
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Ok can you find me a Qtek 8200 rom update please?

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mob453 said:
Ok can you find me a Qtek 8200 rom update please?
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The only way to get that is for someone with a 8200 to make a sd card image, transfer that to a pc and upload it as there are no proper update packages. Obviously that sd image would mean the world to c550 owners as it would remove all of the orange branding and you'd be left with a generic rom. Qtek only add their splash screen to their roms, everything else is standard.
the qtek 8200 is pretty rare, wasnt widely available and was quickly ditched for the Torando variants.

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What about WM05 on Hurricane?
There is no movement
How people do WM05 on Moto MPx200, SP3 etc and cant do on Hurricane?
I think it is not hard to make WM05 for Hurricane, but no one want to do.

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Vitoss said:
What about WM05 on Hurricane?
[..] but no one want to do.
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If you would read the whole thread from the beginning you know that we are stuck... :roll:
with current tools you cannot build a turricane ROM with WM5 of a Tornado Device.