How can I install new ROM without changing bootloader splash screens?
I would like to upgared to WM6, but keeping my operator bootloader splash screen on when soft reserting the device (so I can trick them not to losing the warranty).
I also found my current ROm in Imate website, but it doesnt have my operator bootloader splash screen, How Can I install this ROM in case I regret upgrading WM6 without affecting the bootloader?
stay sure that the warranty service doesn't look at the splash screen to determine if a firmware has been modified, so if you want it, you take the risk that in case of a problem you have 2 possibilities:
flash back an original firmware or
lose the warranty
sahmedkh said:
How can I install new ROM without changing bootloader splash screens?
I would like to upgared to WM6, but keeping my operator bootloader splash screen on when soft reserting the device (so I can trick them not to losing the warranty).
I also found my current ROm in Imate website, but it doesnt have my operator bootloader splash screen, How Can I install this ROM in case I regret upgrading WM6 without affecting the bootloader?
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You can create your own rom files without the Splash Screens. Check out dutty's Rom Koch. and Olipro RUU updater and HARD-SPL. Read the wiki, read the forums. It's actaully not that hard. All the tools are there. I don't think the warrenty thing is going to fly is you install WM6. I would reflash stock ROM before doing any warrenty stuff.
sahmedkh said:
How can I install new ROM without changing bootloader splash screens?
I would like to upgared to WM6, but keeping my operator bootloader splash screen on when soft reserting the device (so I can trick them not to losing the warranty).
I also found my current ROm in Imate website, but it doesnt have my operator bootloader splash screen, How Can I install this ROM in case I regret upgrading WM6 without affecting the bootloader?
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Changing the splash screens is not going to fool anyone, you need to downgrade to your original rom for work under warranty, or kiss your warranty and your arse goodbye!
Yes, like tco said, it's actually quite simple. You unpack the rom (NBHExtract), remove the splashscreen files, remove the splashscreen references in the NBHGen sample.txt file, pack it up (NBHGen), and flash (RUUWrapper).
sahmedkh said:
How can I install new ROM without changing bootloader splash screens?
I would like to upgared to WM6, but keeping my operator bootloader splash screen on when soft reserting the device (so I can trick them not to losing the warranty).
I also found my current ROm in Imate website, but it doesnt have my operator bootloader splash screen, How Can I install this ROM in case I regret upgrading WM6 without affecting the bootloader?
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The only thing that came to mind, RTFW
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Hermes
sahmedkh said:
How can I install new ROM without changing bootloader splash screens?
I would like to upgared to WM6, but keeping my operator bootloader splash screen on when soft reserting the device (so I can trick them not to losing the warranty).
I also found my current ROm in Imate website, but it doesnt have my operator bootloader splash screen, How Can I install this ROM in case I regret upgrading WM6 without affecting the bootloader?
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Yeah, because thank god that everyone is as useless as you, and can't read the WIKI.. Lord knows that NO ONE from HTC *EVER* reads XDA! You can be sure that a splash screen will certainly trick them into keeping your warranty when the next screen they see is, oh let's see.. A WINDOWS MOBILE 6 OS!!!!!
Seriously. I'd like to BUY any phone that is owned by anyone who can't figure out how to do anything to it--BEFORE it is bricked. Think of it like this. You make less money on the phone now, but, it'll save you from having a $700 repair bill... So, it's really a good investment.. I'll buy a phone *certain conditions apply* from you; just don't brick it first...
Thanks guys for ur reply,
My intend in keeping the splash screen even after downgrading to WM5 since my operator make special splash screen that is not part of the ROM in ImateClub website. That's why I'm asking to backup the splash screen at least !! & not to take the phone to repair with WM6 !!!
I would like to thank you all spcially chenga for his direct reply without saying just words !
I still didnt get how to backup the splash screens to be in my PC, so I can cook up new ROM with current splash screens. BTW there is 3 subsplash screens in my device.
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I flashed my locked g4 with faria's shelltool that installed wm6, my phone now wont make it past the ipl/spl screen. at this point i found the sd card backup method and unlocked my g4 through the website. when running through this method i find that the utility is unable to copy the extrom.. it seems to be the last hitch, my phone as of now is a brick and i am hoping for that to change. any help please?
Im not so sure its a brick, I think I read in other posts that if it makes it to the IPL/SPL screen there is still hope.. if it was a brick, I dont think it would do ANYTHING.
You might want to look into that though, I may be wrong, but I am pretty certain there is hope for u.
Hi there.
Turn off the phone, remove battery if necessary. Then press and hold camera button and then press the power button, your phone will enter in boot mode, now flash with the operator´s rom.
Cheers
sorry for the delayed response here. the phone (even in boot mode ) will not be found by active sync so i cannot get the thing to flash with the t-mo rom. since this issue i contacted customer care and am having the phone replaced under warranty.
the phone will NOT be recognized by activesync.. you just need to start the ROM update and it will go along fine. you need the original carrier ROM, and unless your device is CID unlocked, you need to use ShellTool to flash the WM6 ROM. good luck
-Nstefanelli-
IS there WM6 that works with a G4??
Just use ShellTool on nb.nkf extract from a G3 RUU archive.
...or CID-unlock
i tried the shell tool
Ive tried shelltool but keeps freezing on splash screen when finished
what should i do?
IronMan19 said:
Ive tried shelltool but keeps freezing on splash screen when finished
what should i do?
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Flash to wizard love or your carrier's rom. Then use shelltool, if you get stuck repeat the process. Sometimes it takes a couple of attempts.
umm how do you get the shelltool?
im new to this site so can u help me out?
bigeufemio said:
umm how do you get the shelltool?
im new to this site so can u help me out?
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If your new I plead with you to read the wiki and the sticky's in the wizard forums. Then you can come back here and ask whatever you like. Most people on here are very friendly and helpful but all we ask is that others read a bit before asking. This reduces the amount of redundant questions.
There is an entire thread dedicated to the use of shelltool.
Good Luck
I could never get any rom to flash on my locked G4. Tried Shelltools with about 4 different roms w/o success. Finally broak down and paid the $42 US to imei-check.co.uk for their unlocking service.
Now I'm unlocked and back to flashing until my hearts content - Running NBD 8.3 w/radio 2.69.11 on my Cingular/ATT 8125.
Avoid the grey hair and if ShellTools doesn't work after the second time, pay for the service.
Stuck on a splash screen,
I also had a same problem after flashing by Shelltool and stuck on a splash screen.
Flash back to custom setting using RUU tool and Wizard Love rom.
(wizard love rom is for G4 cid locked wizards. It doesnt have IPL/SPL section)
Again I have flashed Most beautiful ver; using shelltool and now i am enjoying new WM6 on my G4 locked wizard.
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After you stuck on splash screen, Your device wont detect by activesync to use with RUU (rom upgrade utility) tool. But still you can go to Bootloader mode (rainbow screen) by holding camera button while you soft reset the phone. Run the RUU tool after you manualy set the bootloder mode. RUU tool will detect your device on USB with bootloader mode (your PC not giving any sign of usb connectin but RUU detect your devise)
Othewise RUU toll give you 'error message 260'
This method was worked for me.
ok I've been reading a lot & had some problems with certain roms but I need to ask a very stupid question:
how do I turn off the radio? does this means having the phone in flight mode?
thanks
exactly. Flight mode is radio turned off. I was surprised too, when i saw radio off, but logical thinking give me an answer. like u
CID-Unlock .... how ????
Excuse me, but where is the "Running NBD 8.3 w/radio 2.69.11 on my Cingular/ATT 8125." ROM ??? .... I've been surfing the forum but couldn't find anything !!!
Thank U
let me get this right once you cid unlock the phone you can flash the g4 without the shell program?
yes that right! once you unlock you dont ned shell toll you can flash to any ROM!
also if you wanna use shell tool flash to trisyndicate and then to the rom you want to flash (both use shelltool) it werked ofr me
nostromo76 said:
Excuse me, but where is the "Running NBD 8.3 w/radio 2.69.11 on my Cingular/ATT 8125." ROM ??? .... I've been surfing the forum but couldn't find anything !!!
Thank U
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Those are two separate updates/flashes I performed after CID unlocking my 8125.
There is a thread in the WM6 forum containing NBD 8.3 and just do a search for the 2.69.11 radio. Just be sure to also search for the Cingular CAB fix for the 2.69.11 radio.
If you get stuck, just send me a PM.
I have a wizard 8125! i sim unlocked it earlier and began the process to soft-spl with the tmobile rom found here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353237... well shelltool stated that it would take more than 15 minutes and i fell asleep! when i awoke my laptop had turned off and also my phone! phone now freezes at cingular splash screen, is capable or bottloader mode though! IPL/SPL are are 2.XX.XXX1 too!! PLEASE HELP!!
koolkidcrankdat said:
I have a wizard 8125! i sim unlocked it earlier and began the process to soft-spl with the tmobile rom found here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353237... well shelltool stated that it would take more than 15 minutes and i fell asleep! when i awoke my laptop had turned off and also my phone! phone now freezes at cingular splash screen, is capable or bottloader mode though! IPL/SPL are are 2.XX.XXX1 too!! PLEASE HELP!!
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wow did i have many spelling and grammatical errors!!LOL ...but uh... i re flashed it with wizardlove and then boring tmobile wing rom!! works great!
If you can make it to the Cingular splash screen, you should be ok. Did you hard-reset your phone after the shelltool?
CoasterMaster said:
If you can make it to the Cingular splash screen, you should be ok. Did you hard-reset your phone after the shelltool?
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I have the same problem and yes I reset after shelltool. Now its stuck in the bootloader screen and every rom I try gives me a different error. From invalid file to phone not detected, etc. What do I do?
For anyone who gets stuck and is readin this post. If your CID unlocked and your SPL say 2.XXOlip just find and load the "wizard love rom". That rom saves people from all kinds of problems. Once you have it loaded the phone will boot up normally (you will see like some cartoons people in water on the splash screen) and you can then load other roms. In my case I loaded BlackDiamond 3.1.
hey, im new but have read many of the pages here. i have burnt roms to my first wiz (G3) unlocked it and everything went well. i came about a wiz (G4) last week wm5 bland rom locked and want to get wm6 on it so after my research i went to the IMEI unlock site and purchased the unlock for the g4
the unlock seemed to go well the first time but, it won't come out of boot loader mode
i ran hornet o.10 for g4 it runs and completed to 100 % and then on reboot it comes up with the boot screen again
IPL 2.21.0001
SPL 2.21
i ran the tnt 1933 rom this morning and it completed 100% but still i have a boot screen
i know im missing something the battery power is fine .
i downloaded the stock rom for cingular but it won't load it has error "(294) INVALID VENDOR"
any suggestions ...
thanks in advance for your input
Airborne_Pathogen said:
hey, im new but have read many of the pages here. i have burnt roms to my first wiz (G3) unlocked it and everything went well. i came about a wiz (G4) last week wm5 bland rom locked and want to get wm6 on it so after my research i went to the IMEI unlock site and purchased the unlock for the g4
the unlock seemed to go well the first time but, it won't come out of boot loader mode
i ran hornet o.10 for g4 it runs and completed to 100 % and then on reboot it comes up with the boot screen again
IPL 2.21.0001
SPL 2.21
i ran the tnt 1933 rom this morning and it completed 100% but still i have a boot screen
i know im missing something the battery power is fine .
i downloaded the stock rom for cingular but it won't load it has error "wrong update utility"
any suggestions ...
thanks in advance for your input
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Are you sure SPL is 2.21 and not 2.21.0001 as IPL 2.21.0001 ?
Well,if its 2.21 only,the phone's got mixed Bootloaders (IPL/SPL),IPL 2.21.0001 are G4 and SPL 2.21 is G3,I don't know how you got it,but your phone is 'Bricked'
mmm it figures
so it appears there could be a problem with the imei program,
as i said it never came out of boot mode after the unlock
and no errors were shown ...
i could get another and replaced the main board, this one is in new condition
except for the custom bricked rom . in the future i will not play with a g4
thanks for the diagnosis, no way to flash a new spl / ipl ... i did read that if
it booted you could get it back in some chance cases .. i am curious as to how this happened (others not doing this for a hobby could brick there only phone)
step 1 - ran imei unlock
never came out of boot mode after
2- flashing the to above roms said to be G4 safe
i never look to see what the ipl / spl were before
i looked with the wizard tool but didn't save it
well you live and learn, it's good for parts now off to ebay for another crack at it ...
thanks everyone ... the best thing about this phone is everything you can do to it
with help from those who know ...
I recommend trying to flash back to original service provider ROM, then unlock again and try another. As long as you can get to bootloader (tri-color screen), there's still hope for your phone. When it's in this mode, and you plug in the USB, does it say USB at the bottom of the phone screen? If so, you are not dead yet.
Custom build wm6 roms like TNT etc... never Brick a G4 phone as no IPL/SPL is included in them,they are completely safe for G4 devices.What I can gather,it must be the wrong imei unlock code perhaps.
Well,like Myrddin Wyllt said,there's no harm in trying,so if it gets into Bootloaders,try to flash the official rom and if there's an error "wrong update utility" ,replace the RUU in the rom with this RUU and run this RUU,hope it might work.
Myrddin Wyllt said:
I recommend trying to flash back to original service provider ROM, then unlock again and try another. As long as you can get to bootloader (tri-color screen), there's still hope for your phone. When it's in this mode, and you plug in the USB, does it say USB at the bottom of the phone screen? If so, you are not dead yet.
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yes sir i can talk to the phone from xp pro ..
USB does come up
so i can swap the RRU with the nbf file i need ...
no file name change required on the xxx.nbf file
thanks alot for the(schooling) advise ... i was going to need to brick another to make some book ends... this could save me that
stuck
Airborne_Pathogen said:
yes sir i can talk to the phone from xp pro ..
USB does come up
so i can swap the RRU with the nbf file i need ...
no file name change required on the xxx.nbf file
thanks alot for the(schooling) advise ... i was going to need to brick another to make some book ends... this could save me that
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ok, i swapped out every RUU i could find i get errors from
read file
invalid vendor id
wrong update utility
im too new to figure this out ..can you extract a ipl / spl from an
official rom and then flash that to get the boot loader's back in sync
i found the att 8125 ipl /spl nbf when i flash, it runs to 100% reboots but no changes
anyone have a link to flashing just the ipl / spl on the g4
i am most thankful for any advise ..
try running the hardspl on phone, it might just work to revert it back to a G4 spl.
Link to HardSPL : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=332320
and G4 ipl and spl here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=342744
Also I paid to the IMEI Check and I had to change the plate because the PDA died as yours. E had not returned to the money of the IMEI Check only reply to me was that it had to change of plate ..... It had the unblocked CID?
bastards
yes they won't return my money ... somehow they bricked my phone
i would use the hard /spl and not the imei those guys are assholes
Hi,
I've flashed my nike with the phantom v1.2, then with the nike pro, but the first screen remains.
Now my slide is broken and i have to send it back to the warranty office. I reverted to the original rom, but the first screen still remains. How can i remove it? i think the warranty won't work if this screen is visible?
Thank you all for your future help!!
Muuh27
You need to flash your carrier's Bootsplash! Otherwise you'll have a problem!
Where can i find how to flash my bootsplash?
First, what's your operator ?
For the splash screen, just try searching "<operator name> splash".
Then, have a look here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367370
It explain how to make a simple picture become a splash screen.
But remember there are 2 splashes on the Niki startup : replacing only one won't give you the expected result...
as far as i know on software and warranty on hardware are two different things. By setting HardSPL and flashing a new rom you only lose the software warranty, not the warranty on the hardware part (as far as the damaged hardware doesnt result from your software changes...).
As the new rom cant have effected your slide warranty should be no problem, even with hardspl, a custom rom and the most stupid bootscreens possible...
(just something i read on another board... you might try asking for some legal guidance on one of the general boards here at xda-devs)
dllngr said:
as far as i know on software and warranty on hardware are two different things. By setting HardSPL and flashing a new rom you only lose the software warranty, not the warranty on the hardware part (as far as the damaged hardware doesnt result from your software changes...).
As the new rom cant have effected your slide warranty should be no problem, even with hardspl, a custom rom and the most stupid bootscreens possible...
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From radio reports of the phone sellers here, they will try everything under the sun not to honour a warranty. If anything is amiss, they will blame it, and either not repair the phone, or give you the runaround. You may still get it fixed in the end, but not after a lot of cursing/swearing/wasted time, not to mention phone being unavailable for extended period.
Thank you all, yes i think i should try to restablish the original setting, by i can't remember what was my first splash screen, now after having set the original rom i have:
- first : the custom screen of phantom V1.2 with info of the rom
- the HTC animated gif
- the windows mobile screen
So two questions :
- what is the original first screen? is it the operator one (bouygues telecom) or just a black screen with info of the system?
Thank you
For Bouygues, it's very simple since they let the original french ROM without any customisation.
Try to find the original spalsh screen from HTC on the forum and flash it. If you don't find, I may still have it somewhere on my HD...
hi antubis,
Thanx for the tip, but i don't remember what was the original splash (now there's the htc animated one, and the WM one(the green)). Is there one before? I'm quite lost because my phone really don't work anymore, a niki without the touch screen is really lame!!
There's a black splash with "Smart mobility" before if I remember.
If you don't find it on the forum, I'll have a look when I'll go home tonight
Here are the 3 screens i have on my phone, i think the first one has to be removed or replaced by another one.
This is the thread on how to flash the startup screens.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367370
This is the link to the original HTC startup screens:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1936679&postcount=18
"This is the link to the original HTC startup screens:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...9&postcount=18 "
Thank you so much, it works fine, now i can return my phon, hoping that they won't find that i installed HARDSPL...
BYE
Remember you have to flash the original SPL after having restored everything, then they will never know anything