Hi,
Since I mostly use Linux and Mac OS X, it's not very easy for me to flash my TyTN. There is an article in XDA-Wiki which describes a way to flash my device from the SD card, but it mentions formatting the card before doing the upgrade.
Is it absolutely needed to do so? I have lots of files in my card and I don't want to move them every time before I flash my phone.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
AFAIK, as long as your card is formatted in FAT32, then it should work.
CRCinAU said:
AFAIK, as long as your card is formatted in FAT32, then it should work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your answer, a test will convince me ...
i can confirm that you don't need to format it as long as it's FAT32. I can't flash ROMS at work for some reason (no admin privileges, i suspect) and so I occasionally flash from my SD card. It actually works really well.
Above posts are corre correct. I flash from SD card all the time, in fact i have NEVER used a cable to flash my phone. As long as the SD card has been formatted as fat32 you can flash from it without removing other files. I keep all my cabs, sms\contacts backup, files, contact pics, etc. in folders on the SD and then copy the .NBH file to the root of the card and flash away, makes it easy to change ROM's with minimal fuss and can even be done without a computer. About two weeks ago I found myself stuck in an airport and downloaded a new rom via airport wi-fi, extracted nbh file with pocket rar, renamed and saved to SD and viola, new ROM.
I confirm that too. What you absolutely need is to have it formatted in FAT32. SDcard flashing is the only way i use too. BUT... (yes... there is a ...but...) it happens that the "hermimg.nbh" is not detected if it is not one of the first files on your card. In this case, when you "hardreset", no file will be found. This is why i recommand to format it before.
Related
i'm on a Mac, so I am wondering if its possible to flash the Radio from the SD or in a way that does NOT involve a computer. the phone is SuperCID and I have successfully flashed the regular ROM a number of times using the OK+PWR+RESET method from an SD card, but now i noticed that i can upgrade my Radio too.
I am trying to flash it with HERM_Radinly_1.54.30.10_CustomRUU and do not have access to a PC.
Pls help.. 'cause the Wiki hasnt yet. Not very Mac friendly, and I dont have Parallels.
.lau
If you want to flash rom by SD card. the file should be in .nbh format. also need to rename in HERMIMG.nbh.
You can flash by SD if you're direct use of HERM_Radinly_1.54.30.10_CustomRUU
Shouldn't be a problem.
Open your radio file with winrar and you should see a xxxxxx.nbh file in there - probably about 14MB size. Extract this file to your SD card and rename it to HERMIMG.nbh then flash the same way you did before.
As a tip, I normally make sure the SD card is empty (I usually format it also) before I copy the nbh file to it.
ach2 said:
Shouldn't be a problem.
Open your radio file with winrar and you should see a xxxxxx.nbh file in there - probably about 14MB size. Extract this file to your SD card and rename it to HERMIMG.nbh then flash the same way you did before.
As a tip, I normally make sure the SD card is empty (I usually format it also) before I copy the nbh file to it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it seemed needn't to make SD card empty. BUT MAKE SURE YOUR SD CARD IS FAT32 FORMAT, it's important.
change name to HERMIMG.nbh and copy it to SD card(just place it to SD Card do not copy to and folders)
i've done this several times.
Card flash zeroes PIM data?
Awesome, exactly the info I was looking for. Just one more question before I go for it. I know as a general rule it's a good idea to back everything up. But just so I know, will flashing the radio wipe out the thing? Or will I not need to load all my data back in?
no it will not wipe anything out.....
just load it and soft reset
I have a working CRC rom now, but when i started looking into flashing a lot of ppl were saying i should only flash off the sd card. well, it didn't work when i first tried it, and i thought i would enquire as to why this was.
i did everything as the faq/wiki said, i have got the latest Hard SPL on my phone, i renamed the file to HERMIMG.nbh, i held the necessary buttons in and clicked reset with the stylus and i didnt get that gray menu. all i got was the 4 color thing that normally comes up when flashing ROMs. I did manage to successfully flash by USB/Activesync, but as i said im curious to know what stopped it from working, and maybe learn how to do it right in time for CRCs next release
Are you sure that you extracted the .nbh from the archive and formatted the sd card to FAT32? I know you said you did everything; I'm just double checking
3. Extract the .NBH file from your preferred ROM upgrade: In windows use winrar (right click) to extract the contents of the exe file.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you format the card fat32? This seems to be so simple most people overlook it and go to the 2nd step.
I've also found that I sometimes need to reformat my sd card (even though I flashed heaps of times with it) or it won't work.
Also you can only use up to a 2gb card to flash. The os will recognise a sdhc card but the bootloader won't...
Cheers...
i did format it to fat32, and i did rename it to that filename
i will try again soon and will report back, but for now i am happy with CRC 13
If the sd card is more than 2gb then it won't work also as the bootloader WILL NOT recognise an sdhc card...
Cheers...
No .NBH File
I think I am having the same issue, but I also think I know where the issue stems from.
CRC's files are in .7z format and the only file they seem to contain is the RUUWrapper.exe file and not also the RUU_signed.nbh file (the one that you should be renaming) that seem to be the standard of most other ROMs - unless I'm missing something.
I'm working from Linux (hence why I need the SD card option), just thought I'd throw that out there as an FYI in case it matters.
warsng said:
i did format it to fat32, and i did rename it to that filename
i will try again soon and will report back, but for now i am happy with CRC 13
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it turned out this was the problem ,
edit: meant to quote the post where it mentions formating to FAT32..
cyrxi, in windows you can use winrar to extract the .nbh file out of the .exe file. Not sure what you'd do in linux....
Sorry...
kyriakos304 said me he cant publish on this forums, so here is him post, if you wanna thank, thank him
Hey, For those who have problem with SD card.
Download mini tool partition wizard.
Put your SD card into an adaptor.
Put it into your computer’s SD slot
Open mini tool partition
Select your SD card
Right click on it
Delete it
Right click on it
Create a
Fat32 if it more than 2 GB
Fat if it less than 2 GB
You need to make it as primary.
Click ok and then apply.
Now you have to do all steps from the beginning to install the ROM.
Hope that helps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What are the card problems?
Just to clarify, the only problems i have is in managing file integrity when the file is big. Eg the roms I downloaded and put on my sd always changes its MD5 hash after I reboot. So always unable to flash. On rare occasions it could load up.
Is this the same as formatting using windows inbuilt tool or gparted or does minitool handle things differently? Would it differ from formatting in xrecovery or in storage settings on the phone?
Clear and useful guide nonetheless thank you
consegregate said:
What are the card problems?
Just to clarify, the only problems i have is in managing file integrity when the file is big. Eg the roms I downloaded and put on my sd always changes its MD5 hash after I reboot. So always unable to flash. On rare occasions it could load up.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Your sd is seriosly damaged, buy a new one
I think it might be the cable when the speed of transfer of the zip file gets higher than 3mb per second i'll expect a bad file.
Other stuff are working fine though so i'll stick. What's more it's a 16 gb card and I don't wanna part with it!
XDA ♥
If i change out my SD card, do i have to do anything to reprovision all of those folders there? Is anything "critical" stored there?
If i want to flash a new rom, do i just follow same procedure (have sd card in phone, use disk drive and transfer, flash from cwm) ... or is CWM gone after i remove the SD?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919859 this thread seems to apply, but I wasnt sure if there was any diff with the TB.
Thanks!
sushiman79 said:
If i change out my SD card, do i have to do anything to reprovision all of those folders there? Is anything "critical" stored there?
If i want to flash a new rom, do i just follow same procedure (have sd card in phone, use disk drive and transfer, flash from cwm) ... or is CWM gone after i remove the SD?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919859 this thread seems to apply, but I wasnt sure if there was any diff with the TB.
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just make sure it's formatted FAT32. You can copy all your stuff from one to the other without an issue. Some ROMs store stuff there, but usually nothing real important. CWM is on the eMMC, not the SDcard.
Hello friends, how are you?
I'm from Portugal, and i have one nice strek 5 working great.
But i have another two, that don't boot, it stuck on delll Logo.
i think another my friends try to root or update, and fail.
it don't make any fast boot or streak mod.
so i disassemble to read its sd card.
because i'm using windows, so i install DiskInternalls Linux Reader to have acess to sd card files.
When mounted, its show two volumes, "Linux Ext Volume 1" and "Linux Ext Volume 2"
the firs one have 244 Mbs, and the other one have 1.65Gb
the small one have two folders, lost+found, recovery and a lot of jpeg files in root folder.
the second one, that have 1.65Gb, have a lot od folders and semms a lot of a zipped rom image.
Its possible just decompress and copy to the volume?
Thanks
If you format the card and put it back in the streak, it should set it up automatically. However, you will lose anything on it this way.
Ok. i will try..
but, it don't need to write some data in "boot area" ?
I'm asking that, becouse i download 3 roms, all ziped, but easy to see files, i also download streak mod, and has only one img file, it can't be unzipped..
my firts idea, was copy streak boot files, to card, but i can't acess it..
My assumption, and it is only an assumption, is there is some sort of actual rom memory on the phone that holds the lowest levels of the operating system. Maybe fastboot and the recovery menu, but not recovery itself. The rom actually resides on the internal sd card. When I put in my freshly formatted sd card, I simply rebooted the phone and I don't remember if it was automatic, or I had to confirm it, but the streak partitioned/formatted/whatever the internal sd card itself. I then flashed a recovery and a rom.
Hello.
like you said, i have insert a new sd card, but formated in FAT, i think thats the problem.
I try to load Linux Live CD, and format in ext2/3.
or try to copy rom directly file to sd card.
You think might work?
***EDIT***
I have format the card, and i have inserted into sreak and turn it on..
How much time is preparing the new card ?
and how i know that is ready to reboot?
thanks
I have created an image of my inner SD Card right after a factory reset.
Download Here
I created this using Clonezilla, you should be able to use Clonezilla to restore it. It is an image of the entire sd card. You need to unzip the downloaded file to use it.
Note: I am running DSC_Rom, which is Gingerbread based. I don't think it makes a difference.
marvin02 said:
I have created an image of my inner SD Card right after a factory reset.
Download Here
I created this using Clonezilla, you should be able to use Clonezilla to restore it. It is an image of the entire sd card. You need to unzip the downloaded file to use it.
Note: I am running DSC_Rom, which is Gingerbread based. I don't think it makes a difference.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
cannot start clonezilla iso
slav_pu6 said:
cannot start clonezilla iso
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You burn the .iso file to a cd and boot it.