I've read the Wiki, searched, read the FAQs, but nothing really described how to do what I think I want to do.
How do I upgrade my radio?
I have been following DCD's wonderful (thank you so much), ROMs and just installed 3.2.2 last night, so I'm not unfamiliar with the process. Then I realized that I was on an old radio. So I tried to upgrade. Here are the steps I followed.
1. Downloaded the latest radio (3.42.15 ?) nbh file.
2. Placed the nbh file in the RUU folder of the 3.2.2 kitchen.
3. Ran the RomUpdateUtility.exe that was in that folder.
It looked like it was pushing it to my phone when.....
I got an error after the phone said about 4 or 5%.
I'm sorry for the lame-o-nubie-like question. I really thought I understood this process.
What am I missing?
Thanks for your patience.
Matt
Upgrade radio by placing radio .nbh file on sd card and renaming TITAIMG.nbh, force bootloader and press power to install. You will not hard reset your phone by doing this method but you will by using RUU.
serfboreds said:
Upgrade radio by placing radio .nbh file on sd card and renaming TITAIMG.nbh, force bootloader and press power to install. You will not hard reset your phone by doing this method but you will by using RUU.
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FYI: if you use this method, I'm pretty sure the SD card has to be FAT32 formatted.
sputnik said:
FYI: if you use this method, I'm pretty sure the SD card has to be FAT32 formatted.
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True, I didn't cover that but there is much I didn't want to have to cover in my quick response. Make sure to read the wiki here for full instructions on formatting and flashing.
Edit: He did say he read the wiki, but as a counterpoint he tried to paste the nbh file into the RUU. Rule of thumb is to always follow the wiki to the letter for best results.
i don't mind hard resetting...in fact....I prefer it.
are there any instrctions for using the RUU?
sudermatt said:
i don't mind hard resetting...in fact....I prefer it.
are there any instrctions for using the RUU?
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Hi sudermatt,
Almost all 3.xx radios are having problems flashing via RUU. Bite the bullet and pick up an SD card it will be well worth it.
the 0ne said:
Almost all 3.xx radios are having problems flashing via RUU. Bite the bullet and pick up an SD card it will be well worth it.
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The verizon phone doesn't come with one? My sprint one came with a 512MB one that I keep around to update with...
glenl said:
The verizon phone doesn't come with one? My sprint one came with a 512MB one that I keep around to update with...
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Hi glenl,
Correct, the Verizon XV6800 does not include an SD card.
can i flash my radio this way using someone else's card (for his Hermes) and it won't disturb anything on the card, and then he can delete my files after?
Dillsnik said:
can i flash my radio this way using someone else's card (for his Hermes) and it won't disturb anything on the card, and then he can delete my files after?
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as long as the card is already formatted properly... otherwise just back up his card's contents and format it appropriately (fat32) if need be. make sure its not a high-capacity MicroSDHC...
You can unlock and install official signed rom that includes radio.
Then overwrite OS custom rom.
i didn't see it anywhere...not in the wiki
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Hi,
I've downloaded a couple different roms.
When i run SDDL+ it just resets my phone. When i look in the prg directory i find the TG01WP_00.tsw file is renamed to TG01WP_00.enc and that is all.
If i rename it back to TG01WP_00.tsw, then run the SDDL downloader, it just tells me there was an error resetting my phone.
does it matter where i put the SDDL files? I have them in the base folder of SD card.
Anyone want to help me with noobieness?
Sounds like you're doing everything right SD/SDDL+ and SD/prg/TG01WP_00.tsw
Best posting this in the ROM section to see if anyone has an answer.
SteveYorks said:
Sounds like you're doing everything right SD/SDDL+ and SD/prg/TG01WP_00.tsw
Best posting this in the ROM section to see if anyone has an answer.
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I've got a posting in there in the "[TUTORIAL] How to Flash a ROM into your TG01 " sticky.. nobody has answered it there so i thought i'd try here.
Dodge0069 said:
I've got a posting in there in the "[TUTORIAL] How to Flash a ROM into your TG01 " sticky.. nobody has answered it there so i thought i'd try here.
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maybe u should read the first post of the thread u found first ...
souljaboy said:
maybe u should read the first post of the thread u found first ...
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Thanks for the useless advice smart guy.
SDDL+ Method
Unrar SDDL.rar said:
http://t0a.duyet.com/SDDL.rar[/url]
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So, i downloaded and Unrar'd SDDL.rar, and placed on SD Card.. CHECK
I created a folder called PRG on my SD Card... CHECK
I placed the ROM renamed to TG01WP_00.tsw in the PRG folder.. CHECK
I executed SDDL+ on the SD CARD.. CHECK..
As i mentioned in the first post, the phone just resets. In the PRG folder the file is renamed from TG01WP_00.tsw to TG01WP_00.enc
and no new rom.
What did i miss Souljaboy.. i know it's obivious and i'm retarded, but hold my hand on this one. And i haven't tried the Pinflash method, yes i realize.
I think you don´t have to rename it back to TG01WP_00.tsw. If you have the TG01WP_00.enc in your PRG folder just start SDDL+ and it will flash the Rom. I have no problems with that.
Which Rom do you want to flash?
Erm.....what phone you got? which country? did you fully charge your battery?
which rom you try to flash ? more info will help others to trouble shoot your problem you know.
Also people `DON`T` get paid for helping you so be nice when you ask for help.
was trying to flash to arag0n85's rom v14.4
just checking
1. are you using SDDL+ and if you are try to redownload it n try again
2. master clear first and have a clean sd card then have PRG and SDDL+ files in the root.
if you have tried the above then try a differrent rom and see what happens
useyourfist said:
just checking
1. are you using SDDL+ and if you are try to redownload it n try again
2. master clear first and have a clean sd card then have PRG and SDDL+ files in the root.
if you have tried the above then try a differrent rom and see what happens
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I've tried a few different roms.. but i'm using my standard SD card.
Is it a problem that it's an 8gb SDHC?
I'll try and get a cheap 2gb one and try it.
Is everyone else doing it with a clean SD card?
I´m using the original SD-Card, too and i have no problems with this. Try a Rom created by Novembre5.
I have many stuff on my card and i never clean it up before flashing. It always works as it should. But you can format your card. Maybe this fixes your problems.
Redownload all needed stuff, clean up your card and your phone and give it another try. I´m sure this will work.
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Erm.....what phone you got? which country? did you fully charge your battery?
which rom you try to flash ? more info will help others to trouble shoot your problem you know.
Also people `DON`T` get paid for helping you so be nice when you ask for help.
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It's the TG01, from England. The battery is fully charged. SDDL+ won't let you flash if it's not, even if its 90% and you're on AC it still won't let you.
I've tried a few roms now. I just tried Novembre5's and it did the same thing.
I'm going to attempt pin flash method in the morning.. if i can get the back off my phone haha.
I tried it with a freshly formatted SD card.. same result.
Going to try the Pin flash method
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Pin flash worked.
It doesn't say in the tutorial, but I had to keep holding the short on pins 1 and 3 while i powered on the phone. Thanks all for help.
Hi apologies for the question in advance!!!
Im trying to flash a radio onto my O2 stock rom .. i ave successfully put hspl on device but when i try to flash the radio nothig happens????
I have renamed radio RUU_Signed.nbh and when i run custom ruu i get a prompt from computer to allow programme which i do and then nothing happens
THIS IS DRIVING ME MAD I HAVE SEARCHED THE FORUMS WATCHED THE YOU TUBE DEMO AND CANT THINK OF ANYTHING IM DOING THAT IS WRONG ????????????????????????????????????????????
Have you tried to copy the radio file (rename it to LEOIMG) to your SD card, reboot while holding volume down, and flash from there?
Will give it a go now thanks for the help much appreciated
NO LUCK STILL WONT WORK IM SURE IM JUST DOING SOMETHING WRONG BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT...
ABOUT TO THROW PHONE
you did unzip teh radio file and extract the .nbh, right? you didnt just rename the zip(or rar, or 7z, whatever) to .nbh did you?
(by teh way, for usb flashing, no need to change teh filenmame at all, just extract the .nbh, put in folder with customruu.exe, and run customruu. And of course this wont work if your spl ends .0000)
So you copied the radio file (named LEOIMG) to the root of your SD card?
You get past the 3 colored bootloader?
What msg do you get, whats happening?
Edit: What samsamuel said, you have to unzip the file first ofc
Hi yes to above i did extract, tried custumruu no joy, tried renaming LEOIMG AND SAVING TO SD CARD ROOT hold power and down volume , it goes into bootloader and just sits there doing nothing in the red band it says SPL-2.08 HSPL, and in the white band it says SERIAL?????????????????
does your pc run avast or mcafee? they can disable customruu. you can tell because when you run it nothing at all happens.
as for sd card failing, have you formatted it since you got it? cos the o2 stock one comes formatted to FAT but need to be FAT32 for flashing.
also, many 16gb and some 8gb cards can be temperemental
Thank you everyone
problem was with the computer not the process tried it on the desktop instead of lap top and it worked first time
I want to put everything back to stock so I can start over and learn things myself. I'm very familiar with Android phones and rooting.
I searched but couldn't find a walkthrough.
Thanks guys!
how hard did u look???think there must be a million posts!
download your stock rom,
extract the .nbh file,
format sd card, fat32,
rename .nbh file to leoimg.nbh
copy that to sd card
turn phone on with vol down and should ask if u wanna flash rom,
tht will turn it back to stock spl, radio everything.
OrionCarl said:
how hard did u look???think there must be a million posts!
download your stock rom,
extract the .nbh file,
format sd card, fat32,
rename .nbh file to leoimg.nbh
copy that to sd card
turn phone on with vol down and should ask if u wanna flash rom,
tht will turn it back to stock spl, radio everything.
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That's the problem...when I searched I found 500 threads but nothing as clear as your directions.
If I brick, I'll PM you.
rudeguy said:
If I brick, I'll PM you.
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If you look at the first thread of the HD2 Rom Development section, the first sticky is
"[REF] HD2 STICKIES | USEFUL INFO | POSTING RULES - Read before posting "
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=713977
You might want to read this before PM anyone about a bricked phone as it is your responsibility to make sure you know how to flash.
If you have the UK version please visit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=609477
If you have the US version please visit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653614
Luckych
P.S. the reason i said that is because there is no easy way of fixing your phone if you brick it, unless you jtag which cost more than getting a new phone.
As far as I know, Android will only run off of the sd card, after booting into windows. Android does not reside on the phones memory. There could be a WM program on your phone that automatically boots android once windows is started up. In that case, remove the program, and if you want, delete the Android folder off of the sd.
Have a look at the this thread, and you will see that Android will only run off of the sd....WM is still the OS for the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=735
Hi, you could always go down the safe way of flashing official stock ROM from your country's HTC.x webpage. You will find download link and instructions under the HD2 support page. So if you remove the SD card your phone should boot into winmo even if it has an automatic bootloader. Once you connect your phone with your PC, flashing is automatically done after running the .exe file. After that, search the xda forum for the latest radio and WinMo ROM of your prefference. Good lucm and have fun...
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
I could be wrong about flashing Android to the phone memory (NAND). You can look here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817261
It is a fairly new development.
Ok so I'm trying to flash Clean Rom ICS 1/22 version
I did all the steps they said to in the instructions "I also made sure I had no PH files or I made sure I already deleted them"
I keep getting this
Main version is older!
update fail
press <power to rebot>
I then have to take the sd card out, get into recovery, put sd card back in and then USB mount the sd card to erase the ph file that the rom installed..
I'm so frustrated by this.
I was currently running the rom below with a custom kernal
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1456883
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I did the same thing... What I've done is downloaded a few ROMs to my SDcard, but I've edited the .zip before putting them on. I went into the kernel folder, and edited the android-info.txt to match that leaked mainver number. After I saved that file, i went into the PH98IMG.zip and edited the android-info.txt file in there. Now I don't have to worry about getting stuck if I don't have a computer handy to do a fastboot
The next OTA update will fix this big mess, and hopefully we all learn from this lol. I sure have!
andybones said:
The next OTA update will fix this big mess, and hopefully we all learn from this lol. I sure have!
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Not to flash leaks unless you are a Dev... or very experienced user/rooter/flasher of Android devices?
EDIT: I FOUND THE ISSUE: I needed to reformat my SD Card
I have the new zips for the new radios - for some reason hboot isn't recognizing the zip file, and no its not named ".zip.zip" - I'm using a Linux Machine, I checked the md5s and all, they all matched up, I haven't had an issue like this ever before, what's wrong?
And yes it's on the root of the SDcard
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EDIT: I FOUND THE ISSUE: THE HBOOT IS LOOKING FOR A PG05DIAG.zip*!!
I have the new zips for the new radios - for some reason hboot isn't recognizing the zip file, and no its not named ".zip.zip" - I'm using a Linux Machine, I checked the md5s and all, they all matched up, I haven't had an issue like this ever before, what's wrong?
And yes it's on the root of the SDcard
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There's two sets of zips, one of the zips can't be read by certain versions of HBOOT because of the compression method. I don't have links to the two sets but I'm sure you can find them.
...nvm
ryanstfl said:
There's two sets of zips, one of the zips can't be read by certain versions of HBOOT because of the compression method. I don't have links to the two sets but I'm sure you can find them.
...nvm
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Nahh, he got it installed eventually.
He just needed to reformat his SD card.
Maybe he should update the OP to reflect that.
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Nahh, he got it installed eventually.
He just needed to reformat his SD card.
Maybe he should update the OP to reflect that.
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Fixed
A longshot
I know it's an older thread but I'm hoping someone can help. I reformatted my SD card, all the tips and tricks I've seen in this section and the development section and still no dice. Should I be doing this via recovery or HBOOT? If via HBOOT, can I do so after installing a ROM or does it still have to be done first.
Thanks
Loki
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Edit: Ah it's been so long since I've done this I forgot to rename it and update from the main hboot window. Duh.
Klonopin said:
EDIT: I FOUND THE ISSUE: I needed to reformat my SD Card
I have the new zips for the new radios - for some reason hboot isn't recognizing the zip file, and no its not named ".zip.zip" - I'm using a Linux Machine, I checked the md5s and all, they all matched up, I haven't had an issue like this ever before, what's wrong?
And yes it's on the root of the SDcard
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hey Klonopin i was wondering... is it s-off or s-on?
Also what type of hboot version do you have?
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LokiAkai said:
I know it's an older thread but I'm hoping someone can help. I reformatted my SD card, all the tips and tricks I've seen in this section and the development section and still no dice. Should I be doing this via recovery or HBOOT? If via HBOOT, can I do so after installing a ROM or does it still have to be done first.
Thanks
Loki
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Edit: Ah it's been so long since I've done this I forgot to rename it and update from the main hboot window. Duh.
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HEY LOKI
I AM "NOT" RESPONSIBLE IF YOU MESS UP YOUR DEVICE FROM FAILURE TO READ INSTRUCTIONS.
there is a fix
what you want to do is follow these instructions to downgrade your htc thunderbolt to a firmware that can be S-OFF, i should say.
the reason behind why this wont work is because you are probably s-on and HTC is rejecting your file. Kinda like Read/Write.
Basically you need to be S-OFF.
here is the link to the post:
www[dot]androidforums[dot]com/thunderbolt-all-things-root/689221-how-downgrade-root-ics[dot]html
this link contains all of the information you need to achieve your goal.