HTC have advised me to flash the ROM on my neon200 (Touch Dual 850 Telstra) to fix a battery/charging problem.
I can't do this via the provided RUU program (via ActiveSync) because the program checks for at least 50% battery charge in order to proceed to upgrade the ROM. The phone fails this test on account of the power management not working correctly.
Is there a way I can do this using bootloader and the micro-sd card? I'm hoping this would let me upgrade the ROM with the phone plugged in to the AC wall charger, and bypassing the battery check.
I tried copying EnterBootLoader.exe and RUU_signed.nbh (copied from the temp directory that the RUU program creates) to a freshly formatted (FAT32) sd card, and then running EnterBootloader.exe on the phone, based on advice I read here on the Nike. It shows the rainbow coloured screen, then flashes up a message which doesn't display for long enough for me to read, before going back to the rainbow screen. I think the message may say something like "Loading - no image found".
I don't really want to use any custom boot loaders at this point, as all want to do is updrade to an approved HTC ROM.
I'd appreciate any ideas on what the location and name of the .nbh file needs to be in order for the neon200 bootloader to detect and load it. Thanks
PS. I'd send it for warranty repair, but it was an e-bay purchase and I don't have the original sales receipt. The problem is that the 'today' screen says the battery is full (and therefore won't charge it up) but the WM power settings screen says the battery is empty (and therefore turns off the phone as soon as it's unplugged from a charger). Genuine new battery makes no difference.
Hope this isn't too late for you, but the way I did it on my Neon200 was:
- Rename the custom_ruu.nbh to NEONIMG.nbh
- Copy it to the root of the SD card
- Enter bootloader on the phone itself by holding camera and power keys, and hitting the reset button
- The phone detects the new ROM, asks you to press the power button to continue
- When completed, it shows 'success' on the screen and you just hit reset again.
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my son's wallaby is having a mid life crisis!!, will NOT turn on at all, the screen is in dimmed mode, screen taps/menus etc etc not working, it is just displaying the message:
Upgrading...
will take about 5 minutes.
Warning: do not remove the
USB/serial connection or power
adaptor from the pocket PC.
problem is that this message has been displayed constantly for the last 24-30hrs!!, have tried a soft re-set...nothing, then tried a hard re-set...nothing, its showing full charge, and have tried removing the SIM and SD cards as well as doing re-sets...nothing!
Please Help!!
Thanks guys.
The problem is that you propably removed your XDA from it's cradle during ROM flashing.
Can you acces bootloader (hold power then press soft reset button) ?
...Not tried that, will give it a go,
thanks for the info.
..OK, I managed to get the boot loader screen up, and ran thru the checks...all appears ok, but none of the tests relate to the OS?, so when all had been checked, and I came out of the loader screeen and turned it on again, it went back to the "upgrading..." as above, just cannot get the windows menu up at all, and activesync doesnt recognise what device it is, but activesync works perfectly on mine..........is there another level/setup program that can be acessed??
cheers guys.
So, after having access to your bootloader reflash your device using SD-Card and bootloader.
Process is described in the wiki of often here in the forum...
Stefan
Ok so heres an update of what I have managed to do so far:
1.) I ran a file called titan_SPL_2.40-olipro.exe
~This seemed to kick me into a "Rainbow" screen. So at this point the program told me it was done, but not matter how many time I reset it I came back to the rainbow screen. So at this point I
2.) Ran a file called titan_radio_3.27.00.exe
~This file was required for the DCD2.3.2-Alltell.exe file, so I ran the radio file. All went well till it tried to reboot. Now all I get to is a splash screen that says Alltel. The first screen that says HTC does recognize the radio as being 3.27.
So I search and search and I then tried to famous MicroSD bootloader trick. So I take the nbh file out of the firmware installer that I was going to install, rename it to TITAIMG.nbh, I format my SD card as Fat32, I copy the file over to the SD card. I put the SD card in, I hold the record and power button down and press reset... then nothing. Just a black screen. I would like to note that while its at this black screen and I plug in the USB cable to my computer, the computer sees it as a data connection.
I'm so lost on this. All I want to have in the end of this is a working Alltel phone with GPS, so that I can use Tomtom 6 to use this $549 PPC as a GPS device.
Thank you ahead of time.
[SOLVED]
Wow I am so stupid... I was holding the Voice Command button and the power button, when I should have been pressing the Camera and Power button. LOL
Heres where I found my solution: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=17909&page=2
and in case it gets taken down:
Found a solution. This is needs to be done once you load the DcD rom 2.3. Your phone will freeze at the splash scree. Follow the steps below to get the boot loader screen back up. Your computer will then see your phone. DONT RUN HARD-SPL... Run the RRU radio instead. Windows mobile should start right up after the auto soft reset.
Steps For Install:
1. put phone in boot loader mode can do so by holding in power button and camera button at the same time while pressing in soft rest button
2. run the unlocker and follow the on screen instructions
3. then flash phone with rom of your choice, phone will reboot and be stuck at splash screen put phone back into boot loader mode
4. then run the radio upgrade and follow on screen instructions and you should be all set
Deleted, seen that you solved it.
Hopefully someone can help me here
I have an HTC Mogul that I am trying to flash over to a custom ROM. Unfortunately I got a little too gung ho and didnt flash the radio over, so now the phone freezes at the HTC splash screen on start up. I have tried flashing it back to a carrier rom or even another custom rom but it gets to the loading bar and then fails out. Have tried flashing from the SD card but every image i put on there says that there is no valid image on the card.
I have looked high and low for an answer to my problem but have had little to no luck anywhere.
Rawk02 said:
Hopefully someone can help me here
I have an HTC Mogul that I am trying to flash over to a custom ROM. Unfortunately I got a little too gung ho and didnt flash the radio over, so now the phone freezes at the HTC splash screen on start up. I have tried flashing it back to a carrier rom or even another custom rom but it gets to the loading bar and then fails out. Have tried flashing from the SD card but every image i put on there says that there is no valid image on the card.
I have looked high and low for an answer to my problem but have had little to no luck anywhere.
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Unlocked bootloader -> Custom ROM -> GPS Radio -> Boot
So as long as your bootloader is unlocked (olipro 2.40, no2chem 2.47) then go ahead and flash the Custom GPS ROM you want to use on there. Then flash a GPS Radio I use 3.42.40 and yes I have tested all the others. Then to be totally sure might as well hard reset and pull the battery for a few.
Edit: Tip I figure everyone needs to read. If flashing using RUU method (exe, or utility through usb cable) make sure you dont have a Memory card in the phone. That ensures no problems will arise like bad flashes.
If using microSD card then make sure its not plugged in while flashing. Card must be 2gb and under and be formatted fat 32, image must be named TITAIMG.nbh and be the only thing on the card, no files or folders but the .nbh
Also check in your Computers files and folders settings and make sure you have it selected to Show File Extensions. That way you know the files are getting named and assigned correctly.
The problem I am having right now is the bootloader seems borked. It will not load any files. any that i put on the card it flashes up quick and says no image file found and then back to the bootloader screen and if i try usb it goes to the point where the progress bar comes up and then errors out. Is there a way to flash the bootloader without loading into WM?
Rawk02 said:
The problem I am having right now is the bootloader seems borked. It will not load any files. any that i put on the card it flashes up quick and says no image file found and then back to the bootloader screen and if i try usb it goes to the point where the progress bar comes up and then errors out. Is there a way to flash the bootloader without loading into WM?
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What bootloader is on there now? You should of already mentioned this in your first post, let alone your second..
Also what size memory card are you using, I hinted at that already too.
Yeah that would help
Here is what is at the top of the Bootloader:
TITA100
SPL-1.07.0000
CPLD-9
I am using a 2 gig card, tried with a 1 gig it would get the to loading screen and freeze
Rawk02 said:
Yeah that would help
Here is what is at the top of the Bootloader:
TITA100
SPL-1.07.0000
CPLD-9
I am using a 2 gig card, tried with a 1 gig it would get the to loading screen and freeze
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Yea you messed up, you need to flash an unlocked bootloader from a functioning WM. There are ways around it and to get out of your jam.
Tell me what the phone does after unplugging it, removing the memory card, taking the battery out and letting it sit for a couple minutes. Put only the battery in and turn it on.
I need to know if it tries to boot the OS and gets stuck or if it goes to bootloader automatically.
it tries to boot to WM, goes to the HTC logo and then freezes, i still have to hold down the camera button to boot into the bootloader
Rawk02 said:
it tries to boot to WM, goes to the HTC logo and then freezes, i still have to hold down the camera button to boot into the bootloader
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Thats not how you get into bootloader on a Titan.
Manual Bootloader mode on a Titan = Power Button + Camera Button + Reset Button (hole next to memory card slot) for a couple seconds then release.
Ok now next information that you forgot to post. What HTC Mogul is it P4000, VX6800, PPC6800, or other variant. What carrier branding is it, like what stock ROM was originally on there. Sprint, Verizon, Qwest. Exe.
I need to know this as well so we are not just trying things to you get it. I want to write you a walkthrough that hits the nail on the head.
PPC6800
Old Carrier was USCC
and it may just be this version but to get into bootloader I have just been holding down camera then at the same time holding down power holding it for a few seconds then releasing the power and it goes into BL
1: Download the following files from my HTC to Windows Unlock Tools directory. Download the Titan_Relocker.exe, a GPS radio of your choosing, and the titan_spl_olipro240.exe.
2. Now make sure you have Active Sync 4.5 installed first then the HTC windows drivers installed second (from my HTC unlock directory on my share site). Now install both of those and restart the computer, start from a fresh PC. Now disable the Active Sync usb connections just right click the Active sync icon on your PC's taskbar. Pick connection settings and then look for the Box with Allow USB connections. Clear the box (disable) the usb connections.
3. Take out the storage card and now manually put the phone into bootloader "power camera reset" and then plug the phone into the PC using a MAIN port built into the Motherboard (no hub, no front usb panel). Now use Winrar, or 7zip to extract the contents of the Titanrelocker.exe into a folder. You will then see the ROMupdateutility.exe and ExitBL.exe with a bunch of other files. Ok now Run the ROM update utitlity.exe from the extracted folder and let it flash The Stock SPL. When it is done follow the prompts on screen. Now if it reboots back to olipro bootloader then run the Exitbl.exe and soon as it reboots wait till after the first splash screen and Unplug the phone.
4. Now manually put the phone into bootloader "power camera reset" (so it restarts and goes back to bootloader). Now we are going to flash the Olipro 2.40. Use Winrar, or 7zip to extract the contents of Olipro 2.40.exe into a folder. You will then see the ROMupdateutility.exe and ExitBL.exe with a bunch of other files. Ok now Run the ROM update utitlity.exe from the extracted folder and let it flash Olipro 2.40 When it is done follow the prompts on screen. Now if it reboots back to olipro bootloader then run the Exitbl.exe and soon as it reboots wait till after the first splash screen and Unplug the phone.
5. Now manually put the phone into bootloader "power camera reset" (so it restarts and goes back to bootloader). Now you can flash a Custom ROM using RUU method or go ahead and use the microSD method.
a. You can use an RUU utility to flash the custom ROM while its still plugged in and in bootloader.
b. You can flash the custom ROM with a Micro SD card, just unplug the phone and put the card in and manually put the phone in bootloader again using power + camera + reset all at the same time for a second or two.
6: When the ROM is done installing you MUST flash a GPS radio version 3.35 and up if you are using a GPS ROM. If you use RUU method you have to perform a hard reset after flashing the radio. If you use the Micro SD method you do not have to Hard Reset.
Still it is a good idea to hard reset and then pull battery for a minute to make sure the page pool is set.
on #3 flashing it back to the stock SPL i get the same error as I have been getting, it goes to the progress bar on both the computer and phone, sits at 0% for about 30 seconds then the computer gives error 262
ok finally got it to respond to the SD card, but it has been sitting on a grey screen saying loading for a good 6 hours now, i have a feeling that this is going to take some low-level editing with mtty
Major problem with 8525. Not sure this question has ever been asked before.
When I got it , I SIM and CID unlocked it. Since then I Have tried various ROMs and can continue to flash the ROM and get the phone working. But I seem to have two problems. The first may go away if I can figure out the second.
Firstly I now have the new Tai ROM on it but I can boot it up and then after a few minutes, the whole unit seems to freeze. Sometimes it doesnt freeze immediately but it NEVER recognises that my t-mobile SIM is there.
Secondly, whatever I do, the computer never sees the unit at all. The unit sees the computer (I can get into the bootloader and on plugging the cable in, the screen switches from SERIAL to USB. But the computer still doesn't see the unit. EXAMPLE: I can try to re-run the unlock software but at the first screen where the software tries to transfer its first file to the unit, the computer reports that it cant see any device.
The bootloader reports HERM100 IPL 1.04, and clearly shows that the SPL is 1.40 Olipro.
On boot, the splash screen (without a SIM in it) shows just M 05 S 04 B 06 and D.335 Swiss
At no stage does the computer report anything in the systray showing that it can see the unit, neither when I plug it in with the unit off and turn it on, nor when I boot it up completely and then plug it in. The computer just doesn't see it. With the unit booted up, it can power the screen off, I can press the power button and turn it on again, I can see th e clock continuing to run, I can move about within the OS showing that it hasn't frozen just yet but there is no communication whatsoever.
Is this something as simple as getting to some screen as (on my Wizard) where I have to put a tick in an 'allow pc to usb' connection ('cos if so, I cant find it and cant see where one could do this to enable communication while the unit is in bootloader mode!)
I cant report that the unit is bricked because it isn't but where do I go from here please?
Hi,
So I really did it this time. I forgot to delete the radio I flashed yesterday from the phone's root folder and upon restoring to what appears to be a non-working version of DASBAMF I'm stuck with:
BAMF that loads but only to my background image. The touch screen doesn't respond, the soft keys don't do anything. Volume buttons wake the screen and so does the power button. But, when I hold the power button down, the reboot options don't come up. The status bar updates, I can see emails coming in. When I plug in the device to USB it goes into charge only mode.
OR
Hboot that finds the radio immediately. Flash or don't flash the radio and all I can do is reboot.
I'm on Windows 7 64bit and I've tried to install and setup ADB per these directions: http://www.thunderboltforums.com/forum/htc-thunderbolt-development/315-android-sdk-adb-driver.html
as well as the HTC sync software. I can't get ADB to recognize the device nor HTC sync.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to either remove the radio or somehow get into recovery?
Turn off the phone, remove the micro sd card, put it in your pc card and remove the radio. When you put the micro sd card back in the phone hboot will look for the file and not find it, you can then choose recovery.
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If your PC has a multimedia card reader, you should get a SDcard adapter, and insert the micro SDcard from your Thunderbolt into it. Then you can delete the PG051.img via Windows Explorer.
After a few such experiences, I wouldn't root my phone unless I had a PC with a mmc reader and an adapter. It's a lifesaver.
Same thing happened to me a while back, except I didn't have a PC available, but luckily was able to put the card in my gf's phone and delete it that way
Thanks for the help guy. I didn't realize the radio was on the SD card (duh) and I could just take the card out, boot into hboot -> recovery, and then factory wipe.
If the ROM was truly in a bootloop, I would have had to use a PC to remove the p05img.zip. Thanks for the help.