I noticed a lot of people had problems with the soft reset loop in WM6. Just thought I'd post this fix for future reference. Read through the first page.
http://www.modaco.com/Continuous-reboots-t256186.html
Mad respect to Paul over at Modaco, this one pissed me off for long.
I must be missing something because I don't see the attached file and I am logged into the site.
Never mind I figured it out now.
Has this worked for anyone? I just tried it on my Wing (ITsPapaBlack Final * 20748.1.4.0 is my ROM) & when I soft reset my device, the renamed dll.old was not there, only the original one. What gives?
**edit: It won't even allow me to change the name of the dll file (using TC). How do I change it?**
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Okay, so I just recently flashed to Touch-IT 4.4 by itje, and it's been working great. However, I just softreset my phone and now it's stuck in a boot loop just after finishing with the first splash with the text Touch-IT in silver..
It should probably be said that it reboots by itself, which I don 't think is normal for a bricked phone?
So I'm a bit stuck and don't really know what to do; Is my phone bricked (in which case I'll just have to unbrick it, which isn't a problem since there's a certain good guide that explain how to and I've already used it once), or what's wrong with my phone?
Meh, turns out it's possible to flash it with the hacked installer as well.. So I'm just going to reinstall the phone.
I just have one thing to say to all of you guys doing all this work on the ROM of Herald/Wing:
YOU. ****ING. ROCK. <3
Debdrup said:
Okay, so I just recently flashed to Touch-IT 4.4 by itje, and it's been working great. However, I just softreset my phone and now it's stuck in a boot loop just after finishing with the first splash with the text Touch-IT in silver..
It should probably be said that it reboots by itself, which I don 't think is normal for a bricked phone?
So I'm a bit stuck and don't really know what to do; Is my phone bricked (in which case I'll just have to unbrick it, which isn't a problem since there's a certain good guide that explain how to and I've already used it once), or what's wrong with my phone?
Meh, turns out it's possible to flash it with the hacked installer as well.. So I'm just going to reinstall the phone.
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Take out your mSD card while rebooting and your device will start up fine
Is it the card that's doing it? Because I've soft-reset before without problems just fine. <.<
Gaah, I wish I had known that (or waited, but I was in a hurry to get my phone up and running again because I was expecting a call)..
It's not the cards fault. Somewhere here in the forum it was briefly discussed, but I can't find it right now.
It was said, that a certain DLL for SDHC support causes the looping.
It's called something like omap650sdhc.dll or so (you need to find out yourself, should be easy)
and by deleting or renaming it, it should solve the whole problem.
Never tested it myself, but it will not harm your device if you delete/rename that file.
That's the driver for the SD card drive... Depending on the rom you're using, it might be stuck inside the rom so you can't delete the file.
I asked Chikenbull on here to make a program that will rename that Omap file and reboot the device. I haven't tested it yet, but here it is.
Remember to use this AT YOUR OWN RISK.
GAMBIT999 said:
Take out your mSD card while rebooting and your device will start up fine
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I've been doing this for the last month to avoid a HardReset. I've been having the boot-loop problem since i installed the HTChomeCustomizerV80 and/or HTCplus, and read about the warning too late: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=326689
I've since removed the Today plugins, and the only annoyance remaining are the Backlight adjust function not working, and having to remove the microsd everytime I restart/power-on the Wing.
As I said, I'm trying to avoid a Hard Reset because I have 30+ programs installed and it's gonna take me a few days to reinstall all of them. I searched here with no success... all I found are the same saying "remove microSD at boot", which is what I'm doing, but it's a pain.
Tried GAMBIT999's suggestion, but can't remove omap850sdhc.dll from the \windows\ folder. Would DUPRADEE's suggestion of renaming this file with the program solve the restart-loop problem? Or is there other methods I haven't found, that'll save me the trouble of a Hard reset?
-cheers
edit: PROBLEM SOLVED!! thanks duprade
omap850sdhc.dll couldn't be deleted, but just changing the extension to omap850sdhc.000 solved the problem!!! Now I can restart without taking out the microSD!!! w00t w00t w00t !!!
Check for errors under Windows
One more possibility I forgot to mention which work fine for me.
After having the boot-loop symptom I took out my mSD card and checked it for errors under Windows.
I let Windows fix the errors and everything worked fine afterwards.
The procedure didn't took long even on a non USB2.0 port.
No card removing or file renaming anymore.
Folks having the boot-loop may try this solution out first before renaming/deleting the DLL.
My problem was SOLVED by simply renaming \Windows\omap850_sdhc.dll
It's funny how if you do not know the cause of the problem, SEARCH is useless. But once you find the answer (thanks Gambit999 and Duprade), going back to Search turns up pages of the same question posted over and over.
Anyways, credit goes to Paul at MoDaCo who found the solution on June 26:
http://www.modaco.com/content/HTC-Atlas-Atlas-MoDaCo-com/256186/Continuous-reboots-/
Changing to a blank new SD did nothing... but by Renaming the file, the PPC will reload the uncorrupted file from the ROM.
pls help
Its impossible to change the name or delete the file!
Pls help me!
p4350 wm 6
Thanks and pls sorry for my english!acces deniend its the reason to no rename!
I have had the same problem.This time after softreset for some Memmaid tweaks.The 1st.time It didnt occur to me to remove sd. and I'm certainly glad this works but heres the prob.After reinserting my 1gb.sd.I now have a file for Storage card & Storage card2.with 2 being the actual card.I cant remove or rename this file and cant launch apps.unless i do so through file explorer.And all progs.on the card are showing inactive generic icons.Any input.I did a hard reset AGAIN.so this would just be for further ref.I'm gettin up the balls to flash for the 1st. time with one of the roms from this site.
jcastex said:
Its impossible to change the name or delete the file!
Pls help me!
p4350 wm 6
Thanks and pls sorry for my english!acces deniend its the reason to no rename!
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I've the same problem! can anyone help me? I tried Total Commander.
ruebyi
My phone won't take the flash of ANY ruus!
It gives me the same error with everyone of them. I've been trying for like two hours, it always says image is corrupted. so i redownload, re-extract. same problem, I've tried all the ones I can find and none!
it's hard to help if you dont give any info
phone-wing, p4350, etc
ipl/spl -number
did u hard spl your phone
did u follow instructions given here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358225
you've been on the site for a while so i assumed you have.
list the steps you took when flashing
give out more info and i'm sure someone will help
Yeah I read all the posts but I was still a little fuzzy.
SPL4.10.0000
IPL4.10.0000
Tmobile Wing
First I Hard Reset my phone, put it into flight mode, and ran the USPL program
It gets all the way to the point where it's showing the progress bar, at 3% everytime, my phone resets and it says the image file is corrupted.
I re-downloaded all of them numerous times, used different programs to extract them, reset my computer etc. etc. etc. same thing every time
have you tried the link i gave you, i also have 2 wings and successfully did it with both using this method, the way to check your ipl/spl is press the soft reset with holding down the camera key until the colored screen shows up and you will see it then, to go back just press the soft reset button to boot back to normal, go see here
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Herald
this is the best place to start, i've read through alot of these pages before flashing my first rom and i'm actually flashed 22 different roms over the two phones with no problems except the ones that need the keyboard fix. i'm still new to these phones as you can see in my sig but i'm trying to learn as much as I can since I wanna be able to cook my own rom, later.
What OS are u using on you're computer some people have been having problems with Vista there is also a thread on that
No I'm on XP, do I have to Hard-SPL? I think maybe that's the problem?
Voila! You're my savior! Thanks a lot! It's working fine now
ok I have searched for an answer,but could not find any solution.
I am running the Hyperdragon III rom jan 13th.
I just noticed today i can not open any email or create a new email it just does nothing. your help please. also i had a couple backups one from the other day and the other from last week. with both i still have the problem. I would perfer not to HR and have to reinstall.
thanks
Did you happen to install the cab from this post?
I did, and it had the same effect - couldn't open or create email. There is talk of a solution at the end of that thread, but I'm impatient - I did a hard reset already.
ya i did install that one. did a hard reset and everything is good now. but sucks i had reinstall everything.
bullseye69 said:
ya i did install that one. did a hard reset and everything is good now. but sucks i had reinstall everything.
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You need to post this on the Hyperdragon thread, as I remember, SJ has been having email trouble with his new roms. It is a Hyperdragon, not a Kaiser problem.
As I remember, a work around was proposed. Have you even read back in the thread?
denco7 said:
You need to post this on the Hyperdragon thread, as I remember, SJ has been having email trouble with his new roms. It is a Hyperdragon, not a Kaiser problem.
As I remember, a work around was proposed. Have you even read back in the thread?
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The fix was posted in PDA thread and i put it in .cab without testing, anyway it fixes the multiple sms issue, where it only marks the latest message in the thread as read, well 12hrs later we all find out it breaks email, hard-reset neede, all part of the game we play
if this cab/dll is replaced with original one does it fix the email? I trying to avoid hard reset but need e-mail back.
saopacic said:
if this cab/dll is replaced with original one does it fix the email? I trying to avoid hard reset but need e-mail back.
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No it won't, the way i tryed was by renaming htmlnote.dll to htmlnote.dllold in the Windows dir with total commander as when you reboot this will invoke the ROM to replace original ROM file, no sucess it must nock something else out....
When i restart it activates the first time installation thingie... it does it even with shutdown and soft reset and hardreset.
i used 3 roms and they all did the same thing
enter the first time installation thingie
can any1 help me?
I got caught in a loop one time when i was trying to do a hard reset. When it came back from clearing the memory and I did the calibrate screen thing, I would soft reset prior to the bloatware installation. When it restarted it would go right back into the clearing data screen of the hard reset.
Eventually I let the bloatware install, then did a hard reset and that seemed to clear it out.
Not sure if that will help.
I have no idea what you just said .. :$ sry
but is there a way to TOTALLY clean my Pocket pc?
chimera_nl said:
I have no idea what you just said .. :$ sry
but is there a way to TOTALLY clean my Pocket pc?
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A Hard reset will wipe out everything that you have installed on the phone, and you will be back with the operating system, whether it is a custom rom or an ATT Rom or HTC Rom.
Are you talking about wiping the "hard drive" clean with no operation system? I do not know how to do that, but why would you want to do that anyway.
phooey, i'm having similar problems... hard reset (holding soft keys and pressing reset with stylus) doesn't stop the issue from happening again. -- back to factory reset when rebooting either soft or hard. not sure if this is the same issue...if so i double posted sorry.
hey jklarich, you have posted a new thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=564537
...so consider this post of mine a reply to this thread as well as the one created by you (referenced above).
NEITHER of you have mentioned WHICH ROMs you tried when the problem started.
NEITHER of you have mentioned the HardSPL version(s) you have on your devices.
NEITHER of you have categorically clarified that you have gone through the steps in the FAQs of the ROMs you've tried.
BOTTOM LINE: always provide more information!
now with lack of information, using my "mind reading skills" (well actually they're just logical, deductive, and analytic approaches with a touch of human psychology and n00b-behavior-predicting voodoo magic), i will reason as follows:
seeing as how BOTH of you are junior members and how BOTH of you mention experiencing the issue with THREE ROMs, i suspect you must have coincidently tried the top three most popular WM6.5 ROMs, which would be TPC's, abusalsa's PDA Corner, and one other.
THIS IS A KNOWN ISSUE WITH NEARLY EVERY WM6.5 ROM! it is mentioned in the FAQs on the first page pertaining to each of the popular WM6.5 ROMs for the kaiser. the workaround/solution is mentioned in the FAQ!
the above "flame" is based solely on the assumption that you both tried WM6.5 ROMs without reading/following the suggestions in the FAQs. if you have indeed tried the magical step in the FAQ that should fix this problem but yet the problem remains, then i'm sorry about the unnecessary flame and i hope you find the solution to your problem.
Even though the TPC ROM says it's worked out, install the factory ROM first. That fixed the problem for me. Sorry, but I think this is valid only because TPC states quite clearly that they think they sorted out this problem on their thread.
Ok first off I am really sorry for the stupidity and should have paid more attention. I was flashing the NBH on my Tilt 8925 and I got the wrong one! it was the KAISIMG-PANEL1-428.NBH that I downloaded and now the text is hard to read and it wont install and I cant change it. Right after I did that I found the forum that told you witch one to use. I wanted to cry!!! So what I'm asking is my phone done for? or is there a way to fix this? like through the andboot folder somehow?
Thank you for any help at all!!!
you learn from your mistakes though, I'm sure I wont do that again
Fixed it! :d
After I gave up I remembered someone said to hold the camera and the power button and reset buttons. I did that just to see what it would do and the colored screen came up with usb at the bottom. so I triad the right file and ran it again and it worked! Now I'll have to give it another go!
so this can be deleted now Thanks!
Just for future reference.
If you flash the wrong nbh with android, you should be able to flash the correct one using either the SD method, or the USB method.
Above all, do not panic, panic bricks more devices than bad flashes ever did
Since this is the Android area, I must say we are extremely lucky, since we are able to flash a new nbh without losing anything at all as far as the OS is concerned, your data and system files will remain intact, flashing an android nbh only replaces the zImage and the android bootloader files, unlike WM where you flash the whole OS and lose everything
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That's good to know because I thought I lost the phone for good. I didn't have any data on it that I needed, I was trying to install android to nand and just got the wrong NBH.
The only thing now that would keep me with WM 6.5 is cant get the wifi to work right. It connects to the router but the internet cuts out very bad, like it will work for 10 seconds then cant get it to work at all for 20min then it will load a web page then doesn't work again!
I did the same thing to my Tilt. I downloaded the Kaiser for Super Eclair and flashed it and did not not know I did not flashed the HardSPL.nbh.
I finally figured it out and flashed the HardSPL.nbh. It is at 3.29 right now. But I the phone keep getting error after the penguin screen with scrolling text. It said something about unable to read data. How do I fix this problem?
BeenAndroidized said:
I did the same thing to my Tilt. I downloaded the Kaiser for Super Eclair and flashed it and did not not know I did not flashed the HardSPL.nbh.
I finally figured it out and flashed the HardSPL.nbh. It is at 3.29 right now. But I the phone keep getting error after the penguin screen with scrolling text. It said something about unable to read data. How do I fix this problem?
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Jesus... the last post is more the 1year old.
I know you must search, but if the last post is that old, the probability that everything in it is outdated, is near 100%.
Well, that is the what I found. I hate digging up old post especially when it's that old.