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Things were good for a while but now it all has gone to ****s.
My BA is having issues and not only with BT. I have managed to enable big store using exttools.exe and repart_doc.exe. The only issue is that I guess that has wiped the hidden rom where all the preinstall apps were.
To make a long story short, I had reinstalled the original rom, from a rom dump I did right when I got the device, however, the device, even after hard reset does not run the usual set up utilities that it did and install the junk my telco has included. While for the most part this was not a big deal now I realize that some of the fixes were needed.
For example I used to have BT xxx.3500 now I have xxx.3900 all find and dandy but with both versions my BT will not stay up for more than 2 minutes before it drops the connection.
On soft reset I get the following error message.
Cannot find "storage" ( or one of its components) Make sure the path and filename are correct and all the required libraries are available. Bugger
So now the question is - IS there a way of making these apps run and if so, how or is there another fix that can be done. MY BA is bleeding and it is dying and it is pissing me off.
After all the restores I can see the Extended_ROM on the PPC once again and all the apps in it, just can't run any of the darn things.
BTW, as my signature says this is BA from Telus and it is running on CDMA. which btw is missing from the WWE version on http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_Versions
Any insight would be appreciated.

If I understand everything correctly, you've effectively wiped the Extended ROM and are using it, along with your Storage as one big "persistent storage" folder on your BA, which is what those programs were designed to do. Everything you did, functioned as it was supposed to.
If this is not what you want, then you might try reflashing your device with the last ROM you got from your carrier and see if that restores everything.

I did just that, and I did flash the device with the "virgin" rom which I have uploaded to wiki. But somwhere along the line something just does not jive. While preforming a hard reset the device would normally auto config itself with all the junk that the telco has put on the device including a number of patches and what not. That function does not run anymore, which is what causing me grief. If I unhide the ROM I can see the files that are supposed to run, including the autoexec.exe all there. I try to unlock to copy these files and run them manually but I am not allowed to copy them anywhere. and while I try to use EXTTOOLS.exe to unlock the ROM thing just go south. It says that the ROM is unlocked but I am still not able to copy any of the files from the ROM.

szamot,
there is nothing availble yet for our phones to update them or make them any better...
I can't believe you tried messing with your harrier... just wait a while until sprint releases their update to the ppc6600. (fingers crossed) we should be able to do something then...
all of the roms you see here (so far as far as I know) are for gsm units, and their roms will NOT work with our cdma's. WAIT!!!!!
Hopefully you can get things back to normal.. otherwise your gonna have an expensive pile of nothingness to work with.
good luck.

as i side note wiki has 4 cdma roms.

Actually I uploaded the rom because it seemed to be the newest one at the time.2.04.00 WWE, I also upgraded the BT to xxx.3900 which all worked fine. However somwhere along the line the Ext Rom got screwed, even though I can see it I can't get at it. Not all is lost however I just procured the contents of the rom from a new device, and even though I run all the fixes and updates and patches the PPC still runs like crap. Even hard reset does not get the unit back to its original state.

My radio is damaged

hi
I tried to upgrade my pda2k to 2005, but I get hang
then when I tried again it show this message
http://www.600kb.com/uploads/20aac64ad6.jpg
can i get help please
sarab

Strategies for dealing with radio ROM update 114 errors
I had this problem last week and recovered from it. At first it looked pretty bad, nothing seemed to work. I looked the Internet up and down and in most forums, including this one, people agreed that nothing could be done about error 114, the mainboard of the BA needed replacement, etc.
When I finally did fully recover from this situation, it was from a combination of measures that I took and as I don't really know which one actually did the trick, I'll try to describe all of them even though not all will probably apply to others. Another problem is that I probably won't be able to remember them all, but anyway, here goes:
1) I downloaded the latest full official ROM update from site of the carrier this phone was branded for, in this case T-Mobile. It included a radio ROM, albeit version 1.13.0, not 1.15.0 which is the one I had been trying to flash. I decided it would be best to go back to that official version first.
2) I had been trying to do the radio ROM upgrade from a Macintosh (OSX) under Virtual PC. I have since done several ROM installations (without the radio part) from the Mac/VPC which worked fine, but since people had observed that radio ROM updates seem to be more sensitive than fiddling with the normal ROM, I decided to fire up my "real" PC, which runs WIndows XP, SP2, with Active Sync 4.5.
3) As others had suggested, I made sure that I had my cradle connected directly to a USB port on the computer; before I had been trying to go trough a hub. I also made sure the cradle was connected to the power adapter.
4) I had unlocked my device before to work with a non-T-mobile SIM card, but since I wasn't sure wether or not SIM/Net lock problems might still interfere with radio upgrades, I took my SIM card out of the unit, as well as the SD card -- trying to eliminate as many potential sources of screw-up as possible.
5) I think I tried to set my BA into as much of a defined state as I could by hard-resetting it and THEN invoking boot loader mode. I don't remember whether or not this was possible as the device was not reacting much to anything at the time.
6) On the Windows PC, I opened Active Sync, then went to Connection Settings and explicitly disabled the USB connection. I then quit Active Sync and invoked the Windows task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) to check that no other processes were running. Trying to cut out interference as much as poosible ...
7) I then proceeded to flash the official ROM version, which went flawlessly including the Radio ROM, took less than fifteen minutes in all. To be honest, I don't remember which ROM upgrade utility (BaUpgradeUt/MaUpgradeUt_noID) I used ... sorry. I know I tried whatever was included with the T-Mobile download first.
After that, I verified that everything was working again, then immediately flashed Radio ROM 1.15.0 as I had originally intended. This time it went uneventfully.
Hope some of this helps, I know how frustrated you must be at this point.
Good luck!

thanks a lot
i'm going to follow your instruction today.
regards to all

[email protected] said:
thanks a lot i'm going to follow your instruction today.
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So did you have any luck?

Bootloader question/trouble

Hey there everyone, I am pretty new to this forum so I must apologize for throwing you all into the deep end. I recently purchased an o2 XDA mini S second hand from a guy on boards.ie here in Ireland. I got the phone and really liked it because it allowed me to get rid of my Dell Axim X3i and mp3 player and keep it all in one device.
After a little bit of more research I discovered that I could remove some of the bloatware from the o2 xda mini S by just hard resetting and choosing the basic option which I than did. Still not satisfied with the overall performance of the XDA I decided to try a rom upgrade. Not wanting to do a totall overhaul I decided to just do a radio upgrade first.
My device is sim unlocked, it was like that when I bought it. I used the latest wizard service tool to CID unlock the device before I even flashed the phone. I also used the wizard service tool to change the nk.nbf file within the o2 mini S radio update into 96000000-GSM.nb. I then used this file to write to the GSM radio code (Bdk 1) according to the wizard service tool in the hopes that it would upgrade my radio version.
Well when I restarted, nothing of the sort happened, on the boot screen I noticed I was now missing my GSM version and when the phone finally got into windows mobile, it did not pick up any signal even though beforehand it could. The phone also became super slow to the point where it was unusable.
I have gone into bootloader mode subsequently after reading on this forum and tried to reflash with a number of updates with active sync disabled and nothing else running with the phone connected via usb to the pc. None of the updates would even pick up the phone or allow me to flash it.
My phone is pretty much screwed, I have a spare so it is not that big of an issue but I would like to make this usable again if at all possible. So my question is how do I flash a rom while the phone is in bootloader mode?
P.S I forgot to include the Current boot screen details:
IPL - 1.05
SPL - 1.05
OS - 1.5.4.2

Hi,
You can use the Wizard Love Rom from here http://rapidshare.com/files/17792050/Wizard_Love_2.26.10.2_WWE_Novii_CF2.rar

Hey there, thanks for the advice, I did download that ROM but like I said before, none of the roms manage to flash my XDA because they all cannot seem to connect to it. Activesync does not even pick it up in windows mode, and even when I have it connected in bootloader mode via usb and I double click on the love rom, it goes through the motions but never managed to "verify the information with the pda"

Try a stock Tmobile ROM but not from bootloader. Also, I would check the activesync app on the device. Make sure it's set to use USB as the default connection method.
A few other steps to try...
Uninstall ActiveSync and install an older version. If still no go, try a newer version.
Try a different USB cable and/or USB port.
Try a different computer with XP, not Vista.
Try flashing it without the SIM card or any memory cards.
If all else fails, you can try the SD card flashing method. There are instructions in the Wiki on how to do it, but always a stock ROM.
Try this one... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311027
Updated IPL/SPL and radio 2.69

Hey Devis, I think I have come one step closer, I tried all the suggestions that you made. Except well now my phone will not even go into the operating system when I switch it on. It will boot and the version numbers show but then it just resets itself.
I tried a different usb cable and I am not using vista, tried a different pc and the same result. The one place I did have some marginal success was the sd card method.
Basically what happened is that It backed up the OS from my phone and then reloaded it, not exactly what I wanted since the OS and rom are both screwed on the phone so my question at this point is, is there anyway using the SD card method to load one of the stock roms onto my phone?
I searched around the net and found the opposite to the "r2sd all" function, would be the "s2d" function, would that allow me to flash the phone with a stock rom?
Thanks for your time, I am going to call it a night here in ireland and head to bed.

Ok, if the phone resets then you probbably have a dead/dying battery. Charge it for about an hour or so using the wall charger, not the USB cable. Try to restart it and see if you can get in the OS. I was looking in the SD card method thread and some guy was successful at restoring the image from the SD even though his OS had died. He then had a fully functional phone.
The other thing to do would be to get the image file from someone that has a living and breathing wizard, preferably one with a stock ROM. Since this method is the equivalent of making an image of a PC using Ghost, the restoration of such an image to your Wizard should work just fine.
Just make sure that the other Wizard is SIM and CID unlocked. Or just go buy a Wizard from the store, unlock SIM and CID, copy the image on the SD and flash your device. Or... since u've got a new Wizard in your hands, just take the freaking thing appart and swap the guts return the store bought wizard to the store saying that the thing just doesnt freaking work!
As for the AT commands... it is possible that s2d would workfor you, it doesn't work in my wizard. from what i have been reading it appears that the bootloader is password protected and that password is randomly generated. I haven't played long enough with it to figure out how to get the password.
It looks like you've got some "trial and error" processes ahead of you. There is a wealth of info on bootloader AT commands on Wiki, nothing for the Wizard though. But something may work... not sure.
I could try to get you a ROM dump from my Wizard but I already am on SPL/IPL 3.08 and running WM6. the SPL/IPL version alone wouldn't allow you to restore from my backup.

Hey Devis, thanks for your time, just woke up here, will work some more on the phone today and let you know what is going on

Hey Devis, I did not even get a chance to fiddle around with the phone today, from being able to switch on less than 24 hours ago, it does not even want to switch on now so I am going to officially declared it a brick and move on. Will see if anyone can fix it for me, spent way too much time already when I should be working on my dissertation, thanks alot anyway

Sorry to hear that...
I have bricked one phone myself in the past... my old Pana GD87 and I absolutely loved that phone. I know how you feel.
Good luck with your dissertation.

blocked on the boot screen

Hello,
I've tried to update my phone using the shelltool method and my phone crashed during the update.
Now it can't boot. it's freezed on the splash screen.
I've tried to put the CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE rom and it does nothing.
I have a G3 device, the IPL/SPL is now 1.01
Thanks in advance for your help

Flash back to official carrier ROM.

I have already tried using the bootloader method. it tells me that the device is not compatible

Try it doing the storage card method.

I also tried and it tells me I don't have the right

Before the first update, I have made a backup of the OS ROM but the file format is NBA. Is there a solution to reuse my original ROM?

In Addition to the SD method, the bootloader is password protected

Try reflashing the ROM you were flashing in the first post using the RUU in bootloader mode. You shouldn't need to use the shelltool to flash that one. Then when you get that flashed on there do your CID unlock. After that you should be able to flash any ROM you want.

I've tried tu put Button's ROM using the RUU in bootloader mode and its still blocked

Try flashing the wizard love rom then. I'm not sure where it is at the moment, but you can find it on here somewhere.

I also tried this ROM

I have made some research.
At the beginning (when my first upgrade crashed) someone on a chat told me to do a doctest.
No the problem is that the memory is damaged.
When I try a hard reset, I have the message "format is failed"
Any idea?

You've got me on this one, I don't think I've run across anyone else ever having this problem. By the way, did you remove any miniSD card that you had in the phone before flashing? Having one in there while flashing tends to cause people problems.
Also, I just realized that you said that you used sheeltool to flash the first time when you flashed the button rom and that it changed your IPL/SPL to 1.01. Flashing using shelltool won't change your IPL/SPL, it skips those files if they are added to a rom since they are the files that will destroy a G4 device. So, if it did change them then that's where you did something wrong. Why don't you start over and explain exactly what you did on the first flash with the button rom and see if we can't figure it out from there.

OK I'll explain from the beginning
Before beginning the flash, I have made a backup of the ROMs (OS, Radio and Ext) with aWizard.
I wanted to put a french WM6 ROM. In the the tuto, it was told to use shelltool to do this. For an unknown reason, the phone crashed. So I had to reboot the phone because it was freezed and after this point it did'nt boot.
I went on a chat to get help and someone told me to start the bootloader and with mtty enter the command doctest (I think he's a joker becose today I saw this command is very dangerous).
When I saw this command doesn't work I discovered this forum and tried 2 of the 3 methods to unbrick a phone in the wiki.
I can't use the SD one because the boot loader is password protected.
I also discovered today that the IMEI number doesn't correspond to the label on the phone.
Here is my story .

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276963&page=7&highlight=wizard+bootloader+password
This post seems to have helped many. Read from beginning to end, then try to follow it. Good Luck.

raskell said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276963&page=7&highlight=wizard+bootloader+password
This post seems to have helped many. Read from beginning to end, then try to follow it. Good Luck.
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I'can't use imei check because my imei is invalid

Why do you think your IMEI is invalid? If the only reason is that it shows a different one on the box than it shows in aWizard or whatever program you're using, don't worry about it because that seems to happen quite a bit. Usually it's because it got put in the wrong box. Anyway, you're in luck, I have a program that I believe I downloaded off of XDA which is a version of the IMEI-checks unlocker with the master unlocker code for all wizards.
Well, I was going to upload that tool for you but after trying 6 times to upload it and it failing each time I figured that maybe I should wait a little bit and try again later.

I think the IMEI is different because the one given from imei-checks is different from the one on the label back the battery.
Also, when I tried to order an UNL file with the IMEI given by the unlocker, they told me its a wrong number

Lets try this again.
Still failing to upload. I'm not sure why, but I'll try yet again later.

I sent you in PM the address of my ftp server

No further update possible?

I have succesfully upgraded my Tmobile MDAIII to Win 6.1 via the mentioned above method. And now I want the start-button-in-the-bottom
So I downloaded the image file, put MDA into a bootloader, plugged it into craddle, started maupgradeut_noid and... the second screen didn't show any data about the device. (in FAQ "something went wrong, start over again" is advised). Several attempts were of no use. The fresh XP SP3 also didn't help. What is wrong??
By the way, the official upgrading software (that one that shows Invalid country ID later) does show the device info screen correctly.

you should re-download the rom and the RUU and try again. in general, the way you're doing it, is right. remember to take out the sim and sd card though or you might mess up your radio.
i would say, i know everything, there is to know, when it comes to flashing the BA, and still last weekend i spend hours on up- and downgrading, because sometimes, it just wouldn't show the info, mostly, when a download was corrupt, although no error message was given.

Chef_Tony
You were right, it was the radio-file. When I deleted it everything went as it should. But the radio still needs an update I think (I've 13th version) since the bugs are freaking me out sometimes.
Thank you!