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Flashing Xperia - Unrecognise ROM

Hi all, sorry to sound like a n00b, but i am having problems flashing my Xperia using the (Prepared english ROM without Branding (link by OliNex)) ROM from the *** Tutorial: Debranding the X1 / Flashing ROMs *** guide on here.
-I plug my phone into my PC, let Active Sync connect to it.
-Then run HardSPL and let that update SPL. I also went back into boot mode to check it had update the SPL version.
-I then got the Unbranded ROM (see above). Renamed it to 'Kovsimg.nbh' and copied it to my MicroSD root.
-Then I went back into boot mode, and the 'four colours' thing comes up and it says 'Serial' at the bottom.
The problem is that it does not do anything from then on. The next step in the guide (see above) just says "Follow the onscreen instructions, Congratulations. You're done.".
I am a little lost, one thing I is that my MicroSD is currently FAT16 as I can not format it to FAT32. I have downloaded a few SD formatting tools for Windows Mobile, but they all say that 'Access to MicroSD card denied'. I have tried using 'Advanced Task Manager' on my phone, to try and end any processes that may be using the MicroSD card. But it still, says 'Access denied'.
Anyway, does anyone have any ideas.
All help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Nate.

take the microSD out and format it in your computer (go to My computer - right click the memory card - choose format from drop down menu), don't forget to choose FAT32. worked for me like a charm.

Thanks. Trouble is I have no card reader.

TREO 750 "beta testing expired"

Hi, this is my first post on this forum and i'm hoping to get some help to solve my problem.
I have an unlocked ATT treo 750 that i'm currently using with T-Mobile. I was happily running windows 5 and decided to try this new windows mobile 6.5 so i downloaded the rom from a thread on this forum and i ran the update process while my phone was connected to windows zync porgram, so it worked fine, but as soon as i rebooted my phone to the new windows 6.5 it gave me the
"This concludes de beta test of this software release...." now i try to reconnect my phone to my pc to zync and flash another rom but i won't recognize the connection.
what can i do, i know there is a way to flash a rom using your mini sd card but i'm not sure about this process....tell me if i have it right:
1. format your mini sd card using fat32, using a computer with a card reader (i can't format it using my phone cause of ovious reasons)
2. copy the rom image to the mini sd card on the root folder. the rom image should be in .nbh format. (i have a rom called CHEEIMG.nbh by Navenedrob)
3. re-insert the mini sd cad to the phone.....I DONT KNOW WHAT DO AFTER THIS, and what do you mean by HARD SPL or SPL... is it a file i should copy along with the CHEEIMG.nbh file in the mini sd card????
PLEASE HELP ME.. what buttons do i press on my treo 750 to trigger installation...?????
thanks

Hello there if you look a couple of threads down on main form page there's a post by Navenedrob who gives step by step instructions on how to sucessful complete the whole process
I did it about 2 weeks ago as a newbie and it very easy to follow very good update

Also make sure you download and use his WM6.5 ROM. No expiration date ...

hlopez said:
Hi, this is my first post on this forum and i'm hoping to get some help to solve my problem.
I have an unlocked ATT treo 750 that i'm currently using with T-Mobile. I was happily running windows 5 and decided to try this new windows mobile 6.5 so i downloaded the rom from a thread on this forum and i ran the update process while my phone was connected to windows zync porgram, so it worked fine, but as soon as i rebooted my phone to the new windows 6.5 it gave me the
"This concludes de beta test of this software release...." now i try to reconnect my phone to my pc to zync and flash another rom but i won't recognize the connection.
what can i do, i know there is a way to flash a rom using your mini sd card but i'm not sure about this process....tell me if i have it right:
1. format your mini sd card using fat32, using a computer with a card reader (i can't format it using my phone cause of ovious reasons)
2. copy the rom image to the mini sd card on the root folder. the rom image should be in .nbh format. (i have a rom called CHEEIMG.nbh by Navenedrob)
3. re-insert the mini sd cad to the phone.....I DONT KNOW WHAT DO AFTER THIS, and what do you mean by HARD SPL or SPL... is it a file i should copy along with the CHEEIMG.nbh file in the mini sd card????
PLEASE HELP ME.. what buttons do i press on my treo 750 to trigger installation...?????
thanks
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Hi,
I'm sorry, I wrote that tutorial for people who couldn't use HARD SPL (A piece of software that lets you flash the phone) to get Windows Mobile 6.5.
Try formatting the memory card to FAT32 using a card reader, then from your computer, download the ROM here and paste it onto your memory card (ROM Link- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=541417 ).
Load the memory card into the phone.
Where you've just loaded the memory card, there is a Reset button. It's tiny, and its located where the memory card slot is.
On the other side of the phone is the Media Button. It's the one below the volume buttons. Hold this button down and press the Reset key with your stylus.
The screen should load into the "Bootloader" mode and try to scan your memory card. If it recognises the CHEEIMG.NBH file, it will ask you to press the Call End key and then go on installing itself (I hope).
After saying all this, please note that I'm not an expert and had to experiment. I didn't however brick my phone with a Beta release so I'm giving you this in the hopes that it will work.
Just make sure you have the CHEEIMG.NBH file. It may have a different filename (anything that comes before .nbh), you just have to rename it.
Secondly make sure your card is formatted to FAT32. Google it if you don't understand or if you don't know how. I use a mac so formatting is easy.
Thirdly, familiarize yourself with starting up in Bootloader mode.
Have a play, I hope this helps.
eD

Image file not being recognized [HardSPL installed and confirmed]

After all of my other problems... HardSPL is finally on correctly and I checked.
I have Kovsimg.nbh on my FAT 32 microSDHC card. I got to bootloader, saw OliNex whatever. It goes to loading. Then "Image not found!"
Had this problem before with official ROMs as well... Had to use SEUS.
What the hell is the problem with this?
My USB port has been unreliable so far, so I dont want to chance using CustomRUU (I dont know how to use it anyway).

Nippero said:
(I dont know how to use it anyway).
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search always works...

Nippero said:
After all of my other problems... HardSPL is finally on correctly and I checked.
I have Kovsimg.nbh on my FAT 32 microSDHC card. I got to bootloader, saw OliNex whatever. It goes to loading. Then "Image not found!"
Had this problem before with official ROMs as well... Had to use SEUS.
What the hell is the problem with this?
My USB port has been unreliable so far, so I dont want to chance using CustomRUU (I dont know how to use it anyway).
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Custom RUU is easy. Just leave your phone on and plugged into the USB. Make sure you have the image file renamed to RUU_signed.nbh. Start Custom RUU. Follow the steps in Custom RUU. And Voila! It turns the phone into the Boot Loader automatically and you can watch the progress on your monitor. I use it all the time. I don't like to copy everything off my SD card onto the HDD and I don't have a spare SD card to leave the SD card blank with only the image file.

You don't have to copy everything off your sd card, just put Kovsimg.nbh in the root of your card and everything is good to go.
Copy your .nbh file to the root of your sd card and rename it to Kovsimg.nbh.
Boot phone with holding : vol down + power keys until the color screen appears.
it should find the image now, else use ruu on a friends pc.
remember to active sync first...
regards

I dont have a Kingston card, but maybe I'll try using my Corsair 512mb microSD later today.
My main problem with CustomRUU is that the USB connection to my phone isnt stable. What would happen if it suddenly DC'd?
EDIT: Ahah, so using my Corsair card instead of my A-Data card works.

Nippero said:
My main problem with CustomRUU is that the USB connection to my phone isnt stable. What would happen if it suddenly DC'd?
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You have had problems with the USB Connection to your X1 before? Then dont flash via USB / Custom RUU. Thats really too risky then.
It first flashes the Bootsector and a few other things, then begins with the OS parts. If the connection is cancelled while flashing the Bootsector etc. you may get some serious problems as your device wont boot anymore (search for putty btw. if this happens to you).
When there is an Error while the OS is updating you can flash again. I had this once with a non-clear sdcard that the installation did not go over 99%. A reflash with a clear card worked without problems.

is my phone broken?

hello i am having problems with flashing a custom ROM. I've formatted a micro sd its 2GB. Then I added the ROM file, renamed it to kovsimg.nbh and started the phone as stated (by pressing the vol down button). Then the tri colour screen pops up then a quick screen comes which says no image path I have also... installed the hard spl thingy. Where am I going wrong? Please help !!!all want is reinsstal my xperia x-1 a new windows 6.1 how i can do this plz help my phone is give me this alert SİMCARD NOT İNSERTED'' Plz help me

Do you have press and hold the vol down and the power until the screen show"loading"???

i did bur it says no image ...what i can do?

Says no image??I don't have this problem...so I can't help you,sorry...

Hello you're not alone in the dark
My Xperia do it in the same way. So i hope we will get an answer.
Additional i have problems to use the Internet yet. After receiving a config SMS the applications which are using internetdata didn't get some. The connecting to provider or wifi seem OK but no data for the application.

Provided the card is read, make sure you formatted your card properly with FAT32 and placed renamed ROM file into the ROOT.

It's possible to read the card (after booting the phone). The card is Fat32 fomatted and the imagename is set. But it's not only the problem to flash using the CD-card. Also trying by using the sync-methode will fail. I get the splashscreen with the bar showing the percentage. In the state of 0% i get an error message. No recovery is needed, but i never get the phone flashed.

My problems is exackly the same

If it doesn't work use the USB method, it always works.

Hi VingZTV,
You're wrong please read my post #7 in this thread.
I called it sync method, cause you are using active sync.
cu HAndi

I encountered this problem too. My present X1 (3rd already) refused to hardSPL or do anything with both PC (stucked at 0%, connection errors etc) and SD method ("no image file" later stuck at "loading"). Previous ones worked with either SD or PC method
This time I tried different cables and PCs and couldn't hardSPL
nor was the SD card method working, tried different cards and formatted one to fat32 before putting image file
it seems the problem might be on X1's where SPL is stock 0.78 ?
Anyways for me it worked finally when I tried hardSPL with RUU to 0.52olinex ("X1_HardSPL.exe" file) on a different PC and cable with a formatted card inserted where 0.78olinex was renamed to kovsimg.nbh (so ready to flash hardSPL with SD method which didn't work befere). The phone was set to bootloader by the program and then started flashing the image on the SD! (the program reported error as usual)
phone flashed it once, restarted, did it again and was ready!
Then I had no problem to flash a ROM with SD method normally
So I don't know what could be the reason it worked or it was a coincidence maybe try to:
WARNING: AS ALWAYS YOU DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK!
- insert a freshly formatted card with hardSPL file (0.78olinex perhaps) renamed to kovsimg.nbh
- sync with PC and try to hardspl PC way like above and maybe the phone will finally flash the SPL from the SD
- let us know if it worked

It still doesn't work
I used 128m microSD and formated to FAT32, only copy 0.78RUU_Signed.nbh to SD card, renamed to kovsimg.nbh. After I used VOL- and power bottom. It only showed me loading.....
I also tried 0.72, looks same. DID I do some thing wrong?
Thank you very for any response!

wmw6608 said:
I also tried 0.72, looks same. DID I do some thing wrong?
Thank you very for any response!
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Try the way described above by me (leave the card with the image and use X1_HardSPL.exe to try to change SPL and so force phone to bootloader mode)

Btw i cant boot into windows
only freeze at SE logo
Any solution

kainjinez said:
Btw i cant boot into windows
only freeze at SE logo
Any solution
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HardSPL and reflash
Try the way described in my post above if u have probles

Agreed I also tried already with the same method
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium

I cannot flash my Xperia X1 with Custom ROM

I cannot flash my phone with custom rom. I was taking all the steps from BioVolt tutorial but all i get when loaded in bootloader is tricolor bootloader that tells me KOVS110 SPL-0.72.OliNex MicroP1-787 MicroP2-707 and Serial. I have changed the name of custom_RUU and it did not help me. What shoul I do to flash it?

Where have you stored the rom image you want to flash? Don't place it in a subfolder of your storage card. And what is the name of your image file after you renamed it?

Your new ROM must be in root of card and it must have name Kovsimg.nbh

i'm also a novice; have done all as per tutorial by "Milancex" but same way after showing three color screen and info about my SPL and Radio...a white screen comes and says "Loading" and after that nothing.
this file "kovsimg.nbh" is on root of my memory card; but it does have other files and folders of my data

iffi302 said:
i'm also a novice; have done all as per tutorial by "Milancex" but same way after showing three color screen and info about my SPL and Radio...a white screen comes and says "Loading" and after that nothing.
this file "kovsimg.nbh" is on root of my memory card; but it does have other files and folders of my data
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Well somehow, using Task29 and as per BioVolt's video tutorial, i'm able to format internal memory; copied the "kovsimg.nbh" to my memory root; my SPL has changed as per video tutorial; but when mobile restarts in 3colored screen its says no image file found. While i know i've formated my card and it has only one file wid above name...

iffi302 said:
Well somehow, using Task29 and as per BioVolt's video tutorial, i'm able to format internal memory; copied the "kovsimg.nbh" to my memory root; my SPL has changed as per video tutorial; but when mobile restarts in 3colored screen its says no image file found. While i know i've formated my card and it has only one file wid above name...
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I never needed to do the Task29 stuff BTW....
Have you read the thread about the "Micro SD method"?
Once you have your X1 hardSPL'd it is sufficient to
power off (remove battery for 2 seconds, reinsert)
insert µSD with KOVSIMG.nbh in root (regardless of other stuff on card, doublecheck in cardreader on PC that the file is there and has correct name)
press and hold "volume down" button, press and hold power button until tri-color screen appears
If this doesn't work you might have copied/renamed the wrong file....

thanx louis; just reformatted my SD card and copied the file again and here i go; i'm happy wid the new rom ; thanx to all...

help
im really newbie in this progress... im so excited wanna flash my rom... but sadly im still not know how to unlock my xperia x1.... my pc doesnt recognize my device.. sorry for my bad english...

amarello said:
but sadly im still not know how to unlock my xperia x1
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this forum has an excellent search - and google offers a similar functionality.....
.... my pc doesnt recognize my device..
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same as above, plus: You need Windows and ActiveSync (for XP) - I just don't recall the exact name of the Device Management in Windows > XP.
Once you got your PC connected to the phone start thinking about the rest.....