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Bricked Vodafone Kaiser ... HELP!

Hey Chaps,
Just thought earlier today i'd have a go at upgrading my phone with the new HTC firmware for my Vodafone Kaiser. First i tried it on it's own only to find the 'vendor' had blocked the upgrade, then i ran the HARDSPL software, when it rebooted my phone to the tri-colour screen i stopped pressing enter on the batch file and ran the HTC upgrade again! ... success - sort of; the upgrade got to 15% and stopped with a connection error (my usb's dodgy i think), then when the phone rebooted to the tri-colour boot loader it'd a) no longer accept the HTC Rom (vendor thing again) and b) become irritatingly broken.
Is it possible to flash an older vodafone rom to the device? if so, where can i find such a beast. Or does anyone know of any devilish ways to put the new rom on using the bog standard bootloader?
Thanks in advance big time to any clever phone experts who can de-brick my... er... brick
Dan.

your supposed to install hardspl before upgrading it if you try it on its own it will brick it at least thats what i heard from the stickies

azazelx, he has hardSPL installed, anyway.
@JimmyJangle: flash via microSD card. [url="http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=KaiserSDFlash" URL]Read here.[/url]
You need winrar to extract file nbh from the shipped ROM.exe.

Hmm, i don't think i do have HardSPL actually installed,
When i saw the tricolour screen come up with different version information I stopped that batch file that was installing HARDSPL (impatiently) and started the HTC one (which failed at 15%). So now i (think) i have a phone with no firmware and the bootloader says:
KAIS130
SPL-1.56.0000
CPLD=8
I reckon if i can find a vodafone made rom the bootloader'll let me install it.
Any idea where i could find one?

What is ur orginal shipped ROM?
Your solution now is flash back the orginal ROM by using microSD card method I mentioned above, install HardSPL succesfully, then flash whatever ROM you prefer.

Hey Nghiem,
Thanks for the help, that link doesn't go anywhere though.
Also, wouldn't i need the original rom from somewhere in order to do that?
Thanks,
Dan

where did you buy the phone e.g vodafone, orange, etc...so I can tell you the original ROM? Because you phone CID is not unlock, hence you must flash the back the shippied one.
Get the WM 6.1 Vodaphone official here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=365058

Hi,
I got the phone from Vodafone in the UK.
It had WM5 on it... erm, that's it.
I've just beem trying to load original voda roms back on to it but it's not happy - i don't know if they really are the originals though, one says 'reconstructed'.
Dan

Actually, that was the rom i tried and it came up with the Vendor ID error.
Dan.

Link on post #6 is the official not reconstructed. How about download directly from Vodafone website? It's strange when you have carrier ID block even with its ROM. Also, try reconstructed ROM listed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1586817&postcount=2
Search for mtty, see if it can help you out.

MTTY saved the day!
Only 3 hours of my life lost!
Thanks,
Dan

Cheers. Don't forget to flash HardSPL and read the wiki before doing anything.

xperia stuck in restart loop

Hi there
I've got a problem with my X1. I did a hardspl which was successful and then i updated to a custom rom using the minisd card version. After a few days my xperia was restarting repeatedly during the night. This was fixed however by taking out the battery and putting it back in.
But this problem happened again a day or two later so this time i decided to reflash the ROM and still it didn't fix it. Now all my xperia does is restart, it gets to the green windows logo screen, sometimes the top task bar may load and then it restarts.
I've tried the following solutions:
1. Reflashed rom to a stock rom
2. took out the battery, minisd card, sim card.
3. Changed battery.
I cannot change the spl back to the stockspl because if i connect it to the pc, it does not recognise it as a valid usb device.
Does anyone have any suggestions or is it a bricked device?

Can you flash with SEUS? I'm not sure if SEUS works with HardSPL though...

Firefall! said:
Can you flash with SEUS? I'm not sure if SEUS works with HardSPL though...
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HARDSPL don't work with SE update service.
Install original R3 ROM with microsd metod.

I;ve tried the R3 and R1 original ROM and i still have the same issue.

hi Man
I have same problem sense 4 days my phone just restart
I also try all solutions but it's not work
any one can help us
thanks

So , why did U do with ur problem????
u can check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4714723#post4714723

Update Service not recognizing the device (official update)

I got xperia for about 7 months now. Back in feb. 2009 i installed the update service suite from SE and upgraded my rom following the onscreen indications...everything worked fine and i was happy 'till now when i want to update the rom again.
So...i download the new version of update service from SE website...install it, do exacly as they say but i can't get my phone detected when the colour lines appear...it goes from serial to usb a few times then i get the message on the PC...it can't detect my device. I pugged out everything from my laptop, changed the **** usb port, rebooted, killedmyself a few times but nothing works. I use Windows XP sp3 and it's the same laptop i used back in february when everything worked fine.
PS: this is my last SE phone...it's inacceptable that a phone like this (highend and pricy) would crack on the volume buttons side. At least for me Xperia was simply not a good way to go.

Try turning off and on the "allow usb connections" box in Device Center/ Active Sync settings. That was the only thing that worked for me.

I tried that too...does not work. I can see the bar indicator for 2-3 seconds at 0% then the device resets and tries again. Also from time to time i see a screen with "no image loaded" or something. If i reboot it the device works ok with the rom it has installed now.

Which rom do you use?
Have you try to make a hard reset just before trying to use update service?

No...i didn't try a hard reset...will try.
These are my official rom details :
ROM version: 1.03.931.10
ROM date: 02/02/2009
Radio version: 1.10.25.18
I can't belive it's so hard updating something the way the manufacturer intended to and pointed the user too

Ok...hard-reset does not do anything good ether. On the coloured screen i get this information :
KOVS110
SPL-0.72.0liNex
MicroP1-787
MicroP2-707
Please help before i crush it and throw it away

The issue is your SPL: you have Olinex SPL but update service doesn't work with it!!!
Flash back to stock SPL

Flash back what...the rom that is now installed as u see in the first posts is like 02.02.2009 ... how do i flash it back ? can u be more specific or point me exacly how to do it? i don't wanna mess it up. Cheers.

The information you gave show SPL 0.72 Olinex
I think you try several custom rom before flashing back to stock rom
Olinex SPL is needed for custom rom but update service doesn't work if you have it on your phone
Go here to flash back to stock SPL
After that, update service should work

on other hand, try to download one of the latest rom's found here on xda, rename it to kovsimg.nbh an perform an update trough the sd method. works too, you know. if you do so then SEUS will allow updating again, no need to revert back to stock spl, at least, that was in my case... long time ago.

I wrote an email to sony ericsson giving this info and i'm waiting to see their "official" answer to this issue. I wanna do this the official way...don't wanna mess up something.
If you guys still have ideas i could use feel free.... cheers.

sfara said:
I wrote an email to sony ericsson giving this info and i'm waiting to see their "official" answer to this issue. I wanna do this the official way...don't wanna mess up something.
If you guys still have ideas i could use feel free.... cheers.
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I wonder how they'll take that..
"Soooo you hacked your phone and don't know how to get it back. You want the "official" method? Send us your phone and £50 and we'll do it"
P.S. This is just too funny!

Dan White...did u read the first posts? I didn't hack anything....i updated my rom back in feb with a new OFFICIAL rom and that was that (the phone still works with that one) and now i wanna do another OFFICIAL update...how did i hack it ?

sfara said:
Ok...hard-reset does not do anything good ether. On the coloured screen i get this information :
KOVS110
SPL-0.72.0liNex
MicroP1-787
MicroP2-707
Please help before i crush it and throw it away
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you see that SPL - 0.72 is from 0linex? Stock SE rom doesn't come with 0linex.
Really, you must have did hard-spl to your device... no way you could not have done it.... unless.... you've bought a refurbished x1 and they have only restored the stock rom for you, that's why you could update once..
Really, think again, think hard... we are here trying to hep you and based on the info you gave us, we can only see that the device been hard-spl -ed.
like i said earlier, download an official Rom, rename the nbh file to kovsimg.nbh and copy it to your microsd, power off your device, hold both volume down and power button at the sametime untill a tri-color screen pop's up, followed by a grey screen and follow instructions. link to official roms:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475482
link to revert back to stock spl:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431218
latest section in first post. not difficult, just follow the order.
Really, your phone is not stock anymore, but that's better anyway...
cheers.

I understand what you mean. I will do as you indicated tonight but please belive me that i only did 1 update in february and i did it trought SE update service and it worked back then (that's all i did and that's why i'm amazed).
Thank you for the info and i will be back to post news.

Ok...managed to upgrade my rom to R3 but i can't hardspl to ruusigned_072stockspl.
As you can see in the first picture the hardspl detects the image from within the phone (1.05.931.10) and the one that i want to install (0.72.stockspl). I go forward, the phone goes into 3 color mode and then i get the error 284 as seen in the second picture.
I changed the usb port but no luck.
God i swear this is my last smartphone

Forgot to upload the pictures...here they are.

i'm having the same problem as you are. I updated my phone to the R2A version around April. Now when I try to update my phone it doesn't detect my phone. i checked the boot loader screen and it also doesn't show the stock SPL. I don't know how can Sony Ericsson Update Service do this to our phones.
Did you do the sd card boot for the R3A version? I'm going to try this tonite and see if it works.

Yes, there's a post in this thread that points you to the link with stock windows mobile roms. I upgraded to R3 just using sd card. But the hardspl is very stubborn...i could not get it work. By the way what is hardspl and what is the difference between the 2 roms? one si for windows software and hardspl is like the 'bios' so to speak?

Anyone had this problem...please help me to get the hardspl stock.

SE Updater failed to install new rom, what is the best thing to do now?

Hello,
I know you guys got some excellent walkthroughs, roms, programs and threads where you've helped a lot of people out but I could really use some personal feedback. I had hoped to fix my phone using one of the excisting threads but unfortunalty I can't get it to work with those.
My problem is one I've seen more of in here, I used the SE updater and it froze at 53%, I did what the program said, reconnected and it froze again at 12%, and again, again, etc. So I disconnected thinking it might be a bad USB port. But then the updater didn't recognise my phone at all. So I used the mtty program suggested in some of the threads and I got past the red/green/blue screen but now it's stuck at the Sony Ericson logo, as if WM6.1 is gone.
This is what the red/green/blue screen currently states:
KOV110
SPL-0.78.0000
MicroP1-787
MicroP2-707
From what I gather this means I can't flash roms, right? I tried making it a hard-spl but when I use the tool it says it can't connect.
So is there anyway to get a rom on it and bring it back to life?
Thanks inadvance!

Get an original rom from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475482
copy .nbh file from the package onto your sd card and rename it to : Kovsimg.nbh then bring phone into boot loader via : vol down + power.
It should flash the rom now. i the problem is still present after that you
have to deal with mTTy but first try the flash...
i think you could also bring phone into bootloader without sd card inserted then connect usb cable, display should now print 'USB',and after that start rom update utility.
regards

meska said:
Get an original rom from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475482
copy .nbh file from the package onto your sd card and rename it to : Kovsimg.nbh then bring phone into boot loader via : vol down + power.
It should flash the rom now. i the problem is still present after that you
have to deal with mTTy but first try the flash...
i think you could also bring phone into bootloader without sd card inserted then connect usb cable, display should now print 'USB',and after that start rom update utility.
regards
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Thank you for your reply, I will do as you said although I've already tried something similiar to this. I believe the problem was that I couldn't flash roms from my SD since I don't have the hard SLD. But I will try it anyway as soon as I get home.
In the mean time I would love to hear more ideas about how to fix my phone.

Ronnet said:
Thank you for your reply, I will do as you said although I've already tried something similiar to this. I believe the problem was that I couldn't flash roms from my SD since I don't have the hard SLD. But I will try it anyway as soon as I get home.
In the mean time I would love to hear more ideas about how to fix my phone.
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You really need have to flash the HardSPL first as, based in your above post, you still have not done that. It will be useless to flash cooked ROM with that. If you can still power on your phone and you have an activesynch in your computer, i suggest you download the HardSPL first and update your phone using your PC. If you are successful doing that, then you can flash all you want.

original roms will still work with original spl... but nevermind =P

laurence0609 said:
You really need have to flash the HardSPL first as, based in your above post, you still have not done that. It will be useless to flash cooked ROM with that. If you can still power on your phone and you have an activesynch in your computer, i suggest you download the HardSPL first and update your phone using your PC. If you are successful doing that, then you can flash all you want.
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My phone can still power on in the sense that it shows the Sony Ericson logo or that I can access the three collor screen. But it won't launch WM6.1. I also have a problem with updating to hard DSL. It does recognise my phone because without it connected the program finds nothing and with the phone connected it wants to start updating. It says ''updating from image version: (emply) to image version: 1.00.X1 Ipress next and it opens a progress bar on both my X1 and the PC. But it never goes beyond 0% and then gives me an connection error. I think it has something to do with not being able to get passed the Sony Ericson logo. I mean the hard-DSL program does recognise my mobile but activeSync is never active because my PC doesn't recognise a WinMobile phone (since it wont go past the Sony Ericson screen)

meska said:
original roms will still work with original spl... but nevermind =P
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Really? That might fix my device then. Could you suggest a rom from the long list? Perhaps one that works on all versions? Because I'm dutch but my mobile has always been in english so I'm not sure what rom version I had. Except that it was identified as an R2 Rom by the Sony updater before it killed my X1...

Go here
Find the latest stock rom for your country (and perhaps your carrier) and flash it
No need to have Hard SPL for that

Mopral said:
Go here
Find the latest stock rom for your country (and perhaps your carrier) and flash it
No need to have Hard SPL for that
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I'm now downloading the initial dutch R1 firmwire, could that one work?

Mopral said:
Go here
Find the latest stock rom for your country (and perhaps your carrier) and flash it
No need to have Hard SPL for that
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Alright so I got an R1 original rom (I now realize that the R3's were originals aswell) and it worked! I'm not sure if it was the different rom or the formatting with FAT32 that did but it works again. So I'd like to thank everyone who was kind enough to reply.
The device is incredibly slow now but now I can use the hard-DSL installer, right? DOes anyone have a suggestion for a good rom to use?

laurence0609 said:
You really need have to flash the HardSPL first as, based in your above post, you still have not done that. It will be useless to flash cooked ROM with that. If you can still power on your phone and you have an activesynch in your computer, i suggest you download the HardSPL first and update your phone using your PC. If you are successful doing that, then you can flash all you want.
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DON'T hard-spl if you're going to flash a stock ROM. And especially if you're going to use SEUS.
Try flashing the R3A first. The R1s are way slow, as you've seen.

Rom Problem With my X1

Hi`Guys
for the last few days im having an serious rom problem with my Sony Ericsson X1 sines i was looking for an good 6.5 rom that fits and works smooth with my X1 i found an cooked 6.5 rom belong to HD2 aka Leo2 and i reveiw it and i like it so i charged my phone to the full and unlock my phone using "HARDSPL Tool" after that i upgraded my phone with the new rom ,i like it at the first but after some times i faced alot of hangs and bugs within the rom besides the rom overload the processor that would make the phone runs slow so i had to place back my original rom so i used Sony Ericsson Update service "SEUS" to replace my current rom and when i runed the update it asked me to place back the stock SPL and i did and runed the update again but it said that i have he latest software update so i tryed to go all the way around and use the traditional way to downgrade my phone but here is the problem when ever i start the downgrade prosses it gives me update error number {[260] connection} the update stop and start the recovery prosses ,then i tryed to reunlock the phone but it gave me the same error ,so i tryed to get smart and i stop using the computer for the downgrading and moved to flashing methods farmatted my micro-sd to FAT32 placed the required nbh file named with Kovsimg but when i bootload my phone it stops at the loading part without going throw the checking prosses then done the same with the the SPL but the same it stick at the loading stage ,i start to get hopeless my last option was to use the MTTY Tool but it only formatted the rom without flashing the phone
so now im using 20% of my phone option to avoid bugs or hangs and my phone stick with bad 6.5 rom protacted with StockSPL that cant be changed
so guys any one faced the same problem ? plssss help i really feel like my phone its on handicap status
pls help me...

Try to install this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=606799

drnjstj said:
Try to install this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=606799
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im not looking for a rom i want to release my phone from it hanging in rom updating it stops at 0% when i use the computer and at the loading screen when i use the micro-sd
but thanks for ur help anyways

error_man said:
im not looking for a rom i want to release my phone from it hanging in rom updating it stops at 0% when i use the computer and at the loading screen when i use the micro-sd
but thanks for ur help anyways
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good info that
I read often that it might be solved with one of the following
1. Remove your SD card, run the HardSPL again, then reinsert the SD card with your kovsimg file and it should work
2. reinstall active sync via .msn
3. change the usp port and the data cable
4. disable firewall and antivir
...
But item 1 is reportedly the main reason for most of the error 260 connection failures.
good luck

DrakenKorin said:
good info that
I read often that it might be solved with one of the following
1. Remove your SD card, run the HardSPL again, then reinsert the SD card with your kovsimg file and it should work
2. reinstall active sync via .msn
3. change the usp port and the data cable
4. disable firewall and antivir
...
But item 1 is reportedly the main reason for most of the error 260 connection failures.
good luck
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sorry it didnt help it showed me a new error with the number of [262] now and the upgrade i think the problem its within the phone it self
thanks for the help tho

error_man said:
sorry it didnt help it showed me a new error with the number of [262] now and the upgrade i think the problem its within the phone it self
thanks for the help tho
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how did you try the update? w or w/o sd card?
if with card: did you check if the card is formatted as FAT32?
did you try it with a custom rom? maybe try a stock rom (pavelx1 thread) first
pls try to find some aid in hard-spl unlocker... thread
sry, but from here it's like looking for a needle in a haystack...

DrakenKorin said:
how did you try the update? w or w/o sd card?
if with card: did you check if the card is formatted as FAT32?
did you try it with a custom rom? maybe try a stock rom (pavelx1 thread) first
pls try to find some aid in hard-spl unlocker... thread
sry, but from here it's like looking for a needle in a haystack...
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my dear friend i thank u so much for ur close support to me and my problem
i tryd the activesync first and after the update start on the computer and my phone the update stops at 0% on the computer and the phone as well then the update stops showing error #[262] update error then start the recovery prosses and i formatted my micro-sd to FAT32 and load it with the required file but when i bootload it start the update but stops at the 1st prosses the loading prosses and never move next to the checking and so on
i believe my problem it had something to do with the SPL the rom its locked with the StockSPL that not allowing the update to happen or to get unlocked with the HardSpl

error_man said:
my dear friend i thank u so much for ur close support to me and my problem
i tryd the activesync first and after the update start on the computer and my phone the update stops at 0% on the computer and the phone as well then the update stops showing error #[262] update error then start the recovery prosses and i formatted my micro-sd to FAT32 and load it with the required file but when i bootload it start the update but stops at the 1st prosses the loading prosses and never move next to the checking and so on
i believe my problem it had something to do with the SPL the rom its locked with the StockSPL that not allowing the update to happen or to get unlocked with the HardSpl
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it's of no use if we can't solve it ... and I'm nearly out of ideas
pls read this, hopefully it helps

DrakenKorin said:
it's of no use if we can't solve it ... and I'm nearly out of ideas
pls read this, hopefully it helps
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it toke me really long time to find the file in other site other than rapshared and it didnt worked i tryed also newer StockSPL also the same the phone its not updating im getting really helpless here

Have you ever tried to put your phone into the bootloader mode and try to hardSPL again?
Are you currently using win XP? Don't use Win 7 or Vista.

ted presley said:
Have you ever tried to put your phone into the bootloader mode and try to hardSPL again?
Are you currently using win XP? Don't use Win 7 or Vista.
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yeas my friend i tryed it many many times it didnt work it give the same error [262] and i dont really trust windows 7 or vista with my phone upgrade i only use windows Xp for such things
thank u for ur support n help...

Try installing the newer SPL and then install hard-spl on a different computer without your sd card in the phone.

NeoXerO said:
Try installing the newer SPL and then install hard-spl on a different computer without your sd card in the phone.
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do you have any idea where i can find an newer SPL ? hope if it is not on rapidshare server

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431218
its on XDA server..just click on the first link down on a list of downloads..it reads: X1_HardSPL_v1.zip
hope I cud help

error_man said:
do you have any idea where i can find an newer SPL ? hope if it is not on rapidshare server
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sounds like he means newer stock spl
not sure if the latest stock roms already have 0.78spl, but you will get it it you flash an older stock rom (0.52) and update via SEUS
cheers

circleofomega said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431218
its on XDA server..just click on the first link down on a list of downloads..it reads: X1_HardSPL_v1.zip
hope I cud help
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i didnt help too its the same one the i first used it that got my phone stuck..i really feeling helpless but i thanks u for ur hard work in helping me to get over my problem thanks

DrakenKorin said:
sounds like he means newer stock spl
not sure if the latest stock roms already have 0.78spl, but you will get it it you flash an older stock rom (0.52) and update via SEUS
cheers
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can u pls tell me where i can find any new and old stocks..cuz SEUS is telling me that i have the latest software update

error_man said:
can u pls tell me where i can find any new and old stocks..cuz SEUS is telling me that i have the latest software update
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sure
check pavelx1 rom thread in the sticky section
hes got R1-R3 country specific stock rom collection

1. Download stock rom for your country and flash
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475482
2. follow instruction: how to restore Stock SPL for warranty reasons from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2710557&postcount=1
3. use SEUS to update your stock rom
YOU MUST FLASH STOCK ROM BEFORE RESTORING STOCK SPL

kjk said:
1. Download stock rom for your country and flash
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475482
2. follow instruction: how to restore Stock SPL for warranty reasons from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2710557&postcount=1
3. use SEUS to update your stock rom
YOU MUST FLASH STOCK ROM BEFORE RESTORING STOCK SPL
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i guess your way its the only thing that i didnt do yet but the problem is that all thouse stock roms are uploaded to rapidshare and i cant download it from there just hope is any body could tell me other site that i can download thouse new frimware or latest x1 stock rom