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ROM Corruption Question...

Hello Guys,
I am thinking about Flashing back to my original ROM that came with my Xperia. I tried other ROMs, primarily Itje's, and they are just brilliant, but I am not sure how they be used as everyday ROMs. The Touch-IT 4.5 has the battery leakage issue, some SMS issue, and I really don't like the new Start Menu thing with TouchFlo. Even though they have a fix with for the Start Menu thing, you lose the Programs tab, since the new TouchFlo is not meant to be like that. I understand that there must be more solutions for that ROM, but I will be honest, even after reading as much as possible AND searching, it's just so impossible to go through those 100s of pages.
I also tried the WM 6.5 Beta ROM. Again, excellent work on Itje's part, but I just don't think I am ready for WM 6.5 yet. It's just not stable and that is understandable since it's BETA.
Anyway, with that said, since I am not very experienced with Flashing, I had a question. What happens to a phone if the ROM image (Kovsimg.nbh) that is chosen to Flash the phone with, from an SD Card, is corrupt? Does the phone get stuck in the middle of everything, and the phone ends up as a brick, or are there any ways to prevent this from happening?
I am just asking this because I am not certain... the ROM I backed up COULD be corrupt, I mean I don't know. There were no errors when I backed it up, and followed the tutorial with no problems.
Any help is appreciated, thank you very much guys!

I just got out of that situation. Tried flashing by micro sd way. Took out batt and micro sd, then used the USB flashing tool to flash a new rom.

Thanks for your response, dadeadman, but after reading your reply, I am a bit more confused (Sorry). Please correct me if I am wrong, but are you saying that you tried Flashing with the SD, it was unsuccessful (for whatever reason), you then took out your battery and the SD Card, and Flashed it through USB using the RUU Flashing tool? If this is correct, then can you explain how the phone even connects to the computer with an OS (ROM) on it? I would assume that if the flashing process gets corrupt, the phone ends up with no bootable OS, right?
Sorry for the confusion, I hope it made sense .

You have to put it in bootloader mode then connect the usb. The white bottom portion of the bootloader screen will say USB, though the mobile device cnetre/activesync cannot detect. However you are still able to flash a working rom with the RUU Flashing tool.

dadeadman said:
I just got out of that situation. Tried flashing by micro sd way. Took out batt and micro sd, then used the USB flashing tool to flash a new rom.
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Nice, thanks a lot for your reply man, that makes me feel much better !

Help! Problems flashing X1

Hey everyone. I'm tearing my hair out trying to get this sorted but I just don't know what to do!
So, when I got my X1 as everyone on here should do, was flash my X1 with the HardSPL and some custom roms, this was a few months back. Then, shock! Horror! My case went and broke, (cracked near the volume button build W44) so I sent it back to SE for repair. I sent it back reset back to defaults but left the hardspl on there.
SE sent me a brand new phone (I think... This one says under the battery build w50, but the battery says w32..) I received it today. I thought it would be my old one repaired but SE had other ideas. Booted up and have Image Version: 1.03.931.10 and HardSPL 72.000 I think I said that correctly...
Now since sending it for repair and receiving it back, their seems to be quite a few wm6.5 roms floating about, and obviously I can't use the stock software as that wouldn't be right!
Now I have tried flashing the hardspl to the phone through my Vista PC and all it keeps giving me is connection errors. I thought maybe it was already flashed so I tried flashing just a rom, and that just made the phone get stuck on loading (flash by memory card). I thought it might be Vista, so I tried doing it on my other PC (XP) and I get the same issue. This bloody thing won't flash!
I have had "Connection Problems" - "Update Errors" with different numbers. The current one being Error [260] CONNECTION.
Now I have been searching around through the hardspl thread and other places trying to find out what I need to do or how I can fix it, but everything I try doesn't make a difference. I did read some other people with recently repaired phones having the same problem and perhaps SE have put a new spl thingy-ma-jiggy on there. (Please forgive the technical jargon, I have no idea what im on about.) I have also tried the ticking/unticking advanced network functionality, but that hasn't made a difference either.
So by the end of typing this, I have little hair left. Let's hope you can all help, before I have none left!
I would appreciate ANY help! Really.
Just wanted to add, I was at first getting the phone to a loading bar when flashing, but it would stay at 0% then flag up an error on the PC. Now after the tri-colour bars, the phone just sticks on Loading...

Well just to update. I have been trying to sort this since posting. I flashed the rom to an old UK generic one, as I read in another topic people had to do that before HardSPL. Done that, and tried flashing the hardspl. Same thing, just getting connection errors.
I tried going into bootloader and running the hardspl from there. It works and the phone gets to 10% and then gives an UPDATE ERROR. The phone is now bricked, and I have to reflash the original wm rom to get it back.
Though the Tricolour screen now shows 0.52.Olinex
Any ideas?

Shameless bump for help.

very stupid situation.
i have the same situation in puncto of flashing.
i get my phone three month ago.
after hardspl i .... sorry, no hardspl ... the phone says at 0% bla bla bla
i solve the problem by consulting one night absolutly stressing again and again and again .... google ... xda ... google
than 3 thinks at one time was the solution:
0. need activesync - connect !!!!
1. SDA_ApplicationUnlock.exe for desktop pc
2. enterbootloader.exe for pocketpc (please, the right version, it exist for eten too, but we need the xpediaversion ..)
3. changing registry-entries
how to:
activesync-connect, than copy "enterbootloader.exe" to pocketpc. it must be root, not sd-card. use a pocketpc-registry-program to change these values :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\00001001 = 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\00001005 = 40
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\00001017 = 144
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Security\Policies\Policies\0000101b = 1
if not exist than add the key.
now, start desktop-program, follow instruction EXCEPT reboot.
start "enterbootloader.exe" on pocketpc. now, you can install hardspl and the device is flashable for ever.
thats works on me, hope it could help you too.

Thanks for the reply. Not had time to try it till this morning. Ok so, after spending about an hour trying to find the correct enterbootloader.exe I finally realized, that the hardspl package includes it. *Duh!* So that was time wasted.
I changes the registry values as you said with Resco registry editor, and follower the unlock then enterbootloader.exe Start HardSPL package. Starts to install. Gets to 10% then I get
ERROR [262] : UPDATE ERROR
The rom update utility has encountered communication errors during the update process.
So im open to suggestions if anyone has any. I just can't understand why it's not working. It's not a problem with my computer or cables. I flashed the phone before I sent it for repair and I have tried doing it on two computers one with XP 32bit and one with Vista 64bit.

hmm. would u like to install a custom rom, or a stock rom?
msg me, and i hope, i can halp u.

I want to have the hardspl on there so I can flash custom roms.

If it's a case of the software/firmware/hardspl whatever you call it, has been updated by SE. How would one go about getting it flashed? Would we have to wait for an update HardSPL to be released?

U read this thread?
My first hardspl was from this thread. New X1 will come tomorrow back from SE (vibration was defect +++ some more problems with case), and i will try it again with this thread.
hope, this will help u mate.

Yeah, I have been through that thread with a fine toothcombe trying everything suggested to see if I can make it work.
When you get yours back, if you have to do anything out of the ordinary to get it to flash or can't do it. Please come and let me know in this thread. If they have updated yours like mine, and yours won't flash, at least I won't be the only one!

k, i will msg u tomorrow around 2pm.

Cheers.
In the meantime. Does anyone have any other suggestions I could try?

Bump, for some help.

now i know, what is exatcly your problem.... <--- SAME Problem
i hope, i will find a solution and msg u then. if u´ll got a solution for this prob, msg me too plz.

Solution found in this Thread!
Download this and unzip it to your device. ++ run it. It will start your X1 in Bootloader menu and say "0.52.OliNex".
Then start hardspl while X1 is in Bootloadermenu....
FINISH =)

Thanks for the reply matey. Glad you got yours sorted. Just tried what you said and I get 0% then it switches to ERROR [262] : UPDATE ERROR.

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Thanks for the reply matey. Glad you got yours sorted. Just tried what you said and I get 0% then it switches to ERROR [262] : UPDATE ERROR.
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hmmm... it works fine on my new x1. are u sure, that u start the ssplmanual on your x1 and not on your computer?

Yea, im not sure what the problem was with it. Thankfully I have it done and dusted today! Because I flashed it earlier to an older official version, and you said you got it working. I presumed you had - had yours flashed to the newest version due to it being off for repair. So I reflashed the official update and fully updated it. Then tried hardspl which didn't work. Tried with the advanced USB thing off, tried again with how you said you did it above, and Viola!
Hip hip hoorah! Thanks for the help. Can finally use me bleedin phone now!

no problem mate hf with your x1

hello,
i see smilies and yea's ...
for me to understanding (for next time or other users):
1. complete official update (if exists)
2. flashing (hardspl) without "advanced usb"
thats all?
cool.

Phone slow and often doesnt work at all

Hi people,
I recently decided to update my touch diamond to wm6.5.
Already got HardSPL 1.93 some time ago together with the swift rom.
Now I downloaded this rom:
BOGYSOFT WM6.5 Build 23060
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552162
And followed the instructions carefully, put the rom on the internal storage and started the update process as usual.
After it had finished installing I already noticed it took the phone way to long to completely boot into windows.
After a few reinstalls I finally got it to work but it was very slow and often I couldnt even unlock the damn thing.
At this point I cant even get into windows anymore.
Now ofcourse I want this rom removed from my phone, but is that even possible when I cant boot it into windows??
I need to have an USB connection to put on another rom, so is that possible without windows?
Thanks for your help!

I got the same problem. anybody help us?

I had a problem with an earlier version of this ROM, and the fix turned out to be quite simple.
I flashed my stock ROM back on and then re-flashed BOGYSOFT, ever since then been no problems what so ever.
I had flashed a few different ROM's to try before this it's possible I suppose that there may of been some corruption with repeated flashing.

I think the hardspl is affecting the phone's stability, cause returned back to the stock after flashing some cooked roms and it's bad more than before.....
any news?

mb76 said:
I had a problem with an earlier version of this ROM, and the fix turned out to be quite simple.
I flashed my stock ROM back on and then re-flashed BOGYSOFT, ever since then been no problems what so ever.
I had flashed a few different ROM's to try before this it's possible I suppose that there may of been some corruption with repeated flashing.
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Yes but dont you need to acces the phones internal storage to add a new rom?
Cause I dont know how to do that when I'm not even able to acces windows.

Anybody?
Is my phone bricked or is there a way to connect to the internal storage without WM?

Now it doesnt even boot the rom anymore,
The image has even dissapeared from my internal storage.
It is now stuck in the Bootloader telling me to trigger the USB host.
Any ideas?

My Diamond has been pretty unreliable over the last couple of days, but I used MTTY to format the internal flash, loaded the latest Gen.Y ROM (I don't think it really matters which ROM tho) and now it works perfectly again. Plus to me it seems a bit faster. Anyway I couldn't be happier.
If you can get into the bootloader with USB I'd certainly give the instructions in this flash a go (post 3 or 4 only if you're on Windows XP).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540290

thanks mate!

google partnership problem please help!

Hi guys I've had this problem for a while now and its begining to really annoy me and no mater what I do I can't fix it.. basically when I turn the phone on and get to the home screen it says something along the lines of google partnership not avaialable or something like that which stops google maps from updating and stop my access to google mail but contacts sync fine. I have tried formatting sd card and wipe factory data reset and nothin seems to cure my problem. Please help!!! :-(
Thanks
Steve

steve57925 said:
Hi guys I've had this problem for a while now and its begining to really annoy me and no mater what I do I can't fix it.. basically when I turn the phone on and get to the home screen it says something along the lines of google partnership not avaialable or something like that which stops google maps from updating and stop my access to google mail but contacts sync fine. I have tried formatting sd card and wipe factory data reset and nothin seems to cure my problem. Please help!!! :-(
Thanks
Steve
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Rooted? Which rom? Did it work before? When did you start having problems?
Can't help you without knowing that but at the very least try re-flashing your current rom without wiping and see if that helps.

ah yeah sorry, right im using cyanogen and i am rooted and the trouble seem to have came when i done a cyan update a while back but when i tried to reflash the old update using cm updater it didnt fix the problem, i have just tried reflashing the 4.1.9999 update aswell to see if that would do it but it didnt :-( thanks for the reply and i do really appreciate your help
steve

Flash DRC83 base rom and flash CM rom of your choice after that. No wiping required, I don't think.

Nice one cheers I will try that ah 1 thing do I need a different base rom due to bein a uk phone?
Thanks again

I don't think so, at this point we're all running some kind of ADP roms which are not region specific. Roms I linked you to don't include recovery or radio so you will be OK. Do a nand back up always though. Good luck.

hi mate i tried the download and listed it on my sd as update but it wont instal? am i doin summin wrong?

anything i try to instal through update on sd card wont instal, just comes up with installation aborted?

Does it tell you why it's aborting the installation? Try to get a log.

it says E:cant open /sdcard/update.zip (no such file or directory)

just tried formatting card then putting a fresh update file on it then triyn to flash 4.2.12.2 and got the same message again :-( in desperate need now

Can you boot up into your current rom? If so... go get Amon's 1.5.2 recovery from development forum and install that from terminal (directions are inside the thread)... sounds like you have old recovery. Once that's done... try again. Not a big deal, HTC's recovery is picky, Amon's is not.
I think that you're using Windows machine and it has "Hide extensions for known file types" checked so in reality your update.zip is update.zip.zip. Aron's recovery makes life a lot easier... you can just throw file on your sd and you don't even have to rename it.

hi mate i could boot into rom and was running amon ra recovery aswell which i agree is the nuts, i seem to have sorted the problem now, what i done was unrooted then re rooted again and im now recieving everything ok, thanks for your time and help mate
steve

forget what i just put as im tryin to put amon ra on my sd and its not havin it now, cant even reap upadte on sd card, wonder if its bricked?

ok so now i have thought i will try unrooting my phone but nothing will instal :-( getting really depressed now :-(

forget what i just put as im tryin to put amon ra on my sd and its not havin it now, cant even reap upadte on sd card, wonder if its bricked?
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Ok, I find it hard to believe that someone can mess up that many times if they follow the directions. I just got a spare G1 and I rooted it with all the latest stuff within 15 minutes, with no ADB at that.
I can not help anyone who does not provide ANY details and ignores simplest grammar and punctuation rules (and BTW English is not my first language neither)
Follow Cyanogen's wiki TO THE LETTER and you will have no problems. If you can't follow Cyan's wiki - don't even attempt this, flash DREAIMG.nbh and let the phone update itself to stock donut.

erm... what now?

I no newbie when it comes to installing roms, but im encountering my first problem. I installed the genesis 1.5 [WWE 23569] (love it!) and used it for a few days. Then i felt like testing out the Tai [23569 2015 3712 WWE] (also great!) I decided to reinstall the genesis rom again, but now the rom wont finish loading.
Im stuck at the final grey screen where it says "Update in Progress" but no prompt comes up to say the OS was installed successfully. As you all know this process takes less that a few mins to finish... i've been waiting forever.
What can i do? Try another copy of the same rom from another SD Card?
Please help!

In the course of my flash ROM,I had never come across this problem,why not try to format memory card?and do it again....just a advice....

was thinking the same thing, but im looking for alternatives before i track down a card reader lol

why don't you flash directly from your computer ?

I don't think you can flash from the computer without an ActiveSync connection, and for that you need the phone to be working already.

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I don't think you can flash from the computer without an ActiveSync connection, and for that you need the phone to be working already.
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Try the Custom_RUU (Rom Updater Utility) via PC and see if it works