I've always experienced trouble (mainly Windows or connection trouble) flashing over USB cable, so I used to prefer flashing directly from SD Card. Did this on my old Hermes and Kaiser and never once experienced problems with it.
Recently got myself a Rhodium, and installed OliNex HardSPL on it.
Downloaded few roms, formatted SD card to FAT32, and put one in the root named "RHODIMG.nbh" as supposed to.
Went into bootloader, it started flashing, but at a certain point the progress meter just stopped moving. I left it for like an hour, but nothing had happened anymore.
Pulled the battery and fixed the phone by flashing a shipped ROM over USB cable successfully, and tried flashing from SD card again with a different ROM. Resulted in the same issue.
Anyone know what could be causing trouble here?
Are you maybe flashing A GSM device with a CDMA ROM, or the other way around?
Very sorry for not updating sooner, unexpectedly been away for a while.
I did make sure both the ROMs and the unit are GSM, not CDMA. Had the same problem in an attempt to flash the factory ROM from SD card.
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Iv'e tryed to flash HardSPL to Kaiser... Downloaded various unlockers/flashers, even SD card solution... When trying to flash over usb with some Kaiser-HardSPL.exe - after entering tricolor mode and when progressbar appears it always stuck on 0%, and nothing happens... Update utility shows error (Rom update utility encountered communication error or smth.) and sugests me to do recovery. Tryed everything - SoftSpl1.56, Softspl1.93, SSpl-kais...
Other method i've tryed - SD card
Iv'e followed instructions, formatted card, copied those two files (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=420683) to sd card, but after resetting Kaiser it only shows "Loading..." and hangs... no restart, nothing... just "loading..." on screen...
Bootloader menu shows following versions:
KAIS130
SPL-3.29.0000
CPLD-8
somehow... after trying another 1000 -th time... it just flashed...
Have exactly the same problem, tried all other solutions! any idea on what the last method was that worked?
When flashing via USB it will hang at 0% (and fail w/ 260 error on PC side) if the SD card is left in. I've made that mistake more than once.
Remember to remove SIM, too.
I don't have sd card and I've got the same problem...
Any ideas?
I have the same problem. I want to upgrade Hard SPL 3.24 to newer version. I always get 262 error. Also tried all possible ways (MicroSD uses FAT32, but I didn't formatted It, because I don't have SD adapter).
Sometimes It's shown that flashing complete, but HardSPL version still is the same.
Read you noobs
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396922
latinohot, I'm doing all right...
EDIT:
I changed cable, and it went for the first time
Biker182 said:
latinohot, I'm doing all right...
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I changed cable, and it went for the first time
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good, also check the contact pins, sometimes they get bent.
hmmm...
i STILL can't get hardspl to work at all...just get stuck at 0%
sabzi43 said:
i STILL can't get hardspl to work at all...just get stuck at 0%
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Are you using sspl to upgrade? sim and sd out? usb cable or sd flash? Do you already have a hspl and are just upgrading?
If you're on an original spl you must use sspl to do it.
If you're upgrading then you can use the kaisdiag file by cmonex and an sd.
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WarByte said:
Are you using sspl to upgrade? sim and sd out? usb cable or sd flash? Do you already have a hspl and are just upgrading?
If you're on an original spl you must use sspl to do it.
If you're upgrading then you can use the kaisdiag file by cmonex and an sd.
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I'm using usb to windows 7, sim and sd were out.
The thing is i've never done this before, but i am pretty sure i have it down...
I tried this I think 3 times then started to panic when after the recover from the freeze, i noticed things being weird, so i hard reset so i still have a functioning phone until i figure this out.
(it still has bugs it never had before :/)
ive downloaded numorous hardspls, all didnt work.
it's been one saaaaaaaaaaaad experience cuz i really want to make this happen and brag to my guy friends I FLASHED MY PHONE.
and get win 6.5, of course.
any help much appreciated!!!!!!!
sabzi43 said:
I'm using usb to windows 7, sim and sd were out.
The thing is i've never done this before, but i am pretty sure i have it down...
I tried this I think 3 times then started to panic when after the recover from the freeze, i noticed things being weird, so i hard reset so i still have a functioning phone until i figure this out.
(it still has bugs it never had before :/)
ive downloaded numorous hardspls, all didnt work.
it's been one saaaaaaaaaaaad experience cuz i really want to make this happen and brag to my guy friends I FLASHED MY PHONE.
and get win 6.5, of course.
any help much appreciated!!!!!!!
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copy sspl.exe into your device and run it then you can flash with CustomRUU
to much better you are using ActiveSync on Windows XP
Thanks so much!!! i got it to work!!!! i actually used a jump spl instead, but i now am running win 6.5 on my kaiser!!!!!!! and i'm beyond stoked
THANKS Y'ALL!
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 !
So i decided to flash my ROM on the weekend, and the upgraded failed. Now the phone is stuck in bootloader.
Now i have two years ago after getting my trinity i had SPLed the phone and i have never had any issues upgrading my rom. (I think the SPL is fried)
I have tried to use Mitty to fix the bad SPL but it won't connect. It can't find the USB port?
I have also tried flashing from my mini SD card but it simply say's loading and then goes back to bootloader screan?
Can anyone help me here?
I was flashing my Blackstone before few minutes with stock 1.57 wwe ROM.
I normally have the habbit of removing the sim and memory card while flashing. so, i'll keep the back cover off while flashing.
When the progress was around 40%, i got a call in my another standby mobile and in hurry i pulled the usb cable .My blackstone got pulled down together with the usb cable and battery came out(As there is no back cover).
I got shocked and looked at the screen as the usb cable was not removed from my device.
To my surprise, the progress bar didn't stop and ROM update was continuing without the battery.
I came to full conciousness after some more 105 progress and inserted the battery while it was updating.
When the flash was complete, the device started as usual without any problem
So, it seems that the device is powered from usb during flashing
I think this happens if you flash from the SD card too.
skyli91 said:
I think this happens if you flash from the SD card too.
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With SD card?
no. I think you mis understood.
When flashing with SD card, you won't be connected with PC.
In my case, the battery came out of the device while flashing.
lucky you're
This is called Holy of HD Users...
Just to be sure that is not a lucky, could You repeat the step again twice?
LOL
skr_xd said:
With SD card?
no. I think you mis understood.
When flashing with SD card, you won't be connected with PC.
In my case, the battery came out of the device while flashing.
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Yes becouse when i flashed trough SD card and my HD was in usb becouse before flash i always use USPL. When i wanted to turn off the phone after flashing i took out the battery but i had to take out the cable too to turn off
I think you're ok while you still got a working bootloader. I once flashed a rom that was incomplete...the dowload got canceled for some reason which I hadnt noticed. However winrar extracted without reporting any errors and it also flashed without problems. When my phone wouldnt boot beyond the HTC screen I started checking things. The .nbh file was way too small
Anyway I flashed it again and it was working again...
should be alright since you have hspl 1.56 on your phone
would be screwed if it was normal spl/uspl and it was in middle of flashing the spl part of the rom upgrade when power was lost!
Anytime your phone is connected to an external power source it does not require the battery to power it... this is quite normal You can take the battery out anytime it is plugged in.
Ok I am having the same issues. I tried to install HDWall cab on the latest march 9th energyrom with WM6.5.5 and Sense 2.5. It prompted me to restart so I did and ever since I tried rebooting it, its stuck on the bootloader. tried to hard reset a bunch of times and just goes back to bootloader. Took battery out a bunch of times. Tried to flash back to AT&T stock ROM via USB. Flash went to 100% and then when it tries to restart after flash, back to bootloader. Ran mtty1_1_.42_538 on PC and then tried to reflash to energyrom and still stuck on bootloader. The weird thing is when I try to flash via USB it the current Rom image is blank. Oh and also I attached an image of what mtty1_1_.42_538 shows when running the application. Please help chefs!!! You chefs are the brains!
bratch15 said:
Tried to flash back to AT&T stock ROM via USB.
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I am not a chef but at this point I would do an SD flash of my favorite ROM.
Hope that helps.
I would if I could flash from a 16gb micro SD. That is the only card I have. I have read you can't flash with any card over 2GB. Don't know if its true because I don't have any other card. Card is formatted through my pc. Please help!
Something got messed up between installing HDWallpaper cab and the soft reset after.
bratch15 said:
I would if I could flash from a 16gb micro SD. That is the only card I have. I have read you can't flash with any card over 2GB. Don't know if its true because I don't have any other card. Card is formatted through my pc. Please help!
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it doesnt hurt to try
i'm using an 8GB card and I can flash from SD with no prob
I can't flash from the microSD. I formatted FAT32 through the PC and tried putting a couple different NBH files (stock Roms and custom Roms) and neither my old fuze or my Tilt 2 read it. I don't know if it is because it is a MicroSDHC 2 card. Anybody???
For some reason my fuze and Tilt 2 will not read the card in bootloader. I'm thinking I might have a hardware issue but would like to keep plugging away at possible solutions it might be... The phone is only 2 months old so I'm questioning whether it is a software or hardware issue
In case anybody was wondering, my bootloader reads as follows:
RHOD300 32M SS-BC
SPL-0.85.OliNex
MicroP(LED) 0x0A
MicroP(KEY) 0x04
TURBO HW/TURBO SW
TP MFG DATA
522, 535 815, 860
812, 211 226, 210
232, 860 Calibrated
At the bottom of the screen it will show the USB when plugged into the PC and Serial when unplugged like it should
Possible fix
Format your card again but in 16bit.
Copy the ROM image you wish to burn to the root of the card.
Make sure it is named RHODIMG.nbh and nothing else.
Before trying to burn this rom, I would actually burn HardSPL again to your phone.
Then insert card and see if it will reburn your rom.
I am using a 16GB card in my TP2 without problems, but found I actually had less problems by formatting it to 16bit. And any access to the card was actually faster than formatting it in 32bit.
Hope this helps
I will try that tonight when I get home. Any other ideas until then?
bratch15 said:
I would if I could flash from a 16gb micro SD. That is the only card I have. I have read you can't flash with any card over 2GB. Don't know if its true because I don't have any other card. Card is formatted through my pc. Please help!
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I think it's not a matter of capacity so much as a matter of brand. If your 16GB is from eBay you might well have a defect/reject card. I have a 4GB A-Data from Newegg that I only use for flashing. Never saw any problem with it.
bratch15 said:
For some reason my fuze and Tilt 2 will not read the card in bootloader. I'm thinking I might have a hardware issue but would like to keep plugging away at possible solutions it might be... The phone is only 2 months old so I'm questioning whether it is a software or hardware issue
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It seems the read can not be read in two devices. That sounds like a defective card. Get your self a 2GB (non HC) card from a reliable source (maybe BestBuy) and keep it just for flashing.
I had this same problem I solved it check this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=638825
Tried everything on the thread and still no go. Called HTC and sending it in to get fixed.