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Tera Term for Windows XP?

Do any of you have a program that I could use to sync my phone to my Computer via usb? I've tried several versions of Tera Term with no success. I reached the point where I was ready to pull all of my hair out and then I remembered... I don't have anyway. Oh well. Please help I really want to upgrade my rom but I want to back up the old first. Thanks, Vern.

i think i don't understand what you're trying to do!?
Don't you use ActiveSync for Syncing with your PC?
And wtf is Tera Term???

This is what I'm trying to do:
Originally Posted by kdenninger
To back up the firmware on the MDA to an SD card (a VERY GOOD IDEA if you intend to fool around with new firmware!)
1. Get a 128MB SD card. They're cheap - under $20.
2. Insert said card.
3. Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=37386 and download the aWizard utility. CID-unlock your phone. (You only need to do this ONCE, even if reflash in the future.)
4. Get a terminal program that can speak over the USB port. There is a patched version of Terraterm out there, along with a few others. You need a way to connect to the device over the USB port as an ascii terminal.
5. Turn off the phone.
6. Holding the CAMERA key, press the power button for 2-3 seconds. Continue holding the CAMERA key until it comes up in the tri-color screen.
7. Connect the USB cable. Wait until ActiveSync tries to start. CTRL-ALT-DEL Windows and kill the process wcescomm.exe (ActiveSync's communication driver)
8. Now start your terminal program and point it at the USB port. Hit RETURN and you should get a command prompt. You are now talking to the phone's boot loader in terminal mode.
9. Type "r2sd all" and hit RETURN.
10. If you get a security level violation, you DID NOT CID-unlock the device. Go back to step #1.
11. The ROM image (all of it) will be written to the SD card. Several messages will be displayed while this is in progress. Note that this is NOT - I repeat - NOT - a filesystem-formatted dump - it is a RAW image of the ROM with some checksum information included. Anything on the SD card will be destroyed - don't do this with a card that has data on it you care about!
12. You can stick this card somewhere to be used for restoring. If you want to save the image off the card to your computer, stick the SD card in your computer and then dump 128MB of the card starting at the front (the actual dump is about 80mb but will always be less than 128MB, so that's "safe".) You will need a tool like "psdread" or any other tool that can do byte-level I/O to the SD card in your PC's reader for this.
To restore a SD-card image dump to the Wizard:
1. Write the image to the SD card. Again, this is NOT a filesystem - its a RAW image! Unless you saved the image to the card from the Wizard initially you will need a tool that can do a raw write to the SD card in your computer.
2. With the Wizard OFF, insert the card into the SD slot.
3. Hold BOTH the CAMERA and VOICE keys and press the power button for 3 seconds. Release POWER.
4. Look CAREFULLY at the Wizard screen. The backlight WILL NOT BE ON! It will tell you to press the VOICE button if you wish to restore the SD card image. This message only appears for a few seconds and the backlight is OFF! If you wait too long you will end up at the tri-color bootloader screen. Press the VOICE button (if you still have it down, let up on it then press again.)
5. The restore will run. Note that the backlight IS NOT ON during this process! You may need a flashlight (or very bright ambient light) to be able to read the progress meter.
6. When the process is complete it will tell you to press "any key". Do so and you're back in the tri-color bootloader screen.
7. Turn off the Wizard with the power button. When you turn it back on, it will hard reset just as if it was brand new off the firmware you just restored.
Note that this is the ONLY way to recover from a bricked phone if you try to load the wrong firmware file using one of the "forcible" methods (e.g. aWizard) on a non-CID-unlocked phone, and have bypassed the normal protection methods as ActiveSync cannot get back in there under these circumstances.
I strongly recommend that if you're going to futz with firmware, that you get yourself a 128MB card, make one of these dumps, and TEST the restore before you play around. This will recover from almost any botch - the only exception is loading a firmware file via some means (e.g. "aWizard") that the phone cannot execute at all.
Note that I do not know if this will get around the "boot loader version is too high" problem - I'm not willing to try it until I have an official T-Mobile update with a newer boot loader.
This same method for both dump and restore works on the SDA as well.
13. Overclocking the MDA (do so at your own risk!)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scaw
Use Smartskey, read about it in this article on my HTC Wizard Blog. No specific ROM required, overclocking integrated. You need to download OMAP Clock seperately, it is available from the same article. A small tutorial in PDF format is included in the .zip with Smartskey. Don't forget to remove the ";" (without the quotes) at the beginning of the overclock settings in the configuration file!
How fast you can clock it depends on your device, it's just a matter of trial and error. 240 seems to be safe for the majority of HTC Wizard owners. No need for extra tools to wake overclocking up after a soft reset or standby. I haven't noticed severy battery drain, I can easily use my device a whole day and come home with the batterie well over 50% charged.
It's just a great little program. The integrated overclocking comes as a bonus to the tweak that the program was actualy made for, remapping buttons so you can open the start menu without using your stylus and close programs without using the stylus.
Have a look around on the HTC Wizard Blog, there is lots of other stuff that you may find useful.
And Number 4 is WTF Tera Term is. Thanks.

Yet another another WORKING How to root your Incredible

Thanks to everyone and all their post I was finally able to root my Incredible. Since I was having issues getting mine to root I tried pretty much everything that was said on these forums.
The secret to rooting is the timing of inserting your sdcard before the recovery screen is shown.
Here are the steps that I did to root 2 difficult incredibles.
1) Download the google SDK. You need the adb command for the rooting process.
2) Install HTC Sync or google SDK drivers. It doesn't matter which one you use. You just need the drivers installed and working.
3) Put your phone in USB Debugging mode under the applications config section.
4) Plug your usb in your phone while it is booted normally.
5) Select the disk drive option when prompted.
6) Make sure you can sucessfully connect to your phone using "adb shell" command. If this does not work you will not be able to go any further. This means drivers are not installed correctly.
7) Power off your phone. Doesn't matter how. Battery removal, press power off button etc...
8) Remove your SD card.
9) Press Volume down and power at the same time.
10) When the phone is at the Bootloader menu press Volume down and Highlight the Recovery option. Do not select it yet.
This is where the rooting process gets tricky.
11) Make sure your usb is plugged in.
12) Make sure you dont have your SD card in your phone.
You have to insert your SD card in your phone while the recovery mode is loading. There is a specific time window that you must do this. By using different SD cards they take certain time to initialize during the loading. This is why some SD cards work all the time and why others have to be inserted at a certain time
13) Go ahead and get your "adb shell" loop running. It should show "error: device not found"
14) Bring up a clock. You will need this to keep track of when you inserted your SD card during the recovery boot process.
15) Press the power button to select Recovery and start counting the second hand on the clock.
16) Start at 1 second and insert your SD card. You will wait until you hear windows beep when its loading the drivers for the USB device. After the 10 seconds your adb loop screen should show the following if it worked: "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)"
17) If it does NOT show this you will need to remove the battery and SD card and go back to step 14.
18) Increment your time by a second. So for the 2nd try insert the SD card after 2 seconds have past. So far on my walmart PNY 2gb SD card on 2 incredibles it takes around 5 to 6 seconds of waiting before I can insert my SD card. If you get to 10 seconds you need to restart and try again, but this time try half seconds increments.
When I select the Recovery option and the phone is loading I will see the white splash screen near the bottom kinda flicker a little bit and have a small horizontal line distort across the screen. That's about the same time I insert my SD card.
If you get the "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)" message looping in your shell prompt, Congrats you have access to the recovery shell. You will need to follow these steps to fully root your phone.
http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php?id=public:adb_in_recovery
Thanks to everyone in these forums offering their input. Without your input I wouldn't be able to root my phone.

LOL
I guess great minds think alike:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=703589
^ I posted that this morning.

At first I thought it was you reposting or someone poking fun at these types of threads.
You guys say like the same thing. Hopefully that means this is a good "update" to the process and people will have a slightly easier time.
I have Froyo on my Droid so am not too eager to get my Incredble rooted, but I have been following along.

I'm going to get my timings down tonight and post a 3rd thread on this!!!1

dreamersipaq said:
I guess great minds think alike:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=703589
^ I posted that this morning.
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lol yeah, I guess the method works

seanmcd72 said:
I'm going to get my timings down tonight and post a 3rd thread on this!!!1
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I'm going to use an atomic clock to time and root my DI and report back on the decay rates of Polonium!
I appreciate users' attempts to refine this process, but I'm sticking with the old: insert the card right before white-switches-to-black . . . I tried timing and found myself slamming the sdcard card into the slot trying to make my targets, and that ain't not good for the DI.

rynosaur said:
I'm going to use an atomic clock to time and root my DI and report back on the decay rates of Polonium!
I appreciate users' attempts to refine this process, but I'm sticking with the old: insert the card right before white-switches-to-black . . . I tried timing and found myself slamming the sdcard card into the slot trying to make my targets, and that ain't not good for the DI.
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LOL, well that's your own fault
Don't be so rough with her.... Abuser! Gentle, there is no reason to slam.
And it's still better then the click in and out method.

Help with rooting and flashing

First of all I would like to say hi to everybody, this is my first post on this awesome forum I found just today. I would also like to say that I bought my first smartphone a few days ago(HTC Wildfire of course) and when browsing on the internet trying to find out stuff I could do with the new found device I found a lot of people reffering to something called 'rooting' and 'flashing' and 'ROMs' and that doing this enables your phone to have a lot more new functions and stuff like that.
Therefore I have some questions to ask you nice people, so here they are:
- What is 'rooting', 'flashing' and what are 'ROMs' in the first place?
- I found a lot of abbrevations when people described 'rooting' their phones which I did not understand so I'm kindly asking if anyone could please explain the process clearly? (is this the correct process? -> forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7895908&postcount=127 , if it is what is the OTA update?)
- If someone could please explain the process of 'flashing' to me?
- Are there any recommendable 'ROMs' I could try?
I truly thank anyone who would be able to explain this to me and take their precious time to do so. I'm sorry if my questions seem silly but I'm extremely new to the smartphone android thing and therefore I don't understand everything.
Thank you again for your replies, ciroman

- What is 'rooting', 'flashing' and what are 'ROMs' in the first place?
Rooting = gives you/apps on the phone acess to root acount in android wich gives you acess to do things wich you can not do normally. read more about root and superuser(su) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser
ROM = is sort of the operating system wich most often comes in zip files and is possible to flash to the phone with a custom recovery. this often include apps and modifications wich is made of the person who makes the ROM. also includes superuser acess (root) not allways but often.
custom recovery = a recovery mode wich allows you to do backup of your current settings and evrything else you have on the phone. also makes it possible to flash ROMs wich you have saved on the SD-card
Flashing = this is when the recovery takes your zip file and exctract it to your phone. when this is done you have a new "operating system" on the phone
- I found a lot of abbrevations when people described 'rooting' their phones which I did not understand so I'm kindly asking if anyone could please explain the process clearly? (is this the correct process? -> forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7895908&postcount=127 , if it is what is the OTA update?)
Yes this looks like the process of rooting/installing a recovery.
OTA = Over The Air
- If someone could please explain the process of 'flashing' to me?
wont explain this.. it should be explained somewhere else..
- Are there any recommendable 'ROMs' I could try?
There are only a few ROMs out at the moment..
The only one I can recomend for you rigth now is wildpuzzle ROM by danne_jo there is more ROMs out but I dont know how stable theese are.
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I dont garantue that this info is 100% correct and anyone who feels like please correct me if im wrong.
I also take no responsibility for any damage made to your phone by following any of the above information.

Thank you so much for your quick explanation. I must say though that searching for how to flash and root this phone was quite painful for a newcomer like me-took me hours to find the first part and then some to find the second.
I hope following these two guides will get me there
shinelt said:
Prep
Before beginning the process, I would recommend doing the following to your phone:
(1) If you have the original unrevoked root installed, uninstall it by using "Menu", "Settings", "Applications", "Manage Applications" and scrolling to "Unrevoked" at the bottom. Tap it, click "Force Stop" at the bottom and then "Uninstall", "OK" to uninstall it. Then power off/on your phone just to be sure.
(2) If you haven't already installed the OTA 1.47 update, do it now: "Menu", "Settings", "System Updates", and "HTC software update" at the bottom, then click "Check Now" to get the 1.47 update. If you do this update, it takes up to 10 minutes so be patient and let the phone reboot (a few times) until it is done. Then once the update is done, power off/on one last time to get a clean start.
(3) Set your phone to "Charge Only": "Menu", "Settings", "Connect to PC", tap "Default connection type" and select "Charge Only".
(4) Enable USB debugging: "Menu", "Settings", "Applications", "Development", and put a check in "USB debugging".
The root process
(1) Go to Control Panel on your system and uninstall any "HTC" software such as "HTC Sync".
(2) Download the unrevoked3 install package: Go to
unrevoked3 recovery reflash tool, v3.0 and click "Download for Windows". Save the "Reflash-bundle.exe" file somewhere that you can find it on your system.
(3) Using Explorer, run the "Reflash-bundle.exe" file you just downloaded. It'll ask where to install it. Don't just accept the default: change the install location to a folder you can remember: it's just going to unzip some files there: it isn't really a software installer.
(4) Once the files have unzipped, go to the folder you chose in the above step. You should find an "hboot driver.htm" file in that folder: double click on that to open the html instructions on how to install the drivers. Follow the instructions in the html file starting with downloading the actual driver files at the very top. When you download those driver files and unzip those, those are the files (the folder) you'll point to in subsequent steps in those instructions. When done with the html instructions, you should have drivers installed and shouldn't have to come back to this step.
(5) At this point, if you needed to install the drivers, you are probably still sitting at a boot menu on your phone. UNPLUG the phone from USB and select "Fastboot" and then "Reboot" to reboot the phone to restart it. Before the next step, your phone should be on and booted up in its normal operating state (not some boot menu).
(6) If you are running anti-virus software, turn it OFF or disable it now.
(7) Now go to the folder where you unzipped the reflash bundle (step 3 above). In XP or older systems, just double click the "Reflash.exe" file. On Vista and Win7 systems, I'd recommend right clicking on "Reflash.exe" and selecting "Run as Administrator". While this may not be necessary, I know that some USB drivers get really mad if you try to access the USB port without admin privileges (sorry, I'm a coder so I run into that stuff and warn you so you don't have to) so I did it as a precaution.
(8) You should get a window with "Unrevoked 3" on it (on the computer of course). Just follow the instructions in smaller font below "Unrevoked 3" to finish rooting. Note that when it says "Waiting for device", it wants you to plug your phone into the computer via the USB cable. Note that it wants the wildfire to be fully booted normally (not in the Hboot or recovery menus). The prompts at this point are very specific so no need to repeat them. If all works as it is supposed to, the only thing you really have to do is scroll to an item on the phone and select it when instructed. The rest is automated and should result in a "Done" message. The whole thing at this point took maybe one minute so it isn't something you have to wait for or stare at for a long time so if something gets "stuck" for a while... there's likely a problem.
(9) Don't forget to turn your anti-virus software back ON.
Now, when I followed these steps on my Win7 x64 system, reflash.exe detected the phone and started working (we're in step 8 here) but about 4 messages into the process I got the "communications lost... try again" message that unrevoked refers to on today's Twitter. Some say that (contrary to step 1) installing HTC sync actually solves the problem. I didn't try that. After about 6 tries on my Win7 system and even pulling some "tricks" to try to pause reflash.exe at certain points, I gave up and simply booted my old XP laptop and repeated the above steps and it worked perfectly the first time. At the point of the failure, you hear the two tone usb-device-disconnected sound followed by a use-device-connected sound about 20 seconds later. Somewhere in between is where the "communications lost" message appears so it looks like some sort of USB ack/nack issue. Hopefully it'll be resolved soon. My best advice if you get that error: try a new machine. The XP machine that worked perfectly for me had never seen any HTC software. Maybe that helped. And maybe after I uninstalled the HTC software on my Win7 x64 system (the one that didn't work) I should have rebooted before continuing: I didn't because it didn't prompt for a restart and I couldn't find anything "HTC" running in task manager.
do wipe data/factory reset
put all files to sd from puzzle rom. ( go to partitions menu > mount usb storage)
(put those 01 , 10 , 52 ,300 , 400)
go to nandroid> backup
go to install zip from sdcard
and install files from 01 to 400.
go back and press reboot system now.
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fireplayer said:
I'm just as n00b as you on this. But I'll help you out...
1. After using unrevoked once - reboot your Wildfire.
2. Go to first page on this thread that you read right now.
3. Download the things you want to flash - all links are in the 1st post. - put them on your SD-Card - start with flashing 0001_WildPuzzleROM_v2.zip first - to do this - download that file and save it - anywhere on your SD-card (somewhere you'll remember where you put it). Download and save all you want from 1st post on this thread - to your SD-card...do NOT open the zip files - just copy them to the SD-card.
4. Turn off your Wildfire
5. Turn on your Wildfire while holding Volume Down button - you have to have your SD-card with all the files you want - inside your phone now.
6. This get's you to the boot screen. Wait for HBOOT to say no image...blabla..
7. Push Volume Down to get to option "Recovery" - press Power button.
8. Phone will Reboot to a white HTC screen - and from there go to ClockworkMod Recovery screen - if you did everything correct.
9. Press Volume Down several times - until you get to option "nandroid"
10. Press the round button at the bottom of your Wildfire - the one you use to take pictures when using Camera functions, let's call it the Camera button.
11. You see "Backup". Press Camera button, and wait until it's done backing up your system. Do NOT turn off your phone! Wait until it's done. It will say Backup complete!
12. Next if you want. But only if you want - you don't have to - you can Wipe / Factory Reset your phone, saves a lot of ROM space and Memory. Phone WILL be slightly faster if you choose to do this - but all your programs and settings will be gone - Your choice.
IF you do NOT want to Factory Reset your phone, skip steps 12 & 13.
IF you want to do this then push Volume Down until you get to option "wipe data/factory re" (probably reset, but only show until re on my phone) and then press the Camera button.
13. As to make sure you really want to do this, you need to confirm... push Volume Down until you reach option "Yes -- delete all u" - then press Camera button and wait.
14. Now you can start flashing. Push Volume Down until you reach option "install zip from sdcard" Press Camera button.
15. Push Volume Down until you reach option "choose zip from sdcard". Press Camera button.
16. Find where you put the files you downloaded from post 1 on this thread. Choose 0001_WildPuzzleROM_v2.zip. Press Camera Button.
17. Push Volume Down until you reach option "Yes - Install 0001_W". Press Camera button. Wait for it to be done.
18. Repeat steps 14-17 with the other files you want to flash. IF you want to Flash files that are 0900 or higher. Reboot and change Wallpapers before you do.
To reboot Press Power button to go back and Press Camera button on option "reboot system now". Then repeat steps 5-7. If you need help changing wallpapers too let me know and I'll try to explain that too.
When done flashing the files you want. Reboot. And you're done.
First reboot after flashing Wild Puzzle Rom takes a very long time. Be patient.
I hope this guide made sense. If there's anything unclear let me know and I'll be happy to clarify. Thanks and Good Luck!
*EDIT* Just saw that someone else made a guide too, well at least there are people wanting to help us n00bs. Thanks. and I think both guides should work. Hopefully you'll make some sense of them *ENDS EDIT*
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not Opening *.exe file

So my issues starts out like this...... I had an energy rom on my at&t tilt 2 from 3-15-10. I wanted to up date it so i ran task 29 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649191 which is found here my computer didn't want to open it at first (using windows 7 os with avg virus protector) i finally got it to open by going in and launching romupdateutility.exe.. (When i clicked on the custom ruu my computer did nothing even after right clicking and run as administrator) but i did get it to work.. No I'm having the same issue trying to put flash my new rom. When i click Rhodium_softwareUpgrade my computer does nothing. Is this a Windows 7 issue can someone please help my phone is now stuck on either the white at&t world phone screen or i can get to the bootloader screen but nothing after those. Help please, and thank you.

you can flash using ur storage card, just rename the nbh file to RHODIMG.NBH (if I'm not mistaken), copy it tp the root of the storage card and enter the boot loader.
hope it helps

with phone off hold volume down key while pressing the power key now you should be on tri-color screen (bootloader) & at the bottom of the screen it should say serial now plug your phone up via usb cable now at the bottom of your screen it should say usb
now on your computer right click on the custom ruu of whatever rom your using & run it as administrator & you should be able to flash with no problem

[Q] Xperia X1 Android Help

Hi. I flashed this rom on a xperia x1, but i think i forgot to make the step with "running Haret.exe" from WinMob.
Now, when i power on the phone it boots but when android starts it cannot find /system/sh .. and the rest of files.
only fastboot is working.
Is there any way i can put those files on sdcard if i run haret.exe on another x1? or from linux?
or, is there any way i could return to winmo ? (i cant get in tri-color screen either)

no one?
come on ..

So what's the problem with copying the files via the card reader? Or installing my CM7 and pushing the files to sdcard via recovery? Moreover, going back to tri-color should always work if you hold volume down on boot

i push volume down, power on .. then green letters appears .. then .. it asks for fastboot or normal boot ..
I have all files on SD, but when android boots it gives some errors, cannot find /system/bin/sh .. and many others.
adb starts anyway, but if i try to push anything i get error .. cannot find /system/xbin/sh .. same error i get on adb shell too:>
I will make some pics and i will upload them later.
If you have any other sugestions ..

It seems that i did not press long enough the buttons
I did it all with patience. Thanks for help

Try to reformat and divide your SD card again ... that might work ... cuz this is usually the case ... also, try another SD card as some of the cards have problems in general