I've upgraded to the latest 1.11 ROM, I now want to revert back to the original ROM (T-mobile UK).
I took a back-up of the rom onto the SD card, and backed up using ntrw.
However, writing the back-up file back to the SD works, but, the device will not boot from the sd card. I do the following:
- disable USB activesynch
- insert usb cable
- press camera/power and reset
- goes into boot loader, and says USB.
Does not prompt to install rom from sd card.
I've tried it without the usb plugged in, the screen says Serial and does not prompt for rom installation.
Same problem if I use the downloaded tmobile.nb1 from the ftp site.
What am I doing wrong? Is there any other way of reverting back?
Saquib
If you are returning the phone for warranty purposes please ignore the following:
Why on earth would you want to go back?
If you want all the t-mobile customisations, why not just install the bigstorage and load up the t-mobile extended rom.
You guessed right - I want to return.
Any ideas on why it will not boot the rom of the sd?
Thanks!
Related
Hey guys,
Well I succeeded in upgrading to Anansky's BigStorage ROM and was very satisfied, but now my stupid speaker broke (I have a similar problem to other users where they can hear sound if they blow into the speaker). I have to return the Magician so I need to revert back. Can someone PLEASE upload the original XDA II ROM PLEASE???
Here's a list of instructions on how to backup the ROM:
Backing up your ROM can be done by connecting your Magician to the PC through the data cable when you first uncheck the USB connection of active sync.
If your Magician connects with active sync because you didn't uncheck the USB connection in the active sync connection settings then you will not be able to backup your ROM to an SD memory card.
1. Before connecting your Magician you should bring it into the boot loader mode. This can be done by simultaneously pressing power + camera buttons and at the same time the soft reset button with the stylus.
2. After connecting your Magician to the PC through the USB in boot loader mode and having your SD card inserted into the MDA, you run romupdate.exe.
3. Then choose the USB connection in the connection settings of romupdate.exe window and click on ok. After that a terminal window will popup in that window.
4. Type d2s and press enter. Your Magician will start copying the ROM to the sd card. The screen of your Magician will be dark (no light), but you will see it counting up to 100%. When it reaches 100% it will say it is calculating the checksum. Give it some time till its done and it will say checksum ok.
5. After finishing the transfer of the ROM from your Magician to the SD card, put your SD card into an SD card reader connected to your pc. Your pc might pop up a warning message that says your SD Card is not formatted would you like to format? Click No and open a Command prompt (DOS) window.
6. Change directory to your root directory (cd c:\) and run the command ntrw read o2orig.nb1 x: where x is the drive letter of your sd card. That command will create the ROM Backup file of your ROM into your C drive root directory by the name of o2orig.nb1. Make sure you keep o2orig.nb1 in a safe place and use a copy of that file for the rest of the procedure. Note that after finishing the copy from your SD card to o2orig.nb1 file ntrw might give you an error, just don’t pay attention to it.
7. WinRAR the o2orig.nb1 file, then upload it to the XDA Developers FTP .[/i]
No one wants to help?
The question is why havent you got a backup?? You were told to do this in the first instance should anything go wrong!!
somebody apparently has uploaded the O2 mini original rom, check it out!
The answer to this was I was using my digital camera as an SD reader...and the backup didn't work properly for some reason. So now I have nothing.
The backup (I think you're talking about the O2 Original Dump Rom) doesn't work for me. I have a 1.11 version of the O2 Asia ROM, but I'd rather have the original WWE. Oh yes, and I've tried several times with the "Original Dump Rom" using 220, 415 and 416 bytes...nothing works.
This may work for you - use the romupdate software to get the rom image of your device to the sd card. By this stage you have an edited rom image on the pc. Use ntrw to write that image over the top of the sd card that you have just written to with romupdate. Then plug it into the ppc. Do not format the sd card in the immediate procedure at anytime. For whatever reason I think the romupdate software puts a format on the sd card which the ppc recognises. There were a number of errors on the ppc screen just after installation however when you push the reset button hey hey the original splash screen boots up. Prior to this check that the edited rom header is 416, in my efforts it was not 415. The RomMiniOrg.nb1 image was good with the only NON change being the radio which remained at version 1.11 but I downgraded it to 1.05. I don't think the service centre will worry to much about this should you need it. Goodluck with this, it worked for me.
Hi yozhek,
Thanks for the help. I did what you said but it still didn't work. However, I used O2_mini_asia from the FTP to downgrade my extended rom, protocol and rom version...then I found the Radio downgrade on the FTP and downgraded to version 1.01.
now everything is original!
I didn't know that the Nb1 files did not include the radio stack downgrade so I had to downgrade that seperately.
the command in the romupdate program basically determine which image to backup.
d2s for rom, but I am not sure what's the other command for extended rom and radio. Anybody?
Can I use MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe to change the ROM on my mini with the o2mini_asia.nb1 ?
miniuser: no
you will have to use the process as described in procedure.doc (available in the FTP under anansky's bigstorage folder)
I did as described in the procedure.doc. I have run this command
ntrw write o2mini_asia.nb1 e: and then inserted the SD card into my mini and pressed the power+camera+soft reset button
but it is not doing anything, it has stopped at "Serial" above and v1.00 below for an hour now. Any suggestions?
cheers
mini_user
I tried it second time, now it says
SD DOWNLOAD
==========
SECTIONS=1
Not Allow Update
Any Suggestions?
Cheers
Sorry for the last post, was trying out something else.
I am using a 256MB SD card and the size of the rom is only 127MB after ntrw, does it make any diff??
you can always ntrw write a 127mb rom image into a 256mb sd card.
the rom flash will not work (and hence the no update allowed message) if your rom image in your sd card is invalid for some reason. I make a bobo previously, trying to copy 416byte of anasky rom into my original rom, instead of the other way round. And it give me that error message. After realising my mistake, and did the right modification, the flash went through successfully. so double check your rom header edit if you are not able to proceed to the flash step.
I have a mini with qteck 1.11.00 WWE
and I have download the o2mini rom from xda ftp and have got a 256 mb card
if I want to flash my mini with the o2mini rom the are these the steps to follow
1. dump qtek rom into card
2. copy it to pc
3. copy 1st 416 bytes of qtck into o2mini rom
4. dump o2mini rom into card
5. put mini into bootloader mode
6 update with mini rom
cheers
zenkinz said:
somebody apparently has uploaded the O2 mini original rom, check it out!
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where is the file?
hi i have an Xda II mini, well i am trying to upgrade to the new 27mb extra storage rom.. i managed to do it once, but just to check the possiblity of restoring the original extracted rom of mine i again did a reflashing and resotred my original o2 rom successfully. now i want to revert back to the 27mb extra storage but when i get into the bootloader it it does not give me the press power to flash option also it keeps formatting my SD card back to the FAT file system from the RAW format with the big storage rom on it. i have tried changing computers and writing the file with ntrw.exe version 2.0 but still no luck. please help as i want to upgrade to the extra 27mb storage deleting my extd rom. plz help.
when you pop the SD back into the phone, you need to ensure its in bootloader mode displaying serial on the screen, that way you will get the card being formatted, and you must also have the usb connected, then and only then you will see the press power to flash option.
hope that helps
rgds
jim
So I got in this situation by running step 1 of the cheetahunlocker with a CHEETAH.grh file on the SD card. Everything worked (I got OK) on everything but the "OS" flash never finished, just stayed on 90% progress and never moved.
Yes I didn't do a hard SPL, I was trying, but for some reason to hardspl process grabbed a ROM off my SD card and ran with it.
From the various searches I have found that I should get a stock ROM, reflash with this.
I do not have a "Stock ROM" and cannot find one anywhere. Also how would I even flash this ROM if I had it? I would assume I would drop this ROM on the SD card (FAT 32, and rename properly) but where do I find the elusive stock ROM?
I cannot use active sync or anything, my phone with only boot into the bootloader (red/blue/green)
I have an SIM unlocked 750:
- On reset with no SD my phone hangs on the Palm OS progress bar
- On reset + PTT with no SD I get:
Palm Tr
IPL-0.20
Palm Tr
SPL-0.24.0000
- I've tried the cheetachunlocker, step 1, says my image file is corrupted at 7% progress.
- I've tried the athena_unlocker.exe with cheetachunlcoker.exe method, no dice.
- I've tried various ROMs on the SD and none of them seem to go anywhere.
If the answer is "Use your backup ROM", I don't have one. If the answer is "find a stock ROM", where????
I do have another 750 I could "backup" and then use this backup to flash my bricked 750... but how to backup the good one? How to use this backed up ROM to flash the bricked one?
Thanks in advance!!
QuakerOatz said:
So I got in this situation by running step 1 of the cheetahunlocker with a CHEETAH.grh file on the SD card. Everything worked (I got OK) on everything but the "OS" flash never finished, just stayed on 90% progress and never moved.
Yes I didn't do a hard SPL, I was trying, but for some reason to hardspl process grabbed a ROM off my SD card and ran with it.
From the various searches I have found that I should get a stock ROM, reflash with this.
I do not have a "Stock ROM" and cannot find one anywhere. Also how would I even flash this ROM if I had it? I would assume I would drop this ROM on the SD card (FAT 32, and rename properly) but where do I find the elusive stock ROM?
I cannot use active sync or anything, my phone with only boot into the bootloader (red/blue/green)
I have an SIM unlocked 750:
- On reset with no SD my phone hangs on the Palm OS progress bar
- On reset + PTT with no SD I get:
Palm Tr
IPL-0.20
Palm Tr
SPL-0.24.0000
- I've tried the cheetachunlocker, step 1, says my image file is corrupted at 7% progress.
- I've tried the athena_unlocker.exe with cheetachunlcoker.exe method, no dice.
- I've tried various ROMs on the SD and none of them seem to go anywhere.
If the answer is "Use your backup ROM", I don't have one. If the answer is "find a stock ROM", where????
I do have another 750 I could "backup" and then use this backup to flash my bricked 750... but how to backup the good one? How to use this backed up ROM to flash the bricked one?
Thanks in advance!!
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Stock ROM would be the ROM that was officially shipped with the device, either a carrier branded version or Palm's own version.
Since you said your device was unlocked, it could be one of two possibility:
1. You unlocked it by asking the carrier to provide you with an network unlock code or by purchasing a network unlock code from a 3rd party vendor.
2. Your phone was purchased without a contract tied to a carrier so it was a Palm branded unlocked Treo 750.
Which is it?
This will determine which stock ROM you should run.
And ALL stock ROMs are floating around here or some other forum somewhere...
[Update]
Here's a link to download the 2.23 ROW ROM for the Treo 750: http://rapidshare.com/files/173145556/Treo750_2.23_ROW_WM6.rar
ROW=Rest of the World; Official Palm ROM
Great thanks for that, now how to use this file correctly, now that I screwed this up the first time. I can't use active sync, can only get to the Bootloader Red/Blue/Green screen.
Should I extract the cheetah.rgh to SD and do a reset? I don't think that has been working for me but will try again with this different ROM
Thanks!!
Stuck
So I downloaded the ROW firmware from above, copied to MicroSD and did the old reset+PTT button.
The screen flashes with "Loading..." for a moment and I'm back to
Palm Tr
IPL-0.20
Palm Tr
SPL-0.24.0000
What next? Thanks!
SOLVED!!!!
Hey I might have a solution here:
When you format the Mini SD card, do NOT do a quick format. Uncheck that box and do a full format, FAT32, Default Allocation Size.
This took over 15 minutes for me.
Do a scandisk (Right click the drive/tools/scandisk) and check "Fix Errors". This should ensure your SD card is in good shape.
Now copy a good ROM to the card and reset+PTT. The Palm should flash successfully now. If not your ROM may be corrupted.
Hope this helps! It worked for me!
QuakerOatz said:
Hey I might have a solution here:
When you format the Mini SD card, do NOT do a quick format. Uncheck that box and do a full format, FAT32, Default Allocation Size.
This took over 15 minutes for me.
Do a scandisk (Right click the drive/tools/scandisk) and check "Fix Errors". This should ensure your SD card is in good shape.
Now copy a good ROM to the card and reset+PTT. The Palm should flash successfully now. If not your ROM may be corrupted.
Hope this helps! It worked for me!
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Glad that your phone is up & running.
Those who brick their Treo 750 should be able to follow the procedures mentioned here & other related thread to recover their devices as long as the bootloader screen is able to display.
QuakerOatz said:
Hey I might have a solution here:
When you format the Mini SD card, do NOT do a quick format. Uncheck that box and do a full format, FAT32, Default Allocation Size.
This took over 15 minutes for me.
Do a scandisk (Right click the drive/tools/scandisk) and check "Fix Errors". This should ensure your SD card is in good shape.
Now copy a good ROM to the card and reset+PTT. The Palm should flash successfully now. If not your ROM may be corrupted.
Hope this helps! It worked for me!
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i tried that but kept having the same problem....do you think the card is bad????
I've got the OEM 02 ROM from the thread in the ROMS section however the reason I need to reflash it is that the phone will no longer sync with my pc and I need the usb socket repaired. The OEM rom comes in the form of an .exe and I'm not sure how to go about getting it onto the phone using only the sd card.
What I'm asking really is if someone has a method for using the OEM .exe to reflesh the phone via the sd card or a link to a non-exe based rom that I can use to reflash the phone.
Cheers,
Grey_Area
Use winzip or 7 zip to extarct the NBH file, you can then use that to flash from SD card
Hello all, as the title says, I'm new, both to the site and android rooting in general.
I used the latest sunshine to s-off, although now i read that that wasn't necessary. What I'm trying to do is get rid of the bloatware on my phone and gain a little more control over the device itself. It is a verizon phone on the tmobile network and things like verizon vm and the verizon cloud apps and such are really just taking up space.
So the question is, now that I have s-off'd the device, where do I go next? I managed to get TWRP on there, but I just don't know where to go from there. Yes, I searched the site, Yes I searched Google, and yes, I prayed to the Skating Droid of Legend.
Any advice would be great. All of the information i have found on my own is about 2 years old.
If you already S-OFF'd it, and even got twrp going, I recommend the only thing left to do is downloading a ROM from the Android Development section (in ZIP format), saving it to your phone's internal memory or external sd card, then flashing it via twrp. That way you will have a rooted, pre-de-bloated phone. In my case, the ROM I liked best and that worked fine for me was S-ROM-JW-5.2.5 (doanloaded from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...ment/romthe-worlds-100-m9-1-32-401-8-t3065304).
I personally selected "Global" during the flashing options, as I do not use Verizon network (I live in Brazil currently). But even so, you can change to/from Global and Verizon (and something else) in the Android settings after you are already set up.
To flash, first place the ZIP file in your phone (do not unzip it). Either internal storage or external sd-card. Then turn the phone off, unplug it (make sure you have plenty of battery like 40% or more just to be safe). Then turn the phone back on booting into twrp (power + down vol, then select Recovery, then Power). Then select "Flash ZIP" and navigate to your ROM ZIP file select it and follow the prompts. Choose "full wipe" when prompted (this will only wipe internal storage system files and apps and such and not your external sd card). After flashing finishes, just let the phone reboot (you can select Reboot while still in the twrp recovery mode).
Do not panic during first boot, it takes several minutes in the HTC logo (like some 5 or 10 minutes) until Android itself shows up and starts building itself into your phone and booting up properly.
Please proceed carefully and just to be safe, before flashing the ROM, make a full BACKUP (theres the Backup utility inside twrp) and save the backup to your external sd card or PC. That way you can recover using that backup if needed (but you should be ok).
gamekill said:
If you already S-OFF'd it, and even got twrp going, I recommend the only thing left to do is downloading a ROM from the Android Development section (in ZIP format), saving it to your phone's internal memory or external sd card, then flashing it via twrp. That way you will have a rooted, pre-de-bloated phone. In my case, the ROM I liked best and that worked fine for me was S-ROM-JW-5.2.5 (doanloaded from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...ment/romthe-worlds-100-m9-1-32-401-8-t3065304).
I personally selected "Global" during the flashing options, as I do not use Verizon network (I live in Brazil currently). But even so, you can change to/from Global and Verizon (and something else) in the Android settings after you are already set up.
To flash, first place the ZIP file in your phone (do not unzip it). Either internal storage or external sd-card. Then turn the phone off, unplug it (make sure you have plenty of battery like 40% or more just to be safe). Then turn the phone back on booting into twrp (power + down vol, then select Recovery, then Power). Then select "Flash ZIP" and navigate to your ROM ZIP file select it and follow the prompts. Choose "full wipe" when prompted (this will only wipe internal storage system files and apps and such and not your external sd card). After flashing finishes, just let the phone reboot (you can select Reboot while still in the twrp recovery mode).
Do not panic during first boot, it takes several minutes in the HTC logo (like some 5 or 10 minutes) until Android itself shows up and starts building itself into your phone and booting up properly.
Please proceed carefully and just to be safe, before flashing the ROM, make a full BACKUP (theres the Backup utility inside twrp) and save the backup to your external sd card or PC. That way you can recover using that backup if needed (but you should be ok).
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That's extremely helpful, thank you very much.
It turns out that Verizon is much better in my area than T-Mobile, so I wont be removing all the stuff I originally wanted to, however anything that gives me more options and power should I choose to wield it, is a welcome addition.
Thanks again.