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ntrw v.2 problem

hey, i just got my new m500 and i want to big storege it.
i followed all the step from the ampda pdf instruction, but im stuck with ntrw. when i run the command: ntrw read rom.nb1 g:, it just said that "usage: ntrw file drive:" what seems to be the problem? i check it from the command prompt that my card reader able to read the card at g:. please help guys!

parklife said:
when i run the command: ntrw read rom.nb1 g:, it just said that "usage: ntrw file drive:"
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You seem to have an old ntrw version. Get a newer one from this forum's FTP server.
Cheers, Daniel

or follow the thread about upgrading to radio 1.13 to do it without ntrw

ntrw error

Hi all,
Now that my device is past its warranty period, I have decided to upgrade my O2 Mini as I want the blackberry software.
However, I am following the AM's excellent how to PDF but come to a grinding halt with an ntrw error.
C:\>ntrw write new.nb1 i:
Usage: ntrw file drive:
I get this error both when I'm trying to backup my old ROM as well as transferring the new ROM back to my SD card.
Any ideas?
I'm tipping it could be a card reader problem maybe?
Cheers,
Deva

Could be the wrong version of ntrw. Try one of the other versions cause you're syntax seems correct.
If you're using a laptop cardreader then that can be the reason too, always tricky when it's not working.
M

You were spot on oltp.
I downloaded Ver 2.0 and it worked a treat.
Thanks for your help.
Deva

New problem now....
I put the SD card with the BS ROM on it into my mini and put into Boot-loaded mode, but instead of bringing up the SD Download screen, it just goes to the standard 'Serial' Boot load screen.
I can't take a trick.
Again, any ideas?
Thanks,
Deva

- uncheck usb in Act.sync on your PC
- connect the magician with usb (screen reads USB now)
- start romupgrade on your pc ....
M

Thanks for your quick response oltp, but Im a little confused.
I've been following AM's PDF guide and it says after I have loaded Big Storage ROM to my SD card, just to put it into my mini and boot it into "Boot-loaded" mode. Is that not right?
Do I need run romupdate.exe instead?
Thanks for your help,
Deva

Sorry I misread your post: I thought you were still dumping…
I guess you must have formatted your SD somewhere in the process & now have a MBR again on the card. NTRW will write the image after the MBR & your magician can't find it cause the bootloader looks @ the first position, to solve your error you have to:
- put your magician in Bootloader (camera & power & soft-reset at the same time for a few seconds) wait till screen fades & reads 'serial v1.0x'. Screen is very dark since backlight is of.
- connect usb, now the screen reads 'usb v1.0x'
- start romupgrade on your pc
- pick the magician connection in the listbox, wces something I belief
- now a screen pops up
- type d2s in this screen
- follow progress on pc & magician
- wait till checksum finishes
- get SD from the magician & put it into a cardreader. DON'T FORMAT!!!
- type on commandline: ntrw write [your BS romimage name].nb1 [sd driveletter]:
error at the end is normal
- put the SD in your magician
- now it should read 'press power to flash'
- press the power button
- watch it reaches 100% - checksum will always fail
- reset & hopefully enjoy the new rom
& I hope you've done these steps as well:
- open your dumped rom.nb1 with the hexeditor & replace twice the usual BS byte pattern
or
- open your dumped rom.nb1 & the BIG Storage with the hexeditor and replace the first 416 Bytes of the BS rom with the first 416 bytes of your dumped rom.nb1 & save it to BSrom.nb1
- type on commandline: ntrw write BSrom.nb1 [sd driveletter]:
Cheers, M

Hi oltp,
Yeah, I did reformat in between dumping the ROM from the Magician onto the SD card and dumping the BSrom.nb1 back to the SD card.
I didn't realise that the SD card needs the dumped info from the magician as well as the modified nb1 file.
OK, I will redo the steps and see how I go.
Thanks for your help, really appreciate it mate.
Cheers,
Deva
PS. Yes I did use hex editor to copy the 416b from orig nb1 to BS nb1 file, but the SD card only had the new BSrom.nb1 file on it & nothing else when I put it back into the phone. No wonder nothing happened (d'oh). Thanks for your patience

Hi oltp,
I have reviewed ampda's PDF "how to" and it does say to format the SD card before you ntrw write the new nb1 file back onto the SD card. Is this right?
That mean there is only one file on the SD card, the new BSROM.nb1. Is thats all thats needed to flash the ROM?
Sorry to be a pain but I have followed the PDF guide without success.
Thanks,
Deva

format
Hi Deva,
The pdf is incorrect @ that point. The technical explanation is this:
Romupgrade dumps your rom right @ the first bit of your SD, destroying the MBR of the card. NTRW reads the whole card with the read & saves an image to your hard-disk. When you format your card a new MBR is created & NTRW will write the new image after the MBR. Without a MBR NTRW will write @ the first position of the card, like romupgrade.
Apperently the bootloader reads the first bytes of an inserted card & as it reads magician it will accept it as an rom-image. If the bootloader finds an MBR it just doesn't give you the 'press power to flash option'.
So dump your rom on your SD & write your BS image without format on the same SD.
BTW I think a format doesn't wipe your card, only the fat. On a hard-disk it works like that anyway.
Regards, M

please help

hi
when i write with ntrw the rom imge in the sd card it shows me it was writen bat nothing is on the sd card ..when put in pda in bootloader mode nothing happening.just show serial v1.02..what is the problem...
thanks

i find the problem
i find the problem

How did you solve the problem?

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.don't have to format the sd card after romupgrade just write with ntrw the rom image without format .

Help for upgrading to wm 6.1 via SD card Flash

My USB Mini port seems to be damaged. I can charge the phone but when i connect it to my PC, the orange light lits and the phone gets charged but it is not found by my pc. So pls let me know how can i upgrade to wm 6.1 through sd card flash.
The solution is:
U need
ntrw ftp://xda:[email protected]/Magician/Tools/Backup_tools1/ntrw.exe
wm6.1 nb1 file http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=02c513f13b6fba677f7ec40ada4772a6e04e75f6e8ebb871
If the 1st method doesnot work then u need the backup of existing rom Click here to know how to back up ur exsiting rom http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BackupExistingRom
the hex editor http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Download/free-hex-editor-neo.exe
Method 1:
write to the sd card using
ntrw write Cotulla6.1.O3.nb1 F:
F: is ur sd card drive
There will be an error saying parameter incorrect. dont worry. Insert the card into the phone and enter the bootloader( Power+Camera+ SOft reset). A message will come asking you to press power button to flash. Press the power button and wait for complete flashing. in the end there will be a error that checksum failed . dont worry and do soft reset. Hurray u now have wm6.1 on ur magician.
Method 2:
If this doesn't work try this.( U should have a backup copy of ur old rom nb1 file.)
copy the first 416 bytes of ur old rom to the 416 bytes of the rom downloaded using hex editor
write the new rom to the sd card and install as in method 1.

It's not possible to install my rom via SD card.
Sorry, it designed for RUU flashing only.

I was wondering this myself...
Are you sure, Cotulla, that following this procedure would fail with your ROM?

Please someone try and if sucessful pls upload the .nb1 file so that i can write it to SD card and flash it through SD card. Thank you in adavnce

I can dump my ROM for you if you're willing to test to flash it.

please. i will try on my o2. thanks

Here it comes: click. Password is xda-developers.com.

the file appears to be too small only 23 mb . coutulla's rom was somewhere around 50 mb. will this work. i will try tomorrow as i am outside & donot have pc access

That's because of compression, the file itself is 63.7 MB.
I was planning to try this as well, but I don't have a memory card at the moment.
Keep us posted and good luck

As MusikMonk stated, this file is compressed and crypted with 7z. Haven't you heard of 7z yet? It's about time!
I doubt it will brick your Magician, since it's not overwriting the bootloader. Thus you can always flash you beloved old ROM.

While writing the file to the memeory card i am getting this as output.
NTRW v2.00
Removeable media
Cylinders: 0:120
TracksPerCylinder: 255
SectorsPerTrack: 63
BytesPerSector: 512
bufsize is 65536
WriteFile(): Cotulla6.1.03.nb1 -- the Parameter is incorrect
When i put the memmory card in my PDA and enter the bootloader mode only the screen with Serial and v.1.02 is there and there is no option to install press power button.

You must have done something wrong when filling your SD card.
I get that "press power to flash" message.
I hope someone will eventually try to flash that file... otherwise I made a lot of effort for nothing :-(

So does it work or not???

I used 1 GB Memory card. The Problem Might be because of than. Pls Letme know what memory card u used. Shold I used 64/128 MD card instead of 1 GB. Pls Help

64MB is a few bytes too small, 128MB is sufficient. I used a 256MB card... maybe the boot loader is unable to read much bigger cards... if my 16 GB card were empty I could give it a try... ;-)

I tried to copy the Cotulla.nb1 file on my SD-card, but it doesn't work. I used a 2gb and 128mb card...
I copied the ntrw.exe and the Cotulla.nb1-file to c://user/username. Then I write "ntrw write Cotulla.nb1 j:" in the black DOS-Window and press enter. j: is my SD-card.
Now there appeare some lines of text and I can wait about 3 minutes until there comes something about a wrong parameter...
But as I understand it, this should be no problem.
But the problem is when I try to take a look on the SD-card, there comes a window, that says that I must format the card. I cant open it... When I take out the card from the card reader and put it inside again, I can see what is inside on the card. But there is only one folder with the size of only about 130kb and no ROM...
My OS is Vista.
What am I doing wrong???

Magician boot loader does not expect any file system on the SD card, thus ntrw writes the OS directly to the first sectors of your card. When you insert this card now anywhere Windows does not find any file system and recommends to format. That is correct (as long as don't answer yes) and shows writing WM6.1 was successful (given your card is big enough and failure free).
To make clear: you shouldn't be to browse that card in Explorer when you wrote WM6.1 on it.

Ok but if I put the card out of the reader und back again I can browse the card and there is nothing except of an 130kb small folder...
And if I put the card into my magician on bootloader, nothing happens...
What could be the reason for that?

I tried with 256 MB memory card I am gettin gthe same message while writing to card.
NTRW v2.00
Removeable media
Cylinders: 0:120
TracksPerCylinder: 255
SectorsPerTrack: 63
BytesPerSector: 512
bufsize is 65536
WriteFile(): Cotulla6.1.03.nb1 -- the Parameter is incorrect
And when I enter the bootloader mode with the card Inserted I get the message:
SD Download
==========
Sections=1
Not allow
update!
But with the same SD card when i write my old ROM( whic i had backed up) I get no error and when I insert the card and enter Bootloader mode I get the message :
SD Download
==========
Sections=1
Press Power to Flash
This means that there is some problem with the nb1 file . So kindly someone try it and post the results

one more thing. The backup.nb1 which i backed up from my sd card is 243 mb big. So i feel that the nb1 file which U extract from your card should also of around the same size and not 65 MB. Correct me if i am wrong.
I tried to extract nb1 file after writing ur rom to my sd card. it is also 243 mb big.

Need help about sd card asap

Yesterday, I dumped the whole internal memory of my phone into the SD Card by using the command:
#dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/storage/sdcard1/dump.img
Next day, when I rebooted the phone, I was greeted with the message "SD Card is damaged. Try reformatting it." When I pressed format, it showed "Erasing SD Card" and after sometime the message appeared again.
So, I brought out the SD Card and put into my computer (by inserting it into a dongle; as I don't have an adapter). Astonishingly, I could read all data of the SD Card, but couldn't write to it. Any file I place there, disappears after refreshing. When I tried to format the card, a window appeared saying "Windows cannot format this device".
So, I googled a bit about these and did the following things:
1. Used a third-party formatting software (SDFormatter by SD Association) : It says that the USB is write protected.
2. Checked the SD card for any physical write protection switch : There was none.
3. Ran the disk management by right clicking "My Computer" > Manage : It gives the same error that the disk cannot be formatted.
3. Tried to delete the volume and create a new simple volume from disk management : The "Delete Volume" button is not clickable
4. Used the diskpart utility to create a new partition by the command "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY" : It does not work. It says that "No usable free extent could be found. It could be that ....." etc.
5. Tried to clear read-only mode by using "attributes disk clear readonly" from diskpart : Even after that the disk is not writable
6. Tried to use chkdsk from command prompt : It gives an error in the middle everytime saying that "/dump.img is a false link" and after that the disk becomes non-readable and chkdsk crashes, saying that the source files could not be read.
So, please help me. The card was not physically damaged in any way, so it must be possible to bring it back to its original state. Any help is appreciated.
Additional information:
My SD Card: Sandisk 16 GB microSDHC
My Phone: Panasonic P55 , Android 4.4.2 Kitkat
My Computer: Windows 7 & PCLinuxOS
Thanks in advance.