In the interest of trying to update my phone back from WM6 to WM5 I flashed my T-Mobile SDA (US) with the T-Mobile SDA (UK) image. I now can't get it to turn on or anything.
From reading here I think I flashed my Tornado with a Hurricane image. Is that correct? If so, is there any way I can recover my phone? I have tried getting into the bootloader by holding the power, camera, and the communication manager button, but nothing happens. I do occasionally see the left light flash orange for a second at random times. It doesnt seem to light up when I charge it though.
Did I just brick my phone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294444
The simple answer being - it's dead. Sorry about that. It's a costly mistake.
What's the condition of the housing and keypad? I might be interested to buy it for parts. I got my SDA used a long time ago and the previous owner was a bit too rough with it (basically, it looks like poo).
bipinsen said:
The simple answer being - it's dead. Sorry about that. It's a costly mistake.
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And a very EASY mistake to make, considering the fact that on the home page of this forum, it has the picture of the Tornado before the HUrricane, yet the tornado forum is listed AFTER the hurricane forum.
I spent many trips here trying to figure out whether the SDA was a tornado or a hurricane. Of course they don't even have SDA is a model type listed there, which is even just as stupid.
Sorry, but this is just inviting people into catastrophy, and it really sucks bad. In fact it's quite fair to say if this were not the case, there would be many less bricked SDA's (Also known as Tornado, but apparently the SDA is not a recognized model here).
See attached image that almost cause me to brick my SDA
Tell me that is not confusing?
Flashing the US SDA with a UK SDA ROM is a common mistake. I know, I did it too, bricking my first Tornado 2 days after buying it! My advice; sell it for spare parts and get another one from ebay. I'm really sorry, my friend, but there's nothing you can do for your phone now.
And please do not advice him about JTAG flashing, etc. Theoretically, it is possible, practically no one in this forum had it done! No one knows how to do it!
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And a very EASY mistake to make, considering the fact that on the home page of this forum, it has the picture of the Tornado before the HUrricane, yet the tornado forum is listed AFTER the hurricane forum.
I spent many trips here trying to figure out whether the SDA was a tornado or a hurricane. Of course they don't even have SDA is a model type listed there, which is even just as stupid.
Sorry, but this is just inviting people into catastrophy, and it really sucks bad. In fact it's quite fair to say if this were not the case, there would be many less bricked SDA's (Also known as Tornado, but apparently the SDA is not a recognized model here).
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You're wrong, those pictures are correct. I realy hate this modern attitude that when people mess up they just blame someone else for it. Yes, getting throught the naming jungle aint easy at times but still, there's no reason to blame personal mistakes on the forum. People who flash need to be aware that it's always a risky thing to do unless one knows exactly what one's about to do. So people need to invest time and learn all the details about a) their exact device and b) how flashing works. It's called personal responsibility.
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Hiya Guys & Dolls,
I'm back after a long break and have been reading all through the various posts i have missed in the last year or so.
I used to be an xda user (still am but am upgrading)
In the next couple of weeks I will be getting an MDA Vario (with Co-pilot)
and my wife will be getting a girlie pink MDA Compact II (with Co-pilot)
The big question is, what tweaks do you all think are necessary to make the devices "Liveable with" I gather they need a bit of help in the speed department! I gather overclocking is a necessity?
Also I have just been reading in one of the forums and the Wiki section about "BIG Storage" What will this achieve for me? What benefits is is likely to give me?
Hopefully I will be an active member of the forums once again; very shortly! Whats the point in having these things if you dont tinker! Theres no fun in just leaving well alone!
Hope some of you out there will give me some pointers in the right direction and some suggestions on what i might feel necessary to do.
Thanks in advance. its great to be back and hopefully I will find all the memebers on this site just as friendly and helpful as they used to be.
Look forward to hearing from you all soon. :wink:
your first step a bit more speed is to remove the tmobile customisation.
to do this hard reset the vario (or at first boot) then after all the windows regional settings, digitiser screens you will get a windows that says installing customisation (or words to that affect) quickly soft reset the vario and it will reboot without all the bloat.
there are lots of other tweaks in this forum, that will make your vario very useable
welcome back
R
So just to be clear...
If I do a soft reset while the screen is showing the T-Mobile installer working *after* the device is loaded and running WM5, my MDA Vario will still work and connect to the T-Mobile network for calls, GPRS, etc., just quicker?
If I later decide I'm missing something, can I just hard reset and let T-Mobile load all it's bloat?
the mdac2 is actually a charmer not a magician, so go following any guides for a magician regarding roms or you'll wreck the phone.
Thanks Dave!
Thanks for that dave, there are so many names for these things I managed to get myself confused already! Its a definite mine field!
I shall have to start looking in a different place to get the missus's phone sorted now!
I knew you guys were great, you just saved me a costly misfortune from the outset!
Oh dear!
Just looked on the Wiki pages and there is bugger all for the Charmer..!
Does that mean i'm gonna be limited to my options for making it useable?
Hope thats not gonna be the case?
Oh dear!
Just looked on the Wiki pages and there is bugger all for the Charmer..!
Does that mean i'm gonna be limited to my options for making it useable?
Hope thats not gonna be the case?
The mdac 2 is great and you can mod it as much as anything else. The overclocking works fine as do most other tweaks that work on the Vario.
i am getting an 8125 next week from somebody who was a cingular customer. he got the factory unlock code from a cingular rep (but he cant unlock it cuz he doesnt have a different carriers sim card). is there any difference if i use that to unlock it or if i use the lokiwiz program i keep reading about??
also, as you can probly tell im new to pda's. to load the window mobile 6 would i have to unlock the CID (which im not even sure what it is)? what are the benefits for using wm6 and is it fully functional on the 8125 (ive read a few posts from ppl that say they have problems). i also saw a thread for making an i-phone skin...is it possible to have both wm6 and this iphone skin? also, can anyone explian what this aku2 rom is?
sorry to make this post, but there are so many threads about the stuff i am inquiring about and hundreds of pages and its just too long to go thru. if anybody can help me out that would be appreciated...thanks a bunch!!!
Other than to say you need to read some of the sticky's in the WM6 forum, as well as the Wiki's - here's a few hints:
If you have a G3 - get it CID unlocked. If it's a G4, you can leave it locked and still flash WM6 just fine - if you use shelltool.
WM6 is mostly cool factor, with a few new features. How many people can say they're running WM6? Bleeding edge, baby, but it ain't without some pain.
iPhone skin - yes, and good luck. I tried it, and it was a slow pig - it looked alot like the iPhone, but not worth the bling. Try driving your car with a painted tarp on it. yeah, right. Can barely open the doors.
As for aku2, no idea. Hit search and check it out.
You got lots of reading ahead of you. I spent 10 hours reading before my first attempt at flashing - and I'm a fast reader.
yea im doing a lotta reading....where is the link to the wm6? i cant seem to find it!
check my sig for all unlocking problems...once you do that worry about WM6..Just check out a section and read up on the roms
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yea im doing a lotta reading....where is the link to the wm6? i cant seem to find it!
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Don't learn by flashing. Learn by reading. $400 is a lot of jack to waste trying to learn by experience.
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i am getting an 8125 next week from somebody who was a cingular customer. he got the factory unlock code from a cingular rep (but he cant unlock it cuz he doesnt have a different carriers sim card). is there any difference if i use that to unlock it or if i use the lokiwiz program i keep reading about??
also, as you can probly tell im new to pda's. to load the window mobile 6 would i have to unlock the CID (which im not even sure what it is)? what are the benefits for using wm6 and is it fully functional on the 8125 (ive read a few posts from ppl that say they have problems). i also saw a thread for making an i-phone skin...is it possible to have both wm6 and this iphone skin? also, can anyone explian what this aku2 rom is?
sorry to make this post, but there are so many threads about the stuff i am inquiring about and hundreds of pages and its just too long to go thru. if anybody can help me out that would be appreciated...thanks a bunch!!!
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You can't use it with the cingular sim card beause you don't need it!
You have to borrow a sim card other than your carrier's sim card to apply the code. Once applied, the sim portion of your cell is unlocked for life if you have the right code.
Lockwiz will CID unlock your phone as well. Once successfull with this portion, you can install any ROM or Custom ROM....designed for your TYPE of device.
You are currently running an AKU2 ROM.
Based on your line of questioning, you have a WHOLE lot of reading to do. You sound like you're on your way to be stuck in bootloader mode.
Do your reading 1st, collect all your tools and all you need can be found by you doing the research in the threads. All the answers to your questions are in the WIKI....it's your friend.
This was a freebee....if you're not willing to go thru the hundreds of threads, as you stated to get the answer....use the search tool or stay with your factory ROM.
Remember: This is a Developer's Forum, not a USER's Forum
This thread you created was a waste!
no pain ... no gain....
imho it starts to look like a 3th rang helpdesk here
My friend do something with Paradis IPL G4 softwre and after it my prophet is death.
Now I cant power on in boot mode my pda to flashing too.
Who tell me how bring to life my prophet.
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My friend do something with Paradis IPL G4 softwre and after it my prophet is death.
Now I cant power on in boot mode my pda to flashing too.
Who tell me how bring to life my prophet.
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I am afraid it is really bricked...
my dummy brother in law did the same on my pda!
Since last week, I tried many rom unsucessfully.
I tried to unlock with www.imei-check.co.uk facilities but it doesn't work.
The version 3 of their unlocker software seems to not allow the process with a bricked device .
In case of someone had got the version 1 or 2, I am very interested!
I would like to give a SPECIAL THANK to the guy, responsible of this mess (banned once already).
He will recognise himself.
Andre
P.S
if you try now to download the version 1 or 2, you will have the version 3.
must be some method to bring this pda to live....
if some persone try do somethig only in software and after it pda is death must be some diffrent software to repair it .
Thanks for the special thanks
I wanted to be nice and ignore you, but next time don’t blame anyone especially me paradis_pal (paradis in French, pal for Palestine) or Chopin (Piano and Romance in case you don't know) Because you are STUPID, and don't ask even it is in big font, what is g3 or g4, I write it in big fonts and the use at your own risk warning for people like you, not to give me special thanks.
See again the big font in my 2 posts
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296114
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310734
But now after I decide to sell my phone, and not open this site again, I was thinking why being nice if this site wasn't nice with me.
PS, I'm banned because I wanted to put my naked picture; It supposed to be for that.
The last post this is for me and I'm rude, so sorry if you are stupid.
The only solution may work, from my experiences in computers, you can flash any EPROM with any data using pc if you didn't brick it, and external box if you brick, it happened to me once I erase the EPROM from mp3 device and flashed it again by external box flash the EPROM it belongs to a company he works in it, I don't know the flasher box name but there is one for mobiles called jag, I think maybe it will work for you
In case you don't know, I did edit and flashed the EPROM for my creative sound blaster live and make it from 4.1 to 5.1.
And I did flash a lot of corrupting mother bois, by removing the bois and flash it again with a working mainboard.
It may work in mobiles too, but I'll not check and ask my friend for you because you were so RUDE, try to find by yourself.
Good Bye prophet
Hi guys,
I've just received my T mobile branded Kaiser. It's called the Vario 3.
As i am not looking to use the device with tmobile. Is it possible to debrand this device? If so, please explain how. My assumtption is that i'll need to upload a generic rom to the device.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Please read the forum first, before you post a question...
Especially the sticky threads...
To be short:
We know it's called the Vario 3 / Vario III
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You can probably unbrand the outside by rubbing some sugar against the logo's (I don't take any responsability for this, but it's known to be working on a T-Mobile MDA Vario I).
Th 'inside' is also known as the ROM an can't be unbranded yet...
Just wait untill we are able to CID-unlock it, so you can flash the ROM with an unbranded one...
For now you can hard-reset (format) it and jst after the screen alignment when it's counting down for customization soft-reset it by pushing your stylus up the little hole in the bottom of your device...
Good luck...
Oh, and...
Welcome to the Kaiser forum
Hi,
Sorry for not reading the sticky stuff, i'm just not that familiar with the technical terms for these devices so i thought me asking 'again' novice-style may be cool. Thanks for your help on this mate.
No problem...
I started out this way too, so...
I can tell you it's really worth it to dive in to this forum...
You can learn a lot if you check the threads once in a while...
Be carefull with advanced adjustments to your device, especially when you haven't got the right ROM for backup...
On the other hand, don't be scared to try out some stuff, because it's very hard to brick a device...
BTW:
Bricking means you screw up youre device so terribly (beyond repair) that it's turned in to a brick / expensive paperweight...
Just tried putting in my vodaphone sim into the Vario 3 and it says SIM LOCK code needed....Any advice where to get one from apart from t mobile?
Sorry...
I guess you'll have to wait...
pof is working on a CID-unlocker and probalby on a way to SIM-unlock it too...
I heard it's a difficult procedure, because the way it's simlocked is 'new'...
Maybe you can try www.imei-check.co.uk...
It's a paid service...
Decide for yourself if you're willing to pay, or have the patience to wait for a free solution...
I'm definatley sticking with the last one...
Hey there guys
I have posted this exact same post on aximsite, but I figured that I might as well post here too since maybe more people would read it.. thank you very much!
I'm quite desperate right now. My Axim x50 is tottally dead. Let me explain: I have it for about 2 years now, and when I bought it, it came originelly with wm2k3, and about 3 months later, Dell shipped a update CD with WM5 (it had just come out) and so I made the update succesfully, and had this WM5 vrs. A01 installed till this week.
Then, this past weekend I decided to update it, but I ended up bricking it by trying to force install WM6 MagLite's version for X50v (mine is x50[mid]). Well, as we all know, that would do the job. I was just so exited to do the update I didn't bother to read the threads.
Well, now my axim is tottally dead, I decided to read all posts and threads from all sorts of forums on the web, specially AximSite and xda-developers, and so I no longer consider myself a total noob, since I have read so much.
However, none of the intructions seem to do the job, because my Axim won't load the SD bootload screen at all! And I am doing it correctly, pressing wireless+power+reset. I have done that before and it worked. I think somehow the unsuccesful instalation of wm6 must have corrupted something and is now impeding the device from eving bootloading...!
The only thing it does is turning the power led red when it's connecet to the battery charger, then it becomes green when it is full (as usual). Won't turn on though. If I try to turn it on, to reset, load that test (rec+power+reset), or load bootload, nothing works. The only time something happens is when its on the PC USB craddle:Then when I try to bootload, the power light flashes in red pretty fast, then goes off again and that's all.
Yesterday, it all of a sudden showed a screen saying I had a problem on the memory, and invited me to press I think Contacts in order to solve it by recalling the standard configuration, but after I did so, it died again.
I'm completely desperate cuz I really liked it, it was part of my life already after so many years, and plus in my country (that would be Brazil) such eletronic devices and simply unafordable (I bought mine when I was an exchange student in US on 06), so if I actually screwed it up tottaly, I'm pretty much gonna be aximless forevermore.
I'm sorry for the gigantic post. I made an effort to post all information I could. I'm desperate and willing to follow any procedure for bringing my PDA back to life. I have the USB craddle if that helps, FAT32 SD, PC card reader, etc. If you guys could give me any help I would fully aprecciate..
And I fully endorse the words from the other members thanking you guys that are always trying to bring up something new for PDA lovers across the world, specially for us Axim users, forgotten now by Dell aparently..
Sorry for my possibly bad English! Thank you very much in advance.. I'm available for further explanations about my situation, if any of you is willing to help..
Cheers from Brazil!! Best regards to u all!
Oh, and I'm new here, so I hope I have posted this on the appropriate place. If not, I'm sorry, I guess I can move it then.. Thanks again
And I meant to say that if any of you actually read this and understands that there is pretty much nothing I can do, then I would appreciate if you tell me so, so that then i can simply get over it.. thanks
have you tried to run the ruu you were talking about that they shipped you on a cd for wm5?
Yes I have indeed, however it requests that the Axim is connected to PC via ActiveSync (it was designed to intall wm5 especificly on wm2k3 running devices) and that is not possible, since the Axim is bricked and won't turn on at all.. If only there was some other way to acces it trough the PC or something..
But thanks for the atention josefcrist! Please do share any other ideia that might come up