I did an update withthe ROM and utility off the HP site which then came up with a message about lost comms on the USB port. I left ist sitting in the cradle connected for about an hour but nothing was happening so I unplugged it from my win7 machine and tried with an XP machine. Still no luck.
I have tried the reset, combinations of power contacts iTask and reset button and power calender iTask and reset but nothing changed, it still had a blue screen with no back light. I pulled the battery lead and the screen changed slightly but nothing else.
Any ideas how it can be resurected?
I have followed the instructions from forum.brighthand.com ipaq-h3600-h3900-series 273231-h3630-bricked and that has shown how to get the iPaq ready and what software to restart the process with (host11) but everything goes fine up to 98% when I get a message 'lost USB communications' and it stops.
Does this mean I have bad sectors in my ROM chip? How can I fix this?
Is there a linux ROM which would fit in less than 98% of 16 Mb?
Please help.
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I installed Dutty v4 last night and upgraded my radio to 12.32 I believe. Today I tried installing more software and activesync doesn't respond. I tried installing activesync on a different computer and still nothing. I have tried hard reset, turning the computer and the phone off several times, reinstall activesync, etc. I do believe it's a problem with the phone since I did install activesync on a new computer and didn't work.
I even tried doing a reset by pressing the cammera + power button and reset. That's where I am right now and I do have the 4 color screen.
The phone charges ok and when I connect the cable I can see the icon on the battery.
Any suggestions?
Thnx
May the fire wall is making trouble?
Please close the fire wall and try again?
No it's not that.
What I end up doing was going to my niece and get her connector from Tytn. If I plug the connector into my cable it works. But the cable by itself didn't. So I suspect my plug is going soon. Any suggestions who fixes this? I know it's under warranty and HTC should fix it.
Hi friends,
I am having a very weird situation here and I need your help.
My phone was working perfectly after the last time I have upgraded the rom which happened a couple days ago. Then yesterday I have discovered that my phone is turning on and off on its own. It turns on, then after a few seconds it turns off and then turns on again.
When I hard reset, it gets stuck at the smart mobility screen.
I can enter the bootloader screen by pressing the camera key and inserting the usb cable. The tri-color screen shows usb at the bottom left corner. When I run mtty, it says the usb port cannot open.
I know that it has sufficient power in the batteries (tried with two different batteries I have). However, when I plug it to a wall charger the charging light doesn't turn on.
So basically I have a tornado which cannot boot, mtty seems not able to recognize it. Is there any way to push an SPL, radio rom or OS rom to the phone? Is it possible to flash a tornado with an SDcard?
I really need some help here as I am out of ideas. thanks in advance.
Did you try hard resetting it? (While off holding both softkeys and then pushing the power button)? If so, flashing from card is possible...you just have to install the original ROM though. Google this: Tor_TMOUS_10140_191916_10900_SHIP.exe
Extract it then copy the nbf file to your memory card.
You may have to rename it and change the headers though...that I don't know
Here might help you by the way
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=409286&highlight=original+rom
Good luck!
Your problem is more likely seems the power key is stuck.
thacen said:
Your problem is more likely seems the power key is stuck.
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I am almost sure that this is not the case because I can use the power button for shutting the device off and restarting it, etc.
My only hope is to be able to flash from the SDCard now, as unforsakenrule mentioned. The problem is I need a step by step guide to do that.
burkay said:
When I run mtty, it says the usb port cannot open.
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Did you disable the USB connection from ActiveSync properties?
I had had a similar problem which was solved after reinstalling the ROM.
NiTroGenious said:
Did you disable the USB connection from ActiveSync properties?
I had had a similar problem which was solved after reinstalling the ROM.
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sure I did. The problem is no matter what the device is not recognized by the pc. mtty, activesync, tera term, etc. all fail whether usb connection is enabled or not. Weirdly, in the bootloader menu it says USB in the bottom left.
It really sucks, because I have the bootloader there but I cannot load anything to the device to recover it.
While it is in bootloader screen activesync couldn't connect or it could not detect your device. If you want to connect by teratermpro you need to disable USB connection from active sync otherwise teraterm could not connect your device.
I think your PC will not show you any connection symbol while connecting in bootloader but you may hear some sound while connecting or disconnecting.
One thing you can try is just try reflashing a stable rom by just running RomUpdateUtility. If it cannot find your device then check on your PC's Hardware device manager, if there is any unworking driver. if such driver is there just uninstall it and try connecting again.
May be it can solve your problem.
thanks for the advise, but I pretty much tried everything... everything except an SDCard flash. And that, I don't know how to do. I have been an HTC user for the last few years. This iMate SP5, which I owned a year ago, belongs to my sister now. I now have a Hermes, waiting for the prices to come down before ordering my touch pro. I flashed tens of roms in both devices, connected using mtty, teraterm etc. many times. This is the first time I am totally left clueless and I believe this is what we call a brick, indeed
I think my ipaq 3660 is dead, but I hope not, I was hoping to try and put linux on it. Here's the scenario, I bought it from a guy who says it was working till a rom upgrade went wrong (power cut ).It appears to charge up OK, with the light eventually going solid. Active sync finds it and identifies it correctly but can't connect, advising me to turn off usb connections to stop repeated attempts to connect.A hard reset results in a screen of black and green vertical lines with 2 rectangular boxes near the top which look like text boxes, but with no text.I have download a rom update from HP, but of course it won't install without active sync connecting.Does anyone have any ideas how to save it? I have succesfully upgraded my xda2 a number of times (now ce 6.1) so I have a limited ability.
Thanks in advance
I got some more info from handhelds.org, if I press and hold joypad button then press reset, I get a picture of a parrot, this I think is bootloader mode? It seems if I get this far perhaps all is not lost, it appears this is not uncommon with this ipaq. Unfortunately the solution seems to be to connect to a pc with a serial cable to copy over needed files, but my cradle is only usb, and I'm reluctant to spend anymore on what could still be a lost cause.
Any ideas?
My phone only shows the the elephone 2 e sign when I turn it on. I have tried pressing the on and volume key when I turn it on but nothing happened. I have followed some instructions on the elephone manufacturer site about installing drivers to my computer and then trying to reinstall the firmware. Unfortunately my computers (I have tried on three different ones) does not identify that a device is connected to the computer. Therefore I can't proceed to install the driver as according to my computer it is not installed. I have tried 2 different leads as well. I would be grateful for some help as I have no idea where to go from here.
Facing a similar issue, and since there's still no reply to this thread, I would like to add up a few findings I have on this matter to maybe help others and get helped.
My P3000S is also reaching the Elephone logo and displays it for a minute and then restarts, repeating the process (aka boot-loop).
The same happens whether it is connected or not connected to the charger/computer through a USB cable. (I've tried new cables but that's not the case).
When disconnected I can stop the boot-loop only by holding down the on/off button for a few seconds (or removing the battery of course).
When connected to the the charger or computer through the USB cable I have no way to stop the boot-loop (holding down on/off just restarts it).
Now with the battery removed..:
If I connect it to the charger/computer, though the charging red light turns on normally, I can't turn on the phone using the on/off button.
However, when connected through USB to a windows computer, I can see in the device manager that, right when I connect the phone it shows up as "Mediatek Preloader USB VCOM Port" under COM ports group, for 1 second and then disappears as if it was disconnected. There's no repetition here I have to manually hold down the on/off button or disconnect and reconnect the phone from the cable to cause this to happen again.
So, I am unable to flash anything nor turn the phone on because I practically only have 1 second of its presence in my devices list.
Also, I have tried all possible combinations with the volume up/down keys and the on/off button in order to enter recovery mode, with no success..
In case anyone has faced something similar or has any ideas on a possible fix on this phone please feel free to reply.
At last a reply to my initial message. Unfortunately it was someone with the same problem as me. I took out a paypal case against the person I bought the phone from and eventually they repaired it. Unfortunately they never told me how. To make matters worse it broke again within 2 months. The phone is now sat in a draw doing nothing. I have given up on it and will never buy another Elephone phone again.
Hello,
i have a big problem with an Allview windows 10 tablet, during windows 10 reset i got a blue screen and my tablet got stuck into a boot loop restarting after windows logo appears. It didnt boot from windows usb stick that i made with rufus in multiple ways with different settings and when i was trying to get it boot from usb i accidentally disabled XHCI or EHCI from bios ,the attached keyboard does not respond, otg cable connected keyboard does not respond, touch not working.
Any solution will be greatly appreciated,
Thank you.
The only option I can suggest is to open it up, desodder the battery (as it's soldered to the motherboard). Wait for a couple of minutes (maybe even hours) and then solder the battery back in and see if the BIOS has been reset.
This may work similarly to taking out the CMOS battery and putting it back in.
I can provide you with this info as I've just stumbled upon your post having the same issue as you. I haven't yet tried this method as I don't have the tools required to desolder the battery right now but I'll post an update as soon as I can to let you know if it worked.
There's also a debug header available on the board but no resources online on how to use it.