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My "HOW TO" Big Storage, Splash, Error 120 & S

Hi all, and thanks for the great website.
I have spent hour's & hour's reading on the how to of Big Storage (and other things) and now it’s my turn to offer you my way of doing these wonderful modifications..
I have updated my document to reflect the changes I make to my Magician. The document describes my "How To" in modifying the following items;
Big Storage
Customize your Boot Screen
Fix the "Error 120" country error when changing ROM's
Fixing the "Speckles" in photos taken with the built in camera
Please let me know if you find anything in the document that is wrong, needs improving or what ever you feel relevant.
UPDATE
I have put together all of the CAB files I have made/modified in the one plus for easy reference which can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=33305
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Thx very much
You made my day ! Until now, I thought I had created a paperweight with my magician by trying in vain to make BigStorage.
Followed now exactly your tutorial and, Oh wonder ! I have BigStorage !
Cheers
hrb

I'm glad it helped.

Great step by step
This business of using 128mb SD card for the rom backup is it a problem to use a 256mb or 512mb card or must it be 128mb?

Great step by step
This business of using 128mb SD card for the rom backup is it a problem to use a 256mb or 512mb card or must it be 128mb?

jimmymac said:
Great step by step
This business of using 128mb SD card for the rom backup is it a problem to use a 256mb or 512mb card or must it be 128mb?
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Could be any supported SD-Card greater than 64MB .....
Stefan

amda..very nice...its very detailed...good work..
one thing which u could add to ur 'how to', is some advice given from
marcdbl, its about downloading the NEW ROM onto the Magician, to make sure to get the power press message....thanks to marcdbl for that because i was strugging to get the sd to work
1. Press the camera button, power button and reset button simultaneously to get into boot loader as usual, so that 'Serial' is displayed on the screen.
2. Insert SD card.
3. Again, press the camera button, power button and reset button simultaneously to get into boot loader, so that 'Serial' is displayed on the screen.
4. At this point you should get the Upgrade prompt.

good job +1

shouldn't someone just do the hack and upload it for those who got no SD card reader

sider said:
shouldn't someone just do the hack and upload it for those who got no SD card reader
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Thats been done and I have tested the theory find it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=29500
cabane77 said:
amda..very nice...its very detailed...good work..
one thing which u could add to ur 'how to', is some advice given from
marcdbl, its about downloading the NEW ROM onto the Magician, to make sure to get the power press message....thanks to marcdbl for that because i was strugging to get the sd to work
1. Press the camera button, power button and reset button simultaneously to get into boot loader as usual, so that 'Serial' is displayed on the screen.
2. Insert SD card.
3. Again, press the camera button, power button and reset button simultaneously to get into boot loader, so that 'Serial' is displayed on the screen.
4. At this point you should get the Upgrade prompt.
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Not a bad idea, I have had problems with the power button thing. I'll add it if it works. I'm upgrading my wifes Magician tonight so I'll give it a go. Thanks

i did it WITHOUT the sd card reader as well...works a charm

hi will it work wid mmc cards ,
Thanks

Hi all,
Just to let you know i have updated my document to cover other mod's to the Magician.
Thanks

WOW!! than a lot man..for tat info...

Hi all
Just receive my brand new T-Mobile MDA Compact, and i'm very happy. This forum help me a lot, remove simlock, add latest rom update 1.13 and radio 1.13, i'm super happy.
Thanks ampda, u are great i have use all ur docs on my mda, and i want give a little help to this forum to, so i upload my first custom splash screen, hope u will enjoy it:

gratest thx

This is that, what every user of magician should read at beginning. THX for that, you can also add how to remove simlock or set mp3 as ringtone, this could be useful for many people.

Another big storage succeeded..!!!!!
Now i'm beginning to get the hang of all this ROM thingy....and thanx to ampda for the detailed step by step.

Cannot find tools on specified place for splash image change
Could someone tell me where to find them now, please?

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scheruga said:
Could someone tell me where to find them now, please?
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Sorry about that, I have placed the tools on my site as per my "How To" pdf

Need Help Restoring Original ROM (from Backup)

Hi All, I am after advice on how to get my original ROM back.
I upgraded to MksBiGStorage, and following the instructions I backed up my original ROM first.
My original ROM is on my Hard Drive but I think because I used a 1Gb SD card to back it up with ntrw.exe, it is 1Gb in size.
I was hoping I could just use ntrw.exe and transfer my 1Gb backup ROM back to my SD card again using ntrw.exe and then hard reset my phone and it would see the ROM and install it - BUGGER, that doesnt seem to work.
Can anyone tell me how to get my backed up ROM back onto my phone? Or does anyone have the Original Orange UK SPV m500 ROM I could download and install?
Desperately want my original phone back - Please help guys, you are my only hope. (I Sound like Princess Leah asking Obi-Wan).

guess i'm Yoda then
Think you put the rom after your sd's mbr with ntrw. To solve this do the following steps:
- create a romdump of your current rom, you know how don't you?
- now copy your backup rom on the sd without formatting it.
romupdate has overwritten the sd's mbr and ntrw will happily write the backup.nb1 image at the start position of your sd.
Now your magician should be able to se the image.
Also you cashrink your backup image extremely. Open the mksbigstorager romimage in hexedit go to the last byte and get the address and bytes. Now open your backup, go to the same address and look for the same bitpattern as it is very recognizable this shouldn't give a problem.
Now delete all the bytes behind them & you're left with a handy 64Mb image
Good luck, M

I dont mean to sound ungreatful for your reply, but I have no idea what you mean.
I only have one backup of my old ROM, and that is the 1Gb file on my hard drive.
Can you give me a step by step procedure for restoring it?
If I understand correctly, you are saying to backup my (not wanted) mksbigstorage ROM again to SD (which will write the MBR to the SD.
Then, copy my original ROM back to the SD using ntrw, then try and insert my SD back into my device and it will work?
Is that right?

MaJiK said:
If I understand correctly, you are saying to backup my (not wanted) mksbigstorage ROM again to SD (which will write the MBR to the SD.
Then, copy my original ROM back to the SD using ntrw, then try and insert my SD back into my device and it will work?
Is that right?
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Yes that's right the rom-dump will overwrite/destroy the mbr. After that write the old 1Gb file on the same sd without formatting it, then it will work.
I'll post the steps to cut the 1Gb to 64Mb later as I need access to my PC for details on it. I did it myself as BS 1.13 on the ftp is my image and around 64Mb in size & mksbigstorager can do it too only that will do it with the BS patch & manually you get it without.
first thing is to get your old-rom on your device so start dumping ;-)
Regards, M

oltp, thanks for your help man. I am currently transferring my ROM to the SD.
Where abouts in NL are you from? I love NL - You guys rock
If ever I get the chance I will retire/emigrate in the Netherlands. Love it.

Just inserted card, and it says its trying to update the ROM.
MANY, MANY THANKS for taking the time to answer my questions.
I really appreciate it.... YODA!

You're welcome I'm just the messenger in this, someone else 'discovered' the mbr problem & posted it here.
Glad it works for you too.
Regarding the of the world I'm from the home of cannabis (Amsterdam) & live now near the city from 'a bridge to far' (Arnhem). Love it here too near the forests etc. Somehow the Dutch get a lot of bad credits lately in the news so it's nice to read that there are people liking Holland. So thank you & I guess you're device is ready for use by now.
Cheers, M

Absolutely spot on.
Once again, thanks for your help - I had almost given up.
I hope this helps others out aswell who need to revert back to the original ROM.
Regarding the 1Gb file, there are a couple of people in another thread of mine who obviously didnt back their ROM up and are asking for the original Orange UK ROM for download.
Is it safe to upload the ROM I have for them? I dont understand why its not downloadable anywhere on the net at the moment?
I will happily upload this ROM for others if its not going to cause licensing issues or invalidate my ROM at all.
I took a look at using the HexEdit program and think I know what I need to do, but selecting all the bytes after the address seems to take AGES! FOREVER.
Thanks again for your time oltp, I am well chuffed

Excuse me for my bad English, you better select to first 64Mb & save that part in a new file don't forget to include those footer bytes.
When you don't want people to get your device id, just replace those first 416bytes with a looping 'please put your own 416bytes here' or something simular. Must work don't you think?
I just uploaded mine as I hope, guess, belief they're not able or willing to backtrack me in the coming 18 months. Then my contract ends & I probably get a new 'phone'.
So pls upload your shrunken & zipped image you can pls a lot of others with it.
Cheers, M

Navigo v2 widescreen

I think I may have bricked my gps device ,well not really sure .
When I turn it on I get the first boot up screen with the gps logo and I can see the led flashing when I put an SD card in so it is looking at the contents of the SD card (shell.ini searching) but thats as far as it goes I deleted some names of old programs in the registry and there sub directories and I am wondering if this is the reason that it is hanging on boot up .
The question is would it show this screen at all if it was bricked or is it just faulty
It has been hacked to show windows gui. any ideas would be welcome
OS Wince 5

This should not be a difficult question for the members with experience of rom flashing to answer please help if you can.
thanks

Please help with ROM flashing [Asus P320]

I have an ASUS P320.
During flashing a Windows 6.5 ROM, it went bad and now I am not able to boot the phone or do anything.
I have tried 2-3 ROMs to re-flash by putting them in my SD card, but every time it says "Read SD busy !"
I also tried to re-flash it using original 4.10 ROM from official ASUS website but here is where I get stuck up:
BTLR 3.1
Init SD Control
IPL: Insert SD Card
Start SD Init
Get MBR success
start find images
can't find galaxymini-ond.raw !
find 850_GAX_SD.bin !
can't find FLASH.BIN !
can't find GSM.BIN !
can't find EXT_ROM.NB0 !
valid package percentage: 100
Read SD busy !
No GSMFFS
Total 3 images in package
FLASH.BIN in package !
GSM.BIN in package !
EXT_ROM.NB0 in package !
after all these msgs I waited for too long, but nothing happens. I repeated this many times, but it stucks after this and I am not able to write any new ROM anyhow on my phone.
I am really really in big trouble as this is my only phone and I am really depressed. Plz can anyone just help me with how to proceed to write a new or any old ROM on my phone? I will be really thankful

Seriously noone has any clue or willing to help?

you will have to split the original rom !!! using this tool
then keep all split files in the root of memory card !!
plz tell me if it works

abhijeetcool said:
you will have to split the original rom !!! using this tool
then keep all split files in the root of memory card !!
plz tell me if it works
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Thanks so much for the reply.
But how to use this tool? I am confused?
I kept the 850_GAX_SD_Enc ROM in the same folder as this tool and then run Split P320 ROM.exe
But P320binDEC.exe shows application error. I am running this under Windows XP. Please help me.

Ok I installed .Net Framework 2.0 and everything worked and the files were extracted.
Then I had put all files in root of SD card.
It shows:
BTLR 3.1
Init SD Control
IPL: Insert SD Card
Start SD Init
Get MBR success
start find images
can't find galaxymini-ond.raw !
find 850_GAX_SD.bin !
find FLASH.BIN !
find GSM.BIN !
find EXT_ROM.NB0 !
valid package percentage: 99
Read SD busy !
No GSMFFS
Total 3 images in package
FLASH.BIN in package !
GSM.BIN in package !
EXT_ROM.NB0 in package !
and it stops again. Nothing happens :| What should I do?

abhijeetcool said:
you will have to split the original rom !!! using this tool
then keep all split files in the root of memory card !!
plz tell me if it works
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thanks dear,
it is working fine.

what about Get MBR fail
Init SD download Fail! ???

abhijeetcool said:
you will have to split the original rom !!! using this tool
then keep all split files in the root of memory card !!
plz tell me if it works
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thanks split the original rom & copied to root of memory card.
it installed everything then restarted & hangs with white screen
any solution please

i have used rom
P320_V4_15_0_V4_10_V1_11_0_WWE

abhijeetcool said:
you will have to split the original rom !!! using this tool
then keep all split files in the root of memory card !!
plz tell me if it works
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Thanks a trillion. This tool injected life into my P320. It had been dead for the past 2-3 months. You are a savior.

sidramobilecare said:
thanks split the original rom & copied to root of memory card.
it installed everything then restarted & hangs with white screen
any solution please
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I had the prob same as u.
What I did was installed 4.15 WWE than tried to upgrade to WM6.5 from 4.10ZHH WM6.1, and the errors came out.
I even had the paragraph saying
"This concludes the beta test of this
software release. Thank you very much for
your time and effort in helping make this a
great product for our customers.
To obtain a newer release or futher
information,please revisit the web site that
you used to obtain your current beta
release."--------then it got stuck and the only buttons that worked were the volume and reset buttons. And I thought its done that all I could do was to sell it.
But then I split the 850_GAX_SD_Enc.bin(which was from a different language 4.15 zip,referring above), the following came up:
850_gax_sd.bin
GSM.BIN
FLASH.BIN
EXT_ROM.NB0
and others, but I only copy these 4 into SD card cause they were the things that stated "can'"t find"' and I couldnt find galaxymini-ond and GSM.RAM.....and yes I did put 850_gax_sd.bin in instead of the capital one(accidentally!!!cus i thought they were the same, but apparently not...ANYWAY I DID!)
then i inserted the card, flash reset(volume down + reset) it,
it took quite a while to install(abt 10-15 mins)
like u said a pure white screen occurred and it frozen.
then I press the switch on button on top and restart the device...
the old version came up again with 4.15ZHH and WM 6.1 (green) and everything got back to default just like the very first day I bought it.
this is all i did, i think the different between us was that i used a different language of 4.15 and the 850_gax_sd.bin..... not very sure on yours but it worked on mine somehow... I'm not an expert on computer and programmes stuff, and i really cant tell if errors are still left in the device after what i did, so beware of this prob if you follow.

M8S (mbx n200c)

hello guys .. Yesterday I received the box from Amazon m8s mbx n200c.
the OS is 4.4.2 but I would do the root and install a recovery ... is there anyone who can help me?

fabiano992 said:
hello guys .. Yesterday I received the box from Amazon m8s mbx n200c.
the OS is 4.4.2 but I would do the root and install a recovery ... is there anyone who can help me?
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Depending on which M8S you have, you should be able to find a working TWRP recovery here: freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/16228-twrp-for-amlogic-devices - ( add the http ). There is also another TWRP recovery for a OTT S812 2G/8G M8 clone on post 900 that worked with my S812 machine. Chances are your machine is already rooted. You can confirm that by going to the Google Play Store and downloading "Root Checker" by JoeyKrim. Run that and it will tell you if your box is rooted.
I assume you're familiar with TWRP recovery? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWRP
For recovery, download what you think is the correct TWRP file, rename it to "recovery.img" and place it on a SD card that's formatted with FAT32. Then insert the SD card into your M8S. Unplug the power to your box. Stick a toothpick into the round AV jack in back and you'll feel it depress a small switch. Then plug in the power and hold the toothpick in there for about 10 seconds. If you find the right TWRP file, you'll see the blue TWRP window come up in 10-15 seconds. To find the right one, you may have to download each and every one you find and test each one following the procedure above until you find the one that works.
Once you find a recovery that works, you can then backup your system onto your external SD card. Make sure it's at least 4GB in size - 8 is better, and it has to be formatted with Fat32.
Lots of good info here: mbox.co.za/forum/index.php & freaktab.com ( add the http )