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please help with gold card. any thoughts are appreciated.

Is anyone else having problems getting their gold card set up?
I have a class 4 4gb Kingston SD card, which I purchased specifically for this, that I've set up a gold card on SEVERAL times that is not working.
Every time I fast boot on my MyTouch it checks the .img file, then I get an error:
"Model ID incorrect!
Update Fail!"
I know for a fact that my model ID is correct as I pulled it from adb, copied and pasted, and I've followed these instructions to the letter including using the hex editor. I do run windows 7, and I did run the hexed program as admin.
I've also verified that the gold card is functioning by testing its ability to be written to.
Does anyone have any suggestions?? If this is not the place to post, please let me know and I apologize in advance as I haven't been able to find any one else with similar issues.
Feel free to get at me on gtalk:
[email protected]

just because you can write to it doesnt mean its working properly, go over the gold card instructs again and make sure you completed all the steps, from here it sounds like you did something wrong somewhere between step 6-10.

mr_black03 said:
just because you can write to it doesnt mean its working properly, go over the gold card instructs again and make sure you completed all the steps, from here it sounds like you did something wrong somewhere between step 6-10.
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I am 100% positive I have not followed these steps incorrectly. I do exactly as they say.
My Steps:
1. Get CID. I do so using ADB. This is an incredibly easy task.
2. Format SD card.
See shot 1.
3. Reverse the CID using the Qmat script you actually wrote here:
http://www.andyappz.com/cid.html
This gives me the reversed CID plus the replacement of the first two characters with "00". Easy as well.
See shot 2.
4. Submit to gold card generation site here:
Then download to my downloads folder and place on my desktop.
See shot 3.
5. Use hexed run as administrator(as I run Windows 7 currently) to replace lines 0-17 in the hex ed program.
See shots 4, 5, and 6.
6. Place sappimg.zip on gold card after ensuring the gold card (seems to be working fine and) is recognized properly.
See shot 7.
After that its on to attempting to flash img zip file in fast boot on the phone. Which fails with the error message shown in my first post.
Any suggestions at all...please?

nothing. wow. well, thanks for all the help everyone. really appreciate it.
i got it figured out. anyone else who's having issues feel free to message me on gtalk([email protected]) as i'm actually more than happy to help someone in need.

Couple things you might have gotten wrong. I got that error a couple times.
reformat your sd card and reget cid id. but this time get it through terminal instead of adb.
then triple check your cid id. make sure when your reverse it, you replace the 1st 2 numbers with 00.
when your in hex editor, make sure you edit>paste write instead of ctrl+p, when your copying the goldcard img into the sdcard. You'll know when your doing this part right when you paste write and a pop up comes up.
if you do al of this, you should be set.

im in the same boat... and have followed EVERY DIRECTION

fadedmicrobe said:
Couple things you might have gotten wrong. I got that error a couple times.
reformat your sd card and reget cid id. but this time get it through terminal instead of adb.
then triple check your cid id. make sure when your reverse it, you replace the 1st 2 numbers with 00.
when your in hex editor, make sure you edit>paste write instead of ctrl+p, when your copying the goldcard img into the sdcard. You'll know when your doing this part right when you paste write and a pop up comes up.
if you do al of this, you should be set.
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i'm all set and have rooted my mytouch. thanks for the input though.

CORRECT instructions for making a gold card and some tips. :D

UPDATE:
If you are still using this method for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD USE THE NEW ONE CLICK ROOT METHOD. It will save you a very...very large amount of time compared to this process. More information can be found here:
http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2009/08/16/android-rooting-in-1-click-in-progress/
Read the whole page please it has very important information on it.
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ORIGINAL POST:
"I've noticed that the tutorial for making a gold card is not as intuitive as it should be. A lot of people are having issues making a gold card for a few simple reasons:
1. You need to have the SD card that you want to make in to a gold card in your phone when you get your CID. You need the serial number off of the SD card you're making in to the gold card, and not the ID of your phone it self.
2. Make sure you are following the hexED modification directions correctly. If you run Windows 7 or Windows Vista, be sure to Right click on the program before opening it and select "Run as administrator..."
3. You can use this site to replace steps 6 through 9 of this process thanks to mr_black03:
mr_black03 said:
Ok well here is my site --> http://www.andyappz.com/cid.html
It replaces Steps 6-9 in Gold Card Instuctions Hope this helps some ppl...enjoy!
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4. When using the hexED program make sure you are copying ALL the gold card data, then placing your cursor at the front of the first line(0000000) and click on Edit > Paste Write. Then save. This should replace lines 00000 to 00170 with the data from the gold card.
Here are the directions again for everyone(ease and comfort):
1. Download QMAT http://revskills.de/pages/download.html
It’s a demo version so will only can open for 10 minutes.
2. Format your memory card to fat32. Please keep in mind some card does not work.
3. Search in your android market for ‘Terminal Emulator’
4. type ‘ cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid ‘ without the quote sign.
5. Note that code down on a notepad or something. Make sure everything is noted correctly.
6) Go to QMAT site http://revskills.de/pages/download.html, download QMAT 4.36
7) Extract the file, double click on qmat.exe
8 ) Click on Cyptoanalysis Tools > Crypto Toolbox
9) Look way below, there is a text box (beside “Reverse String” button. Key in the cid number you’ve got earlier
Click on the “Reverse String” button, the result is reversed…
Example: 532600bd227d9c0347329407514d5402
10) Copy the reversed cid
11) Go to QMAT again http://revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html to generate your goldcard (this is free for G1 phone, Thanks to Viper!)
12) Enter your email. For the CID, enter the reversed cid you’ve got earlier. However you need to replace the first 2 characters to 00.
Example: From “532600bd227d9c0347329407514d5402” to “002600bd227d9c0347329407514d5402”
13) click Continue and you will receive the goldcard.img via your email.
14) Go to your email, download the goldcard.img and save it to a directory first.
15) Now, download HxD Hex Editor for this site
http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Edi...=uo&tag=button
16) Install and launch HxD Hex Editor program
17) Go to Extra tab > Open Disk. Under Physical disk, select Removable Disk (Must be your SD card), uncheck “Open as Readonly), click OK.
18) Go to Extra again, Open Disk Image, open up goldcard.img which you’ve saved to a directory earlier.
Now, you should have two tabs, one is your removable disk, the other is goldcard.img. Press OK when prompted for “Sector Size” 512 (Hard disks/Floppy disks), click OK.
19) Click on goldcard.img tab. Go to Edit tab > Select All, edit tab again > copy.
20) Click on the “removable disk” tab. Select offset 00000000 till offset 00000170, click on Edit tab and then Paste Write.
21) Click on File > Save. You may exit this program
Now, do a test to see if your SD card is “compatible”
Disconnect the USB cable connected to your SD card, then plug it back again. Go to My Computer, you will see your SD card (E.g. “Removable Disk ( F” ), double click and see if you can access it. If it prompted you to format, then forget about this SD card, don’t think it will work. After trying for days, I ended up buying a Kingston 2GB card.
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I have a MyTouch 3g rooted, running Cyanogens 4.1.11.1 rom. Any questions let me know as I know the process practically by heart now.
gtalk: [email protected]"

Big thanks to Geahboi for fixing my hours of frustration making the damn gold card. KUDOS!

Can I suggest that this be added to the wiki - then it will last longer than this post will. Ideally you would create a new wiki page with all the instructions, then anyone else can update them and improve them if they see corrections or simplifications.
See: XDADeveloperWiki - HTC_Sapphire_Hacking
Please help me keep our wiki up to date - I can't do it alone (and I know nothing about any of this as I did not need to create a gold card to root my phone)

Also add how to do the gold card with Linux?
I followed these basic instructions that I found on this originally here to make this work with ubuntu jaunty 9.04 linux:
download QMAT from the site above and either install wine packages or get the codeweaver wine package or use the website above to get the correct reversed numbers after adding zeros up front as it instructs.
visit the website to get the goldcard.img sent to you and save the goldcard.img file on your system
after getting the CID from the same card, I use a cheap USB card reader and not the phone to do the creation.
insert the card reader and create a fat file system. if your system auto mounts the disk, you need to unmount it but leave it plugged in and accessible. Now make a file system by doing sudo fstab /dev/sd? where the question mark is the disk drive that linux gave it. You can easily find it by doing a dmesg in the same terminal and look for the card information at the very bottom. Now create a file system using all the disk space on the card and change its type to vfat. Make sure you do this part!
Now format the card you just created by using the command "sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1" as an example. This creates the vfat file system you need.
DD the goldcard.img to the card by doing "dd if=goldcard.img of=/dev/sd? where the ? is the drive designation linux gives it.
copy the sappimg.zip to the drive after formatting and dd'ing the image. very important and forgot this one when initially compiling this. sorry.
now remove it and test to see if linux will mount it as a vfat disk. If not, the card is most likely not suitable and you need another one or you did a step wrong. You can either mount it manually or let linux attempt to automount it. I don't like automounting so I turn it off.
place the card in the phone and go on with the steps.
I followed these steps twice and the only place that got me was with the actual card itself making a stupid mistake of using a different card for the CID and to make the goldcard.
If you see an error its operator derived and all mine. Just important I think to have a variety of the howto for folks on Linux only.

sorry but what's gold card ? ..

neymo said:
sorry but what's gold card ? ..
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not sure of the exact definition, but essentially its an sd card specifically set up to be used on a cell phone for rooting purposes. the SD cards serial ID as recognized by the phone gets bound to it manually(per the instructions above) and allows the user to get past certain security practices on the phone which would other wise restrict your access to flash image files which is what you need to do in order to root your phone.
any one with more knowledge than myself care to elaborate?
p.s. before mods say it, these types of questions should go in the general section.

i type in the line to get the cid, but i never get the code. what am I doing wrong?

tazz9690 said:
i type in the line to get the cid, but i never get the code. what am I doing wrong?
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try doing this from your computer using adb. (you might have to research a bit to get adb set up on your pc as i will not go over it here)
otherwise, if you're lazy and like me...
1. Download Astro File Manager from the Market.
2. Open up Astro, and browse to /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1
NOTE: Press the green UP arrow in Astro to get back to the main (/) directory.
3. There will be another mmc1 folder with a colin and about 4 numbers in the directory name. Mines like this:
"mmc1:b368"
Open that folder.
4. LONG press on the "cid" file in this directory and click on "Open As".
5. Select "Text" from the list that pops up.
6. If you get a pop up for what program you want to use to view the file you can either use a text editor you have already installed, or the HTML viewer works too.
7. Enjoy.
Let me know if you have questions.

One other HUGE thing that messed me up. You need the sim card in the phone to get the correct cid #. With one phone i had 3 different cid #'s and was like what the hell?! I have done this with the wing many times. But i for got that you need the sim card. So please please keep that bad boy in there. I usually have a back up phone and use that while rooting or anything. Also i believe ADB is so much more accurate and easier to copy the numbers to be sure. In terminal after you have the cid go to file(for windows xp) select all, then while all is selected put the cursor over the very last number of the cid and drag to the first, then go to file again and select copy. If you have vista or win7 instead of going to file just right click at the top bar on the window to get menu options. fosho. . . .

Thank you ^_^

I keep getting "Error – Wrong Model ID". I have tried recreating the goldcard several times. I have a kingston 2gb SD card. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
*nvm, I figured out the problem I think... after checking in the mmc1 folder for the cid instead of using the adb i found that i messed up on of the numbers in there so all is good i think

Creating a GoldCard

I know this documentation exist in several other forms. Just to make it easier for the nob like me here are the instructions.
DISCLAIMER: This guide and package are provided as-is. I do not accept any responsibility for damage caused by following the guide or using the programs.
Requirements :-
Spare microSD card
Windows PC (recommended)
ADB (part of the tools folder of the SDK, available for download here
HxD Hex Editor, available for download here
Creating a Gold Card Option 1:-
Step by step instructions
Install GoldCard Helper from the Android Market,
Run it and make note of the value listed after Card:mmc2, Reverse CID. It should be a long series of numbers and letters. (make sure to use mmc2, the default copy to clipboard copies mmc1 ..)
Visit this page enter the new copied number and create your goldcard image, which will be e-mailed to you.
Save the file attached in the email to your PC.
Install HxD Hex Editor on your computer, from the "Step 4 - Gold Card" folder.
Run HxD Hex Editor. ("Run as Administrator" under Vista and Windows 7).
Go to the Extra menu and select Open Disk. Under physical disk, select Removable Disk (your microSD card), uncheck Open as Read only and click OK. Note that you should select physical disk NOT the logical disk. This is important!
Go to the Extra menu again and select Open Disk Image. Open the goldcard image that you received by email.
Press OK when prompted for Sector Size (selecting 512 (Hard disks/Floppy disks)) and click OK.
You should now have two tabs - one is your removable disk, the other is your goldcard image.
Click on the goldcard image tab. Go to the Edit menu, choose Select All then select the Edit menu again and select Copy.
Click on the Removable Disk tab. Highlight offset (line) 00000000 to offset (line) 00000170 (including the 00000170 line), then click on the Edit menu and select Paste Write.
Click on the File menu and select Save, accepting the warning.
Creating a Gold Card Option 2:-
Step by step instructions
Format the microSD card to FAT32 format.
Put the microSD card in your device and boot it.
Ensure you have unzipped the SDK, then open a command prompt to the extract location. Change to the 'tools directory.
Enter 'adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid' and press enter. You should get a very long number which looks like this: 532600bd227d9c0347329407514d5402.
Visit this page, paste in your number and reverse it. In our example the result would be 00544d5107943247039c7d22bd002653.
Visit this page, enter your reversed number and create your goldcard image, which will be e-mailed to you.
Open the HxD hex editor. If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you must run the application as administrator.
Go to the 'Extra' menu and select 'Open Disk'. Under physical disk, select Removable Disk (your microSD card), uncheck 'Open as Readonly' and click OK. Note that you should select physical disk NOT the logical disk. This is important!
Go to the 'Extra' menu again and select 'Open Disk Image'. Open the goldcard image that you received by email.
You should now have two tabs - one is your removable disk, the other is your goldcard image. Press OK when prompted for 'Sector Size' (selecting 512 (Hard disks/Floppy disks)) and click OK.
Click on the goldcard image tab. Go to the 'Edit' menu, choose 'Select All' then select the 'Edit' menu again and select 'Copy'.
Click on the 'Removable Disk' tab. Highlight offset (line) 00000000 to offset (line) 00000170 (including the 00000170 line), then click on the 'Edit' menu and select 'Paste Write'.
Click on the 'File' menu and select 'Save', accepting the warning.
You now have a goldcard!
Thanks to MiSSigNNo!
Thanks to Paul O'brien
Once you are done creating the Gold Card Please look at the following Post called HTC Inspire Hack Kit on rooting your phone.

just wondering, i've been a mac user for awhile now, and all that i really have at my disposal is an XP machine. will that work, or do I need Vista/7?

trevxor said:
just wondering, i've been a mac user for awhile now, and all that i really have at my disposal is an XP machine. will that work, or do I need Vista/7?
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It does work on Windows XP.

Cool. Should be getting my inspire sometime this week or the weekend. Will definitely try this.

Thanks, now I can have some fun!

Alternative method?
I might have found an alternative method...havent been home to root the phone (my job locks the computers down, so i can only do so much right now). i backed up all my stuff, formatted my sd card, downloaded goldcard helper from the market, got the reverse number for mmc2 and entered it into http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard and recieved the email with the goldcard.img. I then downloaded GoldCardTool to my PC (http://android.modaco.com/content/software/308798/pc-application-goldcardtool/) and clicked load goldcard.img and clicked patch mmc. it said success and my sd card booted fine. Did it work? is it a gold card? lol

morganblackstone said:
I might have found an alternative method...havent been home to root the phone (my job locks the computers down, so i can only do so much right now). i backed up all my stuff, formatted my sd card, downloaded goldcard helper from the market, got the reverse number for mmc2 and entered it into http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard and recieved the email with the goldcard.img. I then downloaded GoldCardTool to my PC (http://android.modaco.com/content/software/308798/pc-application-goldcardtool/) and clicked load goldcard.img and clicked patch mmc. it said success and my sd card booted fine. Did it work? is it a gold card? lol
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morganblackstone,
Thank you for the alternate method. I will update the post once confirm if the gold card worked or not.BTW making a gold card is the first step of rooting until a one click root is available for Inspire. Good Luck.

great! hope i can contribute any way i can... i will post up tomorrow if it worked or not if no one else tries it...tomorrow is my day off so its rooting time lol thanks again! p.s. im coming from a captivate so any way i can find that is easier than the posted method, thats the shortcut im taking!

trevxor said:
Cool. Should be getting my inspire sometime this week or the weekend. Will definitely try this.
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there might be a one click by then. lol

hitekdude said:
there might be a one click by then. lol
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haha. i can only hope. the only other phone i've rooted is the nexus one. it was super simple, it's like google practically shipped it rooted.

Time to give this a shot!
Sent from my Inspire 4G or Desire HD or whatever this thing is called via XDA app.

Successful gold card but not sure what's next
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

shannoncole05 said:
Successful gold card but not sure what's next
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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You will need the gold card if and when you decide to root your phone using the Inspire Hack Kit sticky thread.

Bit of an issue. I got the email with the goldcard. Downloaded it and tried to unzip it and got this message :Error: WINZIP only supports IMG files that are in the ISO format" Any guidance on what I should do now?

mrro82 said:
Bit of an issue. I got the email with the goldcard. Downloaded it and tried to unzip it and got this message :Error: WINZIP only supports IMG files that are in the ISO format" Any guidance on what I should do now?
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Try 7zip
Inspire (rooted)
Leedroid v2.0.0
Telus w/r34p3rex audio fix(improved sound not 100%)
AOSP Lockscreen/Black not. bar

davwman said:
Try 7zip
Inspire (rooted)
Leedroid v2.0.0
Telus w/r34p3rex audio fix(improved sound not 100%)
AOSP Lockscreen/Black not. bar
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As a side. Does your speakerphone work with the latest fix?
Sent from my Inspire 4G or Desire HD or whatever this thing is called via XDA app.

davwman said:
Try 7zip
Inspire (rooted)
Leedroid v2.0.0
Telus w/r34p3rex audio fix(improved sound not 100%)
AOSP Lockscreen/Black not. bar
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7zip says it can't open it as an archive.

Anyone else know what I can do? I still can't get this thing open.

mrro82 said:
Anyone else know what I can do? I still can't get this thing open.
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Download HxD Hex Editor-http://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD as stated in my initial post. Then you will be able to open the .img file.

Got it to work. I'm new to all this. Thanks for helping me. I'm so used to a zip file opening like it should. When I click it.

[Q] HP rx1950 English ROM

first to post here
as i saw that HP rx1950 has got a Windows Mobile 6.1 Custom ROM..
but my device doesn't have the same language as the custom ROM pack, so i can't update it...
i've searched through the forum and the internet... there had been some ROMs posted,, but the links were dead already
anyone who still have this device, hope u can kindly extract the Stock WM5 English ROM for me
thanks a lot for your help, and sorry for my poor english..
martin

Just upgrade you phone, language of your current ROM doesn't make a difference .

Here is a kitchen ROM of WM 6.1 Classic for rx1950 from xda members Victory144 and Guifort.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nna2yo92q2beiik/Flasher_Hp_Ipaq_rx1950_ENG_WM6.1.rar
I agree with tomcug. It should flash your ROM to WM 6.1 regardless of the language. You need to use it on a Windows XP computer with ActiveSync installed though...
Here is the original thread for more help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=510764

RumoredNow said:
Here is a kitchen ROM of WM 6.1 Classic for rx1950 from xda members Victory144 and Guifort.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nna2yo92q2beiik/Flasher_Hp_Ipaq_rx1950_ENG_WM6.1.rar
I agree with tomcug. It should flash your ROM to WM 6.1 regardless of the language. You need to use it on a Windows XP computer with ActiveSync installed though...
Here is the original thread for more help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=510764
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I've read the post.. there're two methods to flash the WM6.1 ROM, by SD or through USB.. but i failed with a message "Wrong Image" after cloning the image to SD card, and the lauguage problem while flashing through USB with stock update utility (that maybe some lock by HP on language. mine is Chinese Traditional, but the update image is English..)
therefore, that'll be fine if the English Stock ROM is available.. btw, is there any program to flash that bypass the lock??
or how to change the language option of the ROM generated by kitchen?
i am not very familiar to configure the kitchen
thank you for your help

Here is a very technical discussion of 2 methods for installing different language ROMs.
http://www.tweaks2k2.com/How_to/39xxROMlang.htm
You will need a HexEditor:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6r8ffn1fq3bh9mu/uedit32.exe
And a mtty program:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7srppxvnr728ime/mtty11a.exe
BUT - at the end of method two when the author says - At the terminal screen type "lnb nk.nb0" at the USB prompt. (That means: Load the ROM nk.nb0)
INSTEAD - use the command "l nk.nb0"
That may be a typo - or the difference in mtty versions used by myself and the author...

thank you for your suggestion, i see that the ROM file structure of 3950 is a bit similar to rx1950, so i will try to change that
i've got the kitchen and the whole system downloaded from the site u suggested, but i just can't figure out how to change the language code of the output file while building the ROM , so that i can fool the ROM Update Utility and flash the ROM to my PDA..
wt's Build_XIP?
do u hv any suggestions? thx again
martin

Build_XIP... I think that is something for a different device. confused
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The following is based on research and guesswork. I make NO CLAIM that it will work and not damage your device... TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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If my experiments with mtty and my reading of the How to install a different language tutorial are correct, all you need is:
mtty11a.exe to send commands to your iPAQ.
The English WM 6.1 ROM Image (CEOS.nbf) you want to upgrade to.
And Uedit32 to edit the ROM.
Put all 3 files in the same folder. It will be easiest to create a new folder on desktop with whatever name you like.
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This is for a Windows XP computer. That is what you have, yes?
First be sure to BACKUP your iPAQ and put all files in a safe place on your PC.
Next - remove the battery and any SD cards from the rx1950. Wait at least 10 minutes for the internal battery to discharge so that the iPAQ is cleared of all memory except the ROM you want to overwrite.
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Now we want to save the Chinese ROM you have so we can restore it if anything goes wrong. Best to be safe, yes?
Do you have a spare SD card at least 256mb? If not, use the one you normally have in rx1950... See why we saved all your files first?
Kill ActiveSync by opening Task Manager>Processes. Look on the list for wcesmgr.exe and wcescomm.exe. Highlight each one and click on End Process. With ActiveSync killed you can now "talk" to iPAQ with mtty.
DO NOT PUT IN THE BATTERY. Attach the iPAQ to the PC with the USB cable AND the AC Power Cord. Turn the iPAQ on and manually enter Bootloader Mode. (Google tells me for rx1950 you - press following buttons simultanously
Contacts + Mail + Reset for as long as your PDA boots)
Insert the SD card where you want to save the Chinese WM 5 ROM.
Go to the folder where you saved the 3 files you need and double click mtty11a.exe. That opens a box called "Open port setting." Scroll down the list in "Port" and look for \\\WCEUSBSH001. That is the port you want. I noticed that the end number (001) changes with each use of mtty. Never mind the number so much, \\\WCEUSBSH00x is what you want - that is your iPAQ. Select that port and click on the "OK" button.
It should open a command terminal (white window). Press enter until USB> appears in the window. I only needed to press enter once, but some tutorials say keep pressing until it appears. (?)
At the USB> prompt type r2SD and press enter. This will have mtty command your iPAQ to dump your ROM image onto the SD Card as RAW DATA. Wait for the progress bars on iPAQ screen to finish and you get a completed message.
Save this SD card in a safe place. This is your Recovery Image to restore the iPAQ back to the ROM you started with. The card is not formatted in a way that you can open and read with Windows XP so do not try putting it in a card reader right now - XP will want to format it and we don't want that to happen.
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If you need to recover your iPAQ at any point...
Unplug the iPAQ from PC and AC power cords. Remove battery and SD card. Wait 10 minutes to reset memory.
Insert SD card with Recovery Image. Plug in the AC power cord. Turn on iPAQ. Enter Bootloader Mode. iPAQ will see the Image on the SD card and offer you the option to Flash your ROM or exit. Pick the option to flash your ROM.
The iPAQ will Hard Reset after it flashes and then you can remove the SD card with the Recovery Image and do a Restore from the files you saved on PC and/or your regular SD card and the Backup we did at the beginning of this experiment.
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Now that we are safe, we can start to try and change the English WM 6.1 ROM so you can flash it to your iPAQ.
I read the "How to install a different language" tutorial quite a few times. Here are my calculations for what we need:
Original checksum
minus HexSum of ENG (45+4E+47 = DA)
equals change value
or
ECEC
-DA
= EC12
HexSum of CHT (43+48+54 = DF)
plus change value
equals new checksum
or
DF
+ EC12
= ECF1
Then that means we change ENG (code for English) to CHT (code for Chinese Traditional) and also change the Checksum from ECEC to ECF1 and we can get the ENG ROM to load on your CHT rx1950.
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Now you need to edit the ROM. Go to the folder where you saved the 3 files you need and double click uedit32.exe to open the Hex Editor. Click on "File>Open" and navigate to the folder where you put your files. Select CEOS.nbf and Uedit will open it.
10 lines down (line 00000090h) the file says "..........ENG.hp"
Next line 000000a0h says "iPAQ rx1950...."
This may or may not be the place to change - But I believe it is the right spot to tell any updater program what iPAQ version to update...
Scroll down to line 00000ea0h where it says "..........ECEC^a"
Next line 00000eb0h says ".e^a..........."
I believe that is the ROM Checksum and then an order to verify the checksum from iPAQ...
Scrolling down farther to line 00001ec0h it says " iPAQ rx1950..6."
Next line 00001ed0h says "00.00 ENG......."
I believe this tells any updater program what version is being flashed. But it may need to be changed...
So my best guess is:
At the first spot ENG is listed (line 00000090h) you need to edit ENG to CHT
At line 00000ea0h you need to edit ECEC to ECF1
Make these changes with Uedit32 and then click "File>Save as" and label the file "Test.nbf" saving it to the folder we have been using. (Note that mtty and any files you want to flash MUST be in the same directory.)
In Uedit32 click on "File>Close All Files" and exit Uedit32. Now you have 2 versions of the ROM in your folder...
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mtty still open and iPAQ connected?
If not - connect iPAQ as above (no battery or SD card, wait ten minutes, connect with USB and AC power, put rx1950 into Bootloader Mode). Open mtty. Navigate to your port and get a USB> prompt.
At USB> type in "l Test.nbf" (no quotes) and it should try to flash the edited ROM to rx1950.
If it was edited wrong you will get an error message something like "Header request time out."
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If it doesn't work that way it shouldn't affect your iPAQ and a Hard Reset should be all you need to restore your system. If that fails we have the SD card Restore Image we made earlier.
Delete the Test.nbf file from the folder and try editing CEOS.nbf again.
Try changing the Checksum and the second time ENG is listed:
At line 00000ea0h you need to edit ECEC to ECF1
At line 00001ed0h you need to edit ENG to CHT
Save as Test.nbf and have mtty "l Test.nbf" again
If it fails, delete Test.nbf
The last try would be by editing the Checksum and both times ENG is listed:
At line 00000090h you need to edit ENG to CHT
At line 00000ea0h you need to edit ECEC to ECF1
At line 00001ed0h you need to edit ENG to CHT
Save as Test.nbf and have mtty "l Test.nbf" again
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I hope one of these works for you. Please let us know what happens.
Thanks.

thanks for your suggestions very much!!
but i get the File CRC checksum error when using the stock update utility,
and through mtty.exe, it shows "Header Request Time out" also, in both i changed the first mentioned "ENG" to "CHT", second time and both times ...
all failed
would there any way to flash it through SD (by creating a suitable .nb0 file?) ?

hurray!!!!
i've cheated the HP ROM Update Utility (RUU) to accept to update an English ROM to a Chinese machine !!!
i use WinHex to replace the ENG with CHT, CHT with ENG,, and it's OK now!!!!
anyway, thank you very very very much for your sincere help!!!!!!!!!
Really marvellous!!!

HUZZAH and Congratulations martinhy!!!!!
I'm glad you got it to work.
I was at the keyboard for about 4 hours playing with the files last night and was afraid that my guess was wrong (as it turns out it was). So I'm really surprised and pleased that you solved it.
You just edited the RUU??? All other files in the kitchen folder stay the same???
Cause I need to cheat it and make it change from rx1950 to rx3115... I'll be trying your method soon.

it's troublesome to change ,, or i can say, cheat, the ROM file (.nbf) itself, coz it has checksum .. and the algorithm may be difficult to guess, and changing with different versions of iPAQ,
but the RUU itself doesn't have the integrity check, so it's cheatable
anyway, thx for your effort to help me

i can't be sure whether your guess is wrong, coz when i download the stock ROM, i.e. "l CEOS.nbf" to the iPAQ, through mtty, i also says "header request timed out"..
so i can't be sure whether there's problem for the way to edit the ROM, or the iPAQ doesn't support such mtty method...
or........
. becoz i'm a newbie, maybe i've got something wrong though...

*sigh*
When I try to change the RUU from rx1950 to rx3115 and run the rx1950 upgrade kitchen I get the CRC error...
When I try to change the .nbf and put it in with a rx3115 update package I get 244 Error (model ID)...
When I pull on my hair it comes out in big chunks...
I think I need a lot more study and a new toolkit...

that's maybe quite a challenge to flash ROMs from other models rather than language... both models are not compatible

martinhy said:
hurray!!!!
i've cheated the HP ROM Update Utility (RUU) to accept to update an English ROM to a Chinese machine !!!
i use WinHex to replace the ENG with CHT, CHT with ENG,, and it's OK now!!!!
anyway, thank you very very very much for your sincere help!!!!!!!!!
Really marvellous!!!
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can you help me do that ? thanks

HOW TO CHANGE imei FOR max OR spice mtkPHONES

Dear Reader,
I am getting questions about how to change IMEI and IMEI is invalid how to correct it.
Open ES explorer / Root explorer or any other tool and make your phone system to accept read and write. Norrnaly I use Android Root Tool kid. Open the tool kid and go to Remount option and in that make the System ----> read / write and (rootfs) read/ write. Also try to save your root.
I thought of using the reply channel to give the simple tutorial here.
1. Remove your battery and look at the scribes there. You will notice IMEI numbers there.
2. Just write down these numbers in a sheet. or store it in your system desktop.
3. You should have rooted phone.
4. Goto play store and install Mobileuncle MTK tool.
5. Open the mobile uncle tool and scroll to Engineering mode and click it.
6. Go to MTK section and click it.
7. You find Engineering mode pop up at the top and below it you notice the row with different section.
8. In that section you just slide and tap the connectivity section.
9. In the connectivity at the column below you touch CDS information
10.In the pop uo you tocuh the Radio information and you will get pbone 1 and below that phone 2.
11. Now you touch phone 1 and in the popup you touch the AT+
12. Once you touch the Key board will pop up. In the key board you type any single letter and cancel only the letter you have type.
13. Immediately you can notice the scribes that is required for you It looks like AT+EGMR=1,7""
14. you touch the first row and after 7 you can notice the simple "" and in that two inverted commas you delete one at the end.
15 after deleting that, just type the 15 degite number you have written down in the point no 2 here.
16. Verify your typed numbers and close the inverted commas "
17. Then touch the row which says SEND AT COMMAND
18. Once the pop up display indicates AT command successfully send.
It is all over for one of your sim, you have got the valid imei number.
Now repeat the same for phone 2.
This exercise is not required if you have saved your IMEI number using the same Mobile uncle tool. This tool has IMEI backup restore facility.
Just use that facility and back up your imei number not only in your mobile keep a copy some where in your laptop/ desktop.
If you have already saved and backed up there is no need for the above exercise.
thanks.
SOMETIMES AFTER CUSTOM ROM FLASH, THE IMEI MIGHT VANISH and also for frequent editors like me in general The AT COMMAND fail may occur. In such a cases I followed the procedure below.
If you have your CWM Back up at any time in your sd card in your laptop or desk top.
Then open it up and search for the data.ext4.tar file
open it up and look for the nvram in small letters.
Copy this and take/paste it into your sdcard.
Now use ES File Explore and make the root read and write acceptable in your phone.
Then go to the device in the ES File Explore and you can notice several section in the page and open the storage section. you find sdcard0 and sdcard1
Look for the nvram file that you have copied from cwm backp/data.ext4.tar and pasted in the sdcard.
After copying that file got the Device section in the ES File explores by pressing back button.
Now open the data folder and search for the nvram there.
Now touch your paste button in your ES File explore. A notice will pop up asking your permission to overwrite the file. You click/touch YES..
Now come out of the ES File explore and open your mobile uncle mtk tool and reboot your phone.
If the IMEI has not still recovered then, Follow the procedure listed in beginning. Now the SEND AT COMMAND FAIL MAY NOT OCCUR.
THANKS.

just worked
puduraja said:
Dear Reader,
I am getting questions about how to change IMEI and IMEI is invalid how to correct it.
Open ES explorer / Root explorer or any other tool and make your phone system to accept read and write. Norrnaly I use Android Root Tool kid. Open the tool kid and go to Remount option and in that make the System ----> read / write and (rootfs) read/ write. Also try to save your root.
I thought of using the reply channel to give the simple tutorial here.
1. Remove your battery and look at the scribes there. You will notice IMEI numbers there.
2. Just write down these numbers in a sheet. or store it in your system desktop.
3. You should have rooted phone.
4. Goto play store and install Mobileuncle MTK tool.
5. Open the mobile uncle tool and scroll to Engineering mode and click it.
6. Go to MTK section and click it.
7. You find Engineering mode pop up at the top and below it you notice the row with different section.
8. In that section you just slide and tap the connectivity section.
9. In the connectivity at the column below you touch CDS information
10.In the pop uo you tocuh the Radio information and you will get pbone 1 and below that phone 2.
11. Now you touch phone 1 and in the popup you touch the AT+
12. Once you touch the Key board will pop up. In the key board you type any single letter and cancel only the letter you have type.
13. Immediately you can notice the scribes that is required for you It looks like AT+EGMR=1,7""
14. you touch the first row and after 7 you can notice the simple "" and in that two inverted commas you delete one at the end.
15 after deleting that, just type the 15 degite number you have written down in the point no 2 here.
16. Verify your typed numbers and close the inverted commas "
17. Then touch the row which says SEND AT COMMAND
18. Once the pop up display indicates AT command successfully send.
It is all over for one of your sim, you have got the valid imei number.
Now repeat the same for phone 2.
This exercise is not required if you have saved your IMEI number using the same Mobile uncle tool. This tool has IMEI backup restore facility.
Just use that facility and back up your imei number not only in your mobile keep a copy some where in your laptop/ desktop.
If you have already saved and backed up there is no need for the above exercise.
thanks.
SOMETIMES AFTER CUSTOM ROM FLASH, THE IMEI MIGHT VANISH and also for frequent editors like me in general The AT COMMAND fail may occur. In such a cases I followed the procedure below.
If you have your CWM Back up at any time in your sd card in your laptop or desk top.
Then open it up and search for the data.ext4.tar file
open it up and look for the nvram in small letters.
Copy this and take/paste it into your sdcard.
Now use ES File Explore and make the root read and write acceptable in your phone.
Then go to the device in the ES File Explore and you can notice several section in the page and open the storage section. you find sdcard0 and sdcard1
Look for the nvram file that you have copied from cwm backp/data.ext4.tar and pasted in the sdcard.
After copying that file got the Device section in the ES File explores by pressing back button.
Now open the data folder and search for the nvram there.
Now touch your paste button in your ES File explore. A notice will pop up asking your permission to overwrite the file. You click/touch YES..
Now come out of the ES File explore and open your mobile uncle mtk tool and reboot your phone.
If the IMEI has not still recovered then, Follow the procedure listed in beginning. Now the SEND AT COMMAND FAIL MAY NOT OCCUR.
THANKS.
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just worked charm for first imei but for second imei we need to select TA+EGMR=1,10"......":good::good::good::fingers-crossed::highfive::good: