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SD Card problems after using Romupdate and ntrw

SD Card problems after upgrading to 1.12
I posted this in the normal form but no one replied, I think this may be a problem causing my upgrading, so I post again here
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The SD Card used for dumping rom with ntrw could no longer be accessed by my notebook which was accessable before(I formatted the SDs already with my mini), it needed to be formatted, after I did that, and plug the SD into my mini, the mini couldnt read it and prompting the SD card needed to be formatted again!
So, I formatted it again with my mini, but after that my Notebook want to format the SD again, and the fight between them keeps going...
anyone encounter the same issue...there are some clues that I tested:
1. I got 3 SD cards, 2 for them used for upgrading and they occured the same problem, but the third one which is clean can be accessed by both machine
2. The SD cards(those with the problem) can be read by my PC's Card reader...
I know I could use the card reader instead, but I dont wana waste the build in one in my notebook and the data exchange between my Notebook and mini is quite important to me, pls if anyone could help me solving the problem, Many thx!

Hi, you must use ntrw in comand window ( in winxp run cmd )
Take ntrw.exe and your file.nb1 in roof directory.
Type the command C:\ntrw read rom.nb1 x: ("x" is your cardreader name)
Ignore any error message when you plug SD card into your cardreader.
After that you type d2s in next window, so on...
When finish you will have file .nb1 in your roof directory.
Hope you successful !

Problem with Rom Loading from SD card....

Hi, when I upgraded my rom I encountered a small problem. I have loaded the rom from my MDA to the SD card. But when I tried to use ntrw command, it just did not work. The command I used is "ntrw read Tmobile.nb1 i:". However, I just got the message "Usage: ntrw file drive:" on the screen. I supposed the problem is in the filename I used, "Tmobile.nb1". Now I am in the UK, and this is an English 1.12 WWE rom. So what should the file name be? and how can I get NTRW work?
I am sorry for the dummy question. I did search the forum, trying to find the answer to my question, but could not find any. Please help and tell me how to solve the problem.... Again, my apology for my ignorance....

I did a little research on google and found that the file name of the rom on the SD card can be randomly given. Therefore, the command I used "ntrw read Tmobile.nb1 i:" should have worked. And I am sure that the sd card is on drive i:.
Now I really don't know why I cannot load the rom from the SD card to my PC? Can anyone help....
My card is Sandisk 1.0 gb. Can that be a problem? When I tried to upload a rom file from my pc to the sd card, it showed: "unsupported media type"......

This is weird cause i've got the same problem "it just says ntrw write file usage" and i use a sandisk 1.0 GB card too.

I guess the software u using is corupted, try to download again in FTP but make sure use diffent one. Because there are many software with the same name, but some of it is not working perfectly.

Thx for your reply, mate!! Now I found the problem. As you said I used the wrong software. I simply use the ntrw.exe file from the upgrade guild folder. However, that one is not compatible with either windows sp2 or usb 2.0. I d/l the ntrw 2.0, and everything is fine now.
Thx for helping

Sd card problem on Magician

Hi Bro,
I need some advice on O2 mini as my SD card is not working good.
Before I started my Rom experiment, the SD was working good with both the magician and my laptop.
I made a mistake and I did not backup my rom before I start flashing.
After changing to my new rom, seems like I cant inter-use the SD between my laptop and magician. The magician cant read anything from the SD if I put data into the SD from my laptop via SD card reader/writer. When inserted to the magician, it will prompt to reformat. The same thing happen when I slot in the card to card reader after writing something from magician.
Therefore, now, I cant use SD to update rom ect.
How can i solve this problem? Thanks
Russ

Have you already tried formatting the SD card? When an SD card is used for ROM upgrading the card becomes totally unreadable for both PC and Magician.

Zerimar,
I did reformat of the SD on my laptop before writing the image to the SD via ntrw.
However, after slotting back to Magician, then go to Bootloader mode and wait for the "start loading prompt" but that have not happen yet.
russ

I think I misunderstood you, sorry. Put the Magician into bootloader mode first then insert the SD card. It should then display the message asking you to press the Power Switch to start the upload.

Thanks for your reply dude,
I've tried that too. It does not look promising.
I hope there is nothing wrong with my sd slot in the magician and i dun think there is any hardware problem. I confirmed that the Image was written in the SD.
Initially the SD card was working well with the magician before i did any rom flashing myself. even with the 1.12 WWE rom i cant read the SD. I've tried to reformat using XP on my laptop, and put back to magician. Then the magician will prompt to format again. else i cant see the storage card in the file explorer.
I've tried:
1) Slot in SD and wait - DUN WORK
2)Slot in SD, disable Async USB, and slot in use to Magician and wait. -DUN WORL ALSO
3)Slot in SD, press camera, on/of, and reset and wait till the SD load screen- ALSO DUN WORK.
4)Go to Boot loader, the slot in SD and wait- ALSO DUN WORK
5) No more idea
I wonder if different rom version will not work with certain sd brand.
My details is : 1.12 WWE with big storage.
SD : Kingston 256MB
I've tried with 1.13 WWE also but the same problem.
Hope someone can help or anyone have the same problem before?

Hello, Try this one
I think if you get problem with the SD card, you can use Mr. OLTP ways.
First open this :
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=MagicianRomUpgrade
then
downloadls all the tools you need, from the site.
1. Unzip NL_11300_131_11200.exe (or any other shipped-rom) to get all the .nbf & enterbl.exe . click right your mouse and chose extract to NL_11300_131_11200\
then you must copy all the file from NL_11300_131_11200 folder to c:
ex: c:\temp (make a new folder "temp", and copy the file from the NL_11300_131_11200 folder).
2. Put NBFDEC in the same directory = open nbfdec folder, you will find release folder in there, open the relase folder and copy 2 file to c:\temp.
3. open the temp folder and find getdevicedata.exe, Copy the getdevicedata.exe to your Magician and execute it (it will not provide any gui displays or feedback whatsoever), open the windows in my device(in your PDA), search for getdevicedata.txt. then copy to your desktop, and open with notepad.
4. To decode nk.nbf -> nk.nb1 start a command window, go to the directory where you stored nbfdec & the other files & type: nbfdec -d nk.nbf nk.nb1
this isi the ex:
in cmd
c:\documents and settings\frans>cd c:
c:\documents and settings\frans
c:\documents and settings\frans>cd ..
c:\documents and settings>cd ..
c:\>cd c:temp
c:\temp>nbfdec -d nk.nbf nk.nb1
this will convert nk.nbf to nk.nb1
don't close the CMD windows
now open the Hexeditor (must use the newest version V3.x)
open file/nk.nb1
then klik replace button , in the upper insert 02 00 00 80 00 20
in the lower 02 00 00 b8 01 20
replace all, enter.
save file in same name.
then back to the CMD window
c:\temp>nbfdec -e nk.nb1 nk.nbf
and
close the CMD windows.
open the temp folder, plug your PDA to USB,
On your PDA press power,camera and reset to bootloader mode.
clik maupgradeut_noid.exe on the temp folder.
and follow the instruction. if shows error 120. repeat again clik maupgradeut_noid.exe this will start to instal your OS
FINISH
thanks to MR. AMPDA, MR. OLTP and Mr. SEAN
for helping me.

Pls follow the guides on the board a little more carefully! Mine is very good ;-)
When you dumped your rom image on your SD with your magician, you completely destroyed the MBR of the SD. Before you save the image to your laptop with ntrw, your laptop will want to format it, cause it can't unserstand the car
. Don't do that. just put it in your cardreader & back it up with ntrw. Then you can write back another image to the card with ntrw & put your card in your magician. Just as long as you didn't format the card in between the operations the bootloader will recognize the image on the SD by the word magician which must be the first thing it reads on the card. If there's a mbr instead of the word magician, no mather what the bootloader will not present you the image 'press power to flash'
Hope you understand know how to solve your 'problem'
M

Hello yeoruss,
did u actually fixed the problem with using the sdcard on notebook and ppc at the same time? Ive the same problem after storing my ROM on SD.
I simply cant use the card in both units. When i format it under windows, is works in Windows but not on PPC - The PPC asks to reformat the card to make it readable.
When I format the Card on PPC, it works there, but no more in Windows.
Im experimenting all the time but i cant see the solution
Edit: I did not changed the ROM on my Magician, i just tryd to backup my current ROM.
Thank u

Copilot7

Can anyone help me... I got a new 8gb SD Card but cant get CoPilot installed to it... does anyone have a website with full instructions?
Cheers
Robert

Delete registration/activation file
I did this a while ago and had to phone the support line, very helpful. All I had to do was delete the licence file and it then all worked as per instructions. Afraid I can't remember what the filename was.

What I done this morning at 5am was install the udk Diamond R2 rom and then installed copilot from the \Windows\copilot.cab file and works a treat on my 8gb card but took a while for me to figure out the safety camera database...

redesignni said:
Can anyone help me... I got a new 8gb SD Card but cant get CoPilot installed to it... does anyone have a website with full instructions?
Cheers
Robert
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Robert how did you go with this, i am having the same difficulties.

i flashed my rom yesterday and all i did was run the installer from the memory card again, but when i upgraded to my 8gig card all i did was copy everything from my 1gig sd too the new one and ran the installer again.

I just run the installer from the memory card to install on memory card. Then conencted it and downloaded the maps... perfect!

You shouldn't need to flash your ROM to do it, at least I didn't. On my Touch Cruise (and HTC Touch) I copied the entire microSD card that shipped with CoPilot Live 7 to my laptop, and then copied from there to a 8gb microSD -- inserted it into my Touch Cruise and it prompted for installation just as with the original microSD. I did find things to be a bit speedier if I installed the program files to the device RAM instead of the card -- it runs from the device but references the map data from the card. You can though install the program to the card if you prefer.
Also, before it would run properly on my Cruise, I had to 'deactivate' the installation on my HTC Touch.
redesignni said:
What I done this morning at 5am was install the udk Diamond R2 rom and then installed copilot from the \Windows\copilot.cab file and works a treat on my 8gb card but took a while for me to figure out the safety camera database...
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Can not flash from SD Card after failed upgrade to windows 6.5

Hi guys,
I already try to flash via SD Card, but the bootloader just skip my file in SD Card. (I already format the SD card using FAT32, copy the windows 6.5 to SD card, and then running bootloader)
Nothing happen, since I can't using CheetahUnlocker (no activesync connection).
Thanks

Try an official ROM, sounds like you don't have an unlocked SPL. Then go through the unlock procedure again using cheetaunlocker and athena unlocker.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=511763

where can i found original ROM ?? I tried the AT&T with same error..
Thanks