How to upgrade ROM?

[chris_khho]

I am using xda1 and would like to upgrade it to WM2003 (T-mobile CE Rom). However, after I wrote the ROM (NK.nbf) to my 128M SD card through a SD card read/writer by XDA OSImage Tool, I pressed the power button together with soft reset to the bootloading mode and put the SD card into my xda, nothing happen. It does not check the new rom, why?

[Kaputter]

You have to insert the SD-Card BEFORE you go into Bootloader-Mode.

Greetings, Kaputter :shock:

[chris_khho]

I also tried that, I input the SD card first and pressed to the wallaby bootloader mode (v5.15).

What it showed was just the "white/red/green/blue" page and checked GSM ok. Any other button I have to pressed?

[cruisin-thru]

Chris it means that the card has not been written to properly I think, try writing the file again, if you put it in your xda without going into bootloader, it should offer to format the card for you, just say no to the question then try again, if it doesnt offer to format the card it means the file has not been written correctly.

[chris_khho]

Yeah, you are right.

When I inserted the card (that I think written with the NK.nbf) in the card reader/writer, it didn't ask me to format the card. When I open the explorer for that drive, I saw the nbf file there.

I tried to write the file several times and same results.

Let me explore my case a bit. I used the XDA OSimage tool and for the Source, I chose the file (NK.nbf that contains the T-mobile 4.01.00 downloaded from other thread in this forum) in my computer (WIN2000) and for the destination, I chose the G:NK.nbf.

Any thoughts?

[cruisin-thru]

You need to choose destination from the drop down box, it should show your card reader there, then it will work.

[pdhenry]

When I open the explorer for that drive, I saw the nbf file there.

Any thoughts?That's your problem right there.

You can't just do a windows/dos 'file copy' to write the ROM image to the SD card. You need to use XDAtools or its predecessor XDArit to copy a raw ROM image to the card. The difference is that the card must ONLY have the Rom image and not the FAT, etc information that gets added in when the card is formatted.

This is why under the correct circumstances the XDA gets confused when you first stick the card in - it sees a card that isn't formatted so it offers to format it so the card can be written to.

The bootloader method is IMO the best way to upgrade the ROM. Read up some more on XDAtools and how it can be used to write the ROM image to the SD card.

[chris_khho]

But I did use the OSImage Tool already. For the source, I choose the NK.nbf file from my PC and I choose the SD card drive for the destination.

But the actual problem seems solved for me. The actual reason for upgrading to WM2003 for me is to view and edit the office attachment whenever received from my e-mail. In the past, I can't read the word or excel document without activesync the files. Now, by using an add-in software, I can.

Thanks very much to everybody.