help needed on restoring/reinstalling my tmobile mda compact

[dagonist]

please help i have the t-mobile mda compact pm200 and i was removing a cracked version on pocket dos v1.09 from the remove list and it said windows wil need to perform a soft rest yes or cancel i clicked yes and my system restarted but now it just get stuck at the t-mobile screen. i have tried doing the manufatures hard reset but no joy i have take out the battery no joy and i can't even access it through my p.c what can i do to get it up and running again i don't care about the data already on there cuz it is all backed up on my sd cad

[camaro]

When you took out your battery, have you been waiting til the backup battery fully drained out? It takes about 30-60 minutes, better leave a few hours. Try this and post your results...

[dagonist]

thank for trying but unfrtunatly it had no effect i tried for two hours then reinserrted it and no joy so i waited a further day but still nothing any other ideas tnx

[Carty]

Is it getting into BootLoader? Then you might try Flashing a new ROM!

http://cartystudios.com/cs_banner.gif
(http://www.cartystudios.com)

[dagonist]

how would i go about doing that? my computer won't even recognis3e my phone

[ermoscow]

I had about the same problem:
I was trying to install the Pocket PC Greek language support (free trial version) from the site http://greek.pocket-pc.penreader.co...der_Greek.html. on my MDA Vario Tmobile when it crashed!! It shows just a white screen and does nothing at all!! I soft and hard reseted the device but after restarting it shows the Tmobile screen and after a few seconds a white screen! Actually I am not so sure that the device is hard reseting because it doesn't ask me for a confirmation of the hard reset. When I startup my device it stops on the same white screen.No windows loading, no other commands accepting, not recognized by my desktop.
Did anybody have the same problem before? Does anybody know how can i get my PPC on working condition again
Thanks dagonist.
I hope somebody can help....

[MocciJ]

See for ROM upgrades on the forum :wink: if u get some images on the mini then it's not dead! It's just stuck at the bootloader mode, meaning that the OS is somehow damaged.. To solve this prob u must plug the mini into the pc (it will be recognised as an unidentified device, don't worry), then download a ROM upgrade set (u will find these on the net or in the xda-dev ftp). Execute the prog, wait 'till it finished and voila! Ur device will come as new :) If u encounter problem do a simple search in the forum regards rom - bootloader - upgrade and u willl find a lot of infos :wink:

Hope this helps, MocciJ

[ermoscow]

Thanks MocciJ.....but my desktop pc doesnot "see" my pocket pc at all!!

[MocciJ]

:? then it isn't yet in bootloader, is just stuck at the beginning of a broken OS! I mean that it tries to load the OS, but then it gets stopped since he read bad ROM (probably deleted in some way since u encountered this prob removing a prog) try to get it in bootloader mode, by pressing together the camera, power and reset buttons.. U will lose all the things in the RAM memory, but in this case u really can't do anything else.. After entering in bootloader, u can easily upgrade it..

MocciJ :)

[ermoscow]

Well, I just tried the camera button+power button+reset button....and nothing happens! It reset and comes back to the same white screen...
Any other suggestions??

[MocciJ]

well, did u tried to make it correctly? I mean: for entering boot loader u havce to press camera + power, and then reset (with camera and power pressed) if u can't still enter the bootloader, then I'm out of ideas, sorry... :(

MocciJ

[ermoscow]

I amdoing it write but nothing happens....

[MocciJ]

In the screen what can u read? If u read serial (it is barely visible) then see if it turn to usb when u connect the cable: if yes, we 're at a very good point...

[ermoscow]

When it starts up it shows the Tmobile logo and then for a few seconds :
ipl 1.08
spl 1.08
gsm 01.09.10
(something else...)
after a few seconds a white screen without any letters or anything else.

[ermoscow]

But I cannot see it anywhere on my desktop pc...

[MocciJ]

:? I can't figure out how you can get it back.. If it displays images and text, then the bootloader is still alive.. It even tells u the correct version of the complete ROM.. but I wonder why it can't access to the bootloader.. u must search in the forum how to reach the bootloader, but I'm sure of the power camera reset combination; when u can read SERIAL or even better USB on the device, u probably have solved most of ur problems, but chances are that u have even bad clusters of ROM, and cannot be restored with an upgrade (it happened to the External Rom of my mini after a bad upgrade) :(

I suggest to send it to repairs, before doing somewhat wrong, because if there is an original ROM inside they will repair it for sure, free :wink:

MocciJ

[ermoscow]

Thanks. The problem is that I got the phone from ebay, from a UK seller, and it was locked to Tmobile. So I don't think that I can ask for a factory/guaranty repair....

[ermoscow]

Thanks. The problem is that I got the phone from ebay, from a UK seller, and it was locked to Tmobile. So I don't think that I can ask for a factory/warranty repair....

[dagonist]

seee i tried all of thoose things but i found the main problem was getting the computer to recoginise the thing and the program i put on was a cracked version ( i know i am a naughty boy) so if i send it off they could cause legal problems couldn't it

[MocciJ]

it depends on what u are meaning by "not recognised" but I assume that windows dosesn't even try to recognise the device (I mean that there aren't bubbles, notifications, or any other changes on the system) for the cracked software, well if u have installed it right into any RAM folder (not in the storage memory) then u can tell the repairing center that ur unit simply doesn't power on correctly.. :wink:

MocciJ

[dagonist]

sucess there is a god, i found out why the comuter is not recognizing the device for some reason it only detects the modem part of the ppc but if u uninstall the modem from the pc it will then recognise it as a unknown device the n the flasher will load. the only problem i face is now it is up and running it seems to of forgot it is a phone and will not connect to any network at all. hmm any ideas

[afn691]

Please note that Paragon Penreader language extender is in some cases for WCE 2003se and this may cause the problem in booting. (This is what also happened to me and had to flash ROM)

I suppose the rest of the thread is answered, as it's some years old, but there's no problem to repeat that when flashing the official ROM you'll not see the PPC as a recognized device attached to the PC. You must set the PPC in bootloading mode and launching in the PC the installer, FOLLOWING ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS of the screen.
It's recommended that you have your battery full and the { energy savings + screensaver } in the PC switch off.

(I think this is a stupid collaboration in such a place like this one where only some of us are low-level users but hope this will help to somebody)