Help with charmer

[rocketrobot]

Hi,

I seem to have made my MDA compact II a brick. I was having problems hard reseting it (Format FAT failed) so I tried upgrading to a different firmware.

I now have the RUU_Prophet_2151327_21513121_021921_DOP_ASIA_WWE_S hip-NoVendorID

firmware on it. This is not good as it is for the Prophet, although it says in the Wiki that this should work. Anyway I can now hard reset the phone, so all I need to do is flash the TmobileUK firmware back on it. The only problem is that it doesn;t let me do it. It says error:296 upgrade only.

Anyone any ideas?

cheers.

[dave106]

extract the contents of the t mobile package using win rar

download
ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/Prophet/Tools/ROMUpdateUtility-NoVendorID.zip

and put in the same directory and run.

[rocketrobot]

It gets to 1% then says invalid command, not for this phone.

[pokey]

Latest T-Mobile ROM is at http://www.tm-phonedownloads.com/download_manager_mda_com2.html
very stable, much better than the original shipped ROM

[rocketrobot]

Finally got it back.

If you have a T-mobile MDA II (Charmer), then Flash it with a Prophet ROM, the only way I could get it back was to use the following:

RUU_Charmer_100_100_049_CHS_Ship.rar

typho5 -x nk.nbf

Then created a new nk.nbf with the output using nb2nbf.

I then Flashed this with Wizard_RomUpgradeUtility_noID

And miracle it started. I quickly CID unlocked it and am now flashing with latest T-mobile.

My problem was that the Rom Update programs wouldn;t read version 2.xx ROMS.

Anyway it has just finished and looks fine. Thanks for everyones help, now I just have to get my SD wifi card working.

[daveh1171]

Hi I just got a MDA compact II from T Mobile UK I would like to upgade the ROM but its all very new to me since you know what you are doing can you post an idiots guide to the process.

Hope you can help

[rocketrobot]

Hi, it depends what Rom you want to upgrade it to, the latest one from T-mobile is pretty good. There is an unbranded one (no T-mobile logos or suchlike) or there are Roms in different languages. It depends why you want to change the firmware and what to.

[daveh1171]

I suppose I don't really know the problem is as I just got the thing did some searching and came across this site read your post and thought i want to do this maybe you have some suggestion. Also I tried the RUU mentioned in an earlier post but it I can't update when I get to the from/to screen it tells me I will go from 2.6.2.110 to 2.6.2.110 I was expecting to move up.

[rocketrobot]

I suppose I don't really know the problem is as I just got the thing did some searching and came across this site read your post and thought i want to do this maybe you have some suggestion. Also I tried the RUU mentioned in an earlier post but it I can't update when I get to the from/to screen it tells me I will go from 2.6.2.110 to 2.6.2.110 I was expecting to move up.

Sounds like you are running the latest version. Is there a problem with the phone? If the phone works fine, I would just unlock it using lokiwiz02b (So you can use any network card) and then EnableRapi (So you can run unsigned code) then CID unlock it using awizard (so you can use any Brand/Language of ROM).

If you have no problem with the firmware I would leave it alone.

[Chirpy]

Hi,

Yep, I'm in the same situation, why does the prophet firmware load onto the charmer without erroring? !!!

Anyway, I have a copy of RUU.rar but I'm having problems working out what I need to do to it between unpacking and flashing the phone (i.e. the typho5 bit and then the nb2nbf).

Can someone please help me out?

P.S. The phone just sits at a black screen that says 'Dopod' across the front at the moment :mad:

[Chirpy]

Can anyone tell me how to 'force' a downgrade of firmware? I've got what appears to be the right firmware from FTP but it won't over write the incorrect version 2 installation as the uploader software thinks it's later therefore better.

There has got to be a better option from the command line surely?

HELP :confused: phone is dead :(

[Chirpy]

Can anyone tell me how to 'force' a downgrade of firmware? I've got what appears to be the right firmware from FTP but it won't over write the incorrect version 2 installation as the uploader software thinks it's later therefore better.

There has got to be a better option from the command line surely?

HELP :confused: phone is dead :(

Progress, but now it works only from the charger so the shipped ROM upgrade won't work as it reports the battery as being at less than 50%.

Anyone know how to force a ROM upgrade or where I can find the right ROM files to use awizard to do this?