Athena brush with death!!!!

[victoradjei]

I tried to update my athena to the dopod wwe rom after using the asukal switcher to change the UI from dutch to english.
It is sim unlocked, but not cid unlocked. Result was connection error, and white screen of death!

Almost panicked but went through all sorts of resets and always returned to "Loading........". The bootloader screen never stayed on for me to try another flash through usb! I left it on that screen for about 15 minutes and eventually the real bootloader screen came up :p A soft reset then brought me to normal boot up, and my device re-started again. I had formatted the microdrive in my desperation, so I now have to restore a backup.

I thought I would share this with the adventurous ones here. If it happens to you DO NOT REMOVE THE BATTERY. Just keep it in and let it return to the bootloader screen, and then do a soft-reset. ;)

Happy holidays from sunny Africa until next week :cool:

[cornelius]

Whoa... real adventure, bot glad to hear your Athena is OK..

Thanks for sharing your experience

[optigrouch]

Yikes, that was scary for a bit. Your circulation must have had more exercise than a 100 meter run. Sounds like your pda did the easter story on you!

Watch out for the Hippo's in Africa

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[victoradjei]

Watch out for the Hippo's in Africa

O

I have one for a pet :eek:

[ahmadfarid]

[QUOTE=victoradjei;1208684]I tried to update my athena to the dopod wwe rom after using the asukal switcher to change the UI from dutch to english.
It is sim unlocked, but not cid unlocked. Result was connection error, and white screen of death!

Almost panicked but went through all sorts of resets and always returned to "Loading........". The bootloader screen never stayed on for me to try another flash through usb! I left it on that screen for about 15 minutes and eventually the real bootloader screen came up :p A soft reset then brought me to normal boot up, and my device re-started again. I had formatted the microdrive in my desperation, so I now have to restore a backup.

I thought I would share this with the adventurous ones here. If it happens to you DO NOT REMOVE THE BATTERY. Just keep it in and let it return to the bootloader screen, and then do a soft-reset. ;)

hi

i did soft reset few times but still in bootloader mod..can anybody pls help?

thanks

[hdubli]

use mtty.type "set 14 0" and press enter..

[ahmadfarid]

use mtty.type "set 14 0" and press enter..

i think i stuck in the Flash ROM utility..tried mtty.type "set 14 0" already but still couldn`t get out...:(

[userbe]

try this )))))))))))))))
I think you are not stuck in bootloader, I think you are stuck in the Flash

ROM utility which has colors and not just the Dopod logo with a black scree.

If this is the case, here it is what I did to solve this:

I downloaded ruu_athena_dopodasia_wwe_1.24.707.3_105_6275_1.32.

00.10_108_ship, which you already did.

Decompiled the RUU_signed.nbh contained inside

ruu_athena_dopodasia_wwe_1.24.707.3_105_6275_1.32. 00.10_108_ship with

dutty's good NBH tool found at: http://forum.xda-

developers.com/showthread.php?t=296316 then I created a new RUU_signed.nbh

with the same files but it didn't allowed me to insert some items like the

SIRFBootLoader.nb and some others, so I started executed the

ROMUpdateUtility.exe again and it stopped again at 1% but with a different

error "Corrupted ROM Image" and suddenly! My device was taken out of the

Flash Utility to see the bootloader screen again! Wow! What a relief!