GreatGrey
16th May 2007, 07:36 AM
While walking a colleague thru his first WM6 upgrade last night, I happened to notice that my IPL had somewhere reverted to 1.00 Well, I just couldn't have that, and set out to re-up it to 1.04
Reflashed it to Vodafone OEM ROM, which for some reason also requires flashing any Radio Rom to get it past the Windows splash screen. Still showed IPL 1.00
Flashed it with the SIM-CIM unlock files, got the IPL up to 1.01
Next, still really wanting to get back to 1.04, and not being happy with a device that was running any and all ROMs I was throwing at it, I tried MTTY and tried to force 1.04nb on it, it wouldn't take it, but it didn't quit.
Then, about 4 am, I got really clever, took the 1.04.nb file, ran it thru nbhtool and made a .nbh file.
Put that on the SD card as HERMIMG.img, and fired up the bootloader.
The file flashed quickly, and gave me the Whoopie, it Worked message.
So, I removed the card, and did a soft reset. And that was the last thing the little guy ever did, reset to dead.
Good thing is our company has these things laying about like some companies have ball point pens, so getting replacement took just minutes.
Now I stick strictly to the guides, improvisation is best left for other folks.
This has been another in the continuing series "Noobs and our toys, how we break em".
Reflashed it to Vodafone OEM ROM, which for some reason also requires flashing any Radio Rom to get it past the Windows splash screen. Still showed IPL 1.00
Flashed it with the SIM-CIM unlock files, got the IPL up to 1.01
Next, still really wanting to get back to 1.04, and not being happy with a device that was running any and all ROMs I was throwing at it, I tried MTTY and tried to force 1.04nb on it, it wouldn't take it, but it didn't quit.
Then, about 4 am, I got really clever, took the 1.04.nb file, ran it thru nbhtool and made a .nbh file.
Put that on the SD card as HERMIMG.img, and fired up the bootloader.
The file flashed quickly, and gave me the Whoopie, it Worked message.
So, I removed the card, and did a soft reset. And that was the last thing the little guy ever did, reset to dead.
Good thing is our company has these things laying about like some companies have ball point pens, so getting replacement took just minutes.
Now I stick strictly to the guides, improvisation is best left for other folks.
This has been another in the continuing series "Noobs and our toys, how we break em".