i-mate KJAM stuck on bootloader

[cochumbo]

Hello everyone,

First - I'm really happy to have found this resource. I had no idea about all the cool things I could do to my phone. Thanks to everybody for all your hard work.

I spent a lot of time reading up with the goal of upgrading to a Windows Mobile 6 ROM. But now I need some help please, because I can't get my phone back!

I determined that my phone is a G4 (IPL/SPL of 2.16.0001). I attempted to load various WM6 Roms (TNT 4.0 Official and XDA Mobile 6), without success (error 300). Eventually, I succeeded in loading Wizard Love 2.26.10.2, and booted into Windows successfully. I then tried to load TNT 4.0 on. It got up to 100%, rebooted - and now I am stuck on the RGB / bootloader screen. Plugging in USB cable gives me the USB txt in the bottom left, but no response from the computer. The various RUU utilities I have tried to restore the phone back to Wizard Love or official iMate ROMs all fail - they can't seem to find the phone.

I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks you in advance.

Regards,

Nick

[cochumbo]

Progress!

More research led me to find that WinXP should be able to install a new ROM without ActiveSync - in fact, you need to disable ActiveSync USB connections and end wscecomm.exe via task manager.

These steps allowed me to attempt flashing of a new ROM:

1. Uninstall device from device manager
2. Turn off device completely
3. Disable USB in ActiveSync
4. End process "wscecomm.exe" via Task Manager
5. Plug in phone, windows will detect and install as a Windows CE. This will make wscecomm.exe load again. End this before running the RUU tool
6. Run RUU. When detecting your phone, it will run wscecomm.exe. I kept ending it and crashing the RUU :). RUU stops it itself.
7. Finally my phone was detected and I was able to proceed to flashing without an RUU error. Previously, i was getting error 260, 264, 300...

I was greedy and attempted to load XDA Mobile 6. It got to 99% and crashed. I will try and get back to Wizard Love.

If somebody could tell me what I am missing / doing wrong that would be great. To summarise:

- I have been able to install Wizard Love
- I have a G4 i-mate KJAM
- TNT 4.0 has reached 100%. On reboot, I only got boatloader.
- After many hours trying to fix, I finally was able to attempt to flash XDA 6 r2. It reached 99% before crashing

I will now try to put Wizard Love back on, but I really want to run WM 6.0 and am not very concerned about which flavour. Thanks for your help

[starkwong]

No...You shouldn't use RUU for upgrading to WM6 because your G4 is not unlocked (You need to pay to unlock a G4, however it is not required if you don't use RUU).

Flash to Wizard Love, then get a copy of ShellTool and use it to flash the nk.nbf inside WM6 RUU.

[boot_sectorz]

no worries. I have the same phone and running XDA r2a, so it can be done!

Simply get hold of G4_step_by_step_install_wm6 I think theres a link to rapidshare on this forum, try search. (I will try get the link later on.) Follow the steps and it has shelltool which will extract th OS for and you can then install. Make sure you get the splash screens from XDA thread so you get the full package.:D

Good luck

G4_step_by_step_install: http://rapidshare.com/files/22275022/G4_step_by_step_install_wm6.rar.html
link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VRYOZ4GO
Read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293480
You need this: ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/Uploads/WIZARD/Unlocking/ShellTool_bugfixed.zip

G4_step_by_step_install_wm6 will give u step by step guide on what to do.

[cochumbo]

Hey guys - thanks so much, I can't wait to get stuck into it.

You know I spent my whole weekend getting into this stuff and I'm sure I have only just scratched the surface!

I think it's fantastic that so many of you put so much work into this, and then also have time to guide people through the process.

[cochumbo]

Regarding the FTP links throughout these forums - They never seem to work for me. I get an error 550 - failed to change directory. These are links with username:password of xda:xda. The only link that worked had something different, along the lines of xdaupload:xda, can't remember for sure.

What am I doing wrong? :)

[boot_sectorz]

Just get the G4_step_by_step, forget everything else. Its on rapidshare. It has even a WM6 Rom in it so you can even that on your Wizard. But you can install XDA R2a also by following the step by step guide and knowing what to replace. Have you downloaded it? Its about 75MB but well worth every bit of it! You wont need anything else after that.
We learn from each other! Thats why we help others so they help us too:D

[kernelguy]

Regarding the FTP links throughout these forums - They never seem to work for me. I get an error 550 - failed to change directory. These are links with username:password of xda:xda. The only link that worked had something different, along the lines of xdaupload:xda, can't remember for sure.

What am I doing wrong? :)

The forum carried many ROMs before. Micro$oft had some opinion on this and hence the ROMs were all removed. Most of the 550 errors would be due to this.

kernelguy