Help! Touchscreen on way out. Need to go back to WM5!

[mdavix]

Please help me. I recently upgraded to the Black satin rom and everything was fine. However the touchscreen on my M3100 has started to go haywire.

After being on for about 5 minutes the touchscreen doesn't work. It seems like the top right hand corner is faulty as the close button keeps being pressed again and again. I think it is probably the phone that is faulty rather than the ROM.

Anyway I need to revert back to the original Orange ROM (WM5) so I can send it back to orange. I've only had the phone about 3 weeks so its still under warranty.

I tried to load the ROM off the orange business website but it errors when trying to load the rom on. I assume I need to downgrade the bootloader thingy.

Any help much appreciated!

[todd_jg]

www.mrvanx.org

Look for "downgrade guides"

[tigersim303]

I'm in a similar boat mdavix!

I've just tried flashing an original T-Mobile WM5 ROM using MrVanx's guide but it doesn't progress beyond the bootloader page. Instead the update times-out and gives Error 260 - "Cannot connect to PDA" :confused:

Getting late (that's when Bad Mistakes Happen lol!) so will come back to it at the w/e I hope. Let us know if you have any luck!

sim
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T-Mobile MDA Vario II / schaps 3.57a / Radio 1.41 / HardSPL

[martinlong78]

interestingly, I put black satin on my new M3100, and the screen started going. So I put it back to the latest Orange release (from the website) 2.11.61.1, but it was still screwy. Sent it back to Orange, and got a different recodnitioned phone back. They said the ROM was the issue, and the one they gave me had 2.11.61.3 on it. This version is not available for download... has anyone else seen it?

Do orange know what is happening to the screens? Is something getting burnt out? does 2.11.61.3 have a fix?

Well... I'm too scared to put WM6 back on, now, although I really want to. I at least want to wait till I can get hold of the update for 2.11.61.3, and even then, I'm not sure.

[mdavix]

I have looked at the downgrade guide but don't really fancy the re-compiling the nbh business.

The strange thing is that if I take the battery out for a couple of minutes, then replace and boot up, the screen works for a while!

Is it worth trying a different rom?

[vp3G]

Is it worth trying a different rom?No, it's a hardware problem, I assure you.

[mdavix]

Ok, thanks vp3G.

So I still need to get back to WM5.

I'll have to give mrvanx's downgrade guide (http://www.mrvanx.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=27) a go!

Is this still current? Is this the correct one to try?

[mdavix]

I carried out the steps in the downgrade guide and attempted to flash the resultant rom onto my M3100. It started to update got to 1% and failed with a transfer error! :eek:

Now when I turn the phone on it just comes up with the three colour screen! :eek:

Have a broke it forever? The screen reads:
HERM100
IPL-1.01

HERM100
SPL-2.10.Olipro

Please help!

[mdavix]

Phew! Panic over, I've managed to get the Black Satin rom back onto my phone.

I'm stuck at the screen alignment screen again but at least its got an OS on now!

I still need to load WM5 on tho. I think I'll try re-doing the downgrade guide and see if that helps.

I'm looking at duttys nbh tool and notice that the device id is HERM200. My phone is an M3100 so a HERM100. I'm going to change the value to be HERM 100 and re-compile. Hopefully that was the problem last time!