Another bricked Universal

[RichardKAthena]

Seems to have been a run on these!

I have an SPV M5000 that was happily-ish running WM6 (as in my sig), and decided to pass it on to someone and put it back to Orange WM5 firmware.

Well, something went wrong, and now it's stuck with no Radio ROM; I've done the MTTY/Task 28 stuff, I've tried every ROM I can lay my hands on, and I'm having a couple of basic issues:

If I use the generic RUU update, it doesn't want to write the ROM. It just sits there at 0% with the device presumably waiting to get something. Eventually it times out with error 114. Then goes into recovery, and crashes.

If I try any others, including the Orange ROM, it complains that it has an invalid country code. Since this WAS a UK M5000, I used Jwright's M5000 ROM, and I have no idea why this would be changed or broken.

Obviously the bootloader appears to be working, but I don't seem to be able to get a Radio ROM onto it. I'm using an iMac booted into Windows XP since my Vista machine is, well, running Vista.

I really don't want to throw this unit away (and trust me, if I can't make it work by the time I give up it WILL be hurled into the nearest solid object then beaten to a pulp with my iPhone).

[RichardKAthena]

Well, I've tried everything on the forum; it's refusing to accept a Radio ROM, even though I've flashed the other parts with success. The only thing I haven't tried is SD-card upload since no-one has actually said "how" this works - how to prepare the SD card for use, for example, what the file should be - so I assume nobody knows this.

I've even tried the MTTY "erase" commands as suggested by Pof, and pretty much the only thing left is trying to update with the Linux tool that won't really help me much as I don't have a Linux setup.

I must admit that with the level of expertise on these forums, I can't find a solution to this, but with all of that - and no doubt if anyone was awake to read this I'd have been told to search (which is, of course, what I've been doing for the past 5 hours, along with flashing, rebooting, trying different cables, etc) - and still no working machine, I can only assume my M5000 is scrap due to some weird bug. Not worth spending money on to repair.

So, how shall I destroy it? Run over it with the car? Switch it on (obviously everything APART from GSM is working fine, with the lovely extended battery) and then set fire too it and see how long it'll run for? Freeze it? Smack it with a large hammer? Drive to Dover and see if I can get a strong enough catapult to send it to France, where it will HAVE to unlock itself by law?

(Edit: Tried it with the FlipStart; clean install of ActiveSync 4.5 - still nothing).

[RichardKAthena]

What's that stuff about "device ID not compatible"?

01:56:49:905 [msg] : Version : [2.11].
01:56:49:905 [msg] : Config Info : [857873],[1],[0],[0],[1],[0],[0],[1].
01:56:49:968 [msg] : MSystemFile Not Exist !
01:56:49:968 [msg] : CEFile Not Exist !
01:56:49:999 [msg] : Current in CE Mode.
01:56:54:280 [msg] : Device BL VER : [] [].
01:56:54:280 [err] : Device CID Error.
01:56:54:280 [msg] : Update Image. CE : [0], MSystem : [0], Radio : [1]
01:56:59:046 [msg] : Check Ac in CE mode. AC : [1]
01:56:59:046 [msg] : IsBL. BL : [0]
01:57:03:280 [msg] : Enter BL OK.
01:57:07:296 [msg] : Disconnect ActiveSync .... [2]
01:57:07:296 [msg] : Start Get Connect Port.
01:57:07:468 [msg] : Current in BL Mode. Open Port : [\\.\WCEUSBSH001] OK.
01:57:29:187 [msg] : Get Device Backup ID.
01:57:29:187 [msg] : Device BL VER : [1.01 ] [].
01:57:29:187 [msg] : Device ID Is Incompatible.
01:57:31:187 [msg] : =============================================
01:57:31:187 [msg] : START UpdateRadio !
01:57:40:077 [msg] : Check Radio Level 0 [704].
01:57:41:655 [msg] : RUpgrade 0 : 0 Start.
02:02:22:952 [err] : RWipe Data Error.
02:02:23:421 [err] : BL UpdateRadio Error.
02:02:23:421 [msg] : START UnInitialization !
02:02:23:437 [msg] : END UnInitialization !
02:02:28:812 [msg] : START UnInitialization !
02:02:28:812 [msg] : END UnInitialization !

[clemsyn]

Was the device unlocked before flashing to wm6? You could also try flashing on a Windows XP machine..hope this works for you.

[clemsyn]

Or try this..Got it from Laurentius

1) The radio stack is screwed, you don't get GSM signal and the phone says unknown SIM status

2) Device won't start after trying to unlock it with HTC Universal Unlocker (HTC_Uni_SIM_Unlock_v1)
Here is how to fix it:

1)Disable activesync on your computer by right click on activesync icon -> connection settings -> uncheck "allow USB connections". (( Done! ))

2)Put your Hermes (( Universal )) in bootloader mode

3) Connect device to computer using USB cable. (( Done with Original Cable ))

4) Open mtty.exe and select USB port, then connect.
Hit enter twice, you will see the "USB>" prompt. (( Okay but i usually get the USB> prompt with single hit of Enter ))

Type the following commands (do not copy paste!!!) (( I type them ))

USB> password 0000000000000000 (( Returns: HTCSPass1.CMˆËHTCEUSB> ))
USB> set 1e 1 (( Returns: USB> ))
USB> erase a0040000 c80000 (( Returns: HTCST ÚÈÒHTCEUSB> ))
USB> erase a0cc0000 c80000 ((Returns: HTCST ÚÈÒHTCEUSB> ))
USB> erase a1940000 640000 (( Returns: HTCST ÚÈÒHTCEUSB> ))
USB> set 1e 0 ((Returns: USB> ))

(( Then i close the window of MTTY and proceed to step 5 ))

5) Reset your phone and put it back in bootloader mode (( Here i take my Universal off the usb cable, soft reset it with the stylus and without letting it to boot i switch it into the bootloader mode again and get "Serial & v1.01" on the screen's header and footer ))

6) If your bootloader version is different than 1.04 then Flash Bootloader version 1.04 (( I simply ignore this step as this could be for Hermes users only not for UNIVERSAL Users - Pls. correct me if i'm wrong ))

7) Flash the patched radio used to simunlock the Hermes (( I do it with HTC_Uni_Unlock_v1 it has radio version 0.00.00 BUT still it gets stuck at 0% and after sometime gives the same error 114. Cannot Update Radio ROM ))

Your phone should be alive again (( Its Not ))
<---]]]]

[RichardKAthena]

Was the device unlocked before flashing to wm6? You could also try flashing on a Windows XP machine..hope this works for you.

Um...

I'm using an iMac booted into Windows XP

The FlipStart is also running Windows XP.

And it was SIM-unlocked by Orange; it wasn't SuperCID, and I flashed the "Orange M5000" version of Jwright's Crossbow ROM with no issues (apart from the Crossbow bugs).

[RichardKAthena]

Or try this..Got it from Laurentius

1) The radio stack is screwed, you don't get GSM signal and the phone says unknown SIM status

<snip>

Your phone should be alive again (( Its Not ))
<---]]]]

Tried that, one of the first ones I found. Now IIRC the bits in brackets are his results as he tried it. The last line says it didn't work. Which is precisely what happened for me, too!

At present the ROM update won't progress at all. Before it would reach 99% then fail. I'm wondering if the battery, despite showing 100%, is actually not charging correctly and it needs more power to erase the Flash.

[RichardKAthena]

Well, let it charge all night in case it was a power issue (it has a high-capacity battery), tried the Radio ROM, tried the 'task 28' path, tried Universal_SIM_Unlock with MaUpgradeIt - wiped the ROM, no problem reflashing with CE/ExtROM, but no Radio. Just cannot install it period.

Task 32 gives me FF - CID is corrupted, basically. Can't flash Radio 0.00.00, can't flash any radio at all.

Is there any way around this, or is it (as it seems from extensive forum searches including Buzzdev) scrap now? Is there a way to flash an ID to it, and if so, is there any way that the IMEI is damaged, or if so restorable, or will the phone be useless even if I can get a ROM onto it?

I don't get it, as I did nothing stupid with this; I've flashed loads of devices, I even flashed (and risked bricking in a BIG way) a brand new iPhone without headaches. Seems to be a lot of Universals suffering this lately - what is causing it?

[clemsyn]

Have u tried task 28 55aa

[RichardKAthena]

Have u tried task 28 55aa

Again, from the first post in the thread:

"Well, something went wrong, and now it's stuck with no Radio ROM; I've done the MTTY/Task 28 stuff, I've tried every ROM I can lay my hands on, and I'm having a couple of basic issues:"

I appreciate the attempts to help, but what I am looking for is some insight into what has gone wrong, not blind attempts to try any solution - I've tried it all already in the hope something would work. I think that the issue is very low-level, and I don't know how it becomes corrupted - but I have a suspicion that many Unis have been bricked in the same way and the reason no-one has posted a definitive solution is that there isn't one.

[lukeap69]

you did not mention if you were flashing with the SD card inserted into the unit (or have you but I failed to read it).

there is one flashing problem here somewhere and the issue was solved when the SD card was removed from the Uni before flashing.

[RichardKAthena]

Good question, and no - no SD card, no SIM card; I think I remembered this from the original Uni_Unlocker stuff which I'd been going to try before finding out Orange would unlock it for me anyway.

In fact, I'd like to try flashing FROM SIM card if anyone could provide a dump, but no-one seems to have been able to in the threads I have read - since the information about how the SD-Flash works is somewhat scarce, the service manual says "you can", but not what format the data should be in, or how the process works. Merely, how it can be initiated.

And I also suspect that with corrupted CID, I couldn't access the flash routines anyway, since all the radio flash tools appear to depend on this Sec level being "open". Some sort of direct hardware flash - maybe via JTAG - may be the only way around it, though I noticed the Hermes solution which runs under Linux would appear to work by "forcing" the data somehow.

[tomsan]

... by SDCard, because I get and error :

"Update not allowed!"


The situation is:
- All ROms WinCE updated run OK! and function correctly: Wifi, Bluetooth...
- All Extended updated ROMS run OK!

- But any Radio Rom cannot ben updated, include the special Rom of Buzz.
I have the same error 114. Device Display "NO GSM", and not have IMEI, not have Protocol.... The phone is OUT of Service.


The problem is the CID is scratched or the Radio bootloader is broken. After 2 years there is still no solution For the Universal devices, But for devices Hermes If there is solution:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=286755



please guys, pof, buzzz, HEEELP for The Universal's brickeds Devices

¡¡pleasee....!!

p.d.: (sorry for my bad english)