No GSM cannot flash radio

[flexgrip]

I'm sure everyone is getting sick of these posts. This is the reason I have spent about 2 days reading post after post, along with every how-to ever.

I have tried a couple different versions of Hard-SPL.

Olipro 2.10
SPL-2.03

I have problems when trying to run the radio only updates as well as the updates from the Hermes website for ATT. It either gives me error 262 at 0% or 12%.

Here is the printout from mtty

Cmd>info 8
Block 0x0(0) is Reversed block
Block 0x1(1) is Reversed block
Block 0x2(2) is Reversed block
Block 0x3(3) is Reversed block
Block 0x4(4) is Reversed block
Block 0x5(5) is Reversed block
Block 0x6(6) is Reversed block
Block 0x7(7) is Reversed block
Block 0x8(8) is Reversed block
Block 0x9(9) is Reversed block
Block 0xA(10) is Reversed block
Block 0xB(11) is Reversed block
Block 0xC(12) is Reversed block

Partition[0], type=0x20, start=0x2, total=0x18FE
Partition[1], type=0x23, start=0x1900, total=0x1700
Partition[2], type=0x25, start=0x3000, total=0x19E00
Partition[3], type=0x4, start=0x1CE00, total=0x1DA00

CE Total Length(with sector info) = 0x3AA7000
CE CheckSum Length(without sector info) = 0x39C0000

If I try to run task 2a it doesn't tell me anything, just goes back to CMD>

For one, mtty always says CMD> instead of USB>. Is that a problem and how would I fix it. I was assuming it didnt matter.

Can someone tell me exactly what radio I should flash? or the most successful radio that I can flash? I don't care if it is old, I just want to make phone calls. I have even tried to flash the nbh from ubuntu with no success.

Also, is hard-spl V9 any better? I haven't tried it yet. i am going to be doing that right after I post this. I am kind of lost in all of this and have no idea where to go from here. I wish I knew a way to figure out if it is a bad physical radio.

Thanks,
Ray

[RojasTKD]

Sorry to hear it. My Hermes if in the "no GSM" mode to.

My solution, I ended up being getting a Kaiser.

Hope you can find a way to revive yours.

[Bergerac56]

Hi,
It seems that you are not the only one to have a problem with your radio rom. There is a thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=349461

Could you give a bit more details about what happens before your problem?
- Which radio rom was on your htc before
- Did it stop to work suddenly? or did the problem happen when flashing a new rom?
- Which method did you use for flashing (pc connection or sdcard?)
- Which release of hermes did you have (herm100,200,300?)
- etc...
Thanks

[flexgrip]

1. My radio was 1.34
2. It just stopped working. Had never been upgraded
3. I tried flashing via pc and I transferred a file to the phone and tried it that way. I may not be doing it correctly though, so maybe I need a point in the right direction for which files to download and flash. Does it have to be from the sd card or can I transfer it to the phone memory.
4. It is a Cingular 8525 HERM100 it says.

Before I put Hard-SPL on it said SPL 1.11 IPL 1.01

Then I started trying to flash several thousand different types of upgrades. Radio rom only, custom RUU, Official HERMES upgrade, etc.

The only progress I made was one time it started flashing and after it failed, the phone restarted and said ATT instead of Cingular.

I have followed steps 4 and 5 on the bricked heremes thread.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_UpgradeProblems

This is what Im talking about:
USB> password 0000000000000000
USB> set 1e 1
USB> erase a0040000 c80000
USB> erase a0cc0000 c80000
USB> erase a1940000 640000
USB> set 1e 0

After that, I still cant flash anything.

I think it is out of warranty. I dont care to open it up if I have to. Is the radio (that might be corrupted) on a removable board or chip?

I can boot into windows and use it as a PDA, it just has no gsm and no imei

[tkog]

did you solve the problem.the same thing hapeened to me.helpppp

[joey4203]

I had a bricked hermes like everyone else. It had the no GSM message and could not flash anything couldn't even get MTTY to recognize it. I finally got it!!!! I flashed the Hard SPL using the SD Card Method. After I flashed the Official Stock Rom my radio is back. (It did take 2 tries to get the Rom to flash and again I used the SD Card method) I hope you can use this. Just incase you don't know use a 2 GB SD CARD and it MUST BE 2 GB or smaller. put the attached exe file and the .nbh file. Rename the .nbh file to HERMIMG.nbh. Open bootloader and it will start the update after you press start button when prompted. It worked for me and hope it will work for you!!!