Hard-SPL or How to have something the rest of XDA-Devs runs

[Big Brian]

Hi there:
I am new to this and my questions may seem lame but I hope someone can help.
Thanks to another member of this forum I have been pointed in the correct direction for the Polaris and the attendant threads. Unfortunately I have been reading the threads concerning upgrading my O2 Orbit 2 (Polaris) for most of today, off work. I have been reading threads and faithfully following the links but I seem to be being led around in circles. Various members either praise the upgrade or complain that it helps in one area but fails in another; radio ROM's and so on.

My problem is that I purchased an O2 Orbit. I have been using Tom Tom for a few years and have lots of maps. The Orbit uses "CoPilot Live" and only has one map.

My questions therefore are:
Is it possible to "upgrade/change" the ROM so that my Orbit O/S and GUI will be the same as the HTC Polaris and therefore use TOM TOM? I have looked for the ROM but cannot find an actual download area; I even visited OLIPRO's website but that didn't help. Found a thread from a user that seems to say he did exactly this.

If so what programs do I need to accomplish this?

Are there verbose instructions on how to accomplish this; I am a beginner and need lots of assurance before attempting this?

Will my Orbit be unlocked; so that I can still use the O2 connection.

Will the TOM TOM program be loaded into the same ROM area that CoPilot Live is using at the moment?

PLEASE HELP

[Kajoe]

Hi Olipro
I am having a problem. I tried to update my HTC Touch Cruise Radio to version Radio 1.58.21.23.
During this update this hangs on 99%. After a while I got an error message and had to disable USB and than remove battery. I Reinstalled battery again and have the 3 color mode again. On the upper side there is the following text.
Pola100
SPL-1.25.0000
CPLD-2

I tryed to update again and again and again, but it stucks on 0%.
I tryed other Radio Roms, but nothing happens. I tryed Hard-SPL-V2, but still nothing matters. I tryed a hard reset on my phone, but it only comes back with the 3 colored bars.
What can I do to got it working again? Please help me. Greatings Kajoe.

[fktsndr]

Hi Olipro
I am having a problem. I tried to update my HTC Touch Cruise Radio to version Radio 1.58.21.23.
During this update this hangs on 99%. After a while I got an error message and had to disable USB and than remove battery. I Reinstalled battery again and have the 3 color mode again. On the upper side there is the following text.
Pola100
SPL-1.25.0000
CPLD-2

I tryed to update again and again and again, but it stucks on 0%.
I tryed other Radio Roms, but nothing happens. I tryed Hard-SPL-V2, but still nothing matters. I tryed a hard reset on my phone, but it only comes back with the 3 colored bars.
What can I do to got it working again? Please help me. Greatings Kajoe.

Try this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2350974&postcount=4

[Kajoe]

Try this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2350974&postcount=4

I tried it, but I get a command error:
Cmd>boot
Command error !!!

Cmd>

[abidamin]

Looks like my phone is bricked. I run the recovery program but it keeps sitting at 0%. Any ideas what to do

[Joostem]

never mind

[jeuasri]

Thanks bro for your great works

[mmlo7]

Thank you Thank you Thank you

[iori]

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[iori]

finally I have done the Hard-SPL successfully in less than 5 minutes. great


thank you all:)

[pigaone]

Bonjour à tous,
Bon après plusieurs essai je n'arrive toujours pas à faire fonctionner le Hard SPL V2 sur mon HTC CRUISE pour mettre la ROM du Diamand de seiya.
J'ai toujours ce message d'erreur:
103596

J'ai essayé avec la méthode du logiciel mtty.exe mais rien n'y fait.

Comment puis je faire svp?
Qulqu'un à une idée?

PS: Il s'agit d'un CRUISE nu hors opérateur et je suis chez orange.

Merci
;) :)
******************************
Bon j'ai réussi à faire marcher le Hard SPL avec mon Cruise cependant je n'arrice toujours pas à changer de ROM.
J'ai suivi la manip pour mettre la ROM de seiya mais lorsque le flash commence j'ai une page grise avec écris "loading.." et peu de temps après j'ai à nouveau le message que j'ai posté plus haut.

Personne à une idée?
Merci
********************************
C'est bon, ca marche.
Je suis vraiment nul lol.
Avant j'avais un SPV M650 et la mise à jour de la rom se fasait toute seule.
Là il faut brancher le tél en moe USB (appui sur le bouton APN puis soft reset en gardant le bouton APN appuyé)
Merci encore et désolé
:)
Vive forum xda
;)

[Chefgauner]

Hey Folks!

Short and probably extremely stupid question..

What do I need a Hard-SPL for?

[daze81]

to flash one of the roms you can find in this forum. without you'll probably brick your device.

[Chefgauner]

Well....
Next question: what means brick?

Actually i have already flashed a ROM on my device, without having hardspl installed before (because i didnt know anything about it, when i flashed :-P).. It was Panosha's Think ROM. and well, whaterver bricking is (something bad certainly) it seems to not have happened to my device.. because it's running fine.. the only probs i'm having concern the microsd..

so, was that pure idiots-luck (anfängerglück) or is there another explanation?

thanks for the answer..

[prateekgujral]

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Hi Guys,

I have bee trying everything but no success yet in updating the ROM. I bought it in Delhi from an authorised dealer

I got my HTC diamond yesterday with the following: (when I turn it on i get the Airtel Screen so assuming that it is simlocked)
ROM: 1.37.720.2 WWE
ROM date: 06/16/2008
Radio Version: 1.00.25.03
Protocol Version: 52.26a.25.09G

Now.. i downloaded the Hard- SPL and tried it on my phone.. it sends a message on the phone that the program is from an unpublished author and would I like to continuew or not.. I say YES but nothing happens, my phone simply restarts as normal.

Can anyone please guide me step by step (sorry to be such a pain) as how i can upgrade my ROM version so I can enjoy the phone fully?

Thanks a lot guys!!

[siren555]

Thank you... \^^/

[Suriv]

Hi guys!

I've recently bought a used Polaris. After a few days it started acting funny (actually it wasn't that funny) and I had to reset it... several times in a row. The annoying thing kept locking during the reset. Sometime even getting in boot loader :eek:

Anyway... after a little time (and my data to get lost) I got it to work. So my next step was to try and load a newer ROM, cause I believe it could be more stable or this one here can be messed-up.

First step: SPL. Got it from here :)
First problem: the clean start doesn't sync with my PC :confused: and when I try to run the SPL ROM update, it keeps giving me the "ERROR [224]".
I reinstalled Activesync.... disabled the firewall...
must I also reinstall WinXP?!?!?!?

Can anyone PLEASE help me?!

***
Finally synced!!!
Just had to hard reset (again) my polaris :S
Hard-SPL worked also :D
Now to the ROM update :P

Thanks!

[deechte]

There are a lot of threads about Hard-SPL errors and fixes. Have you tried any of those?

[maqui01]

i don't know what happened, running a ROM update stuck at 17% and then after recovery it doesn't get a step further than 0%. I run the mtty.exe but i get command error. What should i do????

edit: thanks god I could handle it. mtty solved everything.

[fertex]

Thanks very much

[donchischotte]

Hi everybody,
please find a solution for resuscitating my cruise!
I bought it in the US, it was unbranded and SIM unlocked (and it seemed brand new). Everything was find till the official 6.1 update come out. I decided to make the update but could not download anyone. I guess my cruise is from singapore, hong kong or similar because I found a navigator software with maps of those countries in the box.
So I downloaded the official roms (WWE and ITA) from a direct link, but could not flash any of them because I got the error message "ERROR [294] : INVALID VENDER ID"
Finally I decided to use the HARD-SPL to unlock the device, but something went wrong (I could not tell what) and now my device is stuck in bootloader mode!:(

On the screen I read:

-------------
RUUNBH
POLA100
SPL-1.28.0000
CPDL-2
--------------

Here is what I do and what happens when I try to use HARD-SPL V2:
1) I connect the USB cable and the writing on the device changes from "serial" to "USB"
2) I run romupdateutility
3) I check "I understand..." + next
4) I check "I completed..." + next
5) on the PC a message "verifying the information on your PDA phone, please wait" appears and after a while the device switches to a screen with a progress bar at 0%, while on the PC the following message appears:

--------------------------------------------------------------
Current information about your PDA phone:

Image version:



Select from below:
UPDATE Update the current ROM version
--------------------------------------------------------------

6) I click UPDATE and the following appears:

------------------------------------------------------------------
Verify that you want to update the ROM version:

From:
Image version:



To:
Image version: OliNex-2.20
------------------------------------------------------------------

7) I press "next" twice and I get the message "updating the ROM image on your PDA phone", but the progress bar is stuck at 0% and after a minute or so i get the ERROR[262] : UPDATE ERROR

I tried usinr both Vista and XP, with or without MicroSD and SIM card. It's always the same.
I tried flashing different SPLs (even the two original ones) with the same problem. If I try to flash a ROM I get the ERROR [294] : INVALID VENDER ID"
after 1% progress.

Finally I tried to use MTTY, with no success. Here is the log:

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Cmd>task 32
No card inserted

Level = FF

Cmd>task 28
Format start
Storage start sector=0xBCC0, total sector=0xF600
Storage start block=776, total block=984
Total Bad Block in CE: 2

Erase physical block from 1068 to 2032

si backup: Erase physical block from 2032 to 2048

Format end

Cmd>task 2A

Cmd>info 8

--- 2K bytes sector version ---

DEVICE NAME=samsung_k9k2g08
DEVICE ID=0xAA
DEVICE MAKER ID=0xEC
PAGE SIZE=0x800
TOTAL PAGE SIZE=0x840
BLOCK COUNT=0x800
BLOCK PAGE=0x40

Checking block information

BLOCK 0 (0x0) is reversed block
BLOCK 1 (0x1) is reversed block
BLOCK 10 (0xA) is reversed block
BLOCK 11 (0xB) is reversed block
BLOCK 13 (0xD) is reversed block
BLOCK 14 (0xE) is reversed block
BLOCK 568 (0x238) is bad block
BLOCK 653 (0x28D) is bad block
Partition[0], type=0x20, start=0x2, total=0x63E
Partition[1], type=0x23, start=0x640, total=0x780
Partition[2], type=0x25, start=0xDC0, total=0xAF00
Partition[3], type=0x4, start=0xBCC0, total=0xF600

CE Total Length(with sector info) = 0x5EBE600
CE CheckSum Length(without sector info) = 0x5E60000

Cmd>task 8
----------------------------------------------------

I really don't understand the "DEVICE NAME=samsung_k9k2g08" and I'm worried about the bad blocks.
I hope I won't have to use my cruise as a paperweight!!!

PLEASE HELP!!!

[donchischotte]

I solved with the mtty commands
set 16 0
task 8

[mylostnick]

Hi all.
I've a little question for you: I've an HTC Touch Find (Polaris 200) and I want to hard_spl'it :D:D.
So, what's the difference between the hard SPL of this post and hard SPL of the following post:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375338

Thank you for all and pls forgive my very baaaaad english!. Bye-

[cisgw]

Just a quick one, when i run the Romupdateutility and go through the options to flash it, the phone asks me to run jumpspl.exe, i assume its a yes to this. I havent as yet and it times out with a connection error.

Thanks

[foxulet]

I have been trying to unlock my touch cruise with the pack in this post.
I got passed the first step, on the boot screen I now see
SPL-2.20.OliNex
CPLD-2

But under no circumstance I can get the radio rom installed. I get the message "incompatible device" all the time, I even tried to install the murata radio rom prior to this.

And redo step 1 as suggested in a previous comment.

"Also the rom flasher says all data will be lost ... I haven't lost any data on my phone ... Am I doing something wrong ?"

The problem here is that I did not HARD RESET... read what hard reset is (resetting the device to factory settings)

After that all will go smoothly ;)

Big thanks for your job Olipro!

I'm thinking of updating to HTC 6.1... should I do that and try again ?

Thank you in advance,
I really need to get this done as I moved out of the country ... and I need to get my phone working. I don't want to carry a second one around.

edit: Oh and one more thing to add, if I try to click on update radio while in boot mode, the Polaris Unlocker application freezes and I need to kill it.
Although I managed to install the murata rom in this stage (from withing the boot loader, and not from a sync connection)

[mtelleria]

Hi,

I have installed the last official version on WM6.1 on my htc, now i want to install one custom rom from this forum.
I tryed to istall first HardSPL, but i don't know why, the process get stuck at 0% of the istall and never continue.

In the 3 color screen appear:
POLA100
SPL-3.13.0000
CPLD-2

Someone can help me?

Thanks

[Finão]

Hi,

I have installed the last official version on WM6.1 on my htc, now i want to install one custom rom from this forum.
I tryed to istall first HardSPL, but i don't know why, the process get stuck at 0% of the istall and never continue.

In the 3 color screen appear:
POLA100
SPL-3.13.0000
CPLD-2

Someone can help me?

Thanks

I have the same problem. :(

[iamwin]

my cruise was hard spl'ed at a couple of seconds!!! that was really fast! i did not HARD RESET my device after the upgrade, no data/info lost. thanks Olipro!!!

btw, i just want to ask, if ever i will be going back to official HTC WM6.1 rom WWE, do i need to revert the SPL to the original one?

[mtelleria]

I have the same problem. :(


Hi Finao,

I have solved my issue, try to do this:
Try to execute the "Polaris_CustomRUU" app when you have your PDA on, this mean have it in normal mode, not TriColor screen. When you click on next, then your pda will be on TriColor screen, unplug and plug the usb. and continue on next app.

Regards.
Telle.

[gilrim]

I have solved my issue, try to do this:
Try to execute the "Polaris_CustomRUU" app when you have your PDA on, this mean have it in normal mode, not TriColor screen. When you click on next, then your pda will be on TriColor screen, unplug and plug the usb. and continue on next app.
I tried that on my touch cruise/polaris, and the thing still hangs at 0% Even attempted to do that as the progress bar was displaying, only resulting in the winApp crashing and the phone continuing...


edit:
err... seems I should read better about running hard-spl-v2 and such. installed that first and now flashing Amine @33% and counting :)

[huynhchihung]

Thanks bro for your great works:):):):)

[cat77]

thank you i can now update my orbit 2 thank you are a god among men :)

[joseguerra]

this works in the wwe 6.1 original?because the 3 colours not appear in my phone but they ask me if i want to install de software.i stop in this step.

[ts2k2]

FANTASTIC stuff its upgrading amazing thanks man :)

[Dubhead]

Hey there,
Ran HardSPL last night and everything went normally. Now I am unable to use my phone on the AT&T network here. I saw the radio was still flashed to the one included with the HardSPL app so I flashed back to my original radio and no help there either. I bought my Polaris unlocked from Expansys so perhaps I didn't need to run HardSPL? I have a SIM from AT&T and maybe that is what got hosed? I am not sure which way to proceed...maybe I need a different radio from the original one I had (1.58.25.14). I have not flashed any new ROM yet...still with original (1.28.405.3 WWE). Any help here would be great!!

Thanks!
~Dubhead