Stuck Restoring VZW stock ROM - HELP!

[dkreifus]

I know my phone isn't bricked...but I'm stuck.
I wanted to restore the Verizon stock ROM (for reasons I'll post in a different thread).
I was originally at DCD 2.1.0 with the Radio 3.17.
I got the Verizon Stock Rom from ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/Users/vboyz
I ran the Titan unlocker, and changed the nbh to the verizon one and flashed it.

Now I'm stuck on the white Verizon screen.

I know I did it wrong, but I couldn't find a consistent post with all the links and instructions how to do it.

HELP!

[jrebeiro]

For starters you might want to use an actual Verizon Stock ROM:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1845171&postcount=13

[dkreifus]

THANK YOU! I am downloading those now.
What steps do I need to follow

I have the relocker, and the verizon files. All I can get to is the SPL2.4 Olipro screen and the white verizon screen...help!


I just reloaded the dcd rom, ran the unlocker, loaded the verizon rom, and it all works now

[madman34]

THANK YOU! I am downloading those now.
What steps do I need to follow

I have the relocker, and the verizon files. All I can get to is the SPL2.4 Olipro screen and the white verizon screen...help!


I just reloaded the dcd rom, ran the unlocker, loaded the verizon rom, and it all works now

Please post the exact steps you used as these 'stock' verizon ROMs do not as yet exist. I will explain: The ROM you used is an image taken of a phone, a full image of someone's phone, and not really the factory 'out of box' software that is available for the Sprint unit. The reason that this is important is that it could lead possibly to a problem, or at least I would like to see if it does, before I mess with it. The phone comes stock with the 1.6 bootloader and is keyed to look for valid signed by the vendor software, and if it is not signed by the vendor it will not get past 0% and if it is signed by Sprint and you try to load it on a verizon unit it goes 1 % and gets a 'invalid vendor id' error and stops. On a Sprint unit if you mess up and get the wrong radio/ROM combo and maybe get the 1.6 bootloader back on by mistake then you can fix it with the stock 2.09 Sprint RUU because it exists and is signed. If you do this on a Verizon unit at the moment you might have trouble with the 1.6 bootloader as it is looking for signed software and I wonder if that image file satisfies this ?????? So I guess the long and the short of it is to know if you re-locked the phone (bootloader shows 1.6) BEFORE you ran back in the stock Verizon image ??? Did you have the unlocked (OliPro 2.4 bootloader) on the phone when you restored that stock image ???? Thanks.

[dkreifus]

Please post the exact steps you used as these 'stock' verizon ROMs do not as yet exist. I will explain: The ROM you used is an image taken of a phone, a full image of someone's phone, and not really the factory 'out of box' software that is available for the Sprint unit. The reason that this is important is that it could lead possibly to a problem, or at least I would like to see if it does, before I mess with it. The phone comes stock with the 1.6 bootloader and is keyed to look for valid signed by the vendor software, and if it is not signed by the vendor it will not get past 0% and if it is signed by Sprint and you try to load it on a verizon unit it goes 1 % and gets a 'invalid vendor id' error and stops. On a Sprint unit if you mess up and get the wrong radio/ROM combo and maybe get the 1.6 bootloader back on by mistake then you can fix it with the stock 2.09 Sprint RUU because it exists and is signed. If you do this on a Verizon unit at the moment you might have trouble with the 1.6 bootloader as it is looking for signed software and I wonder if that image file satisfies this ?????? So I guess the long and the short of it is to know if you re-locked the phone (bootloader shows 1.6) BEFORE you ran back in the stock Verizon image ??? Did you have the unlocked (OliPro 2.4 bootloader) on the phone when you restored that stock image ???? Thanks.


I was stuck at the OliPro 2.4 bootloader. It would freeze at the white screen, or I could get to the bootloader. So I reloaded the DCD 2.x image.
Once it was up and running, I used the relocker, and downgrader the bootloader.
From there, I loaded the 'stock' verizon image, and presto, it all took like magic.

I was fortunate enough to not panic, and realize that its not bricked. Just a matter of trial/error and patience.

[madman34]

I was stuck at the OliPro 2.4 bootloader. It would freeze at the white screen, or I could get to the bootloader. So I reloaded the DCD 2.x image.
Once it was up and running, I used the relocker, and downgrader the bootloader.
From there, I loaded the 'stock' verizon image, and presto, it all took like magic.

I was fortunate enough to not panic, and realize that its not bricked. Just a matter of trial/error and patience.

Ok so it is nice to know that this image will store back,,,,thanks.

[jrebeiro]

You totally wrote complete misinformation. The ROM I linked is not a dump of a running ROM. It's a complete Ship ROM from VZW. The link I provided is from a complete thread where this was discussed. You might want to actually look at the files before posting about them. If you would have extracted the NBH you would have noticed that it was a complete ROM not just the OS.nb.

[madman34]

You totally wrote complete misinformation. The ROM I linked is not a dump of a running ROM. It's a complete Ship ROM from VZW. The link I provided is from a complete thread where this was discussed. You might want to actually look at the files before posting about them. If you would have extracted the NBH you would have noticed that it was a complete ROM not just the OS.nb.

Anyway, it is acknowledged as a ship ROM, but Blazingwolf said that that since there has been no release from HTC for the Verizon as there was for the Sprint that these ROMs were actually extracted from a unit out-of-box and compiled correctly, and do contain all data that they are supposed to contain. If you look at the utstar.com downloads section you will see that there is no RUU for the VZW unit but there is for the Sprint unit, this being because Sprint released 2.17 and had broken some stuff and had to release 2.09 which you do find there. So I did not mean that I was worried about completeness, as I did de-compile and look, but just was curious to see someone get it done with these because they were obtained in a different way than usual. I think it is a cool way to do it and would like to have the tool used to pull a ROM from a unit so that I could do the same with mine configured as it is and return to it anytime I wanted to.

[jrebeiro]

dude... the ROM I linked to is digitally signed by Verizon.

If you are suggesting that someone was capable of fully ripping the IPL/SPL/Radio/Splash/ExtROM/OS from a running Titan AND getting VZW's digital certificate to sign the NBH then I want to meet the person who did it so we won't need to Hard SPL our devices anymore!