Stuck in bootloader after failed flash

[g4rwin]

Hi, got some problems with one of my employes Herald (not simlocked or anything).

It ended up on my desk after complaints about it rebooting by itself every minute or so. I figured I could sort it out by upgrading to wm6. Wen to HTCs website and downloaded the official RUU (HTC_P4350_SVE_4.17.413.2_4.1.13.44_02.94.90_Ship. exe). Everything went along fine and I left it upgrading on my desk and went for lunch.

When I got back it said that the update had failed and I followed the recover function but without success.

Now Im stuck in bootloader mode, and when I try to update it again the current image version is listed as blank and I get to about 1-2 percent before it shuts down and gives "ERROR [244]: INVALID MODEL ID".

Any suggestions on what to do?

[g4rwin]

Further information...

IPL 4.17.0001
SPL 4.17.0000

When i do a hard reset, after it says format complete it boots up and freezes with a green gradient across the screen.

[duprade]

You can try using USPL or HARDSPL to flash.

The USPL will get around CID locks

This is from ivan's A Herald's Guide to Flashing Aserg, USPL and HARD-SPL - xda-developers (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D358615&ei=d_rGR83PJp78zATYuJUM&usg=AFQjCNFNxLyFJ0-wCmHu7P5FTbGE_UNVgA&sig2=ttmUr0EAb0dyzKdYiwyqOQ)






II. How do I flash an NBH file?

Warning: To use the NBH ways, you MUST have a SPL of 4.0 or higher. If you have a lower SPL, you WILL brick your phone.

a. USPL

Step 1. Download Herald-USPL-Beta3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A4N36HLO).

Step 2. UnZIP the file into a folder on your Desktop. Let's call it "MyFirstROM" for simplicity's sake. Notice that there is a folder called RUU within this folder now. Keep that in mind.

Step 3. Download your NBH file and unZIP or unRAR it into that RUU folder. Make sure that that NBH file ends up in the RUU folder, not within a folder inside the RUU folder.

Step 4. Place your phone into flightmode.

Step 5. Go back to the MyFirstROM folder and then run USPL.exe

Step 6. Follow the directions on the screen. EXACTLY.
Your screen on your cell phone will go white around the 75% part of the "second step" now.
ActiveSync will LOOSE its connection.Step 7. One step 3 on that black window, the RUU flasher will pop up. Just follow the steps.

That's it. :-) Welcome to the flasher's world.

[g4rwin]

Thanks for the reply,

First, I cant get activesync to find the phone, only evidence of contact in between the phone and PC is that its listed as [Windows CE USB Devices+PocketPC USB Sync] in device manager. I tried to uspl flash with ASERG.8, and it stops at "STEP 1/3...."

I downloaded mtty to see if it could connect, and it did.

Any further suggestions on what might work!

[mv3]

uninstall..reset.. clean install would probably get activesync to work w the phone..

[g4rwin]

Reinstalled activesync without any change. And soft/hard reseted everything…

Tried to flash via sd as per instructions in another thread, got to "checking SD contents" and then straight to triple-color bootloader.

Help me please! ;D

[g4rwin]

Cant help getting the feeling that Im completely screwed...
Cant get activesync to recognize it, only way to get it to light up is via bootloader (camera + reset button), everything ive tried to flash it with hangs almost instantly.

As a complete novice my guess is that the current rom is corrupted and I badly need advice on how to go on. The sd-flash seems quite logical but I cant get it to work. Ive tried to overwrite my sd with 00-values in winhex and then placing the original ruu [HERAIMG.nbh] (through windows, is there a way to write data with winhex?) on the card without any success.

Any suggestions on what to try is much appreciated.

[ivanmmj]

Sounds like the SPL got corrupted or partially written only... sorry. Repair center time. You can also placing your Stock RUU's nbh file into your SD card and renaming it to... umm.. I forget... and then flashing FROM the phone.

[g4rwin]

You can't simply place the rom file to the card and hope the device will read it in this way. In my time working for pda service, we used WINHex to format the card (to RAW-unformatted) and then we wrote the rom file in RAW format to the card. Your card looks like an endless stream of hexazecimal values. Only winhex recognises this format, if you insert the card to the computer, it will simply ask you to format it. After inserting this card into the pda, it will start the upgrade . The order of this operation was, as I remember, to fill the card with 0000 values (there is an option in WINHex, a kind of format) then write the rom file to the card in RAW mode. Then insert the card to the device.

Thanks for the reply, before giving up and sending it in for repair I would like to give the sd-flash a proper try... So far Ive managed to format the card with winhex but I cant really figure out how to write to the card in raw format. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

[diabolic53]

i managed to do the steps said above ... formated the card in RAW format etc but still the phone won't turn on ... it will only stay in bootloader ...

[g4rwin]

i managed to do the steps said above ... formated the card in RAW format etc but still the phone won't turn on ... it will only stay in bootloader ...

Care to enlighten me on how you did that?

[ivanmmj]

I've been reading a lot lately.. I wonder if the phones are savageble... something about flashing but bypassing the radio check... Also, the universal has an RUU that bypasses any checks before it flashes... this would be great for us to have... I'm asking around...

[diabolic53]

Care to enlighten me on how you did that?
whell i opened the mem card with winhex filled all the blocks with 00 and then i opened the nbf file also with winhex and copied the content in hex format on to the card ....but still no success ..

[diabolic53]

I've been reading a lot lately.. I wonder if the phones are savageble... something about flashing but bypassing the radio check... Also, the universal has an RUU that bypasses any checks before it flashes... this would be great for us to have... I'm asking around...

if you find it please tell us about it cos a lot of phones are getting bricked ...

[jappo01]

If I'm correct, you told us a few post above thisone you placed your SD card with the imghera.nbh and got "checking sd conents" and then it went to bootloader.

As far as i can recall you need to get your Herald into bootloader first and then place your SD card with the IMGHERA.nbh file on it. Then it should start reading the image from, your SD card.

Judging from your first post you haven't been using the asigned RUU from the HTC website if this was your first rom flash to WM6 and you got a vendor error. Try to convert and use that one when you flash from sd card.

[g4rwin]

If I'm correct, you told us a few post above thisone you placed your SD card with the imghera.nbh and got "checking sd conents" and then it went to bootloader.

As far as i can recall you need to get your Herald into bootloader first and then place your SD card with the IMGHERA.nbh file on it. Then it should start reading the image from, your SD card.
Ive tried all possible ways, if I pop the sd card in while already in bootloader, nothing happens at all.

Judging from your first post you haven't been using the asigned RUU from the HTC website if this was your first rom flash to WM6 and you got a vendor error. Try to convert and use that one when you flash from sd card.
Ive been trying to flash with the WM6 RUU I downloaded from HTC's site (the one that bricked it) since that is the only local (swedish) and official one I could find. Have I misinterpreted it all and the only thing that could do the trick for me is WM5.1?

Ive also been trying to contact the HTC service dept for over a weeks time ending up in a deadend overfilled voicemailbox - meanwhile my warrantyperiod ran out... Any suggestion on what to do?

[ochman]

You can try using USPL or HARDSPL to flash.

The USPL will get around CID locks

This is from ivan's A Herald's Guide to Flashing Aserg, USPL and HARD-SPL - xda-developers (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D358615&ei=d_rGR83PJp78zATYuJUM&usg=AFQjCNFNxLyFJ0-wCmHu7P5FTbGE_UNVgA&sig2=ttmUr0EAb0dyzKdYiwyqOQ)






II. How do I flash an NBH file?

Warning: To use the NBH ways, you MUST have a SPL of 4.0 or higher. If you have a lower SPL, you WILL brick your phone.

a. USPL

Step 1. Download Herald-USPL-Beta3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A4N36HLO).

Step 2. UnZIP the file into a folder on your Desktop. Let's call it "MyFirstROM" for simplicity's sake. Notice that there is a folder called RUU within this folder now. Keep that in mind.

Step 3. Download your NBH file and unZIP or unRAR it into that RUU folder. Make sure that that NBH file ends up in the RUU folder, not within a folder inside the RUU folder.

Step 4. Place your phone into flightmode.

Step 5. Go back to the MyFirstROM folder and then run USPL.exe

Step 6. Follow the directions on the screen. EXACTLY.
Your screen on your cell phone will go white around the 75% part of the "second step" now.
ActiveSync will LOOSE its connection.Step 7. One step 3 on that black window, the RUU flasher will pop up. Just follow the steps.

That's it. :-) Welcome to the flasher's world.

Hi I try tu patch IPL/SPL with hard spl but with error, now my herald stuck in boot mode. IPL/SPL 1.09.0001. He probbably is from some russia operator (rusian diacritics on keyboard).
How can I try to make him alive?