Nearly a brick-Kaiser

[sbolt986]

I have a new (to me) Kaiser, which i tried to upgrade last night with a cooked ROM,( Duttys non Cube, Non-Lite from 4-29-08) going through the soft SPL, Hard SPL, and ROM upgrade painstakingly. Once done, the device powered up, buzzed the AT&T screen, and just continues to cycle from dark to the the AT&T screen- until i yank the battery. When i press camera button and the reset button i get the tri-color screen with: " KAIS1*0 MFG SPL-1.0.01iPof CPLD-8.
i figured the ROM ( copied from a known good source to a thumb drive to my desktop) might have been somehow corrupted, and formatted a micro SD card, downloaded the ROM from this site, renamed it KAISIMG.nbh, pressed the camera button and...the screen goes to tri-color, briefly flashes No Image Found, and then reverts to the tri-color. The AT&T screen cycle persists. Frustrated, but not yet panic-stricken; i read more here and do the MTTY exercise from Pof and get the following output: "Cmd>boot
InitDisplay: Display_Chip=1

Fill RSVD information for block 288 to 309
Storage start sector=0x9E00, total sector=0x114C0
Storage start block=653, total block=1107
Total Bad Block in CE: 1

Erase physical block from 942 to 2032

formatstorage Bad block found: 1933
si backup: Erase physical block from 2032 to 2048

No card inserted

OSSIPreLoad ++

FMD_ReadSector+, bad block no=0x4F40, status:0x0"
so, now i am at a complete loss. the unit persists with the AT&T screen cycle, on buzz, partial AT&T display, then dark- and pressing the camera button/reset still gives the same tri-color screen as before.
So, i've managed to take an otherwise fine device and taught it to be as stupid as it's owner. I really need this thing to function for my work, and beg for sage advice. Thanks in advance.

[monx®]

omg, i'm sorry mate. my post is useless for u. just wondering why u didnt flash it via ur pc. it was a nightmare but i'm pretty sure some experts can help u.

[sbolt986]

original flash was via PC, after i got stuck, activesync cannot see the device, so i resorted to the micro SD to try; hopefully someone with a bigger brainstem than mine can pitch in

[monx®]

actually if u can see tricolor screen, activesync is not needed to flash using CustomRUU. have u tried flashing original shipped rom? just an idea because i also failed to flash so many times long time ago :o

[tomasz]

Tried to go to tri-color screen, connect USB so 'USB' is displayed instead of 'serial' and then flash from CustomRUU utility?

That worked for me when my pc bsod'd during an update.

[jommo]

Have you found a fix for this? I have a similar problem... See my problem (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2423564&posted=1#post2423564).

At your point, I would also recommend flashing back to an original ROM, which can be done from the tri-color screen. To my best understanding, all you need to do is have the Hard SPL loaded, which you do have.

Please update if you find a fix. Hopefully it can help me as well.