nubee needs help with Verizon radio flash

[karter]

Before I start I did searches and looked at all the posts that apply to this situation and could not find anything. After spending many hours searching decided to try posting.

Situation:

I have a Verizon xv6800 that I am trying to update so I can have GPS. The first thing I did was to flash the OLIPRO 2.4 ROM. After the flash was complete everthing seemed OK but the power button no longer worked to turn the phone on. Also if you called the phone it would not ring.

The next thing I tried was to use an SD card to load nuespl 2.47. Again everything seemed OK but the power button still did not work.

Then I loaded OLIPRO 1.2 ROM and now everything seems work perfectly including the power button.

The boot screen verifies that the OLIPRO 1.2 is loaded.

Now I am confused as to which radio I should be using since the "Step by Step tutorial for unlocking your device and cooking your own ROM!!! " post said not to use OLIPRO 1.2.

Can any body tell me the next steps I should do to get an upgraded radio?

Please make it simple since obviously I can't figure it out myself.

Thanks for any assistance.

[stevefxp]

Before I start I did searches and looked at all the posts that apply to this situation and could not find anything. After spending many hours searching decided to try posting.

Situation:

I have a Verizon xv6800 that I am trying to update so I can have GPS. The first thing I did was to flash the OLIPRO 2.4 ROM. After the flash was complete everthing seemed OK but the power button no longer worked to turn the phone on. Also if you called the phone it would not ring.

The next thing I tried was to use an SD card to load nuespl 2.47. Again everything seemed OK but the power button still did not work.

Then I loaded OLIPRO 1.2 ROM and now everything seems work perfectly including the power button.

The boot screen verifies that the OLIPRO 1.2 is loaded.

Now I am confused as to which radio I should be using since the "Step by Step tutorial for unlocking your device and cooking your own ROM!!! " post said not to use OLIPRO 1.2.

Can any body tell me the next steps I should do to get an upgraded radio?

Please make it simple since obviously I can't figure it out myself.

Thanks for any assistance.

Ok no worries about the newbie thing. We all were newbies at one time!

First it sounds like the 2.40 flash did not completely go well. So since you are back to 1.20 I would upgrade in this order:

1) First update your radio to 3.42.50. This is the latest radio and seems to help with phone service issues. At least that is what I have seen. You will need the RUU install files so I attaching RUU.zip for this. Unzip this and then when you download the upgraded radio drop that file into this directory and then flash. If successful your phone should display 3.42.50 at boot time.

2) Next upgrade to 2.40 of the unlocker. I am attaching the install I use, so unzip the file and then run it to install/upgrade your phone. If successful your phone should show 2.40 when done.

3) Now you are ready to persue a ROM or kitchen that is GPS capable. There are many of them. I am currently using DCD's 3.26 kitchen but No2Chem also has a 5067 kitchen that is very stable. If you have questions about this process do not hesitate to email me at spetrillo@mail2web.com.

Steve

[karter]

I did step one and everything seemed OK. Took several minutes with progress bar and exited normally. The boot screen indicates 3.42.50 as per instructions. But now the phone gets stuck at the white verizon screen. Should I proceed to step 2?

Thanks

Ken

[stevefxp]

I did step one and everything seemed OK. Took several minutes with progress bar and exited normally. The boot screen indicates 3.42.50 as per instructions. But now the phone gets stuck at the white verizon screen. Should I proceed to step 2?

Thanks

Ken

Take the battery out and then put it back in. It should boot then. Go to step 2 then.

Steve

[karter]

Took battery out waited 1 minute and replaced battery. Still stuck at white screen.

Ken

[stevefxp]

Took battery out waited 1 minute and replaced battery. Still stuck at white screen.

Ken

Move on to step 2. Quick question...is the current ROM the stock VZW ROM or one from XDA?

Steve

[BillThyCat]

Actually he gave you the instructions backwards. (Tho his method may work, it's just not what the Wiki says to do) You always update the bootloader first, then the radio, then the rom. The new radio requires a new bootloader (hence why it's locking up), go ahead and reinstall BL2.4, if that doesn't work, see if you can find an older non-gps radio, and flash it via the SD card. Once you get back to either an old bootloader and old radio, or a new bootloader and a new radio, then you will have better success getting the rom flashed.

You were fine actually with your original 2.40 install, it will boot once normally, however as soon as it goes to sleep or you turn it off it won't turn back on, a soft reset will get it back up, but it will keep crashing. So at that point you can flash the radio and ROM from the Bootloader screen.

If you can get 2.40 (actually get 2.47 if you can, worse case use 2.40 and upgrade the radio and rom to the new version, then run 2.47 from the pocketpc and it will update you to 2.47 (I just did this yesterday).

So reflash to 2.40 if you can, otherwise do some searching for an old radio (non-gps) and flash it.

Then go back and re-read the wiki, it tells you that you have to flash the bootloader, then the radio, then the rom. It's always in that order for a first time flash. Once thats all done, any future updates should only require a single flash (for radio or rom).

BTC

[stevefxp]

Actually he gave you the instructions backwards. (Tho his method may work, it's just not what the Wiki says to do) You always update the bootloader first, then the radio, then the rom. The new radio requires a new bootloader (hence why it's locking up), go ahead and reinstall BL2.4, if that doesn't work, see if you can find an older non-gps radio, and flash it via the SD card. Once you get back to either an old bootloader and old radio, or a new bootloader and a new radio, then you will have better success getting the rom flashed.

You were fine actually with your original 2.40 install, it will boot once normally, however as soon as it goes to sleep or you turn it off it won't turn back on, a soft reset will get it back up, but it will keep crashing. So at that point you can flash the radio and ROM from the Bootloader screen.

If you can get 2.40 (actually get 2.47 if you can, worse case use 2.40 and upgrade the radio and rom to the new version, then run 2.47 from the pocketpc and it will update you to 2.47 (I just did this yesterday).

So reflash to 2.40 if you can, otherwise do some searching for an old radio (non-gps) and flash it.

Then go back and re-read the wiki, it tells you that you have to flash the bootloader, then the radio, then the rom. It's always in that order for a first time flash. Once thats all done, any future updates should only require a single flash (for radio or rom).

BTC

The issue with reversing steps 1 and 2 is that the Olipro 2.40 does not allow the ability to update the radio ROM. You have to back down to 1.20 and then do the radio. That has been the case for the last two radios I have upgraded to. So that is why I put it in the order I did.

Steve

[BillThyCat]

Ah ok, well, I had 2.40 installed for over a month and have updated my radio 3 times (tho I did it via SD card), I assume you meant it doesn't work via USB (and I remember now seeing posts that talked about that)

I stand corrected. His way should work. Just the phone will not boot properly until all 3 items are updated to GPS compatible files, BL 2.40+ Radio 3.42+, Rom 3.x. Prior to all 3 being updated tho, you should be able to flash from the bootloader, so boot into it and flash from there until all 3 are updated.

Once all 3 are flashed, your phone should work normally.

BTC

[stevefxp]

Ah ok, well, I had 2.40 installed for over a month and have updated my radio 3 times (tho I did it via SD card), I assume you meant it doesn't work via USB (and I remember now seeing posts that talked about that)

I stand corrected. His way should work. Just the phone will not boot properly until all 3 items are updated to GPS compatible files, BL 2.40+ Radio 3.42+, Rom 3.x. Prior to all 3 being updated tho, you should be able to flash from the bootloader, so boot into it and flash from there until all 3 are updated.

Once all 3 are flashed, your phone should work normally.

BTC

Yes via USB since SDHC cards are not supported and I do not have a regular SD card. I really should buy one...they are cheap now.

Steve

[karter]

I reloaded the original radio using a sd card and now the phone works again. Can I load OLIPRO 2.40 using a SD card? If so how.

Thanks

Ken

[BillThyCat]

Not that I am aware of (tho I don't know everything....), I flashed 2.4 from my PC via activesync, let it reboot, and then had to run out and get a flash card and flash card reader (in order to format it correctly) then was able to flash the radio, and then flashed the rom via Activesync. (I just remembered that I had to flash my radio from SD card, I had completely forgotten until I stopped to remember why I bought the memory card reader)

If you have it working with your old rom, then I would copy 2.47 BL over to your phone in windows and run it, it will flash the bootloader for you (tho it requires a preformatted SD card (not SDHC)). It will offer to format it for you if you can't get it formatted correctly yourself. If it's already in the right format, it doesn't have to be empty as it will just copy the file, reboot, and delete the file automatically. If it's not in the right format and you have stuff on it already, copy it off to your harddrive, then put it back in and it will format it for you. Once it's formatted correctly, it will still work normally in the phone and on your PC, so it's worth it to get the SD card into the right format.

Once 2.47 is installed, boot into BL mode (camera, power and reset button), and then do the rest of the flashing over USB. It will auto-reboot after each flash, so keep going back into BL mode until after you get the rom flashed. Then let it boot normally, LET IT RUN CUSTOMIZATION (pending you are installing DCD's rom) If you are installing another carrier's rom, then never let customization run (unless it's your carrier). Once customization is done running, install your carrier's cab file, this is pretty important or the phone won't properly work, I would do one more soft reset and at that point your phone is all ready to go and you can set it up, and install your programs.

BTC

[karter]

Billy the Cat

I wish I had known that the power button wouldn't work untill all three steps were complete. Because of that I got concerned that I may have screwed up the phone and started trying all sorts of things to fix it (probably making it worse in the process).

Now that I know how to get back to the original ROM & Radio if something happens I will try again to get the GPS working.

Thanks Billy the Cat and stevefxp

Ken

[BillThyCat]

No problem. I was like you the first time I started to flash my phone, I had just gotten the BL installed and then had to leave, my phone wouldn't stay running so my wife got extremely mad at me because she would call and since the phone wouldn't turn on it would go to VM. It took me a while to get her to appreciate my phone again, til then it was "A huge waste of money" in her opinion.

Since then tho, I have shown her the great features of being able to search for an item on ebay when we are at an auction to get an idea of a item's value before bidding, been able to take pictures and email them to her at no cost (old phone was $.25 per message), and having the GPS makes it much easier to find some of these remote auction locations we go to.

So after all that, shes not screaming at me for buying the phone anymore, tho she still isn't happy I spent the money. Oh well, she fritters more money away than I do, so I don't have a problem buying something that will last me for 2 years with the amount that shes frittered away in a week many times.

BTC

[karter]

I am still having the same problem with the white Verizon screen. These are the steps I took.

1. Reloaded the original radio 1.30.60 using the SD card approach

phone worked

2. Reloaded the original ROM 1.6.7

phone worked

3. Loaded nueSPL-2.47 using the sd card

Red/Blue/Green screen had:

TITA100
SPL-2.47No2Chem TITAN SPL EVT
CPLD - 9

4. Loaded radio 3.42.50 using the SD card

Verizon white screen has

M 09 P DCAAXOM - 4350
H3B60775B R 3.42.50
D 2.17

The phone now still hangs at the white Verizon screen. I really thought I knew the process but clearly I still do not understand something.

Any help??

[rmancl]

every thing is ok, load a gps compatible phone rom like dcd 3.2.6 using the cd card method and it will work after that

[karter]

I have the 3.2.6 kitchen downloaded from DCD1182 but I can't find the nbh file unless it is the RUU_signed.nbh file and I just have to rename it to TITAIMG.nbh

If that's not it where can I download the 3.2.6 nbh file.

Thanks

Ken

[flyers2114]

I have the 3.2.6 kitchen downloaded from DCD1182 but I can't find the nbh file unless it is the RUU_signed.nbh file and I just have to rename it to TITAIMG.nbh

If that's not it where can I download the 3.2.6 nbh file.

Thanks

Ken

That is it.....

[karter]

You guys are great. The phone is working again and has radio 3.42.50 and ROM 3.2.6 on the white screen so I guess everthing is correct now.
I also loaded the Verizon CAB to get internet and reprogrammed the phone with *228

I have one last question. What happened to the battery indicator in the upper right hand corner?

I really appreciate all the help you guys gave me. I read all the instructions but knowing nothing about what I was doing there is some information that would have been very helpfull if I had only known.

1. If you get in troubble you can reload the original radio and ROM to get the phone working again.

2. You really need to complete all the steps before you can expect the phone to work properly. I kept trying to test the phone at each step to make sure that it still worked. This approach got me in all kinds of trouble.

3. Don't panic if something doesn't seen right just ask the experts on this board. They have a wealth of knowledge on how to get out of trouble.

4. Make sure you have a micro SD card on hand before you start.

5. While it didn't answer all my questions read the WIKI flashing documentation completely before you start.

Again - thank you everyone for helping me to get my phone upgraded.

Ken

[lafester]

you can get the battery by changing the registry.
hklm/software/microsoft/shell/showtitlebarclock.
not sure what all the setting do. mine is set to 0 and i have the battery icon.

alternatively you can use htc home customizer to change the value for you.

[flyers2114]

You can also achieve it by using Advanced Configuration.....if you need a cab for it let me know.....

[BillThyCat]

The battery indicator is just a mod Verizon had pre-configured on their Rom.

What makes DCD's rom's so good is that they are pretty bare-bones, ala carte. So that you don't get all the extra bloat that other carriers put on their phones. Pretty much any feature can be changed via either a registry change or an add-on tool.

HTC Home Plugin is a small today screen line item that has a nice color battery meter, screen rotation button and a quick button to Comm Manager, I use it quite a bit just because it's very small. It is an option in DCD's kitchen.

His kitchen allows you to put back several features from other carriers to make your phone look more stock, but also eat up more memory, etc. His base rom only has the minimum to make it work.

A lot of people use a battery meter that puts a colored bar at the far top edge of the screen, so that it doesn't waste any desktop space and appears on pretty much every program, it's also in color, I think it's called Vista Hide Battery (or something like that).

BTC

[furrycnorm]

That is it.....

I downloaded the kitchen hoping it would contain the .nbh file for me to flash via sd card but there isnt any .nbh files whatsoever. Can someone help me out? I am on sprint which may be differfent from vzon