sschrupp
11th September 2008, 09:57 PM
So I got myself an HTC Blue Angel a while back and it's great. My wife wanted one too so I got another one from Ebay. This one is not so great!
The sync slot seemed kind of loose and it wouldn't function hooked up to the cable. It did however work when sitting in the cradle. Since it seemed to be working I proceeded to upgrade the ROM to the latest Winmo 6.1, and started to put some programs and games on for her.
Well I got busy doing other things for a couple days, and when I go to plug it in again to sync and install a few more things the screen dims, getting garbled and finally goes black. The charging light slowly turns to red. I take it off the cradle, and try the sync cable just to check. No deal. I soft reset and I see that the radio versions say "None". I hard reset and the thing seems to work fine again.
But any time I try to sync or charge it the thing just pukes and shuts down. The batteries do charge while plugged in, but it's non-functional. To make matters worse I attempted to put my Sim card in and realize the phone isn't working either. So now I have a wifi/music/movie device with no phone.
Now the Ebayer I bought it from has a 30 day return policy, but I'm afraid that if I mention I upgraded the ROM away from OEM that they'll say I'm out of luck, thank you and goodbye.
Does anyone know a way to get the OEM ROM back onto this thing without using a sync cable/cradle? It goes into bootloader mode, but of course can't connect to cradle or sync cable making that worthless unless there's a way to IRDA, bluetooth, or wi-fi a ROM upgrade.
Or, how about a way to erase the ROM altogether so they don't know I upgraded it to begin with? I know, that's a crummy way to think, but the device is junk anyways. Shame on me for thinking devious, but shame on them for selling me a device that "Works great".
Any help/advice would be appreciated!
The sync slot seemed kind of loose and it wouldn't function hooked up to the cable. It did however work when sitting in the cradle. Since it seemed to be working I proceeded to upgrade the ROM to the latest Winmo 6.1, and started to put some programs and games on for her.
Well I got busy doing other things for a couple days, and when I go to plug it in again to sync and install a few more things the screen dims, getting garbled and finally goes black. The charging light slowly turns to red. I take it off the cradle, and try the sync cable just to check. No deal. I soft reset and I see that the radio versions say "None". I hard reset and the thing seems to work fine again.
But any time I try to sync or charge it the thing just pukes and shuts down. The batteries do charge while plugged in, but it's non-functional. To make matters worse I attempted to put my Sim card in and realize the phone isn't working either. So now I have a wifi/music/movie device with no phone.
Now the Ebayer I bought it from has a 30 day return policy, but I'm afraid that if I mention I upgraded the ROM away from OEM that they'll say I'm out of luck, thank you and goodbye.
Does anyone know a way to get the OEM ROM back onto this thing without using a sync cable/cradle? It goes into bootloader mode, but of course can't connect to cradle or sync cable making that worthless unless there's a way to IRDA, bluetooth, or wi-fi a ROM upgrade.
Or, how about a way to erase the ROM altogether so they don't know I upgraded it to begin with? I know, that's a crummy way to think, but the device is junk anyways. Shame on me for thinking devious, but shame on them for selling me a device that "Works great".
Any help/advice would be appreciated!