Upgrading possible this way or not?

[spone1]

First of all, I have studied quite some threads about flashing the Diamond in the past days, read the stickies and gone through the pages at modmydiamond.

I now set the following plan, and I would really love to have some confirmation before I break something ;)

If I understand it correctly the procedure is like this:

- flash Hard-SPL signed/unsigned
- optionally update radio ROM
- flash desired operating system ROM.

The following is the case: I have a sim-unlocked (from factory) T-Mobile MDA Compact IV, a DIAM200 with the Dutch 1.37.114.3 ROM, accompanied by the 1.37.0000 SPL. The installed ROM is heavily branded by T-Mobile, and I want to install the non-branded HTC 1.93 Dutch one.

As a preparation I downloaded the signed Hard-SPL 1.30 from this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=400402) thread, and installed it, and verified it was installed.

Since I wanted to install the non-branded HTC ROM I grabbed RUU_Diamond_HTC_NLD_1.93.404.1_Radio_Signed_Diamon d_52.29.25.12_1.00.25.05_Ship.exe file from here (http://duttythroy.net/download-area.html?task=finish&cid=46&catid=8&m=0) and tried to install it but no success: it got stuck at 0%. (Doesn't that mean that it won't flash unsigned ROM at signed (S)SPL?) What I want to do now is install the 1.40 Hard-SPL unsigned and attempt to install the HTC ROM again.

Now my question is: can I do this safely without transforming my device into an expensive paperweight? Thanks for reading :)

[dominique2222]

Hello

I found a simple way for flashing.

Have a look here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=423978&page=2

[spone1]

I took the gamble and succeeded. This is how I did it:

- Flashed Hard-SPL 1.40 unsigned using the utility
- Extracted the nbf from the downloaded exe file (Dutch official HTC ROM) using NBHUtil 0.92, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=409425
- Joined the OS & Splash together, leaving out the SPL and Radio ROMS, made sure the CID and Model ID were correct (see that thread)
- Flashed it with the RUU the Dutch ROM came with.
...

- Profit.

[dominique2222]

If you want only the original HTC rom, you can install it by the original update software provided by HTC.

Simply connect your Diamond through USB / active sync and luch the update utility.

You can find last 1.93 here : http://www.files.to/get/342564/gn2jg25lvr

Good luck ;)

[spone1]

Well in my case the combination of Hard-SPL 1.30 and the official HTC 1.93 updater wouldn't let me update the phone's software: I got stuck at 0%. Further inspection of the nbh file showed me it was aimed at DIAM10000. I am not sure if that made the difference or that the Hard-SPL blocked the flash, can't tell.

btw dominique2222, the file you linked in post #4 seems to be a German (GER) file, not Dutch (NLD) :)

[A2Z]

I took the gamble and succeeded. This is how I did it:

- Flashed Hard-SPL 1.40 unsigned using the utility
- Extracted the nbf from the downloaded exe file (Dutch official HTC ROM) using NBHUtil 0.92, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=409425
- Joined the OS & Splash together, leaving out the SPL and Radio ROMS, made sure the CID and Model ID were correct (see that thread)
- Flashed it with the RUU the Dutch ROM came with.
...

- Profit.


Finally a guy who persueded me to go and do it :-)
Thanks your hits helped me out and now I have a real Diamond.
BTW how about the hard buttons? I recall that they are swapped between MDA Compact IV and HTC Diamond ?

[spone1]

The hard buttons will work fine, in case you didn't find that out already :)

[A2Z]

The hard buttons will work fine, in case you didn't find that out already :)

Yep I noticed its all OK and I was actually surprised but the position ( as it looks ) does not care the keyboard matrix address appearently is fixing this