PDA

View Full Version : Phone will not flash, please help!

joestop
22nd October 2008, 10:41 PM
Please fogive me for the noobish question. I've read several threads and followed all the steps in the wiki andam still having problems.

My 6800 locked up so I hit the reset button. The phone quickly flashed "No image file!" and then went to the red-green-blue screen.

As per the wiki, I downloaded the appropriate ROM image and proceeded to follow the directions. Unfortuately, when I attach the phone to the USB port, Windows reports it as an "unknown device". I ran titan_excitbl.exe and I get an error that is can not open the USB port.

My finace has the same phone and her phone is recognized by my computer just fine.

So I decided to try the micro SD method. My laptop does not have a micro SD reader so I used her phone (attached to my laptop) to copy/rename the .nbh file to the mico SD card. (I am hoping that the factory format of the card is already FAT32). I put the card in my phone, hit POWER-CAMERA-RESET and still the same... "No image found!" and then the tr-bar screen.

The screen reads (in the red bar):
TITA100
SPL-1.04.0000

and reads (in the white bar):
Serial (will change to USB when I plug the USB cable in)

Also, then connected to power, the power/chargin light does not come on and pressing/holding the power button does nothing.

HELP! PLEASE!

Thanks!
Joe
jambrose
22nd October 2008, 10:47 PM
Don't assume it has the right format. Make sure it is not a high density card as well and less than or equal to 2gig and format it per the wiki and then put the NBH file back on there. I would check to see if that phone will work with any USB on other computers. It might be a hardware problem.
joestop
23rd October 2008, 12:01 AM
the device won't recognise on any of my three pc's. as for the card, it's the factory 512mb that came with the phone. still trying to get my hands on a micro sd reader.

htc seems to think it's a hw problem but i'm hoping someone here is familiar with the issue and has some additional insight.
worldwidepmp
23rd October 2008, 01:27 AM
You may have the wrong bootloader what Rom are you trying to flash?
joestop
23rd October 2008, 02:21 AM
You may have the wrong bootloader what Rom are you trying to flash?

Again, forgive my ignorance as I am an IT guy, but when it comes to phones, I'm a total newb. I extracted the .nbh file from 3.56.651.0 - (Radio 3.42.02) that was found linked on the wiki for flashing to the factory Sprint ROM.

Given the info I listed in my orginal post, if this was the wrong file to use, PLEASE let me know.

I picked up a micro SD adapter tonight found out that the factory installed card is formatted as FAT. So I reformatted it as FAT32, copied/renamed the image file once again and WHALAH! It loaded the image and re-flashed the ROM.

Now the new problem...

It still only boots to the tri-bar screen but now is says:
TITA100
SPL-2.07.000
CPLD-9

Ok, so obviously something new took as the information is now different. But what am I missing?

Thanks!... again!
Joe

*** UPDATE ***

Ok, I flashed it once more and this time it boots and appears to be working! It took FORVER to get past the Windows Moble 6.1 splash screen but so far so good.

Thank you!!
jambrose
23rd October 2008, 02:57 AM
sounds like your bootloader is whacked, but with the USB not working it might be hard to get a good one on there. I would recommend nueSPL-2.47 but I am not sure if there is a NBH file to do it from the SD card or not. You might want to search around and update the bootloader. Also make sure that you take the SD card out once it has updated the phone and it resets. I think it is take it back and get another phone time.
joestop
23rd October 2008, 03:53 AM
I added an update to my post above... I got it working. For whatever reason (I'm sure there is one, I just don't know what it is, lol) I had to run the flash twice. After the second time, it booted right up :)

Now being an IT geek, all this "cooking" stuff has perked my curiosity. I'm going to try to flash this thing with one of the custom ROMs that seem to be pretty popular :rolleyes:
flyers2114
23rd October 2008, 09:49 AM
I added an update to my post above... I got it working. For whatever reason (I'm sure there is one, I just don't know what it is, lol) I had to run the flash twice. After the second time, it booted right up :)

Now being an IT geek, all this "cooking" stuff has perked my curiosity. I'm going to try to flash this thing with one of the custom ROMs that seem to be pretty popular :rolleyes:

When you do be sure to use Nuespl 2.47....
joestop
23rd October 2008, 12:20 PM
When you do be sure to use Nuespl 2.47....

Thanks for the heads-up!