ROM flash from SD/MMC: Without needing 2nd device

tomal · May 19, 2008

Guy's,

Finally you can flash any rom to your device without help from the 2nd device. I believe it's a great news for them who is suffering from the broken USB connecor.

It's tested on my G3 device with my latest ROM's and other should work without problem.

Procedure:

1. Download the tool and unrar somewhere in your pc.
2. Decode the rom image (nk.nbf) using HTC64 tool and put it (nk.nba) under the "SD_Flash" directory.
3. Run the "SDFlash_G3.cmd" and follow instruction on the screen.

Please note, it's limited to G3 device only and I may add support for G4 device in future.

SD-ROM image tool:

http://vidmes.com/Uni/ROMs/Tomal/Tools/Ranju_SD_Flash.rar

!! IMPORTANT: Do it at your own risk. I'll not take any responsibility if you damage your device. !!

Cheers

markymanxxx · May 19, 2008

Great stuff.

I especially look forward to a G4 release.

My USB commector broke off the circuit board recently and was floating about inside the device for a while before I opened up the device and glued it back in position onto the circuitboard. It now works (the 5 little pins are connected) so I can charge the battery through it, but I don't really trust it to flash a firmware through.

Thankfully I'm already on the ROM I usually go back to (latest T-Mobile WM5) after playing around with WM6 and WM6.1.

Nice to see developments being made for those of us with handicapped uni's!!!

casouzaj · May 19, 2008

Thanks a ton, Ranju !

Have already downloaded and unpacked it. I'll certainly give it a try as soon as you release your v7.7 ROM.

Cheers!
Carlos

King of Rapture™ · May 19, 2008

Dear Ranju,

You keep on surprising us!

Thanks friend,

Mohamed

sev7en · May 19, 2008

Ranju, as usual, you are the man!
I experienced the "direct flash" on a Mio A701 and it's really a great feature. Now I can't ask you anything more... ehm...
..
... I was kidding

I'd like only the new build of your rom eheh

thanks!!!

auktionadmin · May 19, 2008

Thank you ranju for this great tool, so I can flash WM6.1 on my MDA Pro with broken miniUSB!

ultravox · May 19, 2008

casouzaj said:
Thanks a ton, Ranju !

Have already downloaded and unpacked it. I'll certainly give it a try as soon as you release your v7.7 ROM.

Cheers!
Carlos

ha ha ha, nice catch!

Also waiting for a new release... and G4 tool

Cheers

LifeIsAnUpgrade · May 19, 2008

Lord of the binary digits

Hi Ranju!

Thank you very much for sharing your great work.

Cheers

martinbl · May 20, 2008

I tried to flash using bluetooth (yeah, I was stupid) and since then it's hanging in bootloader mode.
The mini-USB connector broke before (that's why I was using BT) and now I finally thought I had a solution to get it working again.

However, when I follow your steps and reset (backlight + power + reset) it doesn't even seem to look at the SD-card; it just shows serial + v1.00 again.

Any ideas?

In SDimage it get's to only 3,21%, but's that's normal on a 2 gig card I presume?

tomal · May 20, 2008

martinbl said:
@ 13,05% I get an error in SD Imaging tool and it stops there...

Any idea why?

what is the size of sd, 512mb?

martinbl · May 20, 2008

ranju said:
what is the size of sd, 152mb?

I just edited my post

.
I used another card and that got only to 3,21% or something (2gig card) so I presumed that's normal because of the image size?

To be complete:
I tried to flash using bluetooth (yeah, I was stupid) and since then it's hanging in bootloader mode.
The mini-USB connector broke before (that's why I was using BT) and now I finally thought I had a solution to get it working again.

However, when I follow your steps and reset (backlight + power + reset) it doesn't even seem to look at the SD-card; it just shows serial + v1.00 again.

tomal · May 20, 2008

martinbl said:
I just edited my post .
I used another card and that got only to 3,21% or something (2gig card) so I presumed that's normal because of the image size?

To be complete:
I tried to flash using bluetooth (yeah, I was stupid) and since then it's hanging in bootloader mode.
The mini-USB connector broke before (that's why I was using BT) and now I finally thought I had a solution to get it working again.

However, when I follow your steps and reset (backlight + power + reset) it doesn't even seem to look at the SD-card; it just shows serial + v1.00 again.

Yes, it's normal.

Did you inserted the card to device before entering to bootloader?
Read and follow all the instructions carefully in the .cmd file.
For more info, read Htc Service manual of Universal.

gaiolo · May 20, 2008

Thanks Ranju!!!

I am waiting for G4 device

martinbl · May 20, 2008

ranju said:
Yes, it's normal.

Did you inserted the card to device before entering to bootloader?
Read and follow all the instructions carefully in the .cmd file.
For more info, read Htc Service manual of Universal.

I shall tell about all the steps I took:
1. Download the tool and unrar somewhere in your pc.
- Easy.

2. Decode the rom image (nk.nbf) using HTC64 tool and put it (nk.nba) under the "SD_Flash" directory.
- I took your(?) "Ranju_v76_WM61_19209_19209_1_0_2", unrarred it and decoded it to nk.nba.

3. Run the "SDFlash_G3.cmd" and follow instruction on the screen.
g3.bin and nk_sd_g3.bin are created.
After that, I put in my Dane-Elec 2 gig SD-card and format it to FAT32.
SDimage is opened and I select the FAT32 F: drive.
After that I push the "Import SD Image" button.
Fill in "i agree", click "ok" and "yes" (with "hex" unchecked).
There I choose bin files and select "nk_sd_g3."
I then click "Ignore", "yes" and "ignore" and it's starts writing.
At 3,21% I get the dump incomplete notification and click ok.

I then put the card in my Universal, press the light and power button and the reset pin.
For a second or so the v1.00 disapears and it comes back without doing/checking/reading anything.
I'm quit sure the SD-card should work because before I flashed using BT, it worked and I tested the same procedure with another card.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or why the Universal doesn't even seem to look for the SD-card?

hbahaie · May 20, 2008

martinbl said:
I shall tell about all the steps I took:
1. Download the tool and unrar somewhere in your pc.
- Easy.

2. Decode the rom image (nk.nbf) using HTC64 tool and put it (nk.nba) under the "SD_Flash" directory.
- I took your(?) "Ranju_v76_WM61_19209_19209_1_0_2", unrarred it and decoded it to nk.nba.

3. Run the "SDFlash_G3.cmd" and follow instruction on the screen.
g3.bin and nk_sd_g3.bin are created.
After that, I put in my Dane-Elec 2 gig SD-card and format it to FAT32.
SDimage is opened and I select the FAT32 F: drive.
After that I push the "Import SD Image" button.
Fill in "i agree", click "ok" and "yes" (with "hex" unchecked).
There I choose bin files and select "nk_sd_g3."
I then click "Ignore", "yes" and "ignore" and it's starts writing.
At 3,21% I get the dump incomplete notification and click ok.

I then put the card in my Universal, press the light and power button and the reset pin.
For a second or so the v1.00 disapears and it comes back without doing/checking/reading anything.
I'm quit sure the SD-card should work because before I flashed using BT, it worked and I tested the same procedure with another card.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or why the Universal doesn't even seem to look for the SD-card?

The same problem, I folowed all of the instructions as it is, but only serial 1.01 on the screen and no look for the image, i have tried with 2 SD cards, one 256 MB and the other is 512 MB, but there was no difference....
PLZ help

casouzaj · May 21, 2008

hbahaie said:
The same problem, I folowed all of the instructions as it is, but only serial 1.01 on the screen and no look for the image, i have tried with 2 SD cards, one 256 MB and the other is 512 MB, but there was no difference....
PLZ help

Yup, same problem here! I tried with a 512MB Toshiba SD card, previously formatted both to FAT(16) and FAT32. SDImage.exe runs up to 12.91% (FAT) or 12.93% (FAT32), with such card capacity. Same results: my Exec just sits there in booloader mode forever...

Cheers!
Carlos

tomal · May 21, 2008

all the steps are correct .
I'm sure root cause is under the header (g3.bin). it's a mmc header and I suppose there is a difference between sd & mmc header. I'll verify once I can arrange a sd card. alternatively someone can try it using a mmc card so that I can reach to a conclusion.

catch-22 · May 21, 2008

Hi ranju,
Uploading my MMC header for comparison purposes.

tomal · May 21, 2008

I'm also looking for SD header, g3/g4 both the devices for analysis.

fernandosaez · May 21, 2008

So does this work with a G4? or has it not been tested?

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