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

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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/Too...u_SD_Flash.rar


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


Cheers

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!!!

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

Dear Ranju,

You keep on surprising us!

Thanks friend,

Mohamed

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



thanks!!!

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

Originally Posted by casouzaj

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

Lord of the binary digits

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Hi Ranju!

Thank you very much for sharing your great work.

Cheers

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?

Originally Posted by martinbl

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

Any idea why?

what is the size of sd, 512mb?