[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tibben:
Hi!

The story: I have a Nexus One that was given to me by a Google employee some time ago, it is the version of the phone that lacks the Google and HTC branding on the back, instead it has an Android robot holding a flag with a QR code on it. It has served me well but I am now giving it away. Here is some information about the phone:

Model number: Nexus One

Android version: 2.3.6

Baseband version: 32.41.00.32U_5.08.00.04

Kernel version: 2.6.35.7-59465-g42bad32 android-build@apa28 #1

Build number: GRK39F

The current available languages are: German, English (two choices), Spanish (two choices), French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and four different oriental languages.

The problem: The phone lacks localisation in Swedish. The person I am giving the phone to needs to have swedish both as a system language and as a dictionary for spellchecking.

The solution?: When Vodafone released the Nexus One on the european market they made a slightly customized version that included swedish, among other nordic languages. The idea that I had is that I could use that ROM and flash my phone with it in order to get swedish.

But of course I've run into problems. :)

Here's what I've done so far:

I've downloaded a 2.3.4 passimg.zip file that I cannot link to because I am a new user.

And a 2.3.4 to 2.3.6 update.zip

I've been told that they're both the Vodafone version.

1. I've placed the passimg.zip (Yes, it is named correctly) on the root of the SD card and powered on the phone by holding the power button and the trackball.

2. FASTBOOT comes up, I press once on the power button with "BOOTLOADER" selected.

3. HBOOT comes up, a couple of seconds pass and then this happens:

SD Checking...

Loading...[PASSDIAG.zip]

No image!

Loading...[PASSDIAG.nbh]

No image or wrong image!

Loading...[PASSIMG.zip]

A blue vertical bar shows up in the upper right corner and it slowly fills up, then a new screens pops up where it says:

HBOOT

Checking..[PASSIMG.zip]

5-10 seconds pass and then it throws me back to the HBOOT screen without any additional text or anything else. What gives?

Here's some additional information that might help out, this is what it says about my phone in HBOOT:

NEXUSONE PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.35.0017

MICROP-0a15

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0102

RADIO-5.08.00.04

Oct 12 2010, 14:33:16

Here's the information from android-info.txt that is inside the passimg.zip file that I'm trying to flash:

ModelID: PB9911000

ModelID: PB9910000

ModelID: PB991****

ModelID: PASSI****

ModelID: PB99*****

ModelID: PASS*****

CIDNUM: GOOGL001

CIDNUM: 11111111

hbootpreupdate: 2

MainVer: 3.10.1700.1

Phew! Okay, I'm obviously a noob at this and I may have gone overboard with the amount of detail provided.

Just to pre-empt a few suggestions:

1. Why don't you just install some apps from Android Market to give you swedish language?

A: I am looking for something permanent that cannot be messed up by the user.

2. Just download a custom ROM?

A: I will if I have to, but I am holding off on doing that because I as a noob don't want to get in over my head unless I have to by rooting and all that. I also desire something that has the stock Gingerbread look and is very stable without issues.

Anyway, any help is very much appreciated. :)