yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Titan] zcarman:
And now you can see why even though I have some experience with this, I don't want to attempt making a cable, tracking down something to make a gold card, then try whizzing into a mountain dew bottle at 90mph through a winding bumpy road...

LOL
[HTC Titan] :
Coming from experience and reading others experience's...Even if you try and get the fabled 2.5 SPL stick, you will most likely not brick your device. I have a stuck 2.5 spl on one of my Titan's and I still have functionality with it, along with the latest OS updates eg 7.8. However, there is always that possibility of something going massively wrong. I myself thought I bricked my Titan after the stuck 2.5. -Got the infinite boot loop...etc. However, I was able to overcome the issue and get back a working OS by flashing HTC's own 2.6 spl from their website.

IMO-If you are not planning on having the Titan for very long ... I would go at it.
[HTC Titan] berrywr:
This fear about bricking your phone is way over-rated; I mean if all else fails you're stuck at the infamous SPL2.5 and like more than a few Titans running around it is the internal memory that is giving you headaches by not behaving correctly. I will say this for certain, with this device its a whole lot easier to de-HSPL your device than any I've done in the past. No one here is going to put their stamp on your device and say you won't brick your phone; why, there is always some dumb back end of a donkey that proves us wrong.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
Hi all.

I need your help...

I just got my HTC Titan (at&t) and I need to debrand it since I leave at Greece...

I created my Y-cable and now I have to download the required files.

I looked here http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1597837 as I should

for the goldcard but there is no link for the titan... only for other 2nd generation wp7 devices...

Please, can someone direct me to the right links cause right now, my titan is useless...
[HTC Titan] malvo26:
Your looking in the wrong posts. You should follow the instructions as described in the first post of this thread and you need to first of all flash the European rom to get rid the at&t branding and be able to do the following flash steps as described. These have to be done by Gold Card Flashing. Once done you can flash the custom rom of your choice the normal way. Be careful because you can brick your phone and by the way the phone has to be sim unlocked. Give us a bit more information. What Titan model do you have? If it's a Titan II then you are out of luck. If it's the Titan I then you can flash. Go into boot loader mode let us know what it says and we'll find a way to help you.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
hi,

I have titan I and in bootloader it reads:

PI39100

SPL-1.10.160015.3(132409)

eMMC SANDISK 15188MB,F:B7

TOUCH A1(F:81,ID:1,V11,B:F8)

Radio-16.23.02.26_A
[HTC Titan] malvo26:
Ok, that looks promising. Is your phone factory unlocked (carrier unlocked)?
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
i don't understand that.

They told me that they will email me with an unlock code , if that helps you...
[HTC Titan] malvo26:
OK, first you have to wait for the unlock code in order to carrier unlock. In your case at&t is the carrier. Once unlocked to can start to debrand and for that you have to flash Europe rom onto your phone. So let me know when you unlocked the phone with the code they are sending you.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
ok thanks in advance.

I'll wait...
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
[MENTION=4653015]malvo26[/MENTION] : I recieved my unlock code and it worked BUT everytime I reboot my phone I have to re-input the code...
[HTC Titan] malvo26:
That is strange. When you say reboot do you mean turn off and back on the phone or do you mean reset the phone to factory default in settings pressing "reset your phone"? In last case that is normal but I don't know why.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
no, it happens in every simple reset.

From what I've seen many others have the same problem...

btw, I did this:

I input the code,

shut down the phone,

made the goldcard,copy paste the IMG_Eternity_HTC_Europe_1.09.401.02_Radio_16.23.02.09_A_16.24.00.23_Signed_ETERNITY_RELEASE.nbh

whitch I renamed first as ETERNIMG.nbh

started the proccess, USB mode started,

flash started,

at the end it shuted down,

I restart the device and the only thing changed is the SPL version, from 1.10.x.x.x to 1.9.x.x.x

still branded...
[HTC Titan] berrywr:
Timeout !!! You're good to go on step 1! What you need is SPL205 aka Step 2 and then DFT HSPL aka Step 3. I highly recommend you opt to go Goldcard method. Follow the original instructions on this procedure or follow mine that are not in the too distance past on this thread. You get one shot at this so you really, really read the instructions before proceeding. Half the battle is the SPL; it has to read 1.10 or 1.09 depending on whether you have the European or the US version.
[HTC Titan] malvo26:
[MENTION=1203383]berrywr[/MENTION]: he's good to go straight away with step 2 (because he has 1.9.x.x.x already flashed) and then step 3. Step 2 debrands the phone and step 3 enables the phone to install customs roms of your choice.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
Hi, I did the goldcard method all from the beginning.

This time, also the os was updated, now it is not the at&t version but the europian.

The SPL is 1.09.x.x.x.

The strange thing is that the phone is still branded (!). In spl screen it reads PI39100 and I have to input the unlock code everytime I reboot the device...

...

EDIT:

I installed spl 2.05 and my titan is still branded...

I tried to install HSPL but I can't get the connection establised...

Waiting for instructions...
[HTC Titan] malvo26:
What do you mean by "still branded"? Do you mean the at&t-logo on the phone? That will not disappear, unfortunately. Enter the SPL-mode and please inform what it says.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
The at&t logo! If you mean the one that is printed on the top of the lcd I hope that you are kidding...

If you are talking about the rest of at&t cooking, it's gone (right after the installation of the europian rom).

The problem is that my titan is still PI39100 and not x310e...

In SPL it reads:

PI39100 MFG

SPL-2.5.160015.3(137079)

eMMC SND 15188MB

TOUCH A1(F:81, ID:1,V11,B:F8)

Radio-16.23.02.09_A

And everytime I startup the device, I have to input the unlock code that the seller provided me so that i can use sim cards other than at&t's...

I'm gonna try again to HSPL and I hope that it will work...

The input of the unlock code is the least important problem right now...

And please keep in mind that I'm not a complete ignorant,

my previous htc's where the blackstone and the HD2...

It's just the first time that I bought a branded device...

EDIT: Allthough HSPL says that it installed successfully,SPL is still 2.05...

EDIT #2: From what I've seen, all at&t titans have to re-input the unlock code after restarting - even with a custom rom - ,

so we don't have to bother about this issue anymore.

Also if I'm not mistaken, PI39100 MFG with SPL-2.5.160015 is what I should have before HSPL.

So, everything is ok till this point...

But, when I try to install HSPL, it connects, installs, says that in installed successfully, device reboots, but still has PI39100 MFG with SPL-2.5.160015!

Now what?
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
anyone???
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
Hi (again),

I searched everywhere without any luck... I wrote in every single post with no reply...

So I'll try once again...

I have an at&t titan and after debranding,I'm stuck with spl 2.05 mfg . I have european rom and updated via cabsender to 7.8...

It's the first time i seek for help without respond...
[HTC Titan] berrywr:
I don't want to come off sounding like I'm being deliberately rude so know up front what I'm about to say....please read the instructions and when you're done, read them again. It's like a recipe, there are no shortcuts and even if you do this like a number of us who failed more than our fair share and finally succeeded there are no guarantees here. I was like you once thinking there's a quick fix or I might get lucky. I bought a Titan already HSPL and one night after I got the hardware needed to do this thinking I had about as good a handle on the procedure successfully HSPL'd my wife's Titan at the expense of OSPL'd by device. It took me four days to re-HSPL my device and not by the path I HSPL'd my wife's device. I took notes from all the WP7.x HSPL threads of other devices. Hardware is hardware! PI39100 is the model number of your device. Yes, you can software and registry manipulate your device. I also own a HTC HD2 which can also be installed with WP7.8. I continue to own that device for testing purposes with Android. I wish I had an answer for you but it is safe to say at this point there is no more HSPL development with any manufacturer's devices following the HTC Titan (Eternity). You may remember the Titan II was released almost immediately following the release of the Titan I. The Titan II (Radiance) got a 4G LTE radio and a 16 megapixel camera; it too introduced to us the end of HSPL. Why in the world Microsoft and carriers are hell bent on doing this...who knows...maybe what broke on the news this past week had something to do with it but I do remember the fuss it stirred up a while back on something similar on our devices.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
Believe me, I did read more than five times the procedure, I made the y-usb for the goldcard method , found all the hardware I needed, read the procedure five more times, and then did the debrand and the spl update as I was supposed to... The only thing I didn't do, and I'm afraid that it could be the reason I'm stuck, is that after installing spl 2.05, I didn't install spl2.6 - this is something some guys did but I found it out later on another post... . So, after spl 2.05, I tried to HSPL with no luck.

Do you know if I can unlock the titan (with official 7.5 eu rom , updated via cabsender to 7.8) so I can sideinstall xaps?

I never used any unlock for wp so I'm not familiar with the procedure...

Thanks in advance...
[HTC Titan] berrywr:
I remember when HTC came out with that update and right this very moment I don't know what that fix was. The step 1, step 2 and step 3 "steps" do not require that update. I do know the steps I took to HSPL my wife's Titan was "cake" compared to accidentally relocking my HSPL Titan and re-HSPL again...it took 4 days and a zillion attempts and a level of patience I didn't think I possessed. I visited threads from all over the Windows Phone 7.x forums here at XDA and WPCentral and jotted that process down and had a new appreciation for the developers here at this web site. It too has made me way more careful in what my next device is likely to be and while I prefer to remain with Windows Phone 8 or 9 in the months ahead; there is a hard reality that our customizing days are likely over on this platform.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
I agree with the last part about wp...

One last question: Was any of these devices of yours stuck on spl 2.5?

Cause only then I have to retry...
[HTC Titan] elmanortega:
There is no way ton fix 2.05

DFT is no longer working on second or third gen devices

cotulla needs a device stuck in 2.05 to see what happens

it seems like nobody else is working on WP

only DFT and they are busy right now

for now and i think for ever you are stuck there buddy
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
Thanks..

atleast finally I have an answer...
[HTC Titan] elmanortega:
it looks like the sd card use to do the 2.05 is the one with the problem

some have had sucess by using a card reader some other with sd card class 4 and up

some no luck at all

too bad cotulla is not working on it

we should pay cotulla to fix it he is good but most devs dont make a dime

good luck
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
At first I tried with a usb stick - goldcard method success - but after a few re-format it went out of order,but I was already stuck with 2.05.

Afterwards I tried from the beggining with a card reader and an 512mb sd card - goldcard method success - but still stuck with 2.05...

I give up...
[HTC Titan] elmanortega:
i just talked to cotulla, he needs a titan stuck in 2.05 to see whats going on, i will try to find one is there some one that can help me?
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
Any luck???
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
I quess I have to forget about HSPL my ATT titan...
[HTC Titan] berrywr:
I remember getting stuck on that SPL too. I wrote a step by step of the pair of Titans I have which one was already HSPL but ironically relocked using it as a guide to unlock the other. I had a fun, fun, fun time getting my device interop unlocked a second time and damn near gave up. It is imperative you use the Goldcard method. Don't buy any cheap memory cards here...get a really good USB flash drive or an adapter for a microSD card; I use the PNY 4GB thumb drive and had no success with microSD cards. The only advice I can give all of you trying this is really be patient...just like y'all, I gave up when the flash from SPL2.05 to HSPL 2.05 occurred following a long, long wait of it doing nothing and what seemed like 30 minutes the phone suddenly flashed it and I had HSPL once again. It happened out of the blue. It took me three days before I got the right combination to do so and I mean a lot of reading through these threads up and down XDA asking a lot of questions a long the way. There has been some discussion that depending on how old and how new in the manufacturing cycle of the Titan PI39100s may hinge on whether a successful HSPL can be done and whether the internal drives of these phones weren't up to par and blocks can be corrupted making it impossible to HSPL. It seemed just before the release of the Titan II PI86100 that the newer PI39100s could not be HSPL'd but the European cousins the x310e's could using a 1.09 SPL ROM; the key being taking the OSPL to either 1.09 or 1.10 before returning to SPL2.05. HTC had an update to 2.06, it had no effect up or down when the phones first came out. I've been on the fence as to whether to upgrade to Windows Phone 8. You guys are serious about owning one or both of them, I'm open to selling them. I will burn everything I have especially the ROMs and software I have sitting on my hard drive or reflash them to your specifications if anybody is interested. Take care!

Update - I looked for the Cingular and European ROMs needed to downgrade the SPL; both files clock in at 377 and 411 megabytes and use to be available at a few servers worldwide; I could find no links to perform this download; I have them on my laptop; pm me for instructions.
[HTC Titan] spyros_tazz:
Well, since I didn't manage to HSPL my ATT Titan, I dev unlock it for up to 2 apps. Is there a chance to sideload a xap which will change this value in the registy, from 2 to eg 20?

This way all of as who couldnt HSPL our Titans will be able to deploy a few apps...
[HTC Titan] insigniared:
how do I manually reboot it, my flash procedure went fine, it says flash succesfull, but how do I perfoorm a manually reboot? thank you
[HTC Titan] macelius:
OMFG, changing OMEGIMG.nbh to OMEGDIAG.nbh totally worked for my US T-Mobile HTC Radar!!

A Million Thanks!!!
[HTC Titan] zenmatefh:
hii .. i encountred a issue witch really not be one ... when flashing via host mode its go up to 99% and then fail with error code 39 ... :(

i reboot back to spl andd found that spl version upgrade succefull to 2.5 instead but stock system goes on (brick ? : not really.. ahh stock system who care about :) ) ..

i countinue doing the tricks as the guide presume ... at the end guest what Hspl cotulla written succefull ...

Lesson : i thinks that base rom (stock system) whas broken, reason of the error code at the end of process . but till bootloader flashed succefullly (witch is the only important ) we're good to go .. 03.20.2016 .. (yes some some of us still love oldshcool thing hehe ) thanks a lot for your hard work you and your team .. cheers ;)
[HTC Titan] zup2sky:
UPDATE: All this time I had connected wrong ends to the computer.

Now that I have connected the right end it flashed fine and I now have HSPL installed. Thank you for this tutorial!

For those who have flashed HSPL with European Rom- do you see lower cellular signal? Able to flash ONLY stock at&t radio rom?
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
Quite a bit of activity has happened since I've been offline for a few days (moved to a new apartment, had to wait for the new modem to come by courier from my ISP).

Anyways, I'm glad that so far this guide has been working for several of you =)

I should address that not ALL SD cards and readers will work. My first SD I purchased did not work, nor did the multireader. However, I believe it's because the SD was HC, and I believe I've read somewhere that regular SDs that are 1-2gb are the best. As for USB drives, I've tried a handful of them and none of them worked.

Your best bet is to just stick with a 2gb SD card (mine was from Sony) and a single-card reader. The card reader was cheap and made by some off-brand company called Marco Polo. But it worked for me.
[HTC Titan] Prerna:
Thanks for the guide, I decided to give it a go today, and while the European gets downloaded (still 2 hours to go), I'm going carefully through the instructions.

One question I have is about the SPL. Mine is 4.6 currently. In your instructions (taken from Cotulla HSPL thread), there is a warning about "an issue about not updating to 4.xx.xxxx.xx roms". Does it mean I should maybe not do it with my device?

It's PI39110 by the way.
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
Ahh yes, the dreaded 4.xx.xxxx.xx rom warning. To my understanding, this warning is that if you try to install DFT's custom rom prior to downgrading with an official rom, you may or may not soft-brick your device.

That being said, if you want to be completely on the safe side about this, I would highly recommend you download the Cingular stock rom I've linked on the guide prior to installing the European stock rom. For all I know, I may be including an unnecessary step in this process...however, my rom version was already at 1.xx.xxxx.xx, thus I couldn't try to see if this step was needed or not.

If you're cautious at heart, I would just downgrade first to the Cingular rom, then the Euro rom. Or, if you have absolutely no fear in soft-bricking your device, you may try to directly downgrade to the Euro rom and skip the Cingular rom. If you do, please report your results and I'll gladly include them into the guide and credit you properly. However, do this at your own discretion. Good luck and happy flashing!
[HTC Titan] Prerna:
Thanks, process is ongoing (flashing European rom), without doing first the Cingular. Will report once all done.
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
No problem. And good luck again; I do hope it works out. If it does, you will know immediately by booting into SPL mode and seeing the changed rom number, as well as it displaying two more rows of text beneath it. If not, you reached a soft-brick. Also, to test that the European rom was installed, just boot up your phone; it should display the phone model I.D. as x310e and not x310a
[HTC Titan] Prerna:
Hi,

Went all fine without Cingular. I ended up installing a custom rom which works fine, thanks. Your guide needs an update regarding the steps to make a Gold card. The way it is now is wrong and misleading.

+ your description on the process of Gold Card differed for me in the sense that once the flash was over there was no reboot, only the same screen as during the flash, with a note saying the flash went successful. You might want to modify your statement and add that a manual reboot is necessary at that stage in order to check the current SPL.

Luckily I had done it before for my Mozart, so the process was somehow easy for me even without the proper instruction.
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
Interesting...in my experience, my phone did not require a manual reboot, it did it on its own.

I shall update the guide accordingly to your findings and make a note on that most likely a manual reboot is required. Thank you for your findings.
[HTC Titan] 09caeza32:
am so confused... please help me.

in the step one say: "Once you successfully made your goldcard, you will then drag and drop the .nbh image file into the SD card." which is the file ".nbh"???where is it? where do I download?

thanks
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
NBH files are the rom images. Please, if you are not familiar with these terms, please think very carefully about going through this process. This process is not for beginners whatsoever.

I'm not trying to attack you or anything about this, but if you didn't know what an .nbh file was, perhaps you should wait on this until an easier method on unlocking the Titan is released, just so you don't screw up anything with your phone! =)
[HTC Titan] 09caeza32:
thanks, i want continue,

where the file was downloaded. nbh?

my english not is good. am sorry and thanks
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
In the download section...listed as Eternity European rom...just look towards the bottom for the appropriate link that will lead you to the downloads.
[HTC Titan] 09caeza32:
the rom european dont work, the screen say "loading" for few second and back to screen spl. But rom circular yes work, but not make changes in the phone. what wrong???
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
Then you must have not properly read the instructions.

You need to download the correct European rom, which is HTC Eternity EU official rom 1.09.401.02 as listed in the instructions. Then, rename the rom name into 'ETERIMG.nbh' without quotation marks. After, place it onto the SD card prior to making it a gold card image. Then goldcard the SD, and apply the method onto your phone. If it still does not work, then I cannot really answer you what is going wrong, per se.

By the way, I made it a note in the instructions that installing the Cingular rom is no longer necessary...so please read the instructions one more time properly before attempting this.
[HTC Titan] 09caeza32:
my phone say PI391100 MFG, i want to go back, do not say MFG, to try again from the beginning....how can i do?? thanks
[HTC Titan] elmanortega:
i did folloewed the inst and i cant do it

all good till hspl

dint worked

im waiting for att hspl
[HTC Titan] pbp8ntballer:
As I made a note, this guide isn't guaranteed to work. It has worked for several people so far, including myself, but at the same time, there are people who reported that following the guide properly does not allow them to apply HSPL.

Make sure you downgraded your ATT Titan properly to a european rom, in order to debrand it via Goldcard method

Make sure you installed the custom 2.05 rom from DFT included in their download on their thread. Without it, you CANNOT gain HSPL at all.
[HTC Titan] Mayh3m:
Wont Go Past "Enter USB Host Mode"

I can not get past the "Enter USB Host Mode..." message, and its driving me bananas!

Setup: using a male to female, female 'USB Power/charging Y cable" purchased at Radio Shack

Male plugged into wall charger

Female 1 has the kingston micro USB reader with the card plugged directly into it

Female 2 has the Male USB to male micro USB plugged into my phone.

Ive tried both methods of Gold Card creation: 1) using goldcard tool, then copying ETERIMG.nbh to card

2) Copying ETERIMG.nbh to card, then using Goldcard tool

Ive also tried switching Phone from Female A to Female B, and goldcard from female B to Female A.

I'm thinking at this point (as I'm typing this plea for help, in fact) that the Y-Cable I purchased transfers only Power, not Data, which would be why its called a 'Power/Charging Y-Cable". Drat. One moment..

After plugging the Y-Cable with the goldcard attached directly into my computer, my suspicions are confirmed: I am an idiot.

I hope this post help anyone else who wasted 2 hours trying to use a POWER CHARGING Y-CABLE to transfer DATA. In a nutshell, it wont work. Wait for the real deal from Taiwan.

Looks like I'll have to wait on the Y-Cable I ordered from E-Bay after all. Cursed 2-week shipping from Taiwan....:crying: