[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] miwu:
Hello,

because my posting in this forum wasn'n answered i tried to fix together with Mr. Wolf from Wolfsoft (www.wolfsoft.de - also great for fast XDA RAM-Upgrades) with the informations i found.

Everytime i write the i did something - i mean - we did it! We worked hard together for this solution.

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First:

Maybe, surely you can destroy you XDA-ROM more than it was destroyed before. I not guarrante or take responibility for any errors or damages occuring while trying the next steps.

Situation:

I upgraded my german O2-XDA in the wrong way. After this I had the following problem:

- The O2-bubbles appearing after soft- or hard resetting the XDA are displayed for 3 or 4 minutes. In the right bottom corner of the display the Version of WinCE ist dissplayed (3.14), after some times someting more was shown but that seemes to be from a crashed source.

- After the "pling" a white screen with a blue bar on the top is displayed. The screen-light doensn't turn off. Nothing more happened, after 20 or 30 Minutes the XDA performs a soft reset automatically - after this the same problems occuring

Requrements I needed to fix my problem:

- 1 (better 2 SD-Cards with minimum 32MB Capacity)

- XDA Cradle connected to the PC and Power

- in some cases 1 Charging cable (USB or Power) with a connector for the XDA

- The Program A and Program B - Files provided by german O2 website

- The repair.zip-File provided by XDA-Developers

- A second XDA or a SD-Card-Reader connected with your PC

- many time

- Your XDA must have a working bootloader (mine was Version 5.15), try it by holding the Power-button while performing a soft-reset.

What I did:

- After entering the Wallaby-Bootloader an "gsm-error" - message appears after 1 minute of "wait"

- I entered the SD-Card-Menu by pressing the Contacts-Button on the left-top of the XDA

- I choosed Write CE to SD in order to save my original CE in order to avoid unuseful Questions in case of repair-fail by O2-Support

- After this I performed a soft reset an waited for 1 or 2 Minutes after the white screen appeared

- While tis time write the contents of the unzipped repair.zip to the SD-Card using the SD-Card-Reader or the second XDA

- Now i pressed the "Volume" - Button on the left side for many times, after some trys (if it is not working perform a soft reset and try new) I saw a non-working Today-Screen

- Now insert the SD-Card on you have written the files from repair.zip

- There are 2 possibel reactions:

First: You get a message to format your SD - DO NOT!!!! In this case remove your SD-Card, connect your XDA with the Charging Cable and perform a soft reset. It is okay that there is no charging light. After you entered the Today-Screen insert the SD - do not remove the Charging-Cable! Then it will work.

Second: Installing beginns without any problems

Now your Radio Stack-Module will beginn to be updated. In my case I got the 1% Error discussed in the forum.

- Remove the Power cable, connect your cradle with the PC and the Power, perform a soft reset and wait what is happening. After the error occurs don't push the ok-button. Simply press the start-tab (or anywhere other excluding the message). Now take the XDA out of the cradle and after this put it in again, still with the error message on the screen. Now an active sync connection will be shown on both, your XDA and the PC! If you have this case, it looks good.

- If this doesn't work, replace the RSUpgrade.sa.cab-File from the repair.zip with the same named File, whats included in the program_B.exe (extract first, you will find the result in <Harddisk-Device:\Programme\Programm B) and writhe both on your SD

- Soft reset the XDA, ignore all errors, do not put the new written SD-Card in - open the Active sync-connection and delete the both newest files in the Windows-Directory of your XDA. If you can't delete, rename the file. After this perform a new soft reset.

- You will get a "file not found error". Try to temove and insert your XDA in the cradle to get an active sync-cennection. If this doesn't work insert the new written SD

- Try new flashing again again, maybe it works. If not try to push on the screen and remove and reinsert your XDA in the cradle to get a Connection.

- If there is no possibility to get a connection - i do not know any futher solutions - sorry.

If you get the connection, perform the normal Flashing with Program A provided by your Provider. After this is successfully completed you will see the loading-LED again! Congratulations!

If this is completed charge your Battery to at least 70% - be patient, it will take up to 1 Hour!

After this perform Programm B provided by your Provider. If this successfully completes - Congratulations - you are up and running!

I don't know, if I had happy circumstances, but this worked to gat my working XDA back!

If it do not work, use the first SD-Card containing your old CE to copy back your old ROM in order to not loose your support by your Provider. Simply insert the card into your XDA and perform a soft-reset while holding the Power-Button. Everything looks broken but original!

Please feedback in the XDA-Forum-Thread, if it worked at your XDA or if you have any hints for improvements this steps. Thank you!

Best regards from Berlin/Germany to all XDA-Fans like I am!

Miwu