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[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hi everyone,

I am still stuck at the first step! :((

I disabled the USB in Active Sync.

I power+photo+reset on my Compact (German from Nowicom).

I have a 128mb formatted SD in it.

I connected my Compact and launched romupdate.exe.

I selected the USB port, but alas, all I get at this point is a window in romupdate that writes CLIENTCLIENTCLIENTCLIENT and on which I cannot write anything.

Can you please tell me what could be wrong?

Thank you.

Olivier
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] harrykism:
Thanks Wiz,

So should we encourage someone to develop it :D ?

BTW, How can we pay 120 euros to unlock it? Pay to whom? where?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] rainmaker:
English Magician Versions and Functionality

Y'all are a motley bunch of characters...

I bought a Magician (MDA Compact) in Germany the other day and I've been using it auf Deutsch with my US-based T-Mobile SIM ever since. I want to flash it to English but before I do I would like some feedback from some users who have already. I'm gunshy because my MDA III has that first Imate english ROM and the Bluetooth stack is a POS! It wastes the battery in my Ericsson HBH-30 in notime! And, it sounds like crud to boot! Back on my new Magician it again works like a charm.

What is the radio version when using Ricardo's ROM? My current (standard) versions are: (and they are totally stable)

ROM-Version: 1.01.01 GER

Rom-Date 10/21/04

Radio-Version: 1.00.10

Protocol-Version: 1337.36

ExtROM-Version: 1.01.120 GER

Is everyone having good results with the English ROM?

Thanks!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Olivier Astel Belgique:
I must be the most unlucky guy in the world.

After all the help i received from the nice guys on this forum i managed to copy the German ROM, get it on the PC, replace the first 220 bytes, get it back on a SD and back in the MDA...now it locks on SERIAL V1 since ages, refusing to do whatsoever..

I am not computing expert BUT there has to be something wrong with the whole thing :

How can a German ROM of 240 MB be efficiently replaced by an English 121 MB ROM ?? Are we loosing the half of the fonctionallity ?? Where are the other 120 MB gone ???

Can someone explain ? Meantime i will re-format my SD for the 5th time, copy the new ROM on it and keep trying.

I guess that learning German would have been faster than flashing this thing !!!

Merci a tous ceux qui m'ont aidé, mais il me semble que je suis encore plus c.. que je ne croyais...j'y arrive pas, y a toujours un truc qui ne va pas !!! Pour info : avec mon lecteur de cartes standard ca marchais pas du tout, alors j'ai utlisé mon APN comme lecteur de carte, et la a marché !!! Marrant non ?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
1st thing : don't format the SD card. You must use the same SD card to save you german rom and after to put your english rom with ntry without formating your SD after the 1st step.

Conerning the size, this is not a problem as there is more blanks on the english rom.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
I'm going to be getting an MDA Compact in the next few days and am studying up on how to do this. I'm confused about one thing. After you copy the German ROM from the SD card to your harddrive, do you delete the German ROM off the SD card before copying the fixed English ROM onto it or do you leave it as it is? Is it overwritten?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
no, you overwrite.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
So I assume that you would have to rename the English ROM before it is copied to the SD card to have the same name as the German ROM so that it would be overwritten?

Another question, how is everyone's English ROM functioning so far? Any problems?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
no, you don't need to rename it. Ntry will do the job.

English rom worls fine.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Xetra:
Re: English Magician Versions and Functionality

in the WWE:

ROM-Version: 1.01.00 WWE

Rom-Date 10/21/04

Radio-Version: 1.00.10

Protocol-Version: 1337.36

ExtROM-Version: 1.01.124 WWE
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
Try to copy the first 416bytes instead of the 220! It will work!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
mda

re-bonjour a tous,

malgré toutes les astuces que vous m'avez donné, je n'arrive toujours paq à entrer dans le "bootloader" (première phase de la manip).

je formate une sd de 256 Mo

je la mets dans le mda

j'appuie simultanément sur le "power" + "photo" + reset et j'arrive sur un écran avec "serial" en haut et "v1.00" en bas.

cet écran reste fixe et rien ne se passe.

j'ai attendu plus d'une heure et toujours rien.

quelqu'un pourrais-t-il me donner un coup ou m'appeler jb au 0621524607

merci
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] sachari:
on peut t'aider

salut,

tu as formaté ta sd en quel format?

essaies le formatage fat tout court plutot que fat32

si tu es sur sfr je peux t'appeler ce soir (millénium oblige)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
tu oublies une partie de la procédure. Tu dois fermer activesync sur le pc et arrêter le process wincescomm grâce au gestionnaire de tache Windows. Après tu branche ton Compact sur le cable USB puis tu lances rompupdate pour lancer la récup de la rom sur ta SD.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Tarkaumur:
After trying many times, I finally got to the point when I flashed the English ROM to my Jam in Bootloader mode.

I get "Checksum failed - Flashing failed" as I am supposed to, but now I cannot Soft reset!!

I tried everything, Soft reset, Hard reset, taking the battery off but it wont take me off bootloader mode.

Everytime it takes me back to the dark screen with Serial V1.00.

What should I do at this point?

Thanks.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
maybe your english rom was corruped. So try to download again the english rom.

http://www.nowicom.com/dl/mda_compact_upd_en_1.zip

or

ftp://xda@xda-developers.com/Magician/r_magican_.rar
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] rainmaker:
English Magician Versions and Functionality

Thanks Xetra, It's comforting to know the radio version is the same. Nobody has posted anything 'bad' about the english version either...guess I'll jump in the water...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hi,

I have exactly the same problem as Tarkaumur. The EN ROM that I used is the one posted here in the ftp.

I'll try again but with the one from Nowicom.

Anyone has another advise?

Belgo

P.S. btw, I had to download twice the DE ROM as the first time, the header was almost empty (definitely not starting with MAGICIAN)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
It worked... after three attempts and using the version of Nowicom (the one from XDA-ftp did not, no clue why)..

I'll start working with it and let you know of any kwirks...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jpa:
for french guys who have difficulties to understand english I sent on the ftp server a french doc with all the process to flash the english rom (with screen capture). go to the Magician directory and download MethodeMajCompact.zip

pour les francophones qui ont du mal avec l'anglais j'ai posté sur le serveur ftp la méthode complete pour flasher la rom anglaise (avec captures d'écran pour les personnes n'ayant pas trop de connaissances informatiques). Il suffit d'ouvrir internet explorer et de taper l'adresse suivante (tapez là, ne cliquer pas sur le lien ci-dessous) :

ftp://xda@xda-developers.com

le mot de passe est xda. allez dans le répertoire Magician et downloadez le zip MethodeMajCompact. zip (il contient aussi les outils nécessaires avec les bonnes versions)

Et si vous n'avez pas la rom anglaise il faut downloader

http://www.nowicom.com/dl/mda_compact_upd_en_2.zip

(dans ce zip il a plusieurs fichiers mais le seul qui vous interesse est celui de la rom ENG_good_unlocked.nb1)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Olivier Astel Belgique:
WORKED with me also, in english now, thanks to all.

Problem now is to find a compatible version of KSE Fax ( the german one does not install on the WWE version) and Clear vieuw suite in english.

And to solve the sms delivery report problem, anu solution ????
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
You may ask from Roly the administrator of www.compactjam.com to send you the cd files of the english version so you can have all the english software coming with the WWE Version.

Just check on his site for the files
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
pls help

Hi can any one help me. I had flash Rom of XDA 11 for my MDA compact,and now my MDA compact is not working at all. so pls wher can I find German or english Rom. thanks :oops:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Just got my MDA Compact today and have successfully flashed it to English! One minor point--the date on the today screen displays in Dutch. Anyway to change it to English?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Nevermind, I figured it out!! Wow my first impression, this thing is TINY! I think I'm in love!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Thanks jpa !

Thank you jpa for the french process.

Done without any problem !

:D

Waiting for french one now...

Thanks again !
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
I made a backup of the english ROM which is 64MB the exact size of the ROM its better than the ROM listed in the ftp. If you want me I can upload it to the ftp. If I compress it, it will probably be an around 30MB file with the full English ROM.

So let me know if you will need this file.

Also I managed to get a copy in .nb1 file format of the extended ROM so if any of the Developers could help us decode this file then we will be able to make our own version of the Extended ROM like people with XDA II's managed to make one. :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] kta:
It looks like the imate JAM started to ship today. Why not start off the extended ROM exercise using the imate's extended ROM.

Also, if we use the imate JAM ROM, will that remove the T-Mobile splash screen when we switch on the phone?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] faado:
I have succesfully flashed the English ROM onto my German MDA compact.

Everything went fine, there's only one problem: Bluetooth is not working anymore. When I go to Settings, Connections, Bluetooth: it says "There is no Bluetooth hardware installed on this device". Also, it seems the ExtROM is missing. At Device information, there is noting next to 'ExtROM-Version:'

ROM-Version: 1.01.00 WWE

Rom-Date 10/21/04

Radio-Version: 1.00.10

Protocol-Version: 1337.36

ExtROM-Version:

Did I use the wrong ROM file? (I think it was the one posted here) Or should I install the ExtROM separatly?

Hope you can help!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] john:
wow, really successful, ha?

no bluetooth, ext rom....
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] faado:
I figured it out myself: installed the cabs from the Extended-roms dir on FTP manually. After reset, bluetooth worked.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
HEY GUYS I HAVE SOME GREAT NEW FOR ALL OF YOU!!!!

I DID IT AGAIN!!!! I HAVE A FULL IMATE JAM ROM FOR YOU THAT I WILL UPLOAD LATER TONIGHT IN THE FTP. JUST FOLLOW THE SAME PROCEDURE YOU FOLLOWED FOR FLASHING FROM GERMAN TO ENGLISH AND USE THE FIRST 416bytes OF YOUR GERMAN HEADER AGAIN. MAKE SURE YOU USE THE GERMAN HEADER AND NOT THE ENGLISH HEADER OK!!!!!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
Ok we already managed to dump the iMate OS and Extended OS ROM part and flash it to our MDA Compacts.

BUT the iMate JAM has also a newer Radio ROM which is version R 1.01.00 instead of R 1.00.10 that our Compacts have. And also the G part of the ROM (does G stands for GPRS??) on imate JAM is version G 1337.38 and not G 1337.36 as on our compacts. So can anyone tell me how could I dump these 2 parts of the ROM so we can have the full upgrade????

Please hurry as I won't be able to keep the imate JAM any longer!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
I need help. :(

I have lost my software during apdate to English and now I do nor know what shall I do. my MDA Compact show only USB during connect with my BC. so where can I find German Rom again. thanks for all :twisted:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Blueshop24.de and English Reflashing

I ordered an MDA Compact from blueshop24.de, and I can recommend it to everyone. They deliver prompt (24 hour), have a good e-mail support and a good price. I paid 444,90 Euro + 16.90 euro shipping costs.

The unit I received was SIMLOCK FREE and with a German OS. It worked 'out-of-the-box' with my Belgian SIM card.

Then I upgraded the unit to an English ROM and encountered some small problems. I list them here, maybe usefull for other upgraders.

- I only have a 512MByte SDCard, this works fine.

- You absolutely need NTRW V2.0. The version available from FTP, is not 2.0. I googled to find V2.0.

- The Hexeditor on FTP, does not accept the 512MByte file created by NTRW (when using a 512MByte SD Card). I used another hexeditor I already had on my system. Any editor will do.

- Reading and writing the SDcard with NTRW does not work if the cardreader is already attached to the pc during booting. If so, it will result in a Windows API error: 'can not lock file ....'

Just connect the cardreader after booting, then insert the SDCard. This was a problem for me because my cardreader is build in my PC. I had to find my 'old' external SD card reader.

Result: a perfectly working English OS MDA Compact for 445 Euro.

I now start installing my GPS and Alturion software. I will use this small marvel as a GSM and GPS navigation system.

If anybody would have a Dutch version of the OS, please post.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Re: Blueshop24.de and English Reflashing

Hi nero, I'm a belgian User to (antwerp) is it possible to hook up by mail or msn? Maybe you are able to send me the files you have used at the install progress. (een goed kerstgebaar:))

I'm on email: htc@bbzone.nl or on msn nick@bbzone.nl

hope to see you soon!

Thnx (i'm not a newbie, so I will not bomb you with many questions :) )
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] victorr1:
Re: Blueshop24.de and English Reflashing

if its not difficult 2 you, please send me yours ntrw 2.0 and hexeditor versions

vitekr1@yandex.ru
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
ntrw 2.0 & hexedit

NTRW 2.0: http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=60435

HexEdit: http://www.catch22.net/software/hexedit.asp

I didnt try mail or msn yet.

Up until now:

- the phone works :)

- I booted the unit without the extended rom stuff, nothing is really required and it uses a lot of ram

- I installed Alturion GPS 6, works perfect

- Now I'm busy trying to connect my Logitech Bluetooth Handsfree thing. No success until now.

Does anybody know how to connect a Handsfree BT headset?

I'm also looking at a system to remove the 'Extended ROM' files and get an extra 28MByte of Flash available for usefull applications. Any ideas somebody?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
The -> Current directory is /Magician/English ROM/

Is completly empty??? what now
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hello..

Got today my phone. I'm trying very hard to put the english version on it.. but nothing works.. I tried the 220 and the 430 bits replacing in hex... He is flashing but I get the message after it's finished .: Checsum Error and Download Failed. When I reboot I only see SERIAL / V1.00 and that's it .. what am i doing wrong..? Downloaded the files on ftp from xda, from nowicom and from webpanel.. tried all versions. but nothing!

someone can please help me.. If sold my old phone so now I don't have anything : (

msn: nick@bbzone.nl (also email)

many thnx for the one how wan't to hear me out!!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
problems reading the image from the mda

Hi,

i copied the image of the german rom on the SD card with the romupdate tool, but im not able to read it from the SD card with the ntrw tool. when i type the command "ntrw read German.nb1 x: " it tells me usage: "ntrw drive file drive" and nothing happens. is there a mistake in the syntax of the command or how is it else possible for me to get the german image from the SD card? i tried to mount it with my mac as well, but it wasn't readable...

thx in advance
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Largo_Winzclav:
Re: problems reading the image from the mda

Bad version of ntrw ! You must use version 2.0. I think you will find it on the ftp...

See you...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] polishz3:
Anyone noticed that the dates in the calendar are still in german after flashing the new rom with the german to english.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
I figured it out after going to a imate rom and back to a t-mobile, it's under the regional setting
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
Just change the regional settings to the country settings you want! start -> settings -> system -> regional settings
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] The Fittest:
Upgrading is not working out at all...

Hey guys,

I've been struggling to get my MDA compact upgraded from German to English as well.... it's driving me nuts.

I've downloaded the complete ROM, which afterwards from looking at this thread I find out has the wrong version of ntrw. Weird enough, when using this version, it does say 2.00 at the start though.

The first time I made backup of my original ROM is worked fine and seemed to write the ROM through romupdate to my SD card. I wouldn't 'read' though to a .nb1 file on my HD. It gave a "File not found" error.

After this, my SD card wouldn't format anymore. Not through my PC; under windows or DOS. Formatting under DOS says "no good medium or track 0 is damaged. The disk is unusable. (more or less...it's in Dutch) This makes me assume the bootsector has been fried. I used a Sandisk 1Gb Ultra II SD card. I got this @%# about 4 hours before frying the damn thing...

I did try taking the header from the German ROM supplied in the Newicom version, and pasting the first 220 (and later 416) bytes to the English version. I wrote it to the SD card, which did seem to work, at least it didn't give me any errors. But after a hard reset, it just hangs on Serial V1.00, while according to the procedure it's supposed to ask me to Flash the ROM...

So there's a few questions I have now:

- Is there any way to fix my bootsector of my SD card... or is this final, and do I really have to go through the trouble of exchanging my card...? I have also tried storage tools, which seemed to format the card fine, but I really don't think it's been fixed at all.

- I seem to have now downloaded the correct version of NTRW (it now does read the ROM from my SD card), but the SD card is already screwed. I got it from this thread. However, is it actually the wrong version of NTRW which fried my card, or when I return my card to my reseller trying to get a new one, is there a chance I'll **** up the bootsector again (I'm going to try to switch it for a Kingston 1Gb card without ultra II, because I keep hearing al these bad stories about Sandisk...)?

- Is there instead of Newicom's English T-Mobile ROM, an English 'clean' I-Mate Jam version available anywhere yet? Otherwise, I'll have to start cracking open the extended ROM as well, after flashing, getting rid of all that T-Mobile stuff I don't need/want. I'm seriously done with flashing and cracking... I just want to start using my MDA Compact... :cry:

Any help would realy be appreciated... I'm so tired of this crap... :cry:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] katsj:
There is a new method for flashing your ROM to english imate JAM rom with no need for card readers or SD memory cards! Just look in another thread in this site! I can't find it at the moment! Or even better have a look at www.compactjam.com where the guy that made this possible will give you more instructions!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
I know, I found it last night, a while after posting this thread! It worked like a charme! I was to tired to correct my own posting yesterday night... but here it is anyway. Thx for the reply though! :D Finally, I have an updated, Imate/no T-Mobile English MDA Compact! Right on!

I'm sending my SD card, and the've agreed to replace it with a Kingston 1Gb SD card (not Ultra I though). Would Ultra II or not really make much of a difference?

The thread from Pinooo is here on the XDA forum. :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] The Fittest:
Right... that was me. forgot to log in... :wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] 27:
I'm getting the same error.

I have a 1GB SD card.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] 27:
http://www.compactjam.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=219
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Did this remove the simlock on a locked phone? The radio rom gets updated is I'm not mistaken.

Hapklaar
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] 27:
No. The phone's Simlock is not affected by this.

If yours is locked and you do this, it'll stay locked.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] greddy:
(sorry for my bad english)

attention when you flashing your Mda Compact with this i-mate rom!

After the flash you cannot install the fax send/receice software or

the pdf/office reader software (both on the t-mobile cd-rom)

I think, the software checks the rom version.

Who has now the german t-mobile roms for me ?

Bye, Peter
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] 27:
I haven't got a small enough German ROM but the English T-Mobile ROM lets you install the application suite.

This ROM can be found on the FTP.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
i've reading this forum from the beginning, thanks alot for the information.

Now i've a dutch mda compact and want to flash it to traditional chinese. But before i start i've a few question and hope you'all can help me.

1- where can i get the romupdate.exe (mtty.exe)

2- where can i get the ntrw.exe

i have download de chinese rom from the ftp site.

so can someone help me ?

thx
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] :
Hi,

I have MDA PM10A locked with T-Mobile, please help me how to unlock it?

Thanks.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] 27:
You can get them here

NTRW 2.0.

ftp://xdaforums.com/Magician/NTRW 2.0/

You need to be logged in to download

mtty

http://www.nowicom.com/dl/mda_compact_upd_en_1.zip

Flashing the ROM won't unlock the device.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Chefkoch1:
YIPEEEEEEEEE

Mine worked too...

No tests yet, but I got the Checksum Error after patching, took out the battery and replaced it. Booted up and everything's in English!!! WOW!!!!!!

I asked around for days. Talking to the T Mobile Service Center... "No, Sir, it isn't possible to install an english OS" was the reply. THANK YOU !!!!!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Chefkoch1:
OOOOOHHHHHHHH NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! My Calander is in dutch or something sweedish. It says "Donerdag". Anyone know how to change this? It can't stay...

At least I understood German.....

PLZ HELP!!!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Chefkoch1:
I fixed IT .... :lol: ..it's in Regional Settings
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] zorbas:
It worked for me - thank you guys!

Hello everybody,

while surfing the web about information about changing my MDA Compact from german to english I came to this great forum. At first I want to say thank you to all the guys who made this possible.

After reading through this thread very carefully I managed to get my MDA to english without any problems, this is great!

How about building a new ZIP including everything, like the one hostet at the nowicom-server but with the right ntrw.exe and everything? Would't it be time for a FAQ?

So please tell me if I should create a new package and upload it to the forum ftp.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] 27:
Re: It worked for me - thank you guys!

Please do so.

NTRW version 2 and clearly written instructions would be appreciated.

Some screenshots/pictures too if you can.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] pietrucci:
I copied the English rom to my sd-card using ntrw. So far so good (I thought).

But then when I hard reset my device (camera+on/off+soft reset) I get the dark screen with the text Serial on it, but nothing happens!

So I figured the ROM wasn't properly written to my sd-card. Thus I wrote it again (again with ntrw). But the same problem: the flashing doesn't start after the reset...

Anyone out there who can help me???
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] chineseman:
a question , i have an imate jam in italian can i change language to english with these files :?: :?: