yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] HBK:
I got it working after adding some extra characters at the end of the ROM, and by plugging in the USB cable before flashing. Don't know which one made the difference, but it works.

Thanks for a job well done, anansky!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Catechin:
Finally I was able to flash my S100.

I changed SD card from speedy 512 to slower 256. I changed SD card reader from pre-installed to PCIMCI.

I changed first 416 bytes of flash file, added 70000 bytes to it, ignored all error messages. and finally flashed it!

It works great! Maybe I should go to Kamchatka to see the beautiful Volcano by myself and give special thanks to Alex. :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] AdmiralAK:
So is there a a Qtek 9090 patched greek version :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] NightmarE:
good work guys i lost my device, it wont arrive to Bootloader screen ,just blank screen with no life, even if i try to connect it by USB to do downgrade....

following your steps ...

i have to buy another Jam if there is no solution

cheers :lol:

for the people want to try this rom just wait dont rush and fall as i did

NiGhTmArE
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] HBK:
A lot of us have failed during our initial tries, but sooner or later it will run. If not with the new ROM, then with an old one. Until now we have yet to hear of a completely dead Magician, right?

Personally, I had 2 failures, before I finally got it running, and many users in here have a lot higher count than that. So cheer up and keep fighting! :)

For starters, what happens if you remove the battery lid to turn off your device completely, then put it back on?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] NightmarE:
i tried everything but it seems mine is really dead 8)

btw, i hear little click out form the device when i remove the battery and re-put it... what does that mean?? sound of life?? hehe

NiGhTmArE
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] melodystyle2003:
it worked!!!

i really believe that my sd card creates the problem cause after 3 times, with the same flash file, i put it in the qtek then it start recognize it!!!!

great help was the trick of copy->paste the 416bytes :)

anansky many thanks keep it up!!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jeeb75:
Thank you anansky,

This worked for me perfectly. I just followed the directions on procedure.doc from the /magician/backup1 folder on the ftp and it worked without any problems. I used a 256MB Lexar SD card. Also I did not have to hook up the USB cable. Mine said serial first and then after 10 sec. another screen appeared and i pushed power to flash.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] melodystyle2003:
let me ask you something

as i see the difference is visual,it shows 26.72mb free at storage instead of 7,and doent start aytomatically the installation of extended rom right?

i have backup my extended and stored it to the sd card

then i try to install it it decreases the space like before with the non modified rom..

so is the same thing as we do before?(after an cold reset as soon as the message of auto customization in 3" of extended rom we make a soft reset an install later manually our preferred extended rom files)?????

i am confused again!

i thought that the extended rom is installed at sd card not in the memory of the device..am i doing something wrong?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] greddy:
Hello,

i have also flash my mda and the result are an boot logo

with an vulcan (looks nice) but that is all ... i have wait 3 minutes,

but only the logo are shown.

I habe also do all the changes with the 416bytes and insert

70000 bytes at the end of the images ... but nothing works.

Who has the same problem ? What can i do ?

bye, Peter
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jehlinger:
Guys, be careful when replacing the 416-byte header and do the following:

1. Highlight from the beginning of the file to the end of the line with "ff ff ff ff".

2. Hit "ctrl+c"

3. Open the nb1 file for pasting.

4. Be sure your cursor is at the top of the file, don't highlight the bytes to be replaced.

5. Hit "ctrl+v" to paste the 416-byte header, it should be highlighted in red.

Note, the first few times I did this, I highlighted the bytes to be replaced, and when you paste, it does not overwrite the original header. If you manually delete the original header you will get the error "ROM is not Big Enough" and it will not soft-reset.

People who are having this problem may be deleting the original header or inserting the new header instead of "REPLACING THE HEADER".
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ID64:
Strange... Everything went OK, but JAM is stuck it bootloader mode. :shock:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ccBoy:
does it workable for O2 mini?

does it workable for O2 mini?

I just bought an O2 mini(English version) in HK, Could you please tell me the way you showed can be used for O2 mini?

Thanks
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] NightmarE:
who can get the solution to cure my magician

mine wont boooooooot anymore what the ****

is this joke??

ok i will say it again

my i-mate Jam wont turn on anymore, and i hear a weird sound when i re-put the battery!!!

am i the first one who got this problem?

NiGhTmArE
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jehlinger:
I'm doing another "big storage" ROM for a friend and his stuck with the volcano splash screen. His had the original Imate ROM. I noticed on the splash screen that radio version was still 1.01, so the "big storage" ROM does NOT include the radio.

I'm thinking that you have to load the qtek1.11 ROM (radio + CE) on the device first, then do the "big storage" ROM. This is what I had done with the previous two devices and both worked (once I figured out to overwrite the 416byte sector correctly, not copy-paste-delete).
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jackleung:
Re: does it workable for O2 mini?

Should not be a problem. I flashed my Dopod 818 Traditional Chinese rom (the machine was originally a WWE Imate Jam) w/ this method
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] algus:
did you try pressing and holding for a while combination of buttons: power, camera, reset)?. this combination is used to enter the bootloader.

if it does not help, then imho the bootloader is dead and the magician can be cured only in service center... :(
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] andrew_sh:
anansky, we need your help. First of all thank you for the patched greek rom version. But there are some problems because you erased the copy protection (some problem with the greek T9 and intellidialer). Could you please create another one that has the big storage but with not removing the protection from Ace?

Thanks in advance
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] mastered000:
Nice forum

yesterday my first flash 1.11

then i have the problem i need files

now the same what files do i need a .doc file

and boot file and hex on the forum i read download it from ftp

but i do not find file or 530 permission denied

plz help my give my some link or the files i need for it

thx Eddy
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Carlis:
Thanks.. !!!!!!!

Did it without any problems at all with a 256mb Sandisk SD , a 8in1 USB2 card reader and a Qtek s100 preloaded with the orginal Finnish 1.11.00 WWE Dangaard rom.

Changed the 220kb and just reflashed it .. had to connect USB cable to get the "press power to flash" message.. all other just worked.. :)

a request.. the volcano picture with the txt .. so I can change the startup picture without feeling that I cant get Ur lovely picture back :)

Thx again.. :)

Best Regards .. Carlis
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] kta:
At first I was really really tempted to install this ROM. It wouldn't have been the first time going through this procedure as I was one of the first ppl who bought the MDA Compact in German and wanted to install a WWE ROM.

But then I thought ... why do I need and extra 20MB when I have a 1GB SD Card that is ALSO NOT ERASED after a hard-reset?

And don't I want most of the programs in the extended ROM anyway? And if I copy the cab files to the SD card and install them later wouldn't I be using most of the extended ROM storage anyway?

... so I'm saving myself from the hassle ...

Just my humble opinion!

PS: I have big respect for anansky as it is ppl like him that keep this forum interesting :D :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Chatty:
Succeeded with no problems... should update my sig now :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jackleung:
Kta,

I got an 1GB SD too but read my reasoning in here:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=20082

Many programs in the extRom are junks (especially those customize files). And if you install the program, it will use yr "main" memory (ExtRom is not writable)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] mastered000:
still need help where to find the files
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Loboman:
Use an FTP-client to download the files.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] melodystyle2003:
the rom so far is excellent,stable and fully working.

to all that may have any doughts...

regards
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Intoxicate:
I had the same Problem like ID64.

Everything went fine (Bootloader, Flashing) but I'm not able to softreset the mda.

I get a blank screen. I can only go back to the bootloader but no firmware gets started.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] patrickquek:
I had success in upgrading my O2 Mini (Singapore) using the ROM provided by Anansky. I had to replace the first 19BH bytes. Didn't work when i copied 416 bytes to replace the keyword "T-Mobile".

Thanks for sharing Anansky.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] milklok:
Dear anasky,

You are the greatest! It is a very big achivement for Magician user! Could you help to modify the Traditional Chinese ROM image at the ftp server folder "/Magician/Dopod.818.TChinese.ROM.1.06.06" ?

Thanks a lot!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Kevlar:
T-Mobile NLD to 1.11 without ext_rom

After two late nights I finally succeded in upgrading my T-Mobile MDA Compact. The flashing wasn't a problem. Booting was. But after upgrading my radio rom to 1.11 it worked.....
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] mitchello:
Will it work with a 128Mb MMC? I can get one real cheap, but not sure if it will work for this (creating the card that flashes the rom). Thanks
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] melodystyle2003:
mitchello the card ,mmc/sd,must have at least 64mb space

i dont really think that you will face any problem...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Nadavi:
THANKS WORKING !!! HUGE !!!

Thanks Anansky! i've just installed it on my Qtek S100,

working like a charm! :P
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] schneire:
right lenght how?

Hi chatty could you give us the file.nb1 with the right lenght?

Bitte stelle dein funktionierendes File uns zur Verfügung.

ICh hänge i.M. am Vulkan...

Danke Reiner :?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] tron_gr:
im just flashing my magician to rom with 27mb free storage from 1 gb sd card... with 416 first bytes from my rom to the other rom...

now im to 71%
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] bsf99:
Hi

I have followed the instructions & it has upgraded but when I soft reset it hangs at the volcano screen. As suggested I updated the radio to V1.11 first

Any ideas?

Many Thx

Brett
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] smyrosnik:
Re: For Greek users of Magician - small present

the link doesn't work...can we find it anywhere else?.

In meantime i downloaded the engish version of 27mb storage..i instert the sd and i wait for the message "press power to flash" but nothing happens. i tried with and without the usb cable attached ..any ideas..

i also copy the header correctly , and tried with and without the instertion of 70000bytes . with 70000bytes the rom size is 65.349 and without 65.281.

any ideas?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] anansky:
i can try, but i need sd-card backup from original ace hellas device, maden by command "d2s a0000000 4000000"
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] anansky:
good news for german and traditional chinese users.

i patch german 1.01 os rom and cht_Dopod818_10606_120_10500_Ship os rom

you can download os rom image files from

ftp.xda-develoeprs.com ftp at /Magician/anansky folder
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] anansky:
note to all users, whos not succedeed to flash patched version:

(1) check that battery must full prior flashing

(2) before all, try to upgrade to corresponding version by maupgrade method, for example chances that my patched wwe1.11 os rom will be flashed to you device greater if you device already has wwe1.11 os rom.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] anansky:
here is kluchevskoi vulcano erruption picture,

for peopleas asked me to publish it

enjoy

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] anansky:
i really don't know why peoples unucedeed flashing my version.

my device was t-mobile 1.01wwe, then 1.06wwe, 1.11wwe, 1.11greece, 1.01germany, 1.06chinese traditional, 1.11wwe norway, and was flashed many many times - all was are OK....

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ccBoy:
Thanks anansky and all guys in this forum.

My O2 Mini has been successfully upgraded to 26.72M.

Pay attention to overwrite 19BH if using O2 Minin English Version.

Good Luck!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] coco82:
Sorry ccBoy, can you tell exactly what is 19BH, i cant find it in the O2 Mini original nb1 file.

I have change many times for ex 220, 416 bytes ... but it still not work.

My O2 Mini ( English Version ) just stuck in the volcano image.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] landau:
For me there were not any problems. I've described full process in Russian here: http://www.ericssonclub.org/board/showthread.php?t=20908 (2nd part of the first topic)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] rvbcrs:
first of all great work anansky! I wonder how far you are with a generic tool for patching ROM files because I think you don't want to keep patching every rom that comes out ;)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] mitchello:
Do i need to modify the rom image i downloaded from xda-developers (the one with bigstorage in the filename) for my english xda II mini?? Thanks.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] anansky:
for peoples, which device stopped at vulcano image -

try to flash once more time

flash with full battery

and wait at least 5 minutes at vulcano image - on first boot device format \storage folder so be patient
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Ddriver:
I downloadet it, however no data are present in the Zip.

0 ordner/0 files. What now?

Greeting Daniel.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] hamsup1o:
hi anansky,

first off, just want to thank you for ur hard work on the extra storage space..

second, totally off topic, but when you get the chance to patch the Dopod 818 chinese rom, would you be able to pull out the original Dopod splash screen? Since you were able to replace it with the volcano splash, i'm thinking you should be able to pull out the original splash. I've been looking for this for a while but with no luck. I thought maybe the splash screens (splash1.nb and splash2.nb) are stored in one of the cab files in the EXTROM but I couldnt find it. So, if you wouldn't mind, would you pull those files out (doesn't matter if it's nb, bmp, jpg, etc.)...just want the originals. Thanks in advance!! :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] LumpiStefan:
I think the uplaod wasn´t finished to that time.

I downloaded it just in the moment and all looks good....

Contains the nb1-File .....

Stefan
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Ddriver:
Was probably exactly that. Folded. Thanks. :-)

Greeting Daniel.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] sdamion:
Anansky is the best

Thx anasky now we al can use my topic about ringtones and have enouge storage space to store the ring tones.

Great work man

And for the people who cant get the extra storage space read this topic from page 1 it will do miracles. :lol:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] recyclebin:
anansky, when will the 1.06 simplfied chinese version be available? :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] anansky:
when you give me a link to os image rom :)

at xda-dev ftp archive broken
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] bsf99:
Anansky you are the greatest - I did as you suggested & upgraded to 1.11 before using your image & it worked perfectly . Thanks again

Brett
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] smyrosnik:
what about Greek users of imate Jam that have rom version 1.06.00..

I did all the steps ok but when i instert the sd card and then enter to bootloader mode , i wait but the message "press power to flash" doesn't appear. I copy the first 416 bytes of my rom ,tried again but nothing , i insterted 70000bytes to the end of the file but still nothing ...

I have rom 1.06.00

radio 1.11.0

extrom 1.06.110

Anasky any help?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] tadzio:
I second that! Just flashed your patched German version, and works perfectly! After that, I also updated the radio stack from 1.05 to 1.11, without problems.

Anansky, thanks a lot again! :)

Cheers,

Daniel
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Dihon:
Can't load from SD card

I've upgraded my O2 Mini to 1.11 & the radio also.

When I insert the SD card with Anasky' modified image at Bootloader then it just says Serial.

Nothing like "Press Power to flash"

What's wrong ?

I haven't copied the first 220 or 460 from my old ROM, should I ???
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] tadzio:
Re: Can't load from SD card

Not should - you must. Also, you need to use ntrw.exe to copy Anansky's file (after you edited it) to the SD card, otherwise the Mini will not recognize it. It is all described in procedure.doc, in the FTP section.

Cheers

Daniel
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] NightmarE:
wait longer than 1 minute and msg will apper :wink:

but be ware of crashing your bootloader do all steps and after you press "Power button" to flash throw your magician untel everything finish
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] YRLS:
Guys I tried many times but I cannot copy my ROM to my pc :cry:

I have a Toshiba 1GB SD card, I never had any kind of problem with it.

I made my ROM backup into sd but each time I try to read it (" ntrw read Original.nb1 K:", where K is my SD drive) I have "usage: ntrw file drive:" as reply.

I tried that with two computer and with two USB SD reader/writer without success.

What do you think is the problem? My SD is fully working

Of course I have ntrw in C:

I hope somone can help me!

Thanks
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] rvbcrs:
Hi I had the same problem, I was using an old version of ntrw.exe you got to download VERSION 2 from the FTP than you are ok!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] YRLS:
Thanks man! I found it on ftp and now I have my new big storage Magician, and of course thanks a lot to anansky!!!!

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] smyrosnik:
To Anasky

I install the greek version , i changed the mui value in registry , i soft reset all menu are in greek BUT the Start menu shortcuts are missing ... i cant enter for example to the Settings menu cause its missing!

What to do?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
I was thinking, I rarely use anything that requires root and I am thinking of just going back to stock. However, the only firmware I have I'd the original tar file that I had when I rooted it in November and used when I had to do a warranty replacement. How would I get a newer version/update?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
There's a sticky in android development on firmwares.. There's prerooted and official ones you can flash with Odin and MD5 is the latest
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Rev10eight:
Just start with the one you have and then do an update.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Thanks guys!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Suo, if I dl the md5 and flash it as normal, I'll lose root? Or should I do it through odin and use that md5 instead of the one I have?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
Depends which md5 you download.. If you just download a stock ROM like stockarama, you flash through recovery, if you download a stock image then you will have to flash it with Odin.. The one you flash through recovery will probably have root, the one with Odin won't, as long as it's not a root66 image, but you can also just unroot the stock ROM, so up to you
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
They are all flashed in Odin.

If you want root, use the root66 firmware. Otherwise use the regular stock fw.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Don't wanna sound lime a noob jerk but could you tell me or show me the link to the one to flash with Odin? Just really don't wanna screw it up.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1949687

The first that are posted first are prerooted, keep scrolling and you'll find the official images
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
I down loaded "official firmware" the md5 one... that's the right one?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Sounds right. If it's the root66 version it'll have it in the filename.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Ok, thanks! There were some up to that were root 66 then the next ones down were official.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Right, I did that because the majority of people are looking for the prerooted versions.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] imblessed68:
internal storage

Hi can someone tell me a few things:

Does flashing take up your internal storage and if so if phone is put back to how it was brought from store will the internal storage go back to that also? Personally I don't think it makes a difference as I'm trying to explain to my son that I think apps take up most of your internal storage.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Anything that goes on the /data partition can affect your internal storage. So if you install an app, it will take up some of your storage space on internal.

Flashing is different. Roms for example flash to the /system partition. Unless the dev includes apps they specifically put on /data this will have little effect on you're available storage space. The only way it does affect it is system apps store their data and dalvik cache on the /data partition.

Flashing mods and other items usually will be the same as flashing roms in this sense. Some will include data that takes up your user space, but most will have little, if any effect on it. There is usually little reason to flash anything to the data partition as you can generally just install normally.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Almighty2:
Greetings:

What can one use to mount or view/extract the system.img file in Windows since I tried Daemon Tools lite but it didn't work see the contents of the file. Thanks!
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananapeapod:
I didn't have much luck in Windows but Nandroid Manager (sorry I can't post Playstore links I'm a noob) allows you to look inside Nandroid backups (including TWRP 2.5 backups which don't work with Titanium Backup, so far at least). I was able to look inside the compressed data.ext4 and extract individual files. If your backup is compressed it will take a little bit of time, so keep that in mind.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Almighty2:
Actually, I'm not trying to look inside Nandroid backups but rather the system.img from this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2307439

As for the OTA update, it will fail unless the stock apk's are what came with the ROM instead of the most current version from Google Play Store.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananapeapod:
Gotcha, sorry I misunderstood. Why don't you create a backup and then just restore your system to complete using the Droid Razr HD Utility so you can get the new radio drivers, etc. and then just restore your backup?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Almighty2:
That's a good idea but wouldn't restoring Droid RAZR HD Utility and then restoring the nandroid backup just overwrite all the apk's with the ones from my backup again?

Actually the last time before I ran Droid RAZR HD, I did create a nandroidbackup using CWM but I remember while I did it in May, it had a date/timestamp for April so I'm worried if I did a nandroidbackup, it will just overwrite that one as it's not using the current date/time for some reason. Does nandroidbackup backup the radio as well because I did modify that to work with AT&T/T-Mobile even though I use Verizon Wireless.