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[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GSLEON3:
Everyone needs to stop using the term "brick". It is 99% likely not a brick. Bootloop is not a brick. Stuck at boot screen is not a brick. QHSUSB_BULK mode is not a brick. They are just symptoms of something you did incorrectly & they are usually fixable with a little patience & common sense.

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Everyone needs to stop using the term "brick". It is 99% likely not a brick. Bootloop is not a brick. Stuck at boot screen is not a brick. QHSUSB_BULK mode is not a brick. They are just symptoms of something you did incorrectly & they are usually fixable with a little patience & common sense.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] failed1234:
Well maybe I'll phrase it better: how did you screw up your Kindle?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Spec-Chum:
*ahem*

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588608

lol

...but yah, if it's fixable it ain't "bricked"
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Hashbang173:
Soft Bricked?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] GSLEON3:
LMFAO...

Yeah, I know. But if you put bootloop there in the title, then I get a billion daily PM's asking if they have a bootloop or brick, so I include both words in the title. You would think with all the warnings, I wouldn't be getting so many "ooops" emails, yet there they are, every morning.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Spec-Chum:
Reminds me of an old programming quote "Yay! It Works!!!11 It works!!11one. Well, it compiles. What does segfault mean???"

:D
[General Questions and Answers] oren_b:
I pretty much have had it with waiting for Samsung to release an updated ROM for my phone (Note 2 / N7100JKDLK7) and I'd like to try a custom one. My only concern is that it may contain malware. Is there a way to make sure it doesn't?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] pewe:
Sorry to ask this question which I know has been covered in so many other topics - but thats the problem - the topics are scattered and the answers are varied.

I have a Wizard derivative - an O2 XDA Mini S.

I have run the unlocking wizard and it is now unlocked.

I now want to

a. Backup the exisitng ROM

b. Backup the External ROM

c. Load an updated ROM.

I have tried the 'Unlock EXT ROM Wizard' - but still can't see the External ROM (in Total Commander for example) to back it up.

Can someone post a precise set of instructions for the step by step process for doing a. to c. above.

I am sure that others will find it useful as there still appears to be many posts from confused 'novices' to PPC (like me) who are trying various procedures on a hit and miss basis with varied success.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] fuzzycuffs:
I just did the backup bit today.

Download aWizard 1.3b2

Run it, run the RAPI server using the 'e' command, wait till it starts, unlock the CID using 'u', then you can backup using the 'b' command, give it a name to backup to, and wait 15 or so minutes and it'll backup your GSM, OS, and Extended roms.

As for flashing, you can use the aWizard tool if you have the .nba rom files.

Or you can use one of the pre-packaged roms + flashers like the iMate one... but, that's where it gets a little perilous. AFAIK, the latest iMate rom will flash a locked Extended rom onto the device, which you can not edit any longer. So until someone figures out how to unlock the Extended rom, be careful.

My other idea would be to take the iMate full rom and break it up into the GSM, OS, and Extended roms. Once you do that, instead of using the pre-packaged flasher and rom, use aWizard to flash the GSM and OS roms and do the Extended part manually. Then you can keep an unlocked Extended rom (of your stock image) incase you ever want to revert to stock (since you backed up the stock GSM and OS roms in the first step).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] pewe:
Where is the aWizard 1.3b2. The unlocker I have is called lockiwizo2b and there is no u option.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jvanbrecht:
Read the upgrading portion of the wizard forums, its all over the place there.

PS, be absolutely sure you want to upgrade, once you change, there is no going back, I did mine, I'd like to go back, but cannot.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Genesis3:
Sure you can.

If you have an SD image you can go back to the T-Mobile original US load with no problem at all. You DID make an SD image of the ROM before you screwed around, right? :D

The SPL will not downgrade (you probably can do that by running the RUU for the "hacked-up" earlier Imate version with the 1.x SPL/IPL) but I've found no particular reason to.

I have verified that an SD image restore to the original T-Mo US firmware works from the Imate shipping RUU.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] pewe:
Genesis.

What is the best method for making the SD Image?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] fuzzycuffs:
I would also like to know.

I would also like to know if the original Extended rom can be backed up after the iMate rom overwrites it.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Genesis3:
You need:

1. A terminal program that can speak over the USB port. Terraterm has a patched version out which can do this.

2. A CID-unlocked device (it will NOT work if its not CID-unlocked!)

3. A SD card of 128MB or larger (buy a 128MB for just this purpose, as its a great backup device)

To use it:

1. Get into the tri-color screen (hold CAMERA, reset) and plug into the USB port.

2. Kill wcescomm.exe from Windows XP (this is the ActiveSync driver for the USB port)

3. Start your terminal porgram

4. Hit "return" to insure you have a command prompt.

5. Make sure your 128MB SD card is in the slot.

6. Type "r2sd all" and hit return.

The loader will dump the entire ROM (including extended ROM) to the SD card.

Note that this is NOT a file on a FAT filesystem - its a RAW data dump with a signature and checksum. As such you CANNOT read it onto your computer using a copy - you need a tool like "psdread" to read it from the card to a file on your PC.

If you use a NEW card, you can search for the end of valid data or do what I do and dump the entire 128MB (which is larger than the dump file for certain) and then just compress it - all the trailing zeros will compress to basically nothing.

Stick the card somewhere safe.

To RESTORE from the SD card, insert it with the power off in the Wizard, then power on while holding the CAMERA button. With the older ROMs the backlight will be OFF; with the new IMATE one it will be ON. It will tell you to press the VOICE key to load from the SD card. Do so, it verifies the integrity of the dump and loads it.

Note that the prompt only comes up for a few seconds and if you're using a 1.x release of firmware when you do this the backlight is OFF so its hard to see - but its there. Grab a flashlight if necessary.

Once you load something else on your unit from stock of course you can't go back unless you did this FIRST. This was the first thing I did when I got my MDA, so I have a copy of the T-Mobile "base software" on the SD card in case I pooch my device and need to go back to the OEM firmware.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] pewe:
Thanks Genesis. Very helpful guide.

I did another search on the forum using different search words and I found this post:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=37386&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

and it looks like this is does the same thing - but without having to use other programmes like Terraterm.

Am I right?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] fuzzycuffs:
You, sir, are my new hero. You win 3 internets for this post.

Although, what would happen if I used my existing 512mb minisd card with apps already on it? Will it dump to a file and I can compress at that point? You mentioned it was non-readable on the card if I did that. I've already backed up the stock ROM using the aWizard tool, but if I used your method with a miniSD that had files already on it, would it blindly write to it, clobbering files, or write something to the card that was unreadable via a PC (basically not as a file on the filesystem), and if I put more stuff on the miniSD like apps or media, it'll overwrite the backup of the image?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Genesis3:
If you do this to a card with data on it you will pooch all the data - it will scribble right on top of the FAT tables and destroy them.

Second, you won't know where the data you dumped ends. To be safe you should save 128MB of the card (from the front) to your file on the PC. This will result in a larger-than-necessary file, but that's ok.

You need tools like "psdread" and "psdwrite" to read and write the SD card in "raw" format - it is NOT a file that gets dumped, but just a RAW image of the ROM (with checksums)!

The only other "gotcha" is that depending on the EXACT configuration of the data you dump the SD card may refuse to reformat to its original capacity when you're doing doing this and/or refuse to reformat at all!

That's fixable by writing a block of zeros (e.g. 10kb or so worth) to the front of the card, which will clear what's confusing Windows (and the phone).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] fuzzycuffs:
interesting. if I got a $10 128mb minisd, though, I wouldn't really care to use it in anything else other than this phone. I have a 512mb already for daily usage, so the 128mb would be for a backup incase I want to revert to the standard OOB rom from T-Mobile.

As long as the rom is written to the card and will read from if I choose to restore, I don't care if windows ever reads from the card again. ;)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] fuzzycuffs:
That's the tool I was talking about. This will dump the roms to a file on your PC that is readable. You can edit stuff, rewrite it back to the device, etc.

But what I haven't gotten a definitive answer on is whether you can flash the iMate extended rom and then overwrite it at a later date with the original t-mobile extended rom, since the iMate one is locked or something. Genesis' method involves using a miniSD to create a raw image of a newly booted phone, GSM/OS/Extended rom and all, which you can keep somewhere safe incase you ever want to revert. Apparently, even after flashing the iMate rom with the locked Extended rom, he was capable of re-flashing the device with the original rom from the miniSD.

This is exactly what I am looking for. I want to switch to the iMate rom, and know the order all the cabs in the extended rom need to be installed for it to work properly, but I was afraid I could never revert to the OOB experience. This fixes that, and I will be ordering a 128mb card tonight.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] zan5hin:
I downloaded Tera Term from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html is this the right one? It only has COM ports as options to communicate.

Can someone please provide a link to a terminal program I can download which works over USB?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] koniosis:
Hi,

I followed your instructions for making a backup of my ROM to an SD Card. I have a small problem, I don't have a card reader for my PC, is there any way to get the ROM image onto my PC via my Wizard? Also since the Wizard doesn't think the MiniSD card exists anymore, is there anyway to raw write those 0's to the card from the Wizard.. perhaps using terraterm? Or have I just killed my MiniSD card and I'm going to have to buy a reader for my PC ?

Thanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] koniosis:
download this one: http://arisme.free.fr/hacks/binaries/TeraTermPro_WinCE_USB.zip

its in the bin folder of the zip.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Genesis3:
You need a card reader in your PC (or a friend's PC) - I do not know of a way to write it directly in the MDA.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] koniosis:
Ok thanks, I've got one from a friend now, so all good :) I was looking at http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HimalayaBootloaderCommands to see if there were any bootloader commands for writing to sd card, but it appears you can only copy the ROM to the SD, besides, this is for a different phone anyway.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] koniosis:
Ok I may have found something: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=XdaUtils/psdwrite.exe claims to be able to write raw to the SD card on a WinCE device... I'll investigate.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] koniosis:
I'm currently reading the image raw from the MiniSD card using the command "psdread -1 0 0x0F140000 sd.img" using a 256MB MiniSD and it appears to be working, albit slowly. I'll keep you informed of whether I can succesfully recover my SD card using the writer after this read finishes.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] le_cactus:
Question(s):

Are these kind of dumps exchangable? Can my friend who upgrade to the new iMate rom take my r2sd backup and restore it to his Wizard to revert to an earlier version?

And does this affect the bootloader? If so, I imagine you are able to 'brick' your Wizard this way, right?

Thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Cati
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] koniosis:
The read was succesful, I compressed the dumped image and it went down from 256MB to 51MB, the expected size. I then used a hex editor to create a file containing 10KB of 0x00 saved as "file.bin" and wrote it to the MiniSD using "psdwrite -1 file.bin". I then went to the memory manager in settings->system on the Wizard and choose storage card, removed the MiniSD and re-inserted it and WindowsMobile asked me to format the card. I've formatted and it is working fine.

In conclusion, you can perform the backup to MiniSD card using your Wizard and download the raw image from the phone for later use, then re-format the MiniSD from the phone ready for use again.

If you ever wanted to write the backup image to the SD card you could either use a desktop PC writer or write it using the psdwrite tool via the Wizard. If you are going to be flashing the firmware on the wizard it's probably a good idea to write the SD card image before you flash ;)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] koniosis:
Sorry I don't know the answer to any of these questions, hopefully someone else knows tho as I'd be interested to hear the answers also.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Genesis3:
Yes.

Kinda. The SPL will not change with an SD restore, but everything else does.

If you were to attempt to, for example, load something other than a Wizard ROM using this, you very well might be able to brick the phone. I wouldn't try to load a Universal image, for example - I don't know if it would permit the load or not, and I'm not about to try it.

Realize that CID-unlocking defeats the safety that is usually there to prevent loading a "wrong" firmware image. As such you become the safety......

You CAN, however, revert from a 2.x firmware load to a 1.x one - I've done it to test, and went from the Imate release version back to the T-Mobile (US) release one - no problems other than the SPL remaining at the 2.x level.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] le_cactus:
Thanks for these answers.

Cacti
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mianasad:
I've tried using tera term but I keep getting an error when I run the program and try to connect through USB. Can someone tell what I need to do run it.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Genesis3:
Did 'ya read the whollllle thing? You need to kill wcescomm.exe in the task manager on your XP box or it can't get to the USB port because ActiveSync has it open.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zappalapap:
Hello,

at first sorry for my miserable english, but im from Germany and only a little bit fit in School English!

I have an German O2 XDA Neo and want update it to a Jamin ROM. All infos therfore i have found but at first i want backup the ROM to restore him later.

Can anyone help me backup the ROM on the XDA Neo, QTek S200, DodPod218?

I Had testet it so:

XDA in Boot-Mode

starting mtty

command "2ds" (commandunknown)

command "r2ds all" (You didn't get the proper security level to download a specific image"

I think i must unlock the XDA and made this with Lokiwiz02b, but "r2ds" bring the same error!

Thx for help ;)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] quitschibooo:
Hi,

I just call an MDA Wizard my own.

I took an 128MB SD-card plugged it in and just followed your backup guidelines up to the point when the r2sd all is started.

Then I get this:

Cmd>r2sd all
SD_CSD_CHECK_ERR
***** user area size = 0x7940000 Bytes
R2SDBackup() - Download type = 6
usTotalBlock = 1 sizeof(SDCARD_SIGNATRUE_TABLE)=512

I have waited a quarter of an hour and nothing else happened.

Question: Whats the time for a SD-Backup?

Is this an errormessage or what?

greets

quitschibooo
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] pounana:
anyone got a wizard backup image they could post?

have bricked my Wizard. No USB connec tivity. Does anyone have a backup of their ROM image taht they could post/email so I can copy it to my SD card and restore, in order to have a working ROM from which to regain USB connectivity (breath) and re-flash a working ROM?

Many thanks; is really urgent!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] ADHybrid:
Sorry if this is a noob question, but how do I know its done backing up? the progress bar is all the way full but I'm still getting this in the terminal:

WriteDataToSDCard() ul

and nothing has changed on either my phone or in terminal.

-Chris
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] MobilZone:
update not allow

i made a rom dump form a working wizard after unlocking cid. when i put that sd card to my damaged phone which hangs at boot screen and try to update it is giving an error " update not allow"

plz tell me what to do to fix it. My device is held at splash screen and hence i cant connect my device via active sync to unlock its cid if it is locked
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jubanet:
I'm getting this error:

Cmd>r2sd all

***** user area size = 0x7820000 Bytes

R2SDBackup() - Download type = 5

usTotalBlock = 1 sizeof(SDCARD_SIGNATRUE_TABLE)=512

You didn't get the proper security level to download a specific image

Any ideas?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] psousa:
I'm also gerring this error:

Cmd>r2sd all

***** user area size = 0x77E0000 Bytes

R2SDBackup() - Download type = 5

usTotalBlock = 1 sizeof(SDCARD_SIGNATRUE_TABLE)=512

You didn't get the proper security level to download a specific image

Cmd>

Any idea?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cptcafne:
I am also getting this error:

Cmd>r2sd all

***** user area size = 0x77E0000 Bytes

R2SDBackup() - Download type = 5

usTotalBlock = 1 sizeof(SDCARD_SIGNATRUE_TABLE)=512

You didn't get the proper security level to download a specific image

I was trying to make an image of my GF's device to load onto mine.

Has anyone succesfully created a raw dump of a cingular 8125 G4 that they could put on a ftp for me ? The "official" rom from HTC crashed on my device as it has on a few others I am finding out, so now my extended rom is totally locked.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] brooks.nl:
use bootloader

why don't you flash it again with a working rom while in bootloader?

if you make a search for it in the upgrading part of the wizard forum you will find it absolutly. i thought that a thread about this came along a few days ago

good luck
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cptcafne:
Because, after trying to install the cingular rom from HTC, it has locked my extended rom, and I have not been able to unlock it. Why I am trying to get a raw file. No custom ROM has yet to install the extended rom on my phone. I am not the only one that has had their extended locked after trying to flash to the HTC/Cingular rom.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cptcafne:
Ok, new phone and trying to backup

I get this:

Cmd>r2sd all

***** user area size = 0x3C8C0000 Bytes

R2SDBackup() - Download type = 5

usTotalBlock = 1 sizeof(SDCARD_SIGNATRUE_TABLE)=512

Start address = 0x80000000 , Length = 0x800

Start address = 0x80000800 , Length = 0xC0000

Start address = 0x800C0800 , Length = 0x40000

Start address = 0x80100800 , Length = 0x280000

GSM - dwSize = 345DF

GSM Page0

Start address = 0x4E3D4C0 , Length = 0x3900000

Start address = 0x743D4C0 , Length = 0xA00000

The read size is not matched, load failed!

Some Image (8) load failed, we can not backup All images...

My device is a cingular 8125, with stock rom and CID unlocked. Anyone have any ideas ? I really want to make a raw backup of my device before I strat flashing custom roms.

Cmd>info 2

GetDeviceInfo=0x00000002

+ SD Controller init

- SD Controller init

+StorageInit

***** user area size = 0x3C8C0000 Bytes

HTCSSuperCID ' HTCE
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cqln:
I have back-up but cannot go back

I have an Orange SPV M1500. Last night I used this instruction to make a SD ROM back-up and then flash it with O2 ROM. I have done so successfully and I got an O2 XDA IIi now.

However, when I try to restore the saved Orange ROM from SD card, I still got O2's stuff. So I just wonder how I can get it back?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] fadey:
If I'm backup the rom to SD card

then I'm flashing rom on my device then error

did the backup can be restored and recover my device ?

any body have backup rom file of dopod 838?

please contact me

cause I'm flashing radio rom only on dopod 838 with cingular radio rom

and my device error, cant coming to the OS and still restaring with cingular raising the bar logo
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] YOSEFE:
SPV M1500

cqln,

where can I get the ROM you used? I have an SPV M1500 which has now frozen on me between the Serial and the USB screens.

Soft or hard reset does not yield anthing at all. I am now in a panic.

Please help me.

YOSEFE.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarry86:
Hi guys, can any of you help me on how to repair my lenovo's first imei? the second one works perfectly but the one with 3g support ain't working, it is based on qualcomm cpu, if i dial ####1111# and test, both imei are visible but if i dial *#06# only one imei is visible
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shprakash:
Is any one facing problem wih sony select..

Coz this app isn't loading at'll so any one knows wat would be the problem?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohit1713:
Same here...:confused::mad:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indycar:
There is also a thread open in the help section

Indy@Xperia Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikash1994b:
Even im facing this issue,

i think its temporary it will be fixed in a couple of days as many Indian users are facing this issue
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shprakash:
Its because Sony Select service is not yet available in indian region...:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikash1994b:
Oh...:what:,

Bt in 4.2.2 it used to connect....
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] X10_minipro:
It's not, it's because of a problem with their servers / something else. But it's on their end, and it's not working in Sweden either. If you Google it, the issue isn't only limited to our Z, it exists on the Z1 on Z tablet too.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shprakash:
but this is wat the info i got.. they said that the Sony Select is not yet available in India.... Sorry for the wrong Info.....:rolleyes:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maryoley:
it's working now
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjl5590:
Hey guys,

I've got a Razr M running Cyanogenmod 10.2. I'm trying to move some apps to my SD card but it won't recognise it. It says it has no real storage, or the storage is emulated. Can anyone help me out?

Cheers
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aviwdoowks:
Our phone has a non std. implementation of it's sd.

That is why I use stock & have a SD swap thread.

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The cz dev's cm 10 has a perfect sd chooser

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This is run by the same Dev. His10.1(?) build is perfect.

http://sbf.droid-developers.org/