[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] aleksandr:
Hi guys. I know I know, wrong place, but maybe some one here could help too! Just maybe.. You guys are very smart peps here. You've helped me with many XDA's I own. And I'm just hoping you wouldn't let me down this time too. Any way I’ve killed my eten (typhoon my guide m500 German) and hoping some one could help me to bring it back to life. Please understand that I have exhausted all my resources in order to find the solution my self but came up empty handed. I have read every single post in this forum as well as few others in order to find the solution. And now I am hoping that some one could help. I may have overlooked some little but important piece of info. Please except my apologies if this request may be annoying.

This is what happened and what I’ve done about it.

I’ve got Typhoon MyGuide m500 (E-Ten m500) Original rom was German.

The reason I say “was” is since I had german OS that I can’t read it I wanted to flash the device with WWE Rom. But the device would not accept any other rom and at the time of reflashing through RUU, I get message “the os image is not compatible with your device”. I understand a lot of people have this problem, but still, some succeed. I have tried all the possible roms that are available there. I’m sure you’ve heard that before too Finally I’ve succeeded in flashing CHT WM2003 rom that came with WM 5 Rom update for downgrade purposes. But, I can’t read chinese either so I tried to flash wwe at this time. Hoping that chinese rom would allow upgrades in different language. But the upgrade went bad:) I’ve ended up with formatted e-ten with no OS installed. It was only showing white screen when turned on or it would boot into boot loader when soft reset and power was pressed.

At that time, since the device would not boot and I couldn’t active sync it, I’ve tried SD flashing with RescueDLX.bin. As well USB download utility. It flashed the device, but I was stuck at the green m500 screen when tried booting. So that didn’t work either. I’ve tried SD flashing with temp.dat saved as .bin from all possible roms, including the first chineese that worked once for me. But again, I got “the os image is not compatible with your device”

Well, here is where I’ve screwed up big time. Since the rescueDLX.bin was actually flashing into my device, and I was not getting “the os image is not compatible with your device” message, I’ve opened the rescueDLX.bin with Hex Editor, copied first 400 bytes of the header, then using Hex Editor opened the temp.dat from WWE rom update that I wanted to use and pasted this 400 bytes from rescuedlx.bin over the first 400 bytes of temp.dat file and saved it as a bin. Then copied on SD card, put it in the device, entered into the boot loader and started flashing process. Amazingly, I didn’t get the “the os image is not compatible with your device” message! But worst thing happened:) The boot loader was going through all the check lists and everything was ok but device froze at the last one, “looking for FPTP” or something like that.. Apperantly I copied to much stuff or it just plain incompatible. Well, now my device would not even load into the boot loader! :) I think I’ve erased it too:) So no more updating for me, that is for a sure:) not through RUU, not through USB Update Utility that I found on etens forum, and not even through SD with devices internal boot loader. There isn’t one anymore:)

So here we go, I’ve got really nice looking paper weight :) Oh, and I can use it as a flash light too:) When turned on, the screen lights up with bright white light:)

So any way, can any body help?! Is there any way to revive this thing? Or the road is straight to manufacturer? I don’t think I even have a warranty on this device; it’s in brand new condition, but its second hand. So I have only one hope that some smart gurus of this forum would show mercy and would help! Like I said, I’ve researched all over the internet, all forums, even xda developers and spv developers forums, but this is different device. Deferent rules…:) But I know it’s doable, I’ve seen posts that others did it! So please, share how you guys did it!

Thank you in advance. And sorry for such a long post!