[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] emacf1:
Hi,

I have started to update the wiki slightly - but now I am coming to a point where I do not know, where to place the information.

First of all let me shortly describe how I bicked my hermes last week:

1)

I used WM6 Rom Kitchen from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=298636 and DL the DEV_HERMES_GER and OEM_GER_VODA - cooked my ROM - installed it via the tools that comes with RomKoch and everything went smooth like silk - my compliments!

since it have been quite a while that i have configured my hermes I could not get everything working correctly - I assumes it "must" be the fault of my own cooking creations (which was not) I decided to install back again the official German Vodafone Rom

2)

So DL the ROM-Version 2.04.162.1 [from http://www.vodafone.de/hilfe-support/technischer-support/97014.html] and flashed the hermes again... Again no problems with the installation - but again the Problem was sitting in front of the device and I still struggled to get my WLAN and Inet working correctly I decided that I should simply install my old initial ROM

3)

So installed HER_VODA_1201623_1030700_GER_SHIP again – np during installation – but then at the end of the day the hermes did not boot up (hang up in windows mobile screen

4)

Went to bed

5)

Wake up – situation was still the same – so I started to read here in the wiki – found various hint’s but none of them lead into the right direction on the first look. Let me explain why:

First Problem:

detecting the right error: Since I have a Vodafone device the splash screens are all red – so it was almost unnoticeable that the phone report “NO GSM”

Second Problem:

For what ever reason it was not only the case that the radio rom seamed to be corrupted – also the CID was not sowing up correct. Took me a while to find that mtty.exe and use the “info 2” command -> that returned me a timeout (found that problem also here in the forum – I am sorry but cant remember the exact message).

At least it was reported that the battery should be removed and it take a while (the guy was reporting he was doing a walk – but the battery back in and the ‘info 2’ would return a correct CID – well the last try was to wait 20h – but still a corrupt CID.

Third Problem:

With a corrupted CID you can’t flash the original Vodafone ROMS (or any other that does CID checking).

Fourth Problem:

SD-Card flashing have all the same symptoms like the other official flash tools – they check the vendor too.

Fifth Problem:

At least how I have understood it the CustomRUU Updater should install “everything” – no matter what the current CID is – well this app always showed me a ERROR 262 – tried various things that have been suggested (incl. ActiveSync uninstall & install) but could not get around this problem.

Sixed Problem:

I had not unlocked my hermes before – so I could not simply use downgrade to the Bootloader 1.04 http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Howto_Bootloader104

So what’s left then ?

The http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Unbrick matrix showed me what to do: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=PB_KITL_HERMES – so got that Mircosoft thing (added the URL in Wiki) followed the procedure (well mix the forum thread post and the Wiki article) and then I could boot up (well I was a bit confused by all the errors that popped up on my PC but well I simply have to be more relaxed and had just to focus on my hermes) – then I could execute the magic SSPL_HERM.exe

Once that was executed the HERMIMG.nbh (Vodefone ROM-Version 2.04.162.1) located on the sd-card started to install itself – WOW! Unbricked my hermes finally. [installed after all that again my cooked WM6 and I am quite happy with the result].

But actually I thought, why I had all this trouble (and why I could not simply find the solution in the wiki – so that’s why I started to edit it – but as I said at the beginning – I do not know, where and how I could add more information that would fit into my problem scenario and how I finally solve it.

Just to summarize my Problems/symptoms (what every reason have caused them):

- Bootloader v1.09 (cause of installed original Vodafone Rom)

- locked hermes (Level.:FF)

- NO GSM (hard to read on the red background)

- constant corrupted CID (and removing the battery over 20h did not fix that)

- CustomRRU Update refused to update any software [always reported a ‘262’]

Actually I want to help people who had the same nightmare with this combination of problems and want to direct them to the solution of their problem: use sd-card, PlatformBuild and KITL

So any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Matthias