[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] namspa:
I have spent over a month reading many, many posts and wiki pages here and on several other forums. I have a Cingular 8525 HERM100 IPL-1.04 SPL-2.03, standard battery that I acquired after the original owner updated from OEM wm5 to AT&T’s wm6 upgrade. The upgrade installed with no problems. Everything worked great for several weeks. Then it started dropping calls, loosing signal, could not hang up after calls, PDA functions hanging up and so on with a lot of soft resets to recover. Same problems as many have been having. Now the phone has ‘NO GSM’ on bootup and with a sim installed, pretty much locks up. With no sim installed and after a hard reset, most of the basic PDA functions work. He contacted AT&T customer service and they talked him into buying a new (different type) PDA phone + another two year contract. The phone was less than a year old but they refused to take it back under warranty. They insisted the warranty was 6 months. So, he gave it to me and now I have a new hobby. I downloaded AT&T’s 8525 wm6 upgrade from their link on their web site and tried to reinstall the rom with no sim or memory card installed. It goes into the tri-color bootloader and starts the install but it gets to 11%, stops for several minutes, and then gives me an update error 262. I follow the recovery step by step and still error 262 over and over again. It was also locked up in bootloader mode. I ran mtty and was able to get back to the OS (problem #4; Common Upgrading Problems in HTC Hermes; Cmd>set 14 0 did not work: Cmd>set 16 0 did). Then, I tried HTC Hermes SIM & CID Unlock – v3a. Ran AUTO_Unlock_v3a.bat. It goes into bootloader. Installed new bootloader IPL-1.01 SPL-1.40 Olipro. When it went into rom update mode and displayed the update progress bar, it stays at 0% for over a minute. Then, again I get an update error 262 and it locks in bootload mode. Run mtty to get back to OS. I have done this process a dozen times both auto and manual installation. Nothing has worked. v3a stays at 0% and official rom at 11% on two desk top pc running XP Pro and one laptop running XP home. Finally used sdcard method and was able to load SIM & CID Unlock v3a. I then ran Olipro v7 2.10 with no problems. I have gone back and tried to reload AT&T’s rom trying slightly different setups with activesync and having the usb connected before I run the RUU that others have posted that they used to fix this problem. Still hangs at 11%. Going to try to load radio only ‘ROM 1.47.00.10’ as mrvanx suggested on thread 358163 pg 2. Not very optimistic! I think as others do that this is a hardware problem. Also going to try the ‘cool down’ theory before flashing. Hopefully I will have time in the next few days. I too would like to know what is being replaced when it gets sent back for repairs. Below is the info from mtty.

Cmd>info 2

HTCSSuperCID?ÔéÜHTCE

Cmd>info 3

HTCSH

Cmd>info 4

HTCSCWS__001Ùü¤HHTCE

Cmd>info 6

HTCST ÚÈÒHTCE

Cmd>info 7

HTC Integrated Re-Flash Utility, Common Base Version : 1.51d

Device Name: HERM100, Bootloader Version : 2.10.Olipro

Built at: Apr 22 2007 13:32:26

Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Modified By Olipro - Hard-SPL

CPU ID=0x41129200

Main CPLD version=0x5

Upper CPLD version=0x4

Main Board version=0x6

Cmd>info 8

Block 0x0(0) is Reversed block

Block 0x1(1) is Reversed block

Block 0x2(2) is Reversed block

Block 0x3(3) is Reversed block

Block 0x4(4) is Reversed block

Block 0x5(5) is Reversed block

Block 0x6(6) is Reversed block

Block 0x7(7) is Reversed block

Block 0x8(8) is Reversed block

Block 0x9(9) is Reversed block

Block 0xA(10) is Reversed block

Block 0xB(11) is Reversed block

Block 0xC(12) is Reversed block

Block 0x1FE(510) is BAD block !!!

Block 0x393(915) is BAD block !!!

Block 0x3C2(962) is BAD block !!!

Block 0x3D3(979) is BAD block !!!

Partition[0], type=0x20, start=0x2, total=0x18FE

Partition[1], type=0x23, start=0x1900, total=0x1900

Partition[2], type=0x25, start=0x3200, total=0x1F900

Partition[3], type=0x4, start=0x22B00, total=0x17D00

CE Total Length(with sector info) = 0x4675800

CE CheckSum Length(without sector info) = 0x4560000

Cmd>task 2a

Check block : 510 - Bad

Check block : 915 - Bad

Check block : 962 - Bad

Check block : 979 - Bad