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[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Step 4 - Upgrade ROM

Before proceeding to flash a new ROM on your device, take note of the following:

*you will lose all your data and programs

*you will lose operator and mms settings

*you will lose e-mail settings, and existing messages/sms

Make sure to backup your files, programs, passwords and registration info before flashing

Make sure you have Hard-SPL installed on your device before flashing a new ROM. Instructions can be found in STEP 1 of this guide.

1. Download the ROM of your choice, and unzip the file to a new folder.

2. Manually enter Bootloader by pressing the Power button, Camera button and performing a soft reset at the same time.

This will allow your device to use the Hard-SPL that you loaded previously instead of the SSPL that usually is pushed to your device by the RUU.

If successful you will see this tri-colour screen and the following will be displayed

Hard SPL 3.20.Olipro (P3600i HardSPL v1.1)

3. Connect your device to your computer via USB

4. Open the folder where you unzipped the files and click on ‘ROMUpdateUtility.exe’

5. Check the checkbox, and click ‘next’

6. Because you are already connected in Bootloader mode (tri-color screen), ignore the instructions in the following screen about connecting via activesync

make sure your battery is charged

7. Check the checkbox, click ‘next’

8. In the next window, click the ‘Update’ button

This will show the version number of the ROMthat you are about to flash.

this will be different for each ROM, radio, and bootloader and as this is not a ROM-specific guide I am not listing which version number will show up when you click ‘update’.

9. After the version number has appeared, click next

10. In the following window, click ‘next’

after you click this, the flash will begin, so do not disconnect your device or do anything stupid on your computer

11. A Progress bar will appear on your computer screen, and your P3600i will display a grey screen with progress bar. Be patient while your device is being updated.

12. Once your device is finished updating, it will automatically soft reset. Click the ‘Finish’ button to exit the RUU program.

CONGRATULATIONS!! You have now installed a new ROM on your device!!​
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Step 5 - Restore Your Data​

Now that you have successfully upgraded your device, proceed to restore your data and settings.

If you want a quick automated backup/restore you can use the following programs

PIM backup (backup/restore SMS, MMS, e-mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, call history and more)

Settings Saviour (backup/restore preferences, settings, auto install cab files & xml on restore)

It is NOT recommended to use backup software such as Sprite backup to do a full backup/ restore when changing ROMs.

To restore your device settings and documents do the following:

1) Restore your owner information

Open the Start Menu and click on "settings"

Select "owner information"

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You will see a screen like the following:

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Restore your owner information exactly as it was before.

2) Restore your Device ID

Click on 'Settings' in the Start Menu.

Select the 'System' tab and click on 'About'

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Select the 'Device ID' tab

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Write down your Device name.

3) Reinstall your favorite applications

it is important that you do steps 1 and 2 first so that you can successfully re-register your programs

4) Restore program registration information

restore and program-specific registration information

5) Restore documents/data

Re-sync your device with your computer. Open the activesync window and click on 'explore'. Open the backup copy of your My Documents folder that you placed on your desktop previously. Open the 'My Documents' folder on your device. Copy all the data from your backup folder to your device

6) Restore your operator settings

Input your GPRS, WAP, MMS settings etc, as well as any other connection or e-mail settings you have.

Note: Many of the latest ROMs will have the ability to automatically restore your Operator network settings on first boot (or you can use the Configuration_Network.cab package).

You are now finished upgrading your device!
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[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
hi there andych,

I have HTC P3600 with standard radio-1.46.00.11

My RAM is 64MB but only 49.22 accessible. From ur earlier post, i noticed that u claimed to have ur RAM expanded after u load everything. My question is,

1-Is it true u can expand the RAM memory just by doing this? No additional hardware needed?

2-If it's true, by theory, can u explained it to me how is this possible?

3- I notice that when i check in start>setting>system>about>device ID it says HTC P3600i but however unlikely when scroll to start>setting>system>device information>identity is TRIN100.Can help me to understand it because my device name keeps on changing with both identity everytime i docked it in active sync 4.5.

4.Just curious what caused that issue.. hmm please educate me, pardon my english TQ
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Sadly there is no way "expand" the memory of the Trinity or P3600i :(

There are only ways to optimise your use of that 64MB (usually by setting a slightly smaller pagefile value when cooking the ROM, and then by running apps like cleanRAM, hibernate, and background apps like ActiveSync-killer and autoHibernate, etc). Also use the HTC Task Manager to kill off apps once you are done with them (not just leave them minimised).

However 49.2MB sounds pretty good to me (I am on about 48.9 with the rom I am currently running and it only has a 6M pagefile). It's all about how you use that ~50M of RAM ;) Once everything is loaded though you will rarely ever have more than 10-15 free (no matter what you do).

Be careful not to get confused by a lot of the posts where people talking about gaining "Memory" by cooking "Lite" roms with lots of things left out of them. These people are talking about the "Storage memory" (i.e. the Flash memory that your phone's filesystem is on).

You don't need to bother with this because you have a P3600i - which has double the size of flash mem (256M) that is in the basic Trinity/P3600 model (128M). Unless you run without any kind of SD Card and store lots of photos, songs or videos, I doubt you are going to run out of space on your Storage Memory.

You own a P3600i (not a Trinity, not a DoPod, not a P3600) :D

Device ID = P3600i

Model ID = TRIN100 (the other Trinity family models are TRIN***)

As I said, that little "i" makes a lot of difference. You have more storage memory and a slightly altered bootloader than all of the other TRIN models.

There is only one kind of Hard-SPL for you and you must use the P3600i specific ROMs, not the Trinity ROMs (yes I know there is the hex edit hack but but when you do that you are still using the wrong OEM/NK component and the ROM will eventually corrupt or lock up and need reflashing).

Sorry, not sure about the activesync issue :confused:

Try deleting all know partnerships on the ActiveSync (on your PC) and then establish a new one.
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
Owhhh i see now, what a shame haha. So u were saying tht i don't have to do this? Hmm, i agree with you. But after a second thought, i think i might use this for showing off to my fren who recently bought the HTC Diamond 2 (T5353) & it's so wonderful. Its interface is very very smooth & glowing!!!

The problem is, I'm getting married on Christmas Dec 25th 09 & need to save money :(

I'm so attracted to it...Is there any alternate or wise opinion from u guys?

Can i make my P3600i interface & themes look like the Diamond2 T5353 without have to hard SPL my device?

the decoy u quote:

You don't need to bother with this because you have a P3600i - which has double the size of flash mem (256M) that is in the basic Trinity/P3600 model (128M). Unless you run without any kind of SD Card and store lots of photos, songs or videos, I doubt you are going to run out of space on your Storage Memory.

About that 256 Flash size u were saying, what is the different between Flash & Storage(Device)? Cos my storage says it has 179.14MB/data bus:32bits.

I read in the earlier post that the standard radio is 1.46.30 while mine is 1.46.00.11. Why is my radio version differs from others? is it because of regional standards or i have bought an obsoleted unit?

TQ for the good info u were posting, I might never know it until today if it's not because of you. Thank again mate
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
hi there fren..

why are u using that P3600i for GPS & modem only?

I'm interested if the price is reasonable.

Condition? How long u have use it? Specification?Accessories ( if any )?
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Well I don't think there is anything we can do to make a P3600i compete with a device that has a 480x800 display and over 200M of ram :p

However, your friends T5353 will still only be running on WM6.1 (it just has that flashy M2D/TF3D interface on top). You could always put a WM6.5.1 build on your p3600i and show off the flashy new start menu, lockscreen and Titanium interface. Not sure if Titanium is necessarily as slick as TF3D but it certainly is something his can't do :D

I guess you also look around see if there are any CAB version of M2D or TouchFlo (QVGA versions) and try and install them on top of your wm6. I know that before I started running cooked ROMs I had installed a cab of the "HTC Home" plugin that was essentially the interface from slightly newer (at the time) HTC phones like the TyTN II P4550 (aka "Kaiser").

Personally I would consider doing the HardSPL install even if you want to stay with your factory wm6 rom. The SPL upgrade is simply a "safety net" bootloader that gives you the option of re-flashing (any) ROMs onto your device if it ever bricks itself (rather than having to pay HTC or your phone company to do it at a service center).

Without HardSPL, you are completely dependant on having a working ActiveSync connection to ever do a ROM install (Radio or OS).

After I first installed HardSPL on mine, I only did the Radio ROM upgrade and then ran it for a week still on the normal wm6 ROM (just being paranoid). It was perfectly fine and ran normal ... then I took the plunge and started flashing cooked ROMs on there (some of the earlier 6.1 roms did totally corrupt themselves too and the phone was stuck on boot screen - man i was really happy I had HardSPL then, just did the 3-button trick and re-flashed again, too easy ;) ).

Your "Storage memory" is your 256M internal Flash memory (aka "Device" in your Explorer). A certain amount of it gets used to store a read-only copy of your ROM (for doing a "Factory Reset"), then your running WM6 filesystem is on them (Windows, Program Files, etc) and whatever space if left over you are free to use.

Sorry I should have been clearer about that. :o

Sorry can't remember whether my original Radio was ... however I am pretty sure that again this just confusion from an older post that is referring to Trinity users and not P3600i.

I recommend that you either stick with your current Radio or upgrade to 1.56.70.11. I did so hoping to see an improvement in reception and maybe gps fix-speed (not sure if it got all that much better but it certainly didn't get any worse). I wouldn't bother trying any of the versions in between.

These Poll Results seem to speak to the popularity of 1.56.
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
3 button trick ( Soft Reset)

Hi to all P3600i users & all the sifu here...

Just wanna ask "the decoy" regarding 3button soft reset.

According to one of ur earlier post, if want to perform the 3 button soft reset u have to push power button+camera button+the small hole button(with the stylus)

But the issue is here in Malaysia, i did it like this

softkey left(calender)+softkey right(contacts)+the small hole button (with the stylus)

Now, does that describe as a soft reset or hard reset?

From my experience, when i sync my device & Laptop with active sync, my laptop was attacked by a win32 trojan & it shuts down.I can't get it to rebooted cos it keeps restarting & stucked on bootloader.I put my original OEM (windows xp sp3) disk & try to boot from E: but failed. I then have to send both my P3600i & Laptop for repair..that's what make me think twice before doing a hard spl. I guess paranoid is the best word to describe me hahah lol.Anyway thanks, u guys are cool.
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Yes, I find the best method is to press and HOLD those 2 buttons (power+camera) and then do the stylus-reset for about 1sec. Then let go of all 3 and wait another second. You should then see the 3-color SPL screen.

That was a Hard Reset.

(erases Flash filesystem and restores phone to factory setup using its read-only copy of the wm6 ROM)

Read this Wiki page for the best description of all the button combos.

Ahhh, I see. You don't trust your laptop to not freak out and a shutdown while you in the middle of flashing HardSPL or a ROM onto your phone (and thereby brick it). Bummer :(

Well yes, I would only suggest doing any of these updates from a computer that

you can trust

to not screw up the activesync session. ;)
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
owh u gotta be freakin kiddin me!! so i have totally wash away my flash file system? How to recover it back? I'm still using it until now & it works fine except some minor issues. The guy whom i bought this HTC P3600i told me to do that. Curse him!
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
hmm u know what i think?? I think i'll just buy another phone. Seriously considering right now after ur comments there.

Hmmm lemme see..what can i get with USD800??

HTC Magic or Diamond2?? im buying tomorrow so any of u want my P3600i?

selling at any price from USD300 :cool:
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
No it hasn't broken it or anything. You just wiped all your saved messages, contacts, configs, carrier network settings, etc.

The filesystem got "refreshed" (basically it re-flashes itself from the read-only copy of the ROM stored on the phone). He probably told you to do a Hard Reset so that it would be just like it was when brand new out of the box.

Other than losing any data that was on your Storage Memory, your phone should be working just fine :confused:

What is the problem? Have you lost something in the process or is the phone not functioning properly now?

Well as already mentioned, the Diamond2 (Topaz) sounds pretty good ... although I haven't laid hands on one myself so I can't really give any kind of recommendation or review (plenty of other people on XDA can so start reading).

The Magic doesn't run on Windows Mobile, it runs on Google Android. I have actually handled one of these for 1min and honestly I was a little disappointed by Android ... certainly not as cool looking as the TF3D interface on the Topaz. However Android is still very young so it may well have a brighter future than WM6/7 does ... hard to tell at this stage.

For both I highly recommend searching the rest of XDA for opinions from people who actually own both of these devices. :D
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
re-3 button trick

Yes indeed my device run a series of haywire process after that hard-reset when my pc was stucked on bootloader. I can't browse using my P3600i for a month i think. All the connection setting is right & i'm very sure of it cos i sent it for repair & setting. It keeps saying "the remote party has ended the connection" & sometimes " the answering modem is not responding". It's so irritating.When trying to update windows it says error code 80070057-unknown ID. & unknown operator ID. i think i might have bricked it. I try to restore via SPB backup but it says unknown error. I checked start>setting>remove program, there is only two program there, the cyberon voice commander & my connect (pda loader).

i don't know where i stand & i am not sure what is working & what is not..

Lost in Space. The HTC built-in homeplug has only 4 items; screen rotator,my connect, battery icon & comm manager & i also no idea where is the rest of the icons. Does that sound awkward?but it's the fact.
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
P3600i Hard SPL & Radio Upgraded

successfully hard spl using olipro 3.20 & upgrade my radio to 1.56.70.11 with a single shot, protocol upgraded too when upgrading the radio. Protocol version is now 32.89.7020.20H. Thanks a lot...

Hmm what's next??
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Hmm, still sounds like your GPRS (carrier network) settings are not correct. Was the repair place your carrier or HTC?

Check the settings in Control Panel (under something like "Connections")

Or install this cab and try and set them again.

Don't know about that error but that Windows Update never did a damn thing on my original wm6 ROM, lol

Remove Programs will only show stuff that you install from cab (since the Hard Reset).

Those 4 icons are the defaults in HTC Home, the bottom row are program launcher buttons you can set for yourself. That is why they have been un-set since the Hard Reset.

Like I said, you now have everything on its defaults.

Woohoo! :D

Well at this point the only thing left is to decide whether you want to flash a wm6.5 ROM on there ... but don't jump into this without thinking about it fully and deciding what ROM you want.

Not trying to talk you out of it ... I certainly enjoy my phone a lot more now that I run my own cooked ROMs ... however they are prone to having a shorter lifespan (sometimes corrupt themselves after a month, need reflashing, most of the time I have a newer ROM by then anyway) and/or minor bugs due to the beta nature of 6.5.

My main point is that the factory ROM you currently have may not be available to flash back on there (there is only 1 official HTC Trinity ROM package I know of, it probably isn't the exact same factory ROM you or I had). There are plenty of cooked ROMs for you to choose from but once you leave your original wm6 behind, you probably can't go back to it.

Since you were about ready to give up on the device anyway I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing :D ... I just want to make sure you know that you cannot really "undo" the replacement of your factory ROM.

OK, now that I have given you the whole "Red Pill or Blue Pill" speech :p ... you can find most of the ROMs for P3600i on this thread:

[REF] P3600i ROM Collection (Updated: 26 July)

However, my own thread has the latest wm6.5.x builds for P3600i:

[KITCHEN][WWE][FRA][P3600I] [11.09.2009]WM6.5.x - P3600i Kitchen 23041 (cv93+oggi)

(probably hold off on this for another day as I am just about to do a new build)

In the meantime, if you want a safe-bet ROM that will be a nice intro to WM6.5 but still have the old style start menu you are used to (well actually it has QuickMenu which is heaps better), try this ROM:

WWE_21900_SP1_6IEQMTIT2_P3600I
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
Red Pill Or Blue Pills??

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Woohoo! :D

Well at this point the only thing left is to decide whether you want to flash a wm6.5 ROM on there ... but don't jump into this without thinking about it fully and deciding what ROM you want.

Not trying to talk you out of it ... I certainly enjoy my phone a lot more now that I run my own cooked ROMs ... however they are prone to having a shorter lifespan (sometimes corrupt themselves after a month, need reflashing, most of the time I have a newer ROM by then anyway) and/or minor bugs due to the beta nature of 6.5.

My main point is that the factory ROM you currently have may not be available to flash back on there (there is only 1 official HTC Trinity ROM package I know of, it probably isn't the exact same factory ROM you or I had). There are plenty of cooked ROMs for you to choose from but once you leave your original wm6 behind, you probably can't go back to it.

Since you were about ready to give up on the device anyway I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing :D ... I just want to make sure you know that you cannot really "undo" the replacement of your factory ROM.

OK, now that I have given you the whole "Red Pill or Blue Pill" speech :p ... you can find most of the ROMs for P3600i on this thread:

[REF] P3600i ROM Collection (Updated: 26 July)

However, my own thread has the latest wm6.5.x builds for P3600i:

[KITCHEN][WWE][FRA][P3600I] [11.09.2009]WM6.5.x - P3600i Kitchen 23041 (cv93+oggi)

(probably hold off on this for another day as I am just about to do a new build)

In the meantime, if you want a safe-bet ROM that will be a nice intro to WM6.5 but still have the old style start menu you are used to (well actually it has QuickMenu which is heaps better), try this ROM:

WWE_21900_SP1_6IEQMTIT2_P3600I[/QUOTE]

After doing all u advised me to do, i think i might have save a few bucks if only i discovered all this cool stuffs u guys had earlier cos last time i send my device for re-programming at the HP shop (don't know if its HTC or not).They sell all kind of windows mobile devices. I spent about MYR120 there. I think im going to donate to u guys for development. But not until next week hehehe.

"decoy"=thanks a lot..you're the MANNNNNN!!!!
[P3600 Software Upgrading] wuhu:
Hello

Hi, i'm noob.

There is a broken link in the guide ?

the one to trinityguides
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Yes, that domain has gone defunct and the author no longer has a trinity.

But I have rebuilt the same guide right here in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4550781#post4550781
[P3600 Software Upgrading] bekkio:
when i launch the rom update utility, it always says that there is a connection problem and the PDA goes in the 3-color display, but i've done all in the right way...
[P3600 Software Upgrading] cimentocola:
Hello.

I have a HTC 3600 and a computer with Vista, but when i run the rom update utility, the bootloader pops in in the HTC, but i always get a 260 error in the computer...

Can anyone help?
[P3600 Software Upgrading] patatas120:
cimentocola,

Try with XP and ActiveSinc 4.5.

I had the same error with Win7 and everything was fine using XP.

Cheers,
[P3600 Software Upgrading] snowdevlin:
is there any way to do it with WIN7?

I've been getting the same 260 error

:(

help needed!
[P3600 Software Upgrading] holzteifel:
How to remove the hardspl?

What are the procedures to reinstall the origininal SPL (i have to return my VPA compact gps due to permanent crashes). Currently i have SPL 1.30 Olipro (is this HardSPL?).

Would it be enough to flash a recovery ROM, i found on another board (it includes original spl)

Unfortunatly i cant try it because its almost unavaileble, but maybe someone here can help me.
[P3600 Software Upgrading] lurens63:
does it work on a p3600 (not p3600i)?
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Pokett:
same question here...

i searched the forum for quite a while and i can't find any info on how to change the rom from one HTC3600
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Pretty much exactly the same procedure, only difference is the HardSPL version you should use.

For the HardSPL steps just refer to SuperSport's thread:

How to Flash HardSPL (Using Olipro 1.20)
[P3600 Software Upgrading] H_H:
Dead link to TriniryGuides

Thanks for the guide.

The Trinityguide.com site looks like the Domain Name has not been renewed so the info is not available.

Do you have links to the info elsewhere and/or know how to contact trinityguides.com to let them know that their site does not work?

HTH. . .
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Yes I already resurrected it from archive and posted it in this very thread (a page or so back).

See here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4550781#postcount105
[P3600 Software Upgrading] H_H:
There's always others ahead of me.

Thanks for that. I hadn't read through all the pages of this thread (obviously).

Would it be possible to put a message on the first page so that others like me (OLM) don't ask the same Qs?
[P3600 Software Upgrading] the.decoy:
Yes I need to ask Jon to update his first post and add link to my replacement posts. I cannot do it myself as it is originally his thread not mine.

I should really PM him about it :o
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
WM6.5 Rom Stuck on welcome screen
[P3600 Software Upgrading] Qamarzamsyawal:
Push Message wont't sign in