[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] badman25:
First, let me preface my post by stating that I am a noob so be easy on me.

Secondly, let me state that the Tilt in question was NOT my phone. I received it in the state that it is in. With that being said, let me give the background of my situation.

Sunday: My friend woke up to see that his Tilt was giving the RLOD. He brought his phone into the store where the agent stated that he was gettin the RLOD because it had water damage (the strip is a light shade of pink). The agent told him that he would have to purchase a new phone. So he went ahead and purchased a new phone. That night, I'm at his house and I help him put some apps on his new Tilt. After doing so, I decided to try to research the RLOD problem because I wasn't convinced that water damage was the reason that it wasn't workin. He told me that I could keep it if I got it to work.

Monday: After gettin' the RLOD all sunday night and into Monday, I put a new battery into the Tilt and it starts up. So I go to the cingular store and I'm able to get a battery swap. After gettin' this swap, I give the phone to another friend of mine that is VERY familiar with these type of phones. He tried flashing HardSpl but it wouldn't allow him. I noticed that the phone wasn't charging either. Eventually the battery got low and all it would do is boot up into the bootloader screen. I left the battery out all night.

Tuesday: I pop the battery back in and it goes to the bootloader screen. I attempt to flash the original Rom but it said invalid vendor type. The only ROMs I could flash was the 1.51.502.0 Rom (with the 1.50 MFG SPL included), the 1.57.502.1 and the the 1.62.502.0. Running mtty I was able to boot up the first 2. I was unable to boot up the 1.62.502.0 Rom tho (task 8 didn't do anything). With the 1.57.502.1, I tried doing the "set 16 0", "task 28" and "task 0" function but I still had the same issue with where I was only able to boot up the phone through mtty. Everything else would result in bootloader screen. I then flashed the 1.51.502.0 ROM and had the same issues as with the 1.57.502.1. Doing info 8 with each of these ROMs revealed bad blocks. Being that the 1.51.502.0 Rom had the MFG 1.50 SPL included, I read that I could safely do "task 2a". I did task 2a but I got a message saying "Erase block FAIL" for the bad blocks that were there.

Since Tuesday: I realized that after I did that task 2a, i was able to flash the OEM ROM (only situation that I've been able to flash it). With the OEM ROM, the first "boot" through mtty reveals a bad block. The second "boot" does not. I'm still only able to boot the phone thru mtty though. Everything else results in bootloader screen. I kno that I need to flash HardSpl on my phone but I can't do it because a) my activesync won't detect this phone under any circumstance and b) whenever I try to flash a HardSpl with the CustomRUU executable, it stays at 0% and I get the "error 262 update error message."

I've been searching through these boards for three days and I don't kno what else to do right now. Being that I got this phone for free, I would like to get it to work but if i can't then it's no big deal. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Currently I have the OEM ROM on the phone (1.57.502.2).

Bootloader screen reveals:

KAIS1*0

SPL-1.56.0000

CPLD-8

Mtty information:

Cmd>info 0

Platform Model ID:KAIS1*000

Platform HW Board ID:31, PVT1

Cmd>info 2

HTCSCWS__001Ùü¤HHTCE

Cmd>info 8

--- 2K bytes sector version ---

DEVICE NAME=samsung_k9k2g08

DEVICE ID=0xAA

DEVICE MAKER ID=0xEC

PAGE SIZE=0x800

TOTAL PAGE SIZE=0x840

BLOCK COUNT=0x800

BLOCK PAGE=0x40

Checking block information

BLOCK 0 (0x0) is reversed block

BLOCK 1 (0x1) is reversed block

BLOCK 8 (0x8) is reversed block

BLOCK 9 (0x9) is reversed block

BLOCK 10 (0xA) is reversed block

BLOCK 11 (0xB) is reversed block

BLOCK 78 (0x4E) is bad block

BLOCK 226 (0xE2) is bad block

BLOCK 434 (0x1B2) is bad block

BLOCK 1669 (0x685) is bad block

Partition[0], type=0x20, start=0x2, total=0x63E

Partition[1], type=0x23, start=0x640, total=0x700

Partition[2], type=0x25, start=0xD40, total=0x9E40

Partition[3], type=0x4, start=0xAB80, total=0x10740

CE Total Length(with sector info) = 0x5615C00

CE CheckSum Length(without sector info) = 0x55C0000