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[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
So can you put an older radio on the microsd card and flash that back or does it come up with an error code every time you go into the bootloader?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] fuzion99:
For whatever reason, after attempting to flash the ROM, I had trouble reading the microSD card. Fortunately I had a second card and I downloaded the same Radio ROM but from another source and put the ROM file on the second microSD card. I was able to successfully complete the update this time, but unfortunately the hard reset was pending so I have to redo all my setup again. Interesting that after the reflash I was able to successfully access the first microSD card again that had the bad ROM image on it. I think I'll back it up then reformat it again just to be safe. Thanks for your help.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
Well I wasnt really much help lol but ur welcome im glad you fixed it :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Amator72:
Is it advisable to flash back to original ROM before trying another cooked ROM?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] DaveShaw:
Some people recommend it. Personally, I don't bother with it.

However after flashing you should perform a "Hard Reset" when you get to the "Tap haere to begin..." screen. This will wipe any rubbish left on your device from the previous ROM.

Dave
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Amator72:
Thanks - that is what I shall do. If anyone have some concrete arguments for it, give us feedback please... :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
I have never bothered with it either. Its time consuming and I cant see how it would help as a Rom flash should technically overwrite every block on your internal memory. If it didnt then you would have extra files left all over the place when you flashed a new rom. As Dave stated though you should definitely Hard Reset as per the guide AFTER you flash your Rom. Good luck :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Amator72:
Hawk then! No more coming back to the original then!!! :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
I think the only reason some people do it is to recover the stock splash screen if they were using a ROM with a custom splash. Otherwise, it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] togles:
When to use Hard SPL vs just RUU for ROM installs?

I tried and tried last night using the Hard SPL, could never get it working.

Then I saw the option for just installing a ROM using the Raphael_RUU.exe (or RaphaelWrapper.exe method. First time I tried that it went flawlessly.

I guess I was under the impression that I needed to do Hard SPL before the other.

Can anyone clarify when to use what?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
Well, you should install hard spl first. I can't tell you everything it does, but one of its functions (and maybe the most important one) is to protect you in the event of a bad flash. With the hard spl, if the flash hangs or whatever, you can still go into bootloader mode and flash back to another rom. But if you don't have it installed and something goes bad, you may be in trouble. It sounds like everything worked out ok for you, but it's probably not a good idea to continue with flashing without the hard spl.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] togles:
Thanks for the response, I tried everything to get that hard spl installed. Tried the micro sd way of installing it, tried it on multiple systems, etc. Just no luck.

Just to follow up though, are you saying that if something went wrong, ie I bricked the phone during that ROM flash, that without Hard SPL I may not be able to recover at all?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
Yeah, that's pretty much the idea as I understand it. When things go bad with hard spl, you can still get into bootloader mode to flash a ROM, but I guess with the stock spl, if you flash a custom rom and then get stuck, you can get an error message but can't get back into bootloader and now your phone is toast (unless you own a JTAG cable and know how to use it).

I'm pretty sure you can't flash hard spl onto the raphael with the sd card method. You just have to get it to work with Active Sync. It's weird you could do a ROM update but not flash hard spl. Are you sure it didn't work? Did you check the spl # in bootloader?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] togles:
I am fairly certain, once launching the SW on the PC, checking the boxes, executing the hard SPL, the phone would go dark, nothing would ever happen. it wouldnt get to the tri color screen or anything. Then the program would just time out and say that it failed. My phone would never come back, would have to remove battery, put it back in and then restart the phone.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] thericeman:
Make sure that when you are flashing via active sync that you turn off any software firewall's or fully open them (ala ZoneAlarm's Game Mode - allow all option). Also, when you flash, your Raphael may prompt you to allow a file to execute when you launch the wrapper. You need to make sure you allow it or it will always go to the black screen and you need to pull the battery like you did.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] oifrankoi:
I have a question: I want a Hard-spl but my SPL is: 5.05.0000,

Can i use the spl 1.90Olinex?

Cheers Frank
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] johnfoam:
So I assume that you're saying that we just hard reset when we are asked to calibrate the device with the stylus? Instead of doing any of the calibrating, we just hard reset at this point? Sorry, just want to make sure I know when to hard reset. When I was removing the "bloat" from the at&t stock rom, I had to soft reset at a very specific point in order for it not to customize.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
Yeah, it's not as tricky as the "remove bloat" trick. It just gets to the screen where it says "tap here to set up device" (or something like that) and you hard reset. Otherwise, if you set up the device and start using it, you're likely to have a bunch of completely random bugs that no one else can reproduce.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] togles:
Actualy, it worked. I checked the bootloader screen and its ot the right version listed. I guess I kept asuming it was failng because I never gota status bar on my system when the SPL wrappr was running, andit would just say that it failed at the end and the phone would not reboot by itself, i would have to initiate a soft reset.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
Yeah, I figured it must have worked. As I recall, the hard spl flash was pretty quick (much faster than the 10 min that the updater tells you to be ready for). I don't remember if there was a progress bar or not, or if I got an error message (probably yes, then no). Glad it worked out.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] vongolder:
ROM flash hang

Okay, I’ve done my best to search, read and hide my royal noobiness before getting flamed. (My vocabulary is growing by the minute!) With mega-thanks to mskip I installed the hardspl and was well on the way to getting rid of AT&T’s low-life, RAM sucking, battery wasting attempts to wring more money out of me. That’s where I’ve gotten stuck and two days of searching haven’t gotten me any closer to getting a decent ROM installed, though I did manage to offload AT&T’s bloatload. (I have an unlocked Fuze, by the way.) Here is my hang-up, either by flashing 1) through ActiveSync or 2) via MicrSD.

1. ActiveSync – As I said I flashed Hard-SPL and bootloader now shows 1.90.OliNex. But now every way I try to flash a custom ROM, after the first two screens, I get “ERROR [240] : FILE OPEN” with the explanation below: “The Update Utility cannot open the requested file. Please check your update utility.” So I’ve searched the threads for various answers. Yes, I’ve made sure my firewall and anti-virus are turned off. Yes .rar and the RUU are in the same folder, unzipped. Yes I put them together in my root drive to try from there. Yes ActiveSync is connected. Yes I’ve also used RaphaelWrapper.exe. Yes I’ve restarted. Since I’m on an XP pro machine, today I borrowed a Vista laptop, downloaded wrapper and ROM, of course loading from the root drive, and still got the same error. I’ve also tried different ROM’s for the Raphael, still same error.

2. Also I’ve tried various ways through the microSD card, also always with the same result. The card is formatted to FAT32, but I re-formatted it just in case. Having converted the ROM to a RAPHIMG.nbh and put it on the card, I go into bootloader, and it flashes the first tri-color screen saying “no image file”, and goes to the 2nd tri-color screen, which says “serial” at the bottom. I’ve done multiple soft resets and a couple of hard-resets, with no changes. I’ve loaded a 512MB card with the .nbh instead of my 8GB card, still no dice.

I would really like to try some of these custom ROM’s. Can anyone help figure out how? Thank you!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
Might seem a stupid question but what program did you use to unrar the files and get your original .nbh Rom file? WinRAR is the best and the one I would recommend. Also have you always used the original download or have you tried downloading from different sources in case the original download was corrupted. Since you get a similar problem trying to flash via microSD Card I cant say that your operation system might be the cause.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
Ok, I'm not sure what you mean by putting the .rar and RUU in the same folder. You should've gotten the RUU and the .nbh file from the .rar file (maybe you just mis-spoke up there).

Since you've got hard spl installed, you're pretty much good to go. I use a 1 gb sandisk card for flashing, and it's been good to me. I've read that the larger ones (>4) can be finicky (don't know why). Maybe just try another card. Make sure the RAPHIMG.nbh file is not in a folder. And maybe look for a ROM that's in a zip file, not a rar file (lol).
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
Yeah I was thinking that maybe they didnt uncompress the rom file to get the .nbh file but like you said maybe its just a typo lol. Or maybe using a zip tool which can cause problems with rar files. Better wait and see :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
Yeah, it's time to 'fess up vongolder. You were trying to flash the .rar file, weren't you? :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] wildbird:
mskip - first off thank you for this excellent post - got the Fuze a couple of weeks ago and "decrappified" the stock rom following instructions in the general thread, provided by tyguy - will use your instructions as soon as I have time.

Needless to say, I am also very impressed by the great quality and expedient level of follow-up. I hope I won't have to use it:)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
Thanks alot :D and if you ever doo need help dont be afraid to ask :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] incisivekeith:
Some questions - trivial as well as important (to me) - about flashing just radio

First of all, thank you mskip for this thread and putting all the information together. I had promised myself I was not going to flash my phone until the warranty runs out and also it is very important for me that the phone functions well during these days. But, as it happens to anyone in this forum, I have got tempted to flash the radio 1.11.25.01 on my Fuze mostly due to its very good reviews about call quality and quick GPS locks. I have the following questions though, as probably I overread on this thread as well as on the thread about flashing for the first time - and frankly, if my questions are already answered, please direct me in the right direction; I would truly appreciate that.

1. I have everything stock, no flashing done yet. From what I understand now, I have to install HardSPL from OliNex first. I have downloaded it and I am thinking about installing it via Activesync. Do I have to remove my SIM card and the SDHC card before flashing HardSPL or the radio?

2. I then have to install the 1.11.25.01 radio, again via Activesync. While reading about radio flashing, I came across the requirement of "rilphone.dll" - so, is the rilphone.dll required, and if it is, how do I install rilphone.dll after installing the radio? Is there a package that contains the radio as well as rilphone.dll?

3. mskip - in your instructions, you have suggested that no programs should be started while flashing and the screensaver should not start either. I am using PhoneAlarm and I have set my screen to turn off (not a screensaver) after 30 seconds. While I would be flashing the radio, will this be a problem, or during the installation, the screen will remain active?

4. I read the following post and it seems I may be missing a lot if I don't know what the poster means.

Originally Posted by vongolder:

Yes, I’ve made sure my firewall and anti-virus are turned off. Yes .rar and the RUU are in the same folder, unzipped. Yes I put them together in my root drive to try from there. Yes I’ve also used RaphaelWrapper.exe. Yes I’ve restarted. Since I’m on an XP pro machine, today I borrowed a Vista laptop, downloaded wrapper and ROM, of course loading from the root drive, and still got the same error.

Are all the precautions the poster mentions, required for flashing a radio?

5. I read that the radio flashing gets stuck at 95% or 99% and then it should be soft reset using the stylus - my guess is that I have to use the stylus to poke the small button at the bottom of my Fuze, which has the "Headphones" symbol on top of it. Please correct me if I am wrong.

6. The HardSPL will replace my stock SPL, per my understanding. Are there any other implications of installing HardSPL - technical or functional?

All help is much appreciated. Thanks.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
You can only flash hard spl with active sync, so you're stuck there. Definitely shut off the anti-virus software you have (it only takes 30 seconds, you'll suvive), and make sure that your power-saving options/screensaver are disabled. And it's a good idea to remove the sd card and sim card during the flash (don't want to get a text message or something weird).

With regards to the radio, I'd recommend 2 things. One, do it with the sd card method. Get a 1 gb card, format it to FAT32, then put the radio rom image on it (named RAPHIMG.nbh). Go into bootloader mode (you'll know how to do this after the hard spl), and at the prompt hit the power button. Just sit and wait, it takes about a minute. I have found with the two latest radios (Blackstone 1.12.25.16 and ATT 1.12.25.19) that it sort of hangs at the end for maybe 15 seconds. Just wait til it says it's done. I've read that it can hang a long time (and maybe just stop) at 99% when doing the flash over active sync. Seriously, save yourself the heartache and flash the radio with a card. Then, when you're done, say to yourself 'ya know what, the stock rom sucks azz,' and go download a cooked ROM and flash it. Exact same procedure as the radio, only it takes maybe 3 minutes. It's a piece of cake.

Basically, once you have hard spl flashed, you've been given the key to the city. Might as well use it (don't flash a non-raphael radio, though). Oh (the second thing I mentioned above), and I'd recommend just going with the newest ATT radio (1.12.25.19, or whatever's in my signature). You can find the rilphone in the radio thread, and it's easy to do the rilphone2.dll install/registry tweak. Or, just flash something like RRE 5 that already has it (I think it does). Good luck, grasshopper!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] incisivekeith:
Thank you for your response in detail. I will be flashing via Activesync for both HardSPl and the radio as my mobility is limited due to my car being in for repairs. The nearest Best Buy is a little far, and I don't want to wait for flashing. The reason I want to install the leaked 1.11.25.01 radio from Official ATT ROM is that it is said to be much better than the latest one, 1.12.25.19, from what I read.

Although you answered about the rilphone.dll issue, I was wondering if you really require it. And, is that true that if the installation gets stuck at 99%, I should just soft reset it?

I am still open on more inputs on my earlier post. Thanks.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] vongolder:
:p Yup - that's exactly it. I was presuming I had unzipped the .rar file but hadn't. So much for hiding my noobiness! (Hope we don't get kicked off for stupidity!) I installed the first new ROM and am good to go. Thanks a bunch guys.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
LMAO! Glad you got it to work. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
HAHA dont worry about it mate if everyone got kicked out for stupidity when they was a noob there wouldnt be anyone left on XDA. That was a pretty good one though :p
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mmuscaro:
Thanks for the hardwork. Tried to load the Raphael HardSPL and I get an error, "athena wrapper has stopped working" and the program quits. Any of these roms give me the same error.

Thanks in advance.

Windows Vista

HTC FUZE

Rom Version 1.95.502.5 WWE

Rom DAte 10/20/08

Radio Version: 1.02.23.32
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Farmer Ted:
Uh, let me be the first to ask: "Why are you flashing a Raphael with an Athena wrapper?" Are you sure you downloaded the proper hard spl? It should most definitely be a raphael wrapper that your using. Re-download, and make sure that the wrapper and hard spl are in the same folder on your desktop.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mmuscaro:
I downloaded the links from the first page. I also searched and downloaded the "raphael wrapper" program and it gives me the same error. "athena wrapper stopped working."
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] b3yond:
help htc fuze

im trying to flash my fuze with a rom via active sync i fallow everything step by step but i always get a comunication error it goes to the loading and it show 0% no more and them i get the comuniocation error..please help..this's what i did. do i need to do anything else ?? please help

4. DOWNLOAD AND FLASH YOUR PREFERED ROM.

Flashing Via ActiveSync

1. Download your prefered Rom from the Raphael Rom Develpoment Page and unzip/unrar it to your computer.

2. REMOVE SIM and microSD CARDS!!

3. Turn phone back on and wait until it syncs with your PC.

4. Run the Raphael_RUU.exe (or RaphaelWrapper.exe if thats included instead) from the Roms Folder.

5. Once phone finishes flashing and gets to the screen where it configures the stylus, HARD RESET

(hold the VOLUME DOWN and ENTER (center) Buttons, press the RESET button with the stylus tip, then release the RESET button but continue to hold the VOLUME DOWN and ENTER buttons until the reset screen appears)

6. Follow onscreen instructions to set up your New Rom.

7. Once phone has gone through the customisation procedure then replace Sim and microSD Cards.

8. Turn phone back on and set up as required.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
You cant flash HardSPL using the CustomRUU OR RaphaelWrapper you have to use the HardSPL Package from Section2 in the first post. If it wont work then copy the SSPLManual.exe onto your device and run it to put the phone into a black screen, then run the RUU again from the computer to flash the HardSPL. If you are on a computer running windows vista then try using a machine with XP on it to get your HardSPL flashed, then you can use your storage card to flash everything else.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
Have you successfully flashed HardSPL? Please go into your bootloader to verify first. If you have OliNex's HardSPL on your phone then try flashing the Rom via microSD Card.

I dont think you have HardSPL flashed and thats why it wont let you flash a Rom :p
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] b3yond:
ohh, ok so you have to do the olinex's install and them go to that step...?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
Thats why they are in that order lol :) You HAVE to flash HardSPL before flashing a custom Rom. If you dont need to use a different Sim Card in your phone then you can skip the Sim/Cid Unlock stage but you must HardSPL your phone before doing anything else. Otherwise you could end up bricking it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] b3yond:
thanks

thank you:)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] remlle:
I have a New Fuze from ATT. IT wont take the hard SPL. Ive done this before on other phones including tilt, and touch pro on sprint. it goes through no issues. this one for this phone asks me to allow something ti install I hit yes and then the screen goes black. once the screen goes black nothng happens.

anyone know what I missing?

ok I was able to do it on XP. Vista would not do it at all. strange but it worked.

lesson learned use XP to flash the HardSPL
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Reamer:
Ok, this is my first time flashing my raphael so i am a noob but i am usualy pretty good at at least following these simple steps and getting everything done with no problems but thats not what happend this time.

HardSPL wasn't working right on my computer for some reason it came up with the maessage saying "The application failed to initailize properly" so i figured it was a bad download and redownloaded it... same problem. So i just ran the SSPLManual.exe on my phone like it says, the screen went black like it says, and now none of the programs i try to run to get a new SPL on the phone isnt working. I tried running the HardSPL with the same message and i also tried the CustomRUU but it needs an activesync connection which my phone doesnt have anymore because of the SSPLManual.exe that i ran. Right now the phone will not turn on, go into bootloader or anything else. Please for the love of god tell me i dont have a $350 paperweight. I am running Windows XP SP3, do i need to be on SP2?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] remlle:
you simply need to use the stylus and reboot the phone using the softreset method. next to the usb connection there is a small pin hole push the stylus into it this will cause a reboot.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mmuscaro:
Ok. So I initially had the application failed using windows vista. I put it away last night frustrated and tried it again this afternoon. I re-unzipped the downloaded files and actually double clicked without the phone plugged in. This time the application launched. So I shut it off, synced the phone and everything went as planned. Just finished loading the energry fuze berry and I love it!

Thanks.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Reamer:
yeah that worked. i knew it was there but i figured since it wasnt coming on with the power button i didnt worry about the soft reset. thanks. and i moved the files to another computer running XP SP2 and it seems to be working right on there. thanks for the quick reply.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mskip:
Vista is very temperamental. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. At least now you have HardSPL on your phone you can flash Roms or Radios as required via microSD Card :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] shylohmonster:
Thanks heaps for this guide. After over a decade of WinMo use, I finally quit being a wuss and decided to flash my first ROM.

Why, oh why did I wait this long????

Followed the steps here and successfully flashed my AT&T Fuze to:

** EnergyROM 2.0 Series ** Build 31209

First try: 100% success!!! Wow, amazing. Thanks for this guide, it really helped me immensely.