yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
GREAT!!!!! Congratulations!
[HTC Excalibur] mydreamisrich:
I tried but when I click Get SD Card Serial from WINCE Device in the box none found and click Save Goldcard Image to WINCE SD is card ID isn't 16 bit (32 charter) long. I isn't succesful. help me???????
[HTC Excalibur] tictictac99:
i don't use qmat ver 446. i don't get SD card serial from WINCE Device. Errors "Could not open connection. Device connected?". Please, help me...
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Your Spare HTC device has to be started up, in Windows, and sync'd to a PC. An Activesync connection actually has to be established.
[HTC Excalibur] mydreamisrich:
Qmat????????

http://c.uploadanh.com/upload/0/595/0.539449001248807828.jpg

help me!!!!!
[HTC Excalibur] chaien78:
Hi all,

I had tried method 3 with goldcard. All went well. However, I put back the SD card into my PC and found 1 file, 1 folder not empty as mentioned. Then I ignored those and followed other steps. Now tricolors appeared again but still error 270 came. Pls advise. Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Did you format the SD card in your PC with FAT32 before creating the Goldcard? There shouldn't be any files or folders on it after you create a Goldcard until you copy RUU_Signed.nbh to it as EXCAIMG.nbh.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Is the phone on and sync'd?? The donor phone has to be working and booted up to Windows.
[HTC Excalibur] chaien78:
Firstly I formatted SD in my PC but after had copying file, it alerts unformatted then i inserted it again in donor HTC, formatted, followed instructions. Pls advise
[HTC Excalibur] phamhien:
i think, maybe ur PC has virus!!! Let scan it and reboot before maka a goldcard.
[HTC Excalibur] chaien78:
I got my htc back. hahaha. Problem was RUU_signed.nbh ----> you must get it from original ROM not cooked ones. Secondly, you should REMOVE SD card after the SD reading success before restart connections further, otherwise, error 260...
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Good job!!!!
[HTC Excalibur] tictictac99:
Thanks...I think so. Because I don't sync'd to a PC so i don't haved setup ROM. Please, help me to repair this errors.
[HTC Excalibur] steakthemoocow:
flashing to new rom

Hi guys. I've tried searching and reading the sticky and everything, but I haven't found an answer to this. I have Ricky's Kavana rom right now and if I want to install ookba's new rom, do I need to reflash to the original dash rom first before flashing to ookba's? Or can I just flash directly to ookba's rom from Ricky's? thanks
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
No, you don't have to reflash back to your stock rom. You can just download Ookba's 3VO ROM, extract the contains and flash.

Important thing to look out for:

Must not have SD in phone, phone must be app unlocked

Good luck and enjoy your new ROM
[HTC Excalibur] steakthemoocow:
thank you very much! I can't wait to try his rom out
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
He is working out some bug and doing last minutes tweak. We should have the newest ROM sometime tonight. Wait for it if you can:)
[HTC Excalibur] nhathoa:
I have T-Mobile Dash (spl 1.10.0000). There is a problem when updating new rom. Now my excalibur stuck at the first boot screen.

I've tried many methods to unbrick, but no success event Goldcard method.

Any idea for helping me. Thanks.
[HTC Excalibur] chubbichubbi:
YEAH!!!!!

With the "goldcard" method i put my loved O2 XDA Cosmo after 11 months back to life!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Thank you very much!!!!
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Duuuuuuuude! Thats phenomenal!! happy happy!
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
You should be able to simply flash a TMO factory ROM from bootloader. Still having the issue?
[HTC Excalibur] nhathoa:
It always stop upgrading at 3% or 4% of progress with many factory Roms.

With goldcard, it shows "checking SD" in 1 sec then back to bootloader screen. Tried many micro SD, many T-Mobile factory Roms.

Now my T-Mobile Dash is still dead. :D
[HTC Excalibur] chubbichubbi:
@ nhathoa

I tried the HTC Excalibur 1.27.405.1 (Worldwide English, WM6) Rom with the goldcard method and it brings my O2 XDA COSMO back too life. :)
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Try copying the image as EXCAIMG.nbh to the goldcard SDCARD and flash.
[HTC Excalibur] Biggie Da Dansa:
I tried to relfash to an older version and it said something like this utility cant be used for this phone
[HTC Excalibur] Biggie Da Dansa:
Ahh i fixed it never mindddddd
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Lol! Great! Glad this post helped (if it did).
[HTC Excalibur] chaien78:
PLS ADVISE.

I got a T-Dash SPL 1.15.0000, after got the SD gold card, can not find an appropriate RUU_signed.nbh to boot up. I have tried RUU_Excalibur_DOPODASIA_WWE_1[1].15.707.2_4.1.13.28_02.63.90_Ship but it still in tri colors screen. if you know any link to download good ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
You need a TMO Dash ROM. Check the sticky, there's plenty of ROMS for you. Check this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=381726.
[HTC Excalibur] chaien78:
I've tried this topic already but it doesnt work either. If SPL not suitable to RUU_signed.nbh, bootloader can not work.
[HTC Excalibur] Mjolnir1204:
Help

Hi ookba I need you help.

I was tried the 1 and 2 methods many times but my excalibur doesn´t work, and I want to apply the 3th method but my question is: Can I apply the method if I can't establish an activesync connection? My excalibur is detected on my PC as a mobile device but activesync never detect it.

Please help.... Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] Orioa:
Need Serious help t-mobile dash

i tried to flash my t-mobile dash i got to 48% and my usb cable got unpluged now my phone is stuck on the screen were it is different colors and i can't get it to do anything..please help i depend on my phone..thank you
[HTC Excalibur] galstyan:
Someone help me PLZ. i did everything i read here, but i still got the error 270!!! (its stopping on 3% and says image is corrupted or something like that),. i noticed that the JumpSPL doesnt appear on my dash's screen and i dont see any "CONTINUE" button to hit. plz someone help me:(((((
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
It's a simple as going to sticky and following stuck @ 3 %
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Moved to [TUT] Unbricking your Excalibur as already thread.

Hope someone can help :)
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
All is in the sticky like Stylez said. Download the appropriate ROM for your device. If HTC, HTC ROM, if TMO, TMO ROM, etc., etc., etc. And pls READ some of the amazing content in this forum!! :)
[HTC Excalibur] atmako:
Help me pls

My phone problem is these

it shows tmobile and turns off, i tried formating, it got to the stage that i should press call key. I did but after few seconds, the phone turns off again. I treid puting it in flash mode camera+power but no luck. Pls help me/
[HTC Excalibur] Kemekill Products:
sounds like a shyt battery or water damage buddy.
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
You should try with another battery. I had this same issue even with a 70% of charge in the battery meter. But when I tried to multiple task it simply the phone turned off. I bought a new battery and problems were solved.
[HTC Excalibur] bootrecord:
any help is highly appreciated in this matter

Hello everyone,

a year ago, i've installed -maybe, can't remember- a wrong rom into my dash, it results to a dead phone by any mean; no power at all when pressing the power on button, even when combined with the other known keys, not charging, if left in the charger for like 30min, the battery became slightly worm, but not charged in anyway. it just became a nice dummy phone; no more.

i've read all the posts here hoping to find a solution for it, but nothing is mentioned to unbreak a totally dead phone,

If anyone can help, please post your advice/experience, any help is highly appreciated in this matter.

thanx in advance.
[HTC Excalibur] :
Not that you need it but...

Thank you soooooo much =)
[HTC Excalibur] chaien78:
I had a problem then I found that topic. However, my htc got spl 3.66.0000 but I cant find any ROM for that. Any help appreciated. Tks.
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
You have a excalibur phone right? (a.k.a T-mobile Dash, HTC S620..etc) If that is the case (sorry to ask that but I don't want to guide you to an incorrect answer in a wrong forum), because messing with things that are not designed for your phone it probably will end up in a bricked phone. Read this, it might help- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=329605:D
[HTC Excalibur] Haukee:
German?

hey,

is there any way to make german the System Language and get the german xt9?
[HTC Excalibur] ramfan43:
When trying to unbrick a phone using the Goldcard method how important is it that the SD card be less that 1GB? The smallest SD card the store had was a 1GB so I bought it and formatted it with FAT32 and ran the qmat utility to create the gold card and it all worked great. The Qmat I used was version 5.6. It did create a small file on the SD card called MENCE and it was only 1.2kb. When I tried to reflash using the bootloader it would only search for the SD card and could not find it.

I put the card I created in my sons Excalibur and it saw the card fine and only showed the nbh file I had renamed. So is it because I am using a 1GB card that it is not being found? Please help... Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Well, regarding the size of the card it has to be smaller than 1GB as the tutorial clearly states it in bulletpoint # 2, method 3 here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4198226&postcount=1. If I can recall, I also read that in certain card brand won't work (Kingston, I think:confused:) but do a little search to double check that.
[HTC Excalibur] ramfan43:
Gold Card question...

Why does the SD card have to be less than 1GB? Finding an SD card that is less than 1GB is not easy anymore as everything is bigger and cheaper than in the past..
[HTC Excalibur] ramfan43:
Say ookba

Do you know why the SD card must be less than 1GB when creating the "goldcard" ? I am wondering if that is why when I get into the bootloader and try to use the goldcard I created on a 1GB SD card I keep getting the message " invalid certificate" and the tri-colored screen just stays on..

Something happened when I tried to upgrade my excalibur from ver. 2.8 of your fine Rom to your updated 3.0. When it was updating it stopped at 48 or 52 percent and I got a message saying bad image file. Now my phone will when I turn it on only show the HTC startup screen and do the vibrating thing and will not go any further... I tried the first 2 methods you describe in your unbricking tutorial but to no avail. So I went to the gold card creating method and everything worked great until I put the goldcard I created into my phone and tried to get it to work with the bootloader and got the message I stated previously " invalid certificate" which I do not know what that means.. then the phone went to the tri-colored bootloader screen and just stayed there.. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] suplex57:
mines say cant save temporary file....wats this?....:C
[HTC Excalibur] suplex57:
ok i got the card with the necessary files for a gold card but when i put my memory card into my bricked to dash to start the update it says invaild certificate. wat is this and how to bypass or fix it?
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Are you using your correct rom ? since you need to extract the EXCAIMG.nbh. Remember if your phone is a TMO Dash, you MUST use a TMO Dash ROM. If your phone is HTC Branded, you MUST use an HTC ROM, etc., etc., etc...
[HTC Excalibur] suplex57:
http://moshax.com/download/mobile/images/1226703818mob_pic1tmobile-dash.jpg this is my phone
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
I will recommend you to try the T MO stock roms in the Wiki and see which one is compatible or valid with your device.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Less than 1GB cards have been tested and work well. Several cards over 1GB did not work so the assumption was made that 1GB and up cards are problematic. I did hear of a user using an 8GB card successfully so it may depend on the manufacturer. Not sure what the "invalid certificate" means. Did you try to flash nonetheless? Could be a problem with the goldcard creation. Keep trying, it may take a bit of trial and error but I'm sure you'll get it.
[HTC Excalibur] suplex57:
ok im still a noob but how would i extract the nbh file from the .exe
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
It's ok. Well if you have winzip or winrar in your pc it's easier. Go to your .exe rom file and just right click on it, you will get the option "extract files" and you will only have to dump them wherever you want. Then you can select the .nbh file:D.

Hope that helps.
[HTC Excalibur] D.A.N.:
Bricked Excalibur

My usb cable fell out while flashing the new 3VO rom. I tried steps one and two trying to retrieve my phone but it wont boot and seems to be dead. I then made a gold card but again nothing happens so i cant restore my phone. Any ideas from anyone would be helpful. I have tried two batteries and still the phone is dead.
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
So, your phone does not turn on at all? not even in bootloader?. Try again to do all steps in method 3. I have tried it and it works.
[HTC Excalibur] D.A.N.:
Gold card error

I am trying again to make a gold card and it tells me i dont have the right phone permissions. Can someone help me with this. I paid for the software, but i dont understand this error. i also have another error telling me that sd card serial number doesnt match the card. I am at a loss here.
[HTC Excalibur] D.A.N.:
Still bricked, QMAT isnt working.

I have a bricked Excalibur s621 and I am trying to use another Dash s620 to create the gold card. I keep getting the same error that there is no card in the phone. Sometimes it works and then tells me the serial number doesn’t match the card. All I need to do is get this gold card to work to get my phone up and running. I would appreciate any help anyone can offer. T
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
What size is your sd card? Did you properly formatted your SD card?.
[HTC Excalibur] D.A.N.:
Bricked Excalibur

I am using a 256mb card. Formatted it Fat32 like the directions have explained to do.
[HTC Excalibur] marko82marko:
Thanks for this unique and incredibly excellent solution for reviving the dead Excalibur
[HTC Excalibur] Nokser:
Greate Tutorial...

Tell me, If I don't have Ship Rom?? What then?
[HTC Excalibur] chaien78:
I got excalibur spl 1.15.000. I already created gold card but I can't find a proper ROM for my HTC. I've tried 1.15.707.2 (Worldwide English, WM5) but the screen only "checking SD content" and back to trio color again. Pls help me to find the correct SPL for my pls 1.15.000. Many tks
[HTC Excalibur] kamykeiro:
Problem with goldcard.

I have a problem with unbricking my excalibur. I am using a goldcard method. I make a goldcard with qmat, coppy excaimg. donbh to my card, but when I insert card in my s621 and run bootloader, i only see : checking sd contest for a few seconds, after thad there is a three color bootloader menu. How can i fix that? sorr for my english, i'm from Poland.
[HTC Excalibur] OxR:
Technically this isn't a guide for unbricking your device since if it's bricked you can't establish an activesync connection.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Well technically you wouldn't be able to even turn on your phone if bricked :p "but yes the art of bricking can be anything that prohibits the use of phone"
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Most users' definitions of "bricked" means that they don't boot. Out of these devices, you can usually access the SPL (bootloader screen) and establish an USB connection this way. The only reason you need an activesync connection is to make a goldcard (on another HTC device). This guide helps you reflash your OS (0x400) partition to get you phone back up and running. As long as you haven't damaged your SPL, you should be good. :D But even then, there a lower level methods to reflash even those partitions and get the phone working, just too complex for even the knowledgable user and way to involved for this guide. There's always a way!

And yes, if your phone doesn't even turn on, then you're done. :o
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Download one! Find all links in the sticky. :)
[HTC Excalibur] Nokser:
I understand ...

But here I mean the HTC Monet.

He did not have Official ROM Downloads
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
I don't know if this works for the monet...I know for sure for the snap and excalibur.
[HTC Excalibur] OxR:
Well I can access the bootloader but cannot establish an activesync connection to create a goldcard. None of the other methods have worked either. Any advice? My phone has been bricked for almost a year now and I have been trying nonstop to bring it back to life with no success.
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
To create a goldcard you will need another windows mobile based device for it.
[HTC Excalibur] Nokser:
You're right.

But I have to somehow deal with it.

I do not know what to do, except that I do not have oficjalniejszy ROM
[HTC Excalibur] OxR:
Didn't even think about that, thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
You are welcome, I'm here to help ;)
[HTC Excalibur] Exa777:
is there Any Chances that this works for my Xperia x1 and unbricks it?

running SPL 72.00

Every every every single flashing methods failed me so far even

SE us downloader(Sony's Update utility)
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
This tutorial has only been tested with the excalibur and the snap, Nobody has tested in other devices. I will recommend that you search in the xperia forum and see if there are some methods that can work for your device :)
[HTC Excalibur] cecilc:
getting into bootloader

i can't seem to get into the bootloader screen. am running the 3VO ROM. dash will always just boot to windows mobile screen but get stuck there.

when it mentions to press the camera button, do you need to also press the ALT key then power on? either way, does not seem to work for me.

thanks.
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
could you pls give me a link to qmat?
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
Help me, got 2 bricks in my hands!!!

Dear members

Please help me out.

I had 2 dopod c720 from china. I flashed the first one with the latest 3V0 rom for excalibur, it worked fine.

I also flashed the 2nd one. but its just hang on the HTC LOGO. so i tried to flash it with HTC UNBRANDED ROM. it only goes upto 3% and shuts off.

I tried to use method 3 to unbrick it. The problem is when i try to write the gold card image to my memory card (using the 1st phone i flashed), I GET "SD CARD WITH THAT CARD ID IS NOT INSERTED", but when i click on get serial, the card is detected and the capacity and serial number is shown.

I thought this was a problem with the rom on the first phone, so i tried to reflash it to shipped unbranded rom. it was running fine but i accidentaly disturbed the cable and now BOTH PHONES ARE HANGING ON HTC LOGO. pls help revive atleast one of them cause I sold it to customer but i just wanted him to go with 3VO Rom. pls help asap

Best Regards
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
I f you read carefully what ookba posted in his first thread after you format your SD Card yo should:

•You will need the serial number from the inserted SD card so click the "Get SD Card Serial from WINCE Device" button

•Once the Serial number appears in the box, click the "Save Goldcard Image to WINCE SD" button below

And then follow the next steps,
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
And if u read my post carefully, i did just that. Maybe my english is just bad, i mixed up the procedures in my text. But thing is, i followed the instructions word by word! Any other suggestions plz:(
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
Could the sd card be the problem, like maybe the brand aint supported? Its a 512mb, one from the street vendors, brand i dont even know
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Yes, that can be an issue. Try another and see if that works.
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
What about the flash version of USPL - HOW does it work?
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Is like flashing a rom , you should give it a shot. The thing is you that you need to SDA unlock to avoid the 3% during flash and use activesync.

But you can try while you are in bootloader
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
I had already tried it last night, its goes upto 100% in like 2 seconds, then it say image corrupt and the phone goes back to the usual hang
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
Hi,

Could i use any htc device with windows mobile, to make a gold card??

Cause my friend who has a excalibur isnt around. If your answer is yes, should i select excalibur in model or i should i select model of donor when writing gold card image?
[HTC Excalibur] tobbbie:
yes - any. You need to set the ID to the one that matches the device that you want to flash. Take care that the right card is seen in the QMAT/PSAS screen. It sometimes takes time until you see the ID of the card change from the default seen there. Only after this you should write a new boot sector to the card (which is what happens actually).
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
ok, the problem was with the psas software, i found the old qmat and i managed to make the gold card (on a 64MB sd card) using a HTC OXYGEN (S310). the card is too small to hold a EXCALIBUR ROM so i just decided to flash my excalibur with the USPL FLASH Version, just too see if my gold card will work. on my 1st phone, it says searching for content on sd card, then it says "invalid certificate, press any key to continue"....

Why is it showing this message? will it flash the ROM when i use a bigger card or will it show the same message??

On my 2nd excalibur, its just quickly showing "searching for content on sd card" in less than 1 second and it goes to the 3 COLOR screen without writing any message.

What my way forward? assist pls
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Well on your second device, if you followed the steps at this point you should be able to see the gray screen with the "loading" sign. This reflects that you are flashing the image from the sd card. You should have missed some steps before, since I assumed you haven't seen this on your screen.
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
I managed to fix 1 of my machines. Thanx man..

Now the 2nd one just shows, searching for Sd card, and then quickly goes to 3 color screen. Spl version is 1.16.0000, the one thats has revived is spl 1.33.000.

Can spl version make the other brick not to see memory card?

If so, how do i upgrade the SPL?
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Great, one more to go. SPL version doesn't matter. Why don't you repeat the process all over again, now that you have a "alive" device to be a donor also.

Try again and see what happens
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
Its still failing at the time am writing this message.

I just tried my gold card on the alive one, its detected, but on this other one it keeps skipping the "memory card stage". Isnt there a flash ROM which on works on any vendor or cid?
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Did you format the sd card again and re-try the process?
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
Yea, actually i hav 2 cards
[HTC Excalibur] tobbbie:
Afaik, the Gold Card method will only flash valid signed ROMs, regardless of the CID however. So any signed Stock ROM should load via GoldCard.

Also the sequence:

1.) fresh format (FAT32) - not just FAT

2.) created GoldCard Boot sector with right ID

3.) ROM in Root directory of Card

is important as 1.) could overwrite 2.)

Good luck!
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
What about a ROM which would work on any CID, dont it exist? Even if its a wm 5 or wm4.

Cause maybe my phone has problem with memory card slot.

By the way, by the way, if i pay for PERMANENT CID UNLOCK, will i be able to unlock my phone since it only goes in boot-loader?
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
sequence wasnt a problem coz my gold card was working on my first excalibur...anyway, the problem was probably with my sd card slot in th phone. i pushed the sd card in and out a dozen times and bingo, everything is working now. 2 working machines now, thanks guys.
[HTC Excalibur] kachman:
This phone is really getting at me. When i put the USPL FLASH VERSION ON THE CARD, Its reading the card and then says invalid certificate. But when i put the correct SIGNED ROM, it wont detect the card at all. What in Gods name is wrong with this phone?? Pls help before i crush this phone
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Good to know that you solved your problem :D