yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
Even though that eBay listing says "GSM", that looks like a CDMA "Worldphone", because it's a Verizon phone (who use a CDMA network). The phone can work on GSM with a SIM card though.

So that's why your phone is hanging on the TP2 screen at startup, because you've flashed a GSM ROM onto a CDMA phone. You need to flash a CDMA version of NRG's ROMs (see the link in his first posting to ppcgeeks.com for this).

All you need to do is put your phone into the bootloader (hold Volume Down and press the reset button), then plug it into the computer and flash.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ultra_Immortal:
Ok, so I have just realised that my Rodium is a RHOD500. Is there an HARDSPL loader?

Can I recover my phone on either the standard rom or new rom?

Someone please help!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ultra_Immortal:
Thanks for the advice bro... everything seems to be working fine... ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
Yes, there is a HardSPL for RHOD500 (CDMA). But if you managed to flash a new ROM, albeit a wrong one, it sounds like it alread has HardSPL. Otherwise the ROM flash wouldn't have completed, it would have hung at 0%.

When you get into the bootloader see what "SPL" version it says you have, and compare that to what's in the HardSPL thread in the CDMA sub-forum.

As I said, all you need to do is get into the bootloader, then you can flash a new (CDMA) ROM - either an official one or a cooked one. You'll find a lot more cooked CDMA ROMs on ppcgeeks.com though, compared to here.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Makaylojr:
Flashing help

I have just received my tilt to and flashed a hardspl and was putting on an energy rom. I keep getting an error saying 240 error file open. I have googled and looked through post but can't seem to find the answer. I looked for an nbh file or something and can't find it, I have this file for my rom.. Energy.RHODIUM.21905.Sense2.5.Cookie.Jun.11.7z and customRUU. Do they need to be placed in seperate folders or the same. I am running windows vista under admin. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am a newbie so if the reply wasn't extremely technical, it would help.:rolleyes:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
You need to uncompress the .7z file with something that understands .7z, then that should give you a CustomRUU.exe and also a RHODIMH.nbh (which you haven't mentioned). You then run that CustomRUU within that folder that you extracted to, i.e. from the same place that has the RHODIMH.nbh. Try turning off your anti-virus software, it might be blocking it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Makaylojr:
Thanks. Just remembered that I went through the same thing when homebrewing my psp. Thanks for reminding me O.o.......................................Update... It worked! Yeah buddy! Thanks for the help.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ultra_Immortal:
Ok, so I have another problem...

All these roms are made for specific models such as rhod100, rhod200 etc...

On my slide out QWERTY keyboard, all the symbol keys are in different places. For example, my "!" is not on my "1", it's on my "N" key.

Is there a way to manually change the symbol keys by editing an xml file or do I have to install a rhod500 specific rom?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
There are cabs to change the keymapping for different models. Try searching and you'll probably find something - especially in the CDMA sub-forum.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jowood06:
I'm having the same issue. What did you do to solve it?

Thanks much!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ultra_Immortal:
I have searched on here and at ppcgeeks and I am still having a problem finding these cabs for key remapping...

Could you perhaps point me in the right direction of where I can download these cabs so that I can put them on my phone.

I have also tried the rhodium key mapper but that didn't work either...

Thanks bud!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lennyz1988:
checkout this thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=621917&highlight=att+cab
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] E-Phizzle:
why me god

have done everything prescribed hardspl done and i grabbed a rom and when unzipped the name had already been changed for the file as perscribed and i put in in the root folder of my memory card(which i assume is the very first folder) and still just stays in technicolor dream coat screen and never goes anywhere
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] E-Phizzle:
never mind i got it

so with persistance and two whole pots of zen tea i have flashed my rom multiple times trying to find the best one and have had great success. sync with USB seems to be the best way for me right now and will find out more abotu flashing from mem card later. not sure who this msg is too since never got a responce i guess its just so i can get out of junior memeber status and play with the big dogs
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
Lol. I've never tried flashing from SD card, so don't know about that one. But good that you got it sorted ! :D
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mskip:
Flashing via usb cable is always alot safer (because of the checks that customruu.exe performs) as well as being quicker. The only real reason for flashing via microsd card is if you have an unsupported platform (such as mac or linux) or your windows cant get a sync. Also some people who travel alot like to keep a few radios stored on their storage card so they can hot swap radios for better reception.

If you can though its always best to stick with usb flashing if it works.

Mark.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] KGET:
flash back to stock before next ROM

Just wondering if ya'll recommend flashing back to stock before putting another ROM on. It was always required with my hermes and wizard. Havent seen much mentioned on these threads. Maybe it's a given???
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lennyz1988:
No not necessaire, just run task 29 before flashing and go.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Sirrahdorraj:
Great instructions!!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] universil:
I am a total nube and never even knew what a cab was, (though I believe it is a vehicle that takes you where you want to go for money).

But with the help of this forum I have the confidense to risk bricking my nice new phone on a 2 year contract with o2 :-)

I nearly didn't do it because so many seem to get stuck with the spl, but I just did it and it did it no problem at all!!!!

My desire to get nice new roms was greater than my fear of screwing up my phone LOL

I was worried when the phone cut out during the process coz I lost my synch, but I just reset the phone then continued with it and it worked easy :-)

Also found out that the phone isn't sim locked :-)

Thats about as good as it gets and rom's????

Here I come ....yippppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Thanks to all who helped me, (There are many coz I read alot in here).

:-)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Hpaulhopkins:
First time flashing a Rom. Not sure what i'm doing wrong but when I run the CustomRUU it gives me an error message,

Error [240] File Open

The update utility cannot open the requested file, please check your update utility
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] grymcent:
Please forgive me, I'm am sure this has been said and answered time and again, but my SearchFuu appears not to be working.

I have a second hand TP2 so am not sure if the phone has already been flashed.

What does it say before and after HardSPL:

Mine says:

RHOD100 32M SS-BC

SPL-0.87.0000

MicroP(LED) 0x0A

MicroP(KEY) 0x04

TURBO HW/TURBO SW

TP MFG DATA

512,528 809,852

811,198 222,206

218,850 Calibrated.

everything I have read say it will say 0.85.OliNex on the screen at this point but mine doesn't, but it does say SPL which seems to indicate that it has been flashed at some point.

Please help and clarify for me.

Also, is it dangerous to redo the HardSPL? I could not find this in the thread or FAQ (sorry if I missed it)

grymcent
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] grymcent:
Please ignore most of the previous post.

I decided that HardSPL would tell me or give an error if I was "re-flashing".

It worked perfectly - thanks.

Once again I apologise for my Noobness, but maybe the "re-flashing" of HardSPL is it dangerous could be added to the original post

Anyway, thanks, now onto flashing an Energy Rom.....

Grymcent
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lennyz1988:
Did you apply hardspl? and is the RHODIMG.nbh in the same folder as the custom ruu?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] grymcent:
Please tell me I have not bricked my phone...

Hi

I have followed all instructions, from HardSPL and Faria ROM, before flashing this ROM.

Error at 27%, seemed to recover fine

Error at 36%, seemed to recover fine

attempt to continue after 36% error recovery and it would not continue and offered only an exit option.

Can I recover this with SD flash, or anything else?

G
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] grymcent:
After some advice in the Faria thread, I reflashed from SDCard succefully.

Thanks for all the information in this thread, would have been even more scared and uncertain without it.

Grymcent
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] kevace1:
Since I have yet to receive an answer on the spl thread, I guess I will ask it here: how long am I suppose to wait for the license from the hard spl website, I have a week waiting and I have yet to receive anything. I'm assuming I need this license before I go ahead and flash the hard spl before I try to flash any custom rom. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. And no, I'm not that new to this...my former phone was a Kaiser as my sig mentions...and I have done lots of flashing rom making as well
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lennyz1988:
You don't need to ask for another license. Sometimes you get an error that you already unlocked a phone. Then you can ask for another license or donate true paypal. So just try to install hardspl and if you get the error you have to wait a little longer or donate to get a new license.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joshwah:
Everytime I run the hardspl and click hard flash then hit ok, it comes up and says the servers are down. EVERYTIME. How can I get through it or fix this?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] TragicPhill:
I'm having the same problem as hpaulhopkins. what is this mysterious RHODIMG.nbh you speak of? This is my first HTC and my first flash, so excuse the noobism :p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Joshwah:
OK, guys I need help. This is my first time doing this, and everytime i get to the part where it says click ok and wait, it says the servers are down. Need help!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
*bangs head against the wall*

Why oh why do you keep on spamming and not reading any responses ? I've already replied to your *same* post on this in the HardSPL thread (which is the more relevant place to answer it, since it's about HardSPL), and others have even reported fixing a similar problem close to your posting. :rolleyes:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] joey4203:
i know i have seen this elsewhere but cannot find it now. Is there a way to save my programs and reg when flashing to a new rom.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
If by "reg" you mean the registry, you don't to be restoring a whole registry to a different ROM, that will mess things up. There are various tools to backup your data before a flash. A popular one is PIM Backup (do a search and you'll find it), or Microsoft MyPhone. These will save your contacts, texts, etc.

As for your programs, you will have to reinstall them once you have your new ROM flashed.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mskip:
Dont bang your head against the wall you will will will will will develop a stuttter after a a a whwhillee.

Mark.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mjcpa:
Confused1

I flashed my Tilt2 with your latest rom.

Thanks, seems to have taken care of the keyboard issue.

Now, I won't have to send my 6th Tilt 2 back to AT&T since January.

Followed your instructions, worked like a charm.

I have a couple questions since flashing the new rom.

1) I can't find a "programs" tab or list. The only way I seem to be able to get to my programs is by Removing one of the Quick LInks on the desktop & then clicking to add another quicklink to a program. Is there another way to get to the "programs" list?

2) Is there a way to make the clock appear on the title bar in all screens?

3) If the home screen tabs could include "programs" rather than (or in addition to)some of the other options, that would be great.

Thanks,

MJR
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
You should really ask your question in somewhere more suitable, like the TP2 general forum, since this isn't about ROM development. Or in the thread specific to your ROM. (by the way though, Sense 2.5 doesn't have a "Programs" tab, but you still have a Start/Windows button)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Willuknight:
could someone please confirm for me whether this phone looks like it has hardspl installed?

I was told it did: "

The phone is fully unlocked with a HSPL flashed to the rom so you can flash custom roms with it if you want"

But when i try and flash a rom it just goes into the loading screen, sits on 0% for a while and then the RRU comes up with an error.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT

I got sick of waiting and just attempted to reinstall hard spl. Worked perfectly. Now installing my rom and it's actually installing now.

I'd say if your screen doesn't say 0.85 or oil pro or anything then it probably doesn't have hardspl installed.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
Yep, you're exactly right. Your phone had a stock 0.82 SPL. If it doesn't say 0.85OliNex then it hasn't got HardSPL.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mattry1:
cant flash rom

tmo usa tp2. pc running win7. flashed hard spl, tricolor confirms this. i cannot innitiate flash through pc or sd; yes pc-tp2 usb connection recognied/sd is fat32 format & followed instructions in post, witch is great by the way. oh and roms attempted should be compatible: energy, cell evo, deep shinning. no frozen screens, no error msg... just nothing. any help woud be wonderfull.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] BODYRESTORE:
hi thanks for the info mskip im a noob around here
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
If you put the phone into the bootloader (tri-colour screen), what does it say your SPL level is ?

When you say you "can't initiate flash", could you be more specific, what are you trying and what happens exactly ? Are you just clicking on the RUU and nothing happens ? If so, then that sounds like either your anti-virus software is blocking it (so try disabling it), or perhaps you need to run the RUU as administrator.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mattry1:
tricoluor shows oli 0.85, only option to run is "run as administrator" nothing at all hapens. will try antivirus tonite. any thoughts on sd flash? follow guide on this thread and boot loader acts as if ive done nothing? thank you for the quik response by the way, pretty exited about learning all i can & apriciate you guys for sharing your experience.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
I've never tried to flash via SD card, so I can't help you much with that. But I wonder if you have two different problems, albeit with similar symptoms. Sometimes people find that they can't flash from a certain SD card, but it works fine from another (some sort of incompatibility ?). Your problem with flashing from the PC sounds like it's not even trying to run the program, which sounds like anti-virus or permissions to me (though of course I could be wrong).

If you didn't have HardSPL on (which you obviously do), then it would start to try and flash from your PC, but would hang with the progress meter stuck at 0%.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mattry1:
not to be annoying, but how do i get to/ what do i look for in antivirus & permissions?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
The permissions thing was really about running it as administrator. If you've tried that, and it didn't make any difference, then that's not the problem.

You need to disable (temporarily) your anti-virus software. There should be an option for doing that somewhere in the controls for that software. I can't say where, because I don't know what AV you're running.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mattry1:
okay. windows is giving me a flash player error had me uninstall adobe & reinstall. next attempt same result
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mattry1:
new info... tried two more times to flash 0.85 from download on this link. at begining of flash it gives current image version: 1.91.531.4 same each time, but my bootloader screen reads olinex 0.85... am a little confused??????
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
Erm, ok, Adobe Flash player isn't involved in anything to do with flashing ROMs though ! Did you disable your AV software ?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
You're trying to reinstall HardSPL ? You already have it though, you don't need to do that. That "current image version" is referring to your ROM version, not the SPL version.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] armenh72:
First, my setup: 99% of my apps are installed on Storage Card. I have Sprite Back up which allows to do a partial restore such as selected file or system settings from a back up.

Question to experts: if I flash my tilt2 do i have to reinstall all apps? Seems that the likely answer is yes, so here are follow up questions:

Currently, on my stock tilt 2 I have lots of apps and it will be a big problem to install and register them all once again. Is there a way, say to back up registration info for all apps, and then overwrite after the rom update? Where in general registration info for an application is stored? Same question regarding application data and settings. Also how about tweaks?

Thank you in advance for your reply.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] mskip:
If you flash a rom to your phone then yes it will erase all installed programs so you will have to start again.

I dont know where registration information is kept so I cant really help you. Sometimes its in the registry in the programs folder and sometimes in a file in the program files folder so without having those programs I cant really tell you anything else. I guess you will just have to go through them one at a time and re-register them.

Mark.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] nmelcam:
OK first off, you are correct, a new ROM has many updated apps, but you will have to reinstall your own apps not included in ROMS. For my AT&T Tilt 2 I used WCE's latest Iluminati ROM (Don't worry, nothing to do with Davinci Code, just the name he put in his ROM) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=718561 It is by far the most stable ROM I used on my phone. The Rom version I chose was AT&T TILT 2 w/Arcsoft Messaging Client/Footprints/Documents Tabs because I like the newer tabs or you can choose the one without the Footprint Tab but choose any of the 2 AT&T versions with Arcsoft Mesaging as the HTC messaging freezes when I slide the keyboard, at least it did in previous ROM's. Acrsoft is the exact Messaging client that comes with the original AT&T ROM. Go to your text message tab, press All Messages at the bottom left, go to Menu bottom right, scroll down to MMS Options and go to the about Tab it says Arcsoft. Works great. Some ROMs permit you to auto install apps, but if you have registered apps I do not recomend it as the registration information will not be there during installation e.g. user name. After installing ROM go to the setting page and in Peronal Information enter your Name and other info just as you have it in your phone now, That way when you install apps the will register your name correctly and in most you will only have to enter only the registation number. I also added the Cookie's Home Tab 1.8 and my phone looks awsome and is very impressive, whatch the Cookie's Home Tab video.

I use Microsoft My Phone for contacts and messages and also PPC PIM backup for emails, Call history and other items backup. Keeps My Tones is also a great app but you have to reinstall all your ringtones to the exact folder before restoring or it will not find them and add them to your contacts. Also PPC PIM Backup, before restoring, enter your emails or it will not find the email account and add sent/received emails. Wow this is a lot, but it's worth it hahaha.

Many ROM's do not include AT&T's blotware (Navigator, Trial Games, etc. so your phone will boot with a lot more memory to spare. After installing all my apps, my phone boots at 56% memory usage as with AT&T original ROM it booted at around 72% without my apps.

Hope you have fun.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] nmelcam:
BTW forgot to mention follow specific instructions for AT&T Tilt 2 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=550131 any doubts keep reading and searching within this thread and you will find many answers to successfuly flashing your Tilt 2

Also the ROM I installed is so cool that while working on my phone I didn's notice that I had 9 apps running at once and didn't notice any lag, with AT&T Original if you have 4 open you will most likely be out of memory after having 4 open, depending on the apps :-)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] armenh72:
nmelkam thank you very much for such a detailed answer. I actually did read through ROM threads but could not figure out much because there is no systematic way to compare the ROM. What I need is a ROM that is like stock Tilt2 minus HTC user interface and minus all ATT bloatware. I have read different threads and almost all ROMs contain Sense/Manila/CHT, etc. Many people complain that UI is the reason for slowdowns and so I do not want any of those UIs. I just need bare bones WM 6.5 on Tilt2 without any additional apps. I can install everything I need later. Do you know of any such ROM? Also, for the rom that use, can you turn it off?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] nmelcam:
well you can use basically any GSM ROM for Rhodium European, USA (T mobile) or Tilt 2 (AT&T) for all that are non AT&T you just have to install the Keyboard Remapping Cab. The thing is I tried just that but all other ROMS I tried had some fancy Cooker background and startup screen. the WCE has the HTC Original (Quietly Brilliant) start up the only thing is that instead of the MS Windows orange screen you get an Iluminati screen for a few seconds, although it acually looks cool you can replace the file for the original orange MS screen. It also has the new screen with weather but I never fount the original HTC Rhodium/Touch Pro 2 ROM without any unnecessary changes. If you do find it, the European GSM version, just look for the keyboard remapping cab and it will work fine. Remember never ever ever install a Sprint/Verizon CDMA ROM on a GSM phone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] nmelcam:
the keyboard remapping cab could be found in the "Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps" secction of this forum :-)