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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] 30Glock:
Here is what you should do, First leave the phone pluged in over night to charge, then reformat ur sd card, remove everything from card. nxt d/l official rom, the only thing on ur sd card should be the .nbh file. make sure its titled RHODIMG.nbh. now hold down volume key and press pwr button. this should work.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
Maybe try a different USB charger. It's another long shot but I have a WinCE GPS device that starts up when plugged into certain USB chargers but not all. But to be honest I think it's powering up as soon as it gets power because of the condition the phone is in. My TP2 with any charger doesn't power on without pressing the power button.

Another idea is to put the SD card back in, replace the rhodimg.nbh with a zero-byte file so it fails the check when it tries to flash. Does anyone know what will happen if we try this?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
I think this may be the problem. He's tried leaving it plugged in overnight but as soon as it's plugged in, it does this "trying to flash a ROM and failing" loop. The charging light blinks on and off, seems to indicate the battery is never getting a decent charge. Any ideas how to interrupt the loop so the battery has a chance to charge, or a way of stopping it immediately going into this loop when plugged in to USB power (so the phone remains "off" but charges the battery) might just solve this.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] 30Glock:
Ok i am thinking that, the rom is currupted or the sd card is currupted, why not load original rom on a new sd card and see if it will boot that way.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
it doesn't get far enough into the process to do that I don't think :( might be worth trying stock rom on a different sd card just to be sure though

or maybe a rom that doesn't come with radio, I think stock rom comes with radio and flashing radio with a phone in that condition sounds a bit dangerous to me

what a bad situation :(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
I appreciate all the input and ideas. I don't know whether it is SD card or .nbh related to be honest. The file never has a chance to get loaded. The PHONE just keeps cycling on and off. I have tried 3 different USB chargers. I have tried attached to PC and to the wall. I get the same results. I should take a video of it so you can see what I am experiencing. I will do that later this morning. I think it will help to clear things up.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] slimsuse:
Here is another thought,

see if you can get your hands on a 512mb sd card. ( i know they are hard to come by :) ) get the official 6.5 europe wwe rom from : Here

rename it RHODIUM.nbh and do an update from the sd card.... see if that will work...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MAD_Matt:
Just tried my TP2 without the battery and plugged, didn't power on. Why would they take away the ability to power on while plugged in but with the battery removed?? This was and would be a great troubleshooting step. Hey HTC, start building our phones with this option!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
Yes, MattDoyal, that would help me out a great deal right now. I am searching for a battery right now. I need to take that problem out of the equation.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
UPDATE: I have taken the battery to be charged at BatteriesPlus.com Store. He is going to charge it for 2 hours. Then I will see where it all stands from there. Wish me luck. I didn't take a video yet, but will if needed later on.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ut0p1a:
Video Please

Yes, please tape and post video afterward, and after the battery recharged. Good luck!

Hopefully the battery was the problem.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
Good luck dude fingers crossed :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
UPDATE: Battery got charged and now this........

OK, so I took the battery in to get it charged at a battery store. It did allow me to power up the phone (!) and it finally stopped doing that damn cycling thing.

I got a stock ROM to flash via SD. The screen says the following now after the 4 colored screen appears:

RHODIMG.nbh - OK

BOOTLOADER- OK

RADIO- OK

OS- OK

Update Complete

UPDATE SUCCESS

(then there is the full green process bar showing)

Ok, so now this screen is STUCK here. I don't know where to go from here. The phone will not do anything. I push the power button , nothing...volume, nothing...I do a reset on the side of the phone, then it goes to the 4 color screen again...starting the process all over again.

What should I try next? Thanks to all that give me hope and advice. You guys are great. I appreciate it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
what happens if you take the sd card out and reset the phone?

also try battery out and back in + hard reset with no sd maybe

iif that doesn't work ... if you take the sd card out and boot it, can you connect via USB? maybe reflash hard spl
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
i can try that , yes. what hard spl should i flash??? thanks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
get the latest

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=550131

i know i said this before but your volume down key isn't stuck is it?

that would be too easy but it's worth checking :)

good luck I will be around for maybe another hour or so if you get stuck
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
Nope, volume down key is not stuck. I keep checking it though. lol.

So I d/l HRDSPL again, and it went thru the PC to the phone, but I get nothing still. It stays in the 4 colored screen.

sigh.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
Can you get a hard reset out of it?

Don't give up yet, but you may have the option of re-flashing the original ROM, then flash the stock SPL (it's on the HardSPL page) then the phone's flash should be in it's original state. Try to get it replaced under warranty :)

I'm just a semi-noob I'm running out of ideas, really at this stage you need olinex. It may be that the bit before SPL (bootloader?) is corrupted I believe there is a program called mtty which may be able to solve this but from what I remember you need to really know what you are doing with that.

Could always try flashing stock again via USB but watch your battery levels!! ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
You have been a LOAD of help. Like a life preserver!! thanks a lot! :)

I cannot get a hard reset out of it. It just comes up with the damned striped screen.

I just did get a new HRDSPL on there. It is the .84 version, so I am thinking that is good for warranty purposes, like you said. I have pm'ed cmonex (the 1/2 of Olinex) and I think we are in totally diff time zones. So that is slow going. She mentioned mtty. I dont get that at all. I need the "mtty for Dummies" book on that one.

I have to go to sleep. THis has exhausted my eyes. Work comes early and I cant play with the phone as much tomorrow.

ps, I take that battery out as much as I can now. I cherish every charge I can get now. ;) (although I think the guy at the store would do it again for me....maybe 1 more time...)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
No problem dude, good idea on the battery hehe :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jebuske:
Same problem over here after slide to reboot with EnergyROM

Tried a lot of things:

- reflash same ROM -> nothing

- reflash stock ROM + stock SPL -> nothing

- Leaving battery out for a while -> nothing

I wonder if they would fix my phone under warranty and I'm still waiting for the dutch ROM update, maybe that one will be a solution :s
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] valerima:
show the possible direction

Dears,

Suppose this is the quite common problem. You are not the fist ones who bricked the phone.

I do think similar questions were already discussed on XDA if not - somewhere else.

As I used the search please have some internal and external links.

Personally I do not remeber jtag process- just read it concerning my dreambox. But please do not stop to try.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=450038&highlight=bricked+phone&page=5

http://androidforums.com/htc-hero/11744-have-i-bricked-my-phone.html

http://forum.revskills.de/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=356

My guess is : only jtagging will help then.

If it's having a msm qc chipset, then you should be able to jtag it with qmat and segger j-link arm soon. However, you will need the jtag pinout for your htc magic.

http://www.srimeenakshimobiles.com/forums/hermes/11306-htc-hermes-jtag-pins.html

it's done!!!

Today i discovered the JTAG pins of HTC hermes.

My device got bricked and was not able to boot anymore. Not even the bootlader came up.

Anyway i decided to do some investigation, there was nothing to loose

Thanks to Lt.Cmdr.Ivan who discovered the JTAG pins on the universal hardware.

(It made the step successful!!!)

See the attachment!

(had to make a zip because high-resolution pix )

These are the testpoints to access Hermes main system Samsung MPU and recover OS bootloader!

To get access to the GSM chipset please have a look in the second post!

see attachment (backup package form samsung site, source code included)

See the documentation in the archive for information how to build a LPT adaptor, to use this software!

The software tool has been modified to handle the /WP issue.

See attachment MSP_HERM.zip!

What ever happens to IPL/SPL on your device, it can be recovered quite easily now, using the JTAG method!

Added Olipro's 2.10 (Hard-SPL V7) for completeness.

This is a pure binary file, ready to flash via JTAG. Thanks again to olipro for this beautiful bunch of bits!!

Thanks again to scholbert,pof, cmonex, cr2, the_dipe and the others who gave useful hints or helped testing.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
Noooo not another one :(

Has anyone seen a response to this from NRGZ28 himself? I think at the very least the 11/10 EnergyROM should be pulled from download sites. I'm not saying it's definitely an EnergyROM issue but to be on the safe side ... (I'm running the one before 11/10 for this exact reason)

I did find this last night just before I'd had enough:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=540290

It shows how to use MTTY and step 6b in the tutorial (3rd or 4th post in) says something interesting:

6b: type "set 14 0" without the quotes to tell bootloader to boot the OS after reset:

I wonder if this would help, but I have no clue with MTTY have never used it before, and the thread is from a Diamond forum so it's possible the commands aren't the same on the Rhodium. I don't know. It would be nice to have the theory looked at by someone who is familiary with MTTY and the Rhodium before anyone tries this. (hey if you want to risk it then I'm not stopping you but MTTY scares me and either I'm a pansy or it should scare you too hehe)

At least there is one good thing. The more people have this problem, the better chance of getting it fixed :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] valerima:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=546842

11th August 2009, 07:39 PM

beast0898

Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006

Location: Milton Keynes

Posts: 788

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Quote:

Originally Posted by digitalmk

Dear Cmonex, one question, as I have found, vol up + vol down + reset btn and then press power. Is this the way for entering the emergency mode, or it is something else (like you wrote... vol down + reset ) ???? maybee I do not enter the recovery mode correctly ???

Thanks for quick reply Cmonex , but thanks all also!!!

As Cmonex wrote,

Hold Vol Down (keep it pressed) and press the reset with the stylus.

This should take you to the tri-colour bootloader screen.

If it doesn't you have bricked your expensive device, the only way to recover is to get a new bootloader loaded via JTag, good luck getting someone to do that for you.

As is always stated here time and time again, read the information carefuly and if you don't understand ask.

Since you flashed a Raphael bootloader or rom or both ???? I'd say it's well and truly an expensive paper weight sir............ on the bright side though, you've learn't an extremely valuable lesson.

READ BEFORE YOU ACT.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
oh.

my.

gawd.

:o

[re-reading all above posts for the 5th time]

where is the "way over my head" icon?

lol. thanks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
tell me about it :( it's all getting a bit heavy now

I don't think yours is "bricked" in the same way as some of the other posts. May not have to resort to JTAG. You can do a flash, it's just as though the bootloader is confused.

Can you charge it now? If so, maybe do a full charge and flash stock ROM via USB with no SD card if you haven't tried already.

Will give you time for a 6th run through of the thread even if it doesn't work :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
ps. this is the one you want i think

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

hehe
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] shadixs:
I dont think you've bricked your phone since it still "have" it's bootloader (tri colour screen).

Try this :

Enter the bootloader.

- Remove battery

- Insert it again

- Hold the Volume Down button + power button

- Press reset button with stylus

You should now see the bootloader (tri-color screen) with 'serial' text on the bottom. Connect the usb cable to your computer. the "serial" should now change to "usb". Flash with a original ROM just to be safe.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
Yes....I have done all of that you you stated. I have also put the stock spl on there the Olinex has in their thread. BUT!!!! STILL. I have the tri-color screen. It will go NOWHERE even after all of that. It stays in the tri-color screen. Stock ROM is on there. STock spl is on there. But nothing loads it up.

And, no, I cannot charge the phone. It does not accept a charge. :(

I am close to calling HTC for warranty service. I just hope I am covered.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] dbaser:
Does "serial" change to "usb" when you plug in the sync cable? Just asking cuz you might have a bad usb port or cable if not....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
Did you ever try a full stock flash via USB instead of SD?

But yeah if you managed to get stock ROM and SPL on there, warranty replacement should be OK. So it's a partial success I suppose :)

Not wanna try MTTY before you hand it back to HTC? :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
yes, it does change.

No one has showed me how to do mtty. I don't know a thing about it. I dont want to do it blind. I need hand holding on that one. For REAL.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] sudsboy:
not that i know, but quick search i found this. good luck.

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_FAQ_STUCK_AT_STARTUP
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jebuske:
Lol, was just calling the repaircenter to have my device picked up. The girl at the phone told me to perform a hard reset while the device was still off. I did it and suddenly my phone was booting. It showed the normal TP2 bootscreen including red numbers. It went through the install procedure but after that my phone rebooted to bootloader again. I called them back and now they are comming to pick up my phone tomorrow.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] saymyname:
did u try to put another (RHODIMG.NBH) Rom in the SD card instead of the one u flashed?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] JeffersonDavis:
Touch Pro Problem

I stumbled upon this post researching my problem. However, my problem is that when I put the phone in the bootloader, and connect to the PC, it doesn't change from Serial to USB.

I've tried different computers and cables. The phone will charge, but not communicate in any way.

Can anyone think of a reason other than a bad usb port on the phone?

This problem just started yesterday, out of the blue. The phone works fine and will charge, but i can't do anything else.

I'm Confused??
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
UPDATE

Thanks. I am gun shy. lol. I downloaded it, but the first step didn't work. I gave up fast. Real fast. :eek:

Keep us posted here please. Let me know what they tell you. I would love to know what happens. Thanks.

I gave up. I called HTC. I am sending in the phone tomorrow for repair. Wish me luck. I will keep you posted.

ps- Now I am glad I never sold my old S710 on eBAy !!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jebuske:
Maybe 2 much information, I'll keep you updated
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] t69broken:
anything yet

Did you unbrick it?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
Still in hospital.

I do know that I was charged a $20 Global Warranty Fee. wtf is that for? They explained it by saying "Depending on the country of origin, your unit may be charged a $20.00 Global Warranty Service fee." I don't get it. Even if my phone was manufactured in Thailand, an HTC phone is an HTC phone. Why do I get charged this fee? Craziness.

I will also be charged $28. "All units will be charged a triage fee of $28.00. This includes technical assessment and diagnosis."

So already, I will be out $48. This is with no phone call yet to let me know what they have diagnosed.

Will keep you all posted.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jebuske:
Haven't returned my device yet because I managed to get it to boot a few times. Every time I turn it off, my phone goes into bootloader again but when I take out the battery and put it back in my phone starts in a normal way. I'm also not able to perform an hard reset while my device is on. It always gets stuck in bootloader mode. Anyone who knows what can be the problem?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jebuske:
lol very weird. Got my device to the repair center and two days later I'm having my device back already. Stupid thing though is that it worked when I got it back from them. I again flashed hard SPL and now it's stuck in bootloader again which means I will send my device back tomorrow. Everything was done under warranty so that was a good thing.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bulvine420:
if you have a sprint touch pro and are not with sprint will they fix a brocken phone ?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] i<3myphone:
Welllllllllllllll.....I FINALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY got my TP2 back today. Holy cow! After what? 45 days almost? GEeeez. I am very disappointed with their turnaround on repairs. That is ridiculous.

Out of pocket was $20. Not too bad I guess. They replaced the Main Board and Re-Flashed ROM image.

I now have alot of catching up to do here. Not so sure I want to be flashing a bunch of stuff on it now to be honest. That *hit scares me now.

Just thought I would update anyone who was wondering what happened to me and my phone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MadBeef:
Thanks for letting us know - glad you finally got it sorted :)

Go on, get it flashed! I double dog dare ya :D

I mean that's the whole point of buying HTC innit? :) It is for me anyway, the wife's after a new phone and "is sick of having to delete texts" I have 4,500+ on mine so we ended up looking at an LG Win6.5 phone, doesn't look a bad bit of kit but I can't find any custom ROMs or even a HardSPL for it. So what's the point? :D
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mountainjew:
So as the title says, i manned up and flashed my G1 phone yesterday. I followed the instructions here Maximum PC i know it's probably outdated, but i had to use the manual root option as the 1 clidk would not work. Anyway, everything worked fine and i'm using Cyanogen'sMod-4.1.999.

Now, the only issue i'm having is chompsms. I'm in the UK, so naturally i have a UK phone. But i'm wondering if this matters? Because i was using chompsms to send texts before to Latvia. But now i can't. If i try to send via carrier, i have to enter the number manually. If i try to choose the contact, it will complain that it's an international number and i have to add a '+'.

The number i enter, is exactly the same as the one for that contact. And when i try to use chompsms as a carrier it won't send. I did have that contact on my phone before the flash, but it didn't save to the sim when i re-flashed. So i had her text me and i saved contact via chomp. Just the same as i did before.

So i'm wondering if there is an issue with having a UK phone and what seems like a US mod. I did try installing chomp via their website instead of the market, but still get this problem. I've also posted on Chompsms forums, but no response yet. Hence why i've come here.

Hope somebody can help. Sorry for the long post.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mountainjew:
Ok, i just tried xMod instead. Getting the same issue, but i know what’s causing it. I can send one international message via chomp carrier and T-Mobile carrier. But when i try to send another text in the same thread, it complains about the international prefix. Though it only complains via T-Mobile carrier, not via chomp. But neither send. So at this rate, i’ll have to delete the thread everytime i get a text, to be able to reply. Kinda weird. Anybody have an idea what’s going on here?

Oh i should also note, this isn't limited to chompsms. The default texting app also has this after i flashed.
[General Questions and Answers] jad011:
Im Looking to start Learning Programing. I have no Prior experience. I want to be able to compile the android tree. Where do i begin and what books are good to start with?
[General Questions and Answers] metmettem:
learn programming

Go to codecademy.com
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] XERO_Racer:
i noticed a big battery consumption when i txt for 30 mins,(usually its every 5 mins a txt comes in then i instantly txt back) but i noticed after like 3-5 txt messages it goes down to 98% :confused: by the end of the hour of constant txt its around 83% or 80% :mad:

whats causing this leak?

is it cuz of the notification LED? i always shut off my phone after i txt and also i use the manila SMS app instead of WMs SMS app or can it be the signal im running on? im using WM LongLife which keeps the device at EDGE 98% of the time, and i also have no apps running in the background except Lumos which doesnt consumes much i believe?

someone please tell me a solution to this, thnx
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] darfri:
Nothing special. The battery drains unevenly and when not in sleep and/or the screen is on it sure drains well
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] XERO_Racer:
seriously? so theres nothing we can do to fix that? or minimize it?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] karn:
You could try using a less intensive sms app, see how battery life is without manilla running.
[General Questions and Answers] Mithrandir007:
Hello,

Last week, I've noticed a thread about file transfer from the ipod touch to the PC and kept the URL, but now it says the thread is invalid.

(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=566446)

Does anyone know if it was moved, or could someone please give me some info about it?

I can't seem to find any good info on google about it. (some can do it manually song by song.. but that's not really an option)

I hope I'm not posting on the wrong forum, for this subject..

Thanks :)
[General Questions and Answers] tramuyo:
ImTOO ipod computer transfer, look in google for that
[General Questions and Answers] Mithrandir007:
Thanks a lot, I'll try this one out.