[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] band27:
Rationale

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I know this process exist in the Wiki but I wanted to simplify this process and to include Hard Resetting right on the fly. Also this may save you headaches down the road as this way of Flashing may cause you less problems. It's pretty much the only way I flash. Other reasons are state below.

Benefits of Flashing via SD Card

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• faster (approx. 1min. or so vs. 5 to 10 min.)

• safer (no risk of power outages)

• Freedom to Upgrade anywhere (I place a couple of new Roms in my SD card for future upgrading)

Before Flashing

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• Make sure you have the latest HARD SPL. The knowledge of how to know what you have and how to do it is all <HERE>.

• Battery Life must be a minimum of 30%. More is always better.

• you must have an Fat32 Formatted SD Card

Flashing Process

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• a 1.56+ based rom of Choice (the .nbh file should be renamed to BLACIMG) must be placed in the Root Directory of your SD card via active sync to PC.

• unplug device from the PC and now place device into Boot Loader (with Device off, press Vol. Down & now tap Power button once while continuing to hold Vol. Down until Boot Loader appears)

• If all was done right, a grey screen will appear to begin the Flashing process. If nothing happens and you are just staring at your Boot Loader then this means that:

a) you have NOT placed the Blacimg.nbh file in the Root Directory of the SD Card.

b) you spelled BLACIMG differently then I did.

c) you forgot to unzip the file that you have downloaded from the awesome chefs in this forum

d) you had a really rough day and you did all of the above.

* please note that BLACIMG is not case sensitive so if you want to be creative the BlAcImG.nbh

• at the end of the Flash it will say "OK"

Hard Resetting of the Fly

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This part is a little tricky but I did it on my first attempt. Remember, now you have the back cover off to perform a soft reset via red button in the back.

• place the device on its side so as that you have access to the two little buttons (Vol. up & down) on the side of the device.

• ok, now hit the soft reset button and then immediately press both volume buttons on the side and Vola! The grey screen appears to evoke a Manufactures Reset (AKA:Hard Reset)

• follow instructions (Press Vol. Up) and after that's done (press Vol Up) again to reboot.

OR

JUST TAKE OUT THE BATTERY AND PUT IT BACK IN (KEEP HOLD VOL UP/DOWN & PRESS POWER ONCE...KEEP HOLD THE VOLUME KEYS UNTIL SCREEN COMES UP)

• follow instructions (Press Vol. Up) and after that's done (press Vol Up) again to reboot.

Flashing this way may alleviate Rom problems, freezes and or lock ups that can come from flashing via PC. This is not always the case......

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IF for some reason you are the only one experiencing Rom Issues, it may be that it's not the ROM but that your device is bloated from many flashes. I experienced this all the time with the Diamond I owned. What we did there at the Diamond end of things was that we used Mtty to clean our devices fully.

FLASHING STEPS with Mtty

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1) Use MTTY PROCESS OUTLINED HERE.

2) Flashing via the PC would be your next step here as flashing via SD card is a little more complicated. Can expand on this if requested.

*Another option is to just flash a STOCK ROM as doing so cleans your device as well. Preventing glitches from popping up down the road.

Hope this wasn't too redundant from previous members. If so, then opps! Just trying to help my new founded HD community....