[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Ily426:
Hello again.

Well, more than 24 hours have passed since my original posting and nothing! Many of you read my post, but nobody felt able or willing to offer to help. :(

So, terrified and having no clue as to what I was doing, after another day of work - success! Amazing! And, I think, more by luck than anything else...

I am going to list below what I did, in the hope that some other poor soul might find something useful in it.

But I cannot stop myself from saying that in this whole website I was unable to find a CLEAR, ORGANIZED and COMPLETE procedure or tutorial about how to upgrade the HTC Hermes - a great pity. It would be a worthwhile endeavour to produce such a document, in language that anybody could understand. No, not even the definitions in the Glossary are enough.

This is what I did:

Preliminaries

- Since I'm working on a Windows 7 Home Premium laptop, I have first installed new drivers for the Mobile Device ("x64 AS Drivers Win 7 Tested & Working") - useful info here: http://www.techparaiso.com/windows-...flash-junkies-on-windows-mobile-phone-devices

This was done in preparation to installing Mitty.

Since these drivers are not signed, you have to restart the laptop, press F8, select to start windows without checking Digitally Signed Certificates

- Installed Mitty

- Installed Hard-SPL-V7 - this one seem to be permanent

- Then I tried to follow the Hermes Upgrade Guide (http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hermes_UpgradeGuide ) - no luck. No idea what was wrong, but in Step 7, I did not have any files named 00_IPL.nb, 01_SPL.nb to delete as per instructions, so I abandoned this course

What worked:

(still with Hard-SPL-V7 installed, still with drivers for Win 7 installed, still with laptop started with Windows - F8 - disable drivers signature checking)

- In the end, I downloaded 21501_1_Springtime.zip from http://www.ferretlife.com/josh/ (once again, many thanks to Hakim Rahman for pointing me to this ROM!)

- I unzipped the file in its own folder; this produced 2 files:

RUU_signed.nbh <= this is the actual update file

RUUWrapper.exe <= this is the program we have to run that will take the RUUWrapper.exe (after we rename it to HERMIMG.nbh) and apply it to the HTC Hermes

- I renamed RUU_signed.nbh to HERMIMG.nbh

- At this point:

I connected my Hermes to the laptop with the USB cable and waited until it was recognized and WMDC came up and connected to the Hermes

I configured WMDC for sync and partnership (did not check more than "Notes" for sync, since I was not really interested in any sync)

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- I ran RUUWrapper.exe (from its folder on the laptop) and followed the prompts

○ => I chose proper ILP - for me it was IPL-1.04 and SPL-2.10.011pro (the AutoDetect did not work for me, whether I checked the "Is it a hard SPL?" or not)

○ => after program got to "Verifying ..." it produced Error 260 - at some point, the device was disconnected from WMDC (ActiveSync)

- All that is left is to shut down WMDC, soft-reset Hermes and try again. In one of the many tries, amazingly, it got to start the Upgrade on the Hermes before I got the Error 260, and, although the Error 260 was displayed, it continued with the upgrade and ended successfully, but it did not reboot the Hermes - I turned it off and on again - it worked!

Still confused, but elated by my luck,

Ily426

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Jan 27, 2010

Hello everybody!

I am a real, total, complete, hopeless, newbie and I'm writing in the hope that some kind soul with knowledge and experience in upgrading may be willing to hold my hand for updating the OS on my Hermes.

I have been reading the xda-developers.com on and off for about a week now and all I can say is:

1. I am awe-struck by the passion and knowledge of the people active on this site

2. I am overwhelmed by all I have read - I fear I do not understand much of it, certainly not enough as to have the courage to proceed with the update by myself

This is where I am now:

1. I have installed Mitty on my PC and even made it work (!)

2. I ran one of the many Hard-SPL-V7 to be found here and the bootloader screen did display the modified info; eventually, I clued in to the fact that the changes this software made to my HTC were only temporary

3. I regrouped and now:

- I have read more than once the

Hermes Upgrade Guide

at http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hermes_UpgradeGuide

- I have downloaded and decompressed:

Hard-SPL.zip

[*]ModifiedRUUUpdater-V2 (ROMUpgradeUt.exe)

[*]NBHextract

[*]nbhgen0.1

[*]RUU_Hermes_WWE_WM6.5.28205.MobileVista6.50SeaDragon_UC_YouTube_V2_by_ansar

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At this point, I'm ready to follow point by point the instructions in the

Hermes Upgrade Guide

, but I have a lot of questions about what each of these software is, what they do, how they should be installed or run.

Bottom line: I'm terrified!

That's why I would love to find a kind mentor and helper, to hold my hand and direct me in the actual upgrade.

Anybody? Please PM me. I am available on Skype. I live in Toronto, so my hour is same as New York.

I have an HTC Hermes 200 (TyTn), originally from Rogers (Canada). I had it unlocked (SIM unlock?) by a technician in a store a while back and I can use different SIM cards with it.

Very gratefully yours,

ML

P.S. Forgot to mention: I'm working on a Windows 7 Home Premium and I did update the drivers with "x64 AS Drivers Win 7 Tested & Working"