Sorry if this has been posted already, but I'm in a hurry since I'm at work. I need to get a replacement phone from tmobile, and I'm pretty sure that since I installed Elegancia, my warranty is voided. What all do I need to do in order to get everything back to normal?
I'm not sure but you must use the same tool. to unistalled. HSPL2_1024.run. to revert it. 2.08.HSPL to 2.08.0000. and then flash to original rom.
Or flash a stock ROM (found in the stickies) from your SD card. That will overwrite the HardSPL. But don't use the 16GB card that came with the phone. It will usually not work using that card. Format a different (preferably class 6) SD card and copy the stock LEOIMG.nbh file to it and flash from there.
or just flash it to the stock rom via USB cable. Pretty much the same process you used to flash to the custom rom you have now it's the exact same thing when flashing to stock rom. Look in the HD2 Tmobile ROM section and get the latest one. That's all you need.
Phenomenon said:
or just flash it to the stock rom via USB cable. Pretty much the same process you used to flash to the custom rom you have now it's the exact same thing when flashing to stock rom. Look in the HD2 Tmobile ROM section and get the latest one. That's all you need.
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From what I have read and understand, this is bad information (although I haven't actually tried it to verify that it would work or not). From all of the information that the experts have provided in theses forums, you need to flash the stock ROM from the SD card in order to overwrite the HSPL. The HSPL would not be overwritten if flashing via USB and active sync.
i got my replacement and i sent my phone in with a custom rom.
but to go back to stock it's just like you setting up a custom rom, find the original rom you want there are 2 that's out for the phone( the one shipped and the update) and your all set
i just sent in my custom rommed phone also, they didn't care.
theunlockr.com/2010/04/22/how-to-get-the-htc-hd2-back-to-stock
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Hi, Searched without luck once again (Can Someone give me the Google Advanced search URL that they use to search the HD2 section?)
I am rather new to flashing and would like to flash to Radio 2.08.50.08_2 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=632833. I have the following file for the flash: RUU_Leo_Radio_15.34.50.07U_2.08.50.08_2.exe
My two questions are:
1: Can I flash just the radio without installing HSPL?
2: If not, Can i revert back to stock SPL after flashing just the Radio ROM?
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Hi, Searched without luck once again (Can Someone give me the Google Advanced search URL that they use to search the HD2 section?)
I am rather new to flashing and would like to flash to Radio 2.08.50.08_2 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=632833. I have the following file for the flash: RUU_Leo_Radio_15.34.50.07U_2.08.50.08_2.exe
My two questions are:
1: Can I flash just the radio without installing HSPL?
2: If not, Can i revert back to stock SPL after flashing just the Radio ROM?
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1) No unless it is made for your specific region which in this case it is not.
2) I wouldnt advice it, why would you need to do so?
1: Can I flash just the radio without installing HSPL?
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No, as above.
2: If not, Can i revert back to stock SPL after flashing just the Radio ROM?
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Yes, by sd card flashing your original stock rom BUT in doing so you would also flash back the original stock radio.
I'd install HSPL, flash your radio, and then only flash back to stock should you ever need to remove HSPL.
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Thanks for the replies. Thought I should revert to the stock SPL coz I'm scared I forget to reflash should I need to send it in for repairs.
But I suppose I just gotta make a long lasting mental note to do so. Whats the best method of flashing the radio with HSPL? SDCard or PC?
(I am using a zip file with an nbh and a custom RUU rathere than the exe stated above)
stay away from sd card flashing. Theres no need, and it isn't so safe (opinion, im sure there are plenty of people will tell you otherwise, heh).
Instal HSPL, flash the radio from USB, reboot, job done, forget about HSPL even being there unless you need to return it, in which case flash the stock rom from sd card and hspl is gone.
unzip the nbh into a folder(maybe rename it RUU_Signed.nbh, i forget), copy customruu.exe in there too, run customRUU.
check out the videos in here mate it might help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621930
Actually flashing JUST the radio via microsd card is a very fast and efficient way of doing it as long as it is just the radio image and nothing else. I used to travel quite a bit and had different radios that worked better in different countrys so I had them all saved on my card and then when you want to change radio you can just rename it to LEOIMG.nbh, move it to the root of your microsd card and enter bootloader to flash.
Flashing via microsd card is in essence alot safer as long as you stay FARR away from stock roms.
I would advise you to keep HardSPL on your phone for as long as you can. Its like having a get out of brickville card just in case anything goes wrong. The only way you wouldnt be able to flash back a stock spl is if the screen broke or you dropped your phone and I dont think its going to be covered by warranty then anyway lol.
TickByt,
URL you asked for in post 1
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:http://forum.xda-developers.com&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all
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I tried a few cooked roms and I like some things about them and others I dont, so I was going to flash my phone back to stock and if there are any upgrades/updates I would like to do so also.... Please advise me, should I do this why or why not... and How can I go about doing this ? (Would I just use hspl2 1024 and reinstall 2.08 first, then install the latest stock rom ? -but where can I find the latest official stock rom?-can I get it from htc? )....
thanks in adavance...
If you have already run hspl2 there is no need to do it again. All you need to do is download the shipped rom (available here and at ppcgeeks.com) and flash it. There haven't been any updates for the stock rom as of yet. Your personal choice on if you want custom rom or stock. Custom roms usually have less bloatware and performance enhancements that make them ideal over the stock rom.
Link to stock rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653938&highlight=tmobile
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I installed hspl 2.08.0000 and flashed a custom rom, then I tried to flashed a vodafone Uk shipped Rom and now my Hd2 won't even boot up, when I connect it to the usb windows xp sees the device and tries to install a driver but then fails to find a driver. I cant even use mtty because usb is not listed as one of the selections. does anyone know how to help Please
Could be because you flashed a shipped rom that is for a different device. The european HD2 is different than the US HD2. If you have a US HD2 flash a rom that is designed for 1024 Leo (recommend Miri and Steve's Eleganicia). Put the phone in bootloader and then flash from pc or you can rename the .nbh from a rom to LEOIMG.nbh and place that in the root of your storage card to flash. Can get to bootloader by holding volume down and pressing the reset button under the back cover, holding vol key til tri-colored screen appears.
it wont let me get into bootloader mode, my computer does see the hd2 but wont let me access the usb
Maybe someone else can chime to correct me if im wrong but sounds like you now have one expensive paper weight. Flashing a rom that is not for your phone is not good.
Flashing a Euro Rom on your TmoUS HD2 will brick your phone - for good. Why are so many people doing this?
tmo are sure to get wise to this and stop replacing them at this rate. I've seen 6 or 7 people with the same problem in two days.
Guys with a tmous,
1 - DONT flash any stock roms except the one from tmous. Stock roms include a radio and it will kill your phone.
2 - DONT flash any radio with a .51. in the version. It will kill your phone.
3 - dont flash any cooked rom not based on the 2.10 rom. It will kill your phone. (i think, , , possibly recoverable, not sure yet)
4 - most of all read first, flash later.
OK PLEASE do not hijack the topic,
Remember I asked how can I reset my phone back to completely stock (like when I first bought it).... and then after that I would like to update it (if there are any updates)....
Thanks for all the advice so far...
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OK PLEASE do not hijack the topic,
Remember I asked how can I reset my phone back to completely stock (like when I first bought it).... and then after that I would like to update it (if there are any updates)....
Thanks for all the advice so far...
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2 ways.
1 - connect phone via USB, run hspl1024, choose spl 2.08.0000, thats your spl back to stock. Then flash the tmous 2.1 rom over usb, thats your radio and rom returned to stock.
2 - you can get the tmous 2.1 rom, extract the file ruu_signed.nbh, copy it to sd card, rename it leoimg.nbh and reset your phone, which will see the nbh file and flash it, and because it is from sd card it will also reset the spl (and radio) to stock.
i'd go for option 1, as i haven't read much about people flashing sd card on the tmous, so for now steer clear.
samsamuel said:
2 ways.
1 - connect phone via USB, run hspl1024, choose spl 2.08.0000, thats your spl back to stock. Then flash the tmous 2.1 rom over usb, thats your radio and rom returned to stock.
2 - you can get the tmous 2.1 rom, extract the file ruu_signed.nbh, copy it to sd card, rename it leoimg.nbh and reset your phone, which will see the nbh file and flash it, and because it is from sd card it will also reset the spl (and radio) to stock.
i'd go for option 1, as i haven't read much about people flashing sd card on the tmous, so for now steer clear.
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thank you... so will this unvoid my warranty?
erebusting said:
thank you... so will this unvoid my warranty?
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it's the spl that voids the warranty, not the rom. when you boot to bootloader, so long as it says
spl 2.08.0000
then you are good to go.
Thank you!
I didn't see this asked in the forums, but just a general question:
If I flash an official ROM which removes HardSPL, can I just reload HardSPL all over again? There are all these warnings about losing HardSPL forever with official ROMs, but can't we just go back and forth 'safely'? Thanks.
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I didn't see this asked in the forums, but just a general question:
If I flash an official ROM which removes HardSPL, can I just reload HardSPL all over again? There are all these warnings about losing HardSPL forever with official ROMs, but can't we just go back and forth 'safely'? Thanks.
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Yes you can add, remove whenever you want!
Just did this yesterday - works fine.
That's what I thought.. thanks guys.
Most of the post that have warnings also state that as long as you don't flash a stock ROM from the SD Card you can go back to the HSPL without any trouble. So, I would use the RUU application, just to be on the safe side.
flashing an official rom over usb won't remove hspl anyway. only flashing stock over sdcard affects the spl.
Does this mean that you can get the phone to be the original Tmobile rom easily? If so can someone tell me how? I installed HSPL as well as a new radio and rom, and I'd like to backtrack to the original retail version of the phone. Really looking for help with this, and don't want to brick my phone..Anyone? Thanks a bunch.
Yes, flashing from SD card would remove HardSPL, that was kinda the point of the thread. If I flashed my HD2 back to stock from the SD card, can I just reinstall HardSPL. I don't see why not, if I could already do it out the box. I think the warnings mean if flashing goes bad, HardSPL is overwritten, so that safeguard is no longer in place.
nickymonster, just download and flash an official TMOUS rom from the sd card. The main TMO HD2 ROM forum has everything you need in the stickies.
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Yes, flashing from SD card would remove HardSPL, that was kinda the point of the thread. If I flashed my HD2 back to stock from the SD card, can I just reinstall HardSPL. I don't see why not, if I could already do it out the box. I think the warnings mean if flashing goes bad, HardSPL is overwritten, so that safeguard is no longer in place.
nickymonster, just download and flash an official TMOUS rom from the sd card. The main TMO HD2 ROM forum has everything you need in the stickies.
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want to go back to stock SPL, use the HSPL app, and select the "stock" SPL. If you flash a stock ROM from your SD card, you will replace your HSPL with the stock one, but YOU WILL NOT be able to go back to HSPL. Instead, use the app, and flash a stock with RUU via usb...back to stock.
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want to go back to stock SPL, use the HSPL app, and select the "stock" SPL. If you flash a stock ROM from your SD card, you will replace your HSPL with the stock one, but YOU WILL NOT be able to go back to HSPL. Instead, use the app, and flash a stock with RUU via usb...back to stock.
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That's as clear as I've seen yet, thanks. Does strike me odd, though. Wonder what it does to block hardspl from resintalling?
does the hard spl program (HSPL2_1024_RUN.exe) have the stock spl in it for restore? i need to restore it because i need to return my phone. any help is appreciated.
nick714
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If you flash a stock ROM from your SD card, you will replace your HSPL with the stock one, but YOU WILL NOT be able to go back to HSPL.
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thats just plain not true, im afraid. Just re run the hspl1024 app and resintall hspl.
my hd2 was bought second had with kumars 1.5 already installed. if i want to go to the 1.6 premium do i have to install the stock rom or can it just be overwritten
You can just flash 1.6, but make sure it's compatible with your HD2 before flashing. Not sure if you have US T-mobile one or a Non US T-mobile one.
Also make sure you back up anything you want to keep, contacts, pictures, etc before flashing.
it a us tmobile should of posted that
Yup, just flash the ROM onto the device. I would recommend you use PIM Backup, it works great. Run it from your storage card.
i read the tuturial on flashing your device for the first time. since i already have a modified rom, do i skip the first couple of steps and go to where you flash using active sync.
If the previous owner flashed HSPL, which he would have to get Kumars 1.5, then no, you don't need to follow the first step (Flashing HardSPL), just DL your ROM of choice, provided it's compatible with your device, and flash away.
I always flash back to the stock ROM or now with the HD2 perform the task 29 which basically formats the internal storage of the device and then I flash the new ROM. I do this simply because there is always a chance that if you go from one ROM to another there could be a difference that may or may not include a default feature so I always figure be safe then sorry. With the Task 29 you just format the device and then flash the new ROM from your SD card and is really quick and simple.
I have a very strange problem and if anyone could help me I'd very much appreciate it as I can't find anything similar in the forums (with a solution) after a month of searching.
My HD2 has HardSPL3 and the ChuckyDroid ROM with Android on an SDCard.
The USB connector on the handset has stopped working (the metal D-shape thing wobbles about) so I cannot flash a ROM to it via the ROM Update Utility, only by the LEOIMG.nbh on an SDCard method works.
I need to send the handset back to Vodafone for a warranty repair, but obviously having HSPL3 and a custom WM ROM invalidates my warranty so I need to flash the stock ROM back to the phone to remove them both.
Problem is that I can flash any custom ROM I find to the handset using the SDCard method (Except Energy ROM's for some reason) but when I try to flash the stock Vodafone ROM using this method it fails to start the phones flash routine.
So I'm stuck with a phone I can't charge (using desktop charger for the battery atm) and I can't send back for repair.
Any ideas?????
Thanks in advance!
dont worry too much about the rom, get a close to stock custom rom on there, use hspl2.exe to remove hspl (set it to 1.66.0000) and it should be fine.
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dont worry too much about the rom, get a close to stock custom rom on there, use hspl2.exe to remove hspl (set it to 1.66.0000) and it should be fine.
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Is it possible to flash HSPL2 onto it without using the USB cable?
The connector on the handset is totally borked so i can't use the PC for anything, just the SDCard flashing method. :/
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I haven't found a solution still.
no, you cant use any other means to run hspl.
as to why custom roms flash from card and stock dont, you must be doing something wrong. please outline your proceedure.
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no, you cant use any other means to run hspl.
as to why custom roms flash from card and stock dont, you must be doing something wrong. please outline your proceedure.
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I downloaded the stock Vodafone ROM from the link in mskip's flashing thread.
Rename the .exe to .zip
Extract the zip
Rename the RUU_Signed.nbh to LEOIMG.nbh and copy it to an SDCard.
insert card into handset and reboot holding the volume down button.
Same procedure I use for flashing custom ROM's.
hmm, very strange, all i can suggest is trying several different stock roms. dont forget to check what your bootloader says for spl, because even a failed stock flash can remove hspl and reset stock spl.
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hmm, very strange, all i can suggest is trying several different stock roms. dont forget to check what your bootloader says for spl, because even a failed stock flash can remove hspl and reset stock spl.
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I downloaded the ROM directly from HTC support site but same thing occurs when I try to flash it. HSPL is definitely still on there too.
I find it weird that I can flash any custom ROM except the Energy ROMs, I'm assuming that perhaps these have more in common with stock ROM's than the others.
I'm lost atm!
a long shot, but are you extracting the ruu_signed before copying it to the sd card, or are you drag/dropping it directly to the phone from within winrar/winzip? I've heard of that causing problems with corruption before, though I can't remember the files involved or the context.
try different stock roms, you said its voda, but was it locked voda?
appart from that, thoughts would be, make sure the sd is freshly formatted, full format, not quick format, fat32, get the roms from different sources, maybe even use different browsers to download them, maybe even try the wwe 3.14 rom, even if it flashes the spl and then wont load the rom, you can always plead ignorance with them, it's a stock spl after all. (Course, they may just tell you to do one, so only try that if you are prepared to argue)
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a long shot, but are you extracting the ruu_signed before copying it to the sd card, or are you drag/dropping it directly to the phone from within winrar/winzip? I've heard of that causing problems with corruption before, though I can't remember the files involved or the context.
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I've tried it both of those ways, on my Macbook Pro and on another Linux box and from Win2K in a VM.
try different stock roms, you said its voda, but was it locked voda?
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It's a contract vodafone that came unlocked when it arrived, had it nearly a year now.
appart from that, thoughts would be, make sure the sd is freshly formatted, full format, not quick format, fat32, get the roms from different sources, maybe even use different browsers to download them, maybe even try the wwe 3.14 rom, even if it flashes the spl and then wont load the rom, you can always plead ignorance with them, it's a stock spl after all. (Course, they may just tell you to do one, so only try that if you are prepared to argue)
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I've tried two different downloads of the ROM (htc.com and the one in mskips thread) and two different sdcards, the 2GB that came with it and a Class 4 Kingston. I'll try formatting both cards using the sdcard.org formatter in Win2K and see if that makes a difference.
My desktop charger has now decided to die on me so I can't try anything until my new one arrives from Hong Kong in a week or so. :/