[horndoctor]

Originally Posted by pbutin

Thanks again for replying. Had to reset the phone this morning and it failed to boot up again. So I switched my SIM and micro card back to my old Fuze for the day. Tonight I got the phone to start up again by taking out the battery and repeatedly pressing the power button --it was pretty normal once it booted up--but when it needed to be rebooted, it would fail again. Once I got it up, I was able to install the most recent ROM from HTC (HTC_Tilt2_2.10.502.4). It is labelled as the "Sense" ROM that was one of the last ones available in Windows Mobile. I loved it--substantial improvement over 6.1 or 6.5.

But then I rebooted after I installed some programs, and got the dreaded red/green/blue/white screen with the RHOD300 and either "serial" or "USB" at the bottom.

I tried to reboot by taking out the battery first about 30 times but no luck so far.

I have two thoughts:

1. I have a funky, cheesy program called "Rax reset" that I installed--is it possible that this program is screwing up the bootup process? It is a software that is sold in the Windows Mobile Marketplace that allows you to do either a soft or hard reboot. I hesitated to install it but did, and after that once I reset it it wouldn't reboot anymore. If I can get even one reboot, I'll uninstall this program, and see if that's what's screwing up the reboot process.

2. There is a white screen with blue type that flashes very briefly just after I try to reboot it--says "No Image File!" I think for someone who knows the hardware that might help us to know whether this is a hardware problem (in which case I probably just need a new device). If the hardware can't read even the newly installed operating system, then I think I'm shot.

Thinking about buying another one on Ebay--this would allow me to keep what I like for awhile until Windows phone gets fully up to speed.

Anybody out there understand or have experience with this problem and any good advice?

Thanks in advance.

Phil Butin

I'd say hard reset using the button combo and then don't install that reset app again.