NAND Testing - 05-25 Update: New LK, Recovery.img, Kernel Updates through Recovery

[guruvince]

In regards to bricking ones device, the late Maurice.Green stated "I have basically been trying to brick my device. I would like for a brave soul to verify my findings. If the device seems to bricked or stuck in a loop. Deplete the battery. Remove the battery and the usb power source. Put a RHODIMG.NBH image on the sdcard. Put the SD card in the card slot. Put the dead battery back into the phone. Plug the usb power cord back in to the phone. The charging led will come on. Let it sit for 10 mins the first time and it will try to load. Don't mess with the phone. It will recycle and try to boot again in about 5 min. When it try's to reboot hold down the volume down button, the power button and push the reset. This will bring you to the boot loader. Very quickly flash the NBH on the sdcard to the phone. The phone will cycle about 5 times before coming up completely. Let the battery fully charge and you are back in business."
Whether this works or not, who knows?

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by guruvince

In regards to bricking ones device, the late Maurice.Green stated "I have basically been trying to brick my device. I would like for a brave soul to verify my findings. If the device seems to bricked or stuck in a loop. Deplete the battery. Remove the battery and the usb power source. Put a RHODIMG.NBH image on the sdcard. Put the SD card in the card slot. Put the dead battery back into the phone. Plug the usb power cord back in to the phone. The charging led will come on. Let it sit for 10 mins the first time and it will try to load. Don't mess with the phone. It will recycle and try to boot again in about 5 min. When it try's to reboot hold down the volume down button, the power button and push the reset. This will bring you to the boot loader. Very quickly flash the NBH on the sdcard to the phone. The phone will cycle about 5 times before coming up completely. Let the battery fully charge and you are back in business."
Whether this works or not, who knows?

lol.. well after witnessing wozzer's bricking i dont wanna take chances. But i will try to write the roofs onto nand first. I'm trying to make sure i write to a safe spot. I dumped nand yesterday even with those errors but the image itself appears to be good. Not really sure at this point.

But if anyone wants to beging making test images, i guess we can start bricking :-p

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

lol.. well after witnessing wozzer's bricking i dont wanna take chances. But i will try to write the roofs onto nand first. I'm trying to make sure i write to a safe spot. I dumped nand yesterday even with those errors but the image itself appears to be good. Not really sure at this point.

But if anyone wants to beging making test images, i guess we can start bricking :-p

ACL, I broke apart every single stock ROM for US carriers as well as a bunch of custom ROMs. The zip file I uploaded only contains some of those, but you will notice that the partition tables varied slightly on the 2nd - 4th partitions. I think something like this would be safe compared to all of the custom WinMo ROM's:

0x01C0 - Usually contains ULDR (boot)
Start Address: 0x00000002
End Address: 0x0000063F

0x01D0 - Usually contains XIP (initrd)
Start Address: 0x00000640
End Address: 0x00000FBF

0x01E0 - Usually contains imgfs (rootfs/ext2)
Start Address: 0x00000FC0
End Address: 0x0001BCFF

0x01F0 - Usually contains FAT (data/recovery)
Start Address: 0x0001BD00
End Address: 0x00039FFF