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decided to give this another try and it worked this time... but now i have arthritis!! lol

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my great uncle used to say soak your hands in pickle juice to cure that. haha.

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Thanks a bunch for this info cornelious2, very helpful. I have a Mac at home, so flashing this way helps me quit messing around with my phone so much while at work where I use a PC. :)

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np, I cant flash at work with the pc thats why finding this way was such a priority for me. so I dl the latest cooked rom and try it out after it dls using evdo :)

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you're a genius!!!...i wonder if there's a way to flash so that it won't hard reset the phone?...

anyway thanks for your hard work

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You want to flash a completly different operation system onto your phone, and have it save your settings, files and customizations?

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So all I do is download the rom I want... and unzip it onto desktop and only pull one file and put it into the internal storage? and change that one file to DIAMIMG.

right? Or do I unzip the whole file and pull everything into the internal storage.

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just the .nbh file if its packaged it shoudl be called RUU_SIGNED.nbh that is the file with all the romy goodness the other files are just for your computer to talk to your phone and the bootloader. so you are correct just rename the RUU_SIGNED.nbh and rename it to DIAMIMG.nbh and put it on the internal storage(not in any folders just internal storage) and your good to go!

by the way, I got my touch pro yesterday, so if anyone else has any questions first post here, and then if I dont answer within about 24 hours pm me. (though weekends I might just not be around)

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You do know that you can just flash a radio ROM and leave everything else as is, don't you? Hmmm.

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I'm pretty sure my post says OS.

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you know i've asked this question in the RADIO thread and got no replies...
so flashing a RADIO from the internal storage does NOT cause hard reset (please confirm)

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Juggalo said that flashing the radio rom initiates an automatic hard reset in another thread. So I would treat a radio flash just like an os flash and make sure things are backed up. (have not confirmed this myself though) though now that I think of it when he mentioned that he used the active sync method of flashing so maybe the internal storage method works differently (since the button combination is slightly different) I just relocked my diamond for sending back, but I will see about testing this if I get time tonight after the wife goes to work.

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Tried both methods, While flashing between the tri colour screen and a grey screen, it looks like it said Triggering bootloader mode as well as, Detceting (something I can't make out). But then its settles on the tri colour screen. What did i mess up on

This is what i did,
Re Named the RUU_signed to DIAMIMG.nbh, place on root of internal Mem

Method #1
Power+Vol Down+Back Space+eset botton

Method #2
Power Off, Vol Down+Back Space+Power Down

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^^^^
sooo confused... is there a question or a statement in there or a question?

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The only thing I can think of is your internal storage may have been corrupted, or its not registering the backspace key or something. since your trying to flash, try hard reseting, then try flashing....though if it said detecthing, I think you did the combination right... wait a sec did you unintentionally rename it DIAMIMG.nbh.nbh? because if you renamed it on the winmo phone from the file explorer you wouldnt see the extentions normally. if you look at your internal storage and you see DIAMIMG.nbh instead of just DIAMIMG then you probably actually renamed it DIAMIMG.nbh.nbh

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is there a way to do this on a touch pro?
I just got one 2 days ago.
Thanks in advance.

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try the touch pro forum?

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yea thats more the TP forum, but rename the nbh to RAPHIMG.nbh on your sd card and it should work, just make sure you unlock the tp using the tp unlocker and not the diamond one.

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thanks for the reply, put it on the root of the sd card, and get the phone to the tricolor screen and it should work automatically as long as I have the renamed .nbh file?

that sounds easy enough.

I will try that later on.
thanks for your help

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hehe, you cant flash from the internal storage, cuz there isnt any... :evil4:

and make sure you've unlocked first
but yeah its that easy... and its much faster than flashing via RUU

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Just confirmed by me, flashing a radio from the internal storage does NOT result in a hard reset!

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I am new at this Flashing Rom. I downloaded Juicy's latest ROm for HTC Diamond onto my computer desktop.
Based on your instructions, I should locate and transfer the RUU_Signed.nbh file from my desktop to the /internal storage directory on my phone via Active Sync correct?

And then change the file name and do the reset right?

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Never mind. I figured it out.

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High five for following directions!

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I haven't read the whole thread because the first post was enough to give me the info that I needed so if this is a repeat comment I apologize. I have had the Apache, Titan, Touch, Touch Diamond and soon to be Touch Pro and have never flashed from a SD card or, in this case, internal memory. This is great because I downloaded several ROMs, extracted the .NBH, and saved them all under different names in a folder on my internal memory. Now I can flash ROMS whenever, wherever. Much thanks to the Cornelius2 for this simple procedure.

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does the phone restart itself after it reaches 100 percent? i flashed using this method once and the phone did not restart, it just sat there. i soft resetted it and it went on and did the customizations and everything like normal.

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no. it will not auto reset itself, but it will let u know when it's done ;-)
this is based on knowledge of previous HTC devices, as i do not own the diamond

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thanks for responding to the thread in my not quite absence puff. I added that detail about what to do after the 100% mark.

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Is it possible to unlock/lock from the Internal Memory yet

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my guess would be locking is possible but unlocking I have no clue. I don't have my diamond anymore to test. if the unlocker and the relocker both have an nbh in them then probably but I really wouldn't mess with doing that till no2chem comes up with his magic. messing with the spl is exactly how people truely brick their phones. besides you only need to unlock once and lock only if your bringing it in for repairs.

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What I really want to be able to do is relock and reflash without having to head home to the PC

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then learn to code in c and figure out how the spl works. =) short of that not much I can tell you, if the method doesn't exist yet it just doesn't exist. the problem is to load the new spl I think it uses a soft spl to load the hard one and I don't know how to load that into an nbh file. The phone is new be patient and i am sure this method will become available.

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i am flashing the radio from my pc. and it asked me if i wanted to upgrade my rom from mighty to the new radio. will this affect my current rom?

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ok. i flashed from storage. not as bad as i thought. now ill see if my sbp full backup screws with anything.

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glad it worked out for you. I was on vacation visiting the inlaws this weekend.

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Just to clarify, you might edit your edit to say "flashing a radio" from the internal memory... ;-)

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alright, fixed it mr picky. :mrgreen:

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hey everyone, just wanted to chime in and say that I found this method is very reliable in flashing new ROM because with the RUU way, I got so many broken upgrades. I mean during RUU using PC, the flash went about half way through and died. Even if I take out the battery and reflash it happened. I think it might be the fact that it conflicted with ActiveSync. But flashing from internal storage is to me faster than using the RUU because the USB is 2.0 now and transferring the NBH from PC to phone with "Disk Drive" mode is less than 2 minute and flashing is another 1 min.

Good find OP