Flashing a Rom or Radio from the 4 gig internal storage

[tobeychris]

Posted this in another thread, thought it was relevant here too:

There are basically three ways to flash your diamond.
1. Run the RUU with your phone booted (running WM).
2. Run the RUU with your phone in bootloader.
3. Press Power + VolDwn + Back + Reset with a ROM named DIAMIMG.nbh in the root of the Internal Storage.

1 allows things like a sSPL to be run first to allow a hSPL to be applied.
1 requires at least 50% battery life.
1 shows your current ROM version and the future ROM version.

2 has no battery requirement.
2 shows only future ROM version.

3 should have no battery requirement
3 does not show any versions, but does show what aspects are included in the ROM (will only say OS since we only flash Operating System ROMs here really)
3 can be done anywhere as long as the image is on the device (but if it's just the one you already have on there, it would make more sense to do a Hard Reset).

[cornelious2]

yea I like having multiple roms on my phone and swaping them as i see fit, usually I keep stock, the current rom im using, and any rom I want to test.

[aaron130]

I cant get this to work for anything. It just stays on that different colored screen and does nothing,what am i doing wrong?

[cornelious2]

most likley your doing one of two things.

first mistake not re-naming the file from RUU_SIGNED.nbh to DIAMIMG.nbh

second mistake is your jut pressing volume down and power when you softreset. it takes volumedown + backspace (<--) + power and the softreset button.

[neilson]

Is it normal after you go through the sequence to flash from internal memory to just say "Loading..." on the ROM Flash screen, with no progress bar on the bottom?

[cornelious2]

oh no, it should progress quicker than via the activesync method.

[neilson]

Originally Posted by cornelious2

oh no, it should progress quicker than via the activesync method.

So, since my phone screen is still stuck on "Loading..." should I soft reset the phone, try getting it into Hard Reset sequence again?

[cornelious2]

its not the hard reset sequence, its bootloader theres a big difference. hard reset just refreshes the current rom you have flashed while going into triggered bootloader lets you flash from the internal storage. but yea make sure you do the steps carefully. have the file named and placed properly and try again.

[neilson]

Originally Posted by cornelious2

its not the hard reset sequence, its bootloader theres a big difference. hard reset just refreshes the current rom you have flashed while going into triggered bootloader lets you flash from the internal storage. but yea make sure you do the steps carefully. have the file named and placed properly and try again.

And by "Internal Memory", do you mean the 4 GB internal memory or the ROM memory?

[cornelious2]

the 4gb internal