[HOW-TO] - - Flash a Rom or Radio and re-locking on your TP2 from the SD card

[cornelious2]

I would recommend a reformat for this issue,

another thing is make sure you are naming it 100% the same I believe caps matters.

RHODIMG.nbh

the biggest thing people forget about is the dumbness of how file explorer hides extensions so if you see RHODIMG.nbh it is actually named RHODIMG.nbh.nbh

[jshaas2]

definitely did another reformat, that wasn't the issue.

so you are saying if we renamed it RHODIMG.nbh, explorer recognizes the nbh extentsion and leave it on there.

so now we are only supposed to name it RHODIMG?

[cornelious2]

what are you using to do the formating?

it is supposed to be named RHODIMG.nbh though the phones file explorer hids the extension so the most common error was people thinking the nbh dissapeared and mistakenly doubling up.

also what brand /class /size of sd card are you using? Maybe theres a brand pattern for people having an issue.

[Ruh]

Originally Posted by cornelious2

what are you using to do the formating?

it is supposed to be named RHODIMG.nbh though the phones file explorer hids the extension so the most common error was people thinking the nbh dissapeared and mistakenly doubling up.

also what brand /class /size of sd card are you using? Maybe theres a brand pattern for people having an issue.

I just flashed to Sprint stock using a 1GB SanDisk Micro SD unknown class card.

Then after that...

I flashed to the latest MightyROM using a 16 GB SanDisk Micro SDHC Class 4 card.

It should be noted that:
1) the other day I was having issues with both of them (as described in my other post)
2) At some point or another I did end up reformatting both cards
3) My computer still does not like it when I place the 16 GB card (with the adapter) directly into my card reader. But the computer will read the same card when I connect my phone via USB (either with or w/o activesync).

[cornelious2]

ive stuck with sandisk and kingston and have never had issues with flashing, im thinking about getting a 16gb card, but im thinking its still a bit inconsistent with the builds currently.

@Jshaas2 I just thought about this, try flashing a rom from the computer if it works, then try flashing it from the card, maybe its your download that got corrupted.

I don't post much (actually i think this is my first post), but I read alot on here, and I wanted to post that THIS SAVED MY BUTT!

I just took the plunge into unlocking my TP2, and i flashed the mightrom war on it. everything is good. I set my password lock for the screenlock. still good. then i noticed that you can set provisioning for your carrier. Well, I selected Sprint, restarted and BAM the lock password doesn't work anymore (invalid). I read that the only way to fix it is to hard reset. Thing is, i couldn't hard reset. I tried every combination, but it would always just show the screenlock page, not the white screen.

I couldn't even flash it via USB because it required to be unlocked.

Needless to say I read here how to get to the tricolor screen. Finally! So I tried the steps as seen in this page and thank goodness it reflashed it and now i'm back in business!

I just wanted to write this post so that if anyone else had such issues, that this is the solution!

Thanks again to everybody on these boards and on XDA. These are the reasons why I own a windows phone and not an iPhone.. for the customization!!

[cornelious2]

I was just thinking all of you that got stuck in loading... in your pc to usb setting did you have disk drive mode active? if so make sure it is set to active sync mode.

[djkid45]

help!!! flashed from sd card and now phone power cycles on and off by itself without competing update !!! phone wont come on when power is pressed but will cycle on by itself, go into bootloader tri color mode, go into the gray screen, says update in progress, then shuts down...

[razorloves]

Originally Posted by djkid45

help!!! flashed from sd card and now phone power cycles on and off by itself without competing update !!! phone wont come on when power is pressed but will cycle on by itself, go into bootloader tri color mode, go into the gray screen, says update in progress, then shuts down...

sounds like you flashed a gsm rom. i would flash back to stock rom by putting the stock rom nbh on your mem card and flash it. Or you can remove mem card then, with phone in bootloader mode, connect to computer and run the stock rom exe

[medicop]

Hey cornelious2..

I tried this method on my Touch Pro2 and it didn't work. I ensured the ssd card was correcttly formatted to fat32. sd card was also clean with nothing else on it. I have the Telus version. any ideas or suggestions to try?