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

[rushco]

Originally Posted by dwbartlett72

I am having problems flashing my phone from the SD card as well. I have tried using the energy ROM and the Mr. X ROM. I download the files directly from this site to my SD card in the root directory. Then extracted the .nbh file. Renamed it RHODIMG.nbh using Total Commander. Powered down the phone and restarted it holding down the volume down and pressing the power button on the end key. I have a Verizon version. The tri-colored screen came up & for a second it said no image found. then went back to the tri-colored screen again and in the white banding it said serial. I am using a 1 gig Sandisk card. I formatted it using Storage Tools to a FAT 32 with 512 bytes per sector. I can't think of anything else to do.

I bet it is RHODIMG.nbh.nbh

For the file name put RHODIMG only.

[dwbartlett72]

Originally Posted by rushco

I bet it is RHODIMG.nbh.nbh

For the file name put RHODIMG only.

I tried that as well. Just downloaded Juicy47's ROM and downloaded it directly to the phone. Renamed the file to just RHODIMG and it done the same thing.

[cornelious2]

make sure you name it RHODIMG.nbh when I was doing this at first I notoriously kept naming it ROHDIMG.nbh by mistake.

[Mayonesa]

just tried this out and i like it..


my hard drive recently took a dive and i was stuck with a bad rom.. lots of problems.. i had to wait to flash, i hated it!!


so i figure i try this out so if this ever happens again i have something i know works and i can flash out..


i also flash at night and most of the time i go to sleep, so if i have a problem with the new rom i can always flash on the go..

thanks again

this wont do anything if i flash from a pc and i still have the file in my sd card right?

[ivwonka]

this didn't work for me a few months ago, when i first tried it (got stuck in bootloader), but i want to revisit and try again. After step 3, do you put the newly named .nbh file back inside the .rar file or do you put both the rar and nbh file on your sd card?

[dwbartlett72]

I just put the .nbh on the sd card root directory.

[ivwonka]

Originally Posted by dwbartlett72

I just put the .nbh on the sd card root directory.

so you don't even need anything else in the compressed file? just the .nbh? That would be where I went wrong. OK, thanks gotta go try this NOW!

[cornelious2]

correct you only need the .nbh file to flash

[bit1]

I've tried this and in the past with my TP. For the guys having issues, do you have an SDHC card in your phone? I have an 8 gig that will never flash a rom from the card. I'm not sure why but it just refuses to work. I have a few old regular 1 and 2 gig regular SD cards and they will all flash seamlessly from SD. I don't know why but I remember this being an issue back in the TP1 days as well. I just keep an extra card with ROMS if I feel the need to flash but perhaps it's certain brands of SDHC? Again, I don't know but it has been the case with a few of my friends as well.

[teradog]

Originally Posted by bit1

I've tried this and in the past with my TP. For the guys having issues, do you have an SDHC card in your phone? I have an 8 gig that will never flash a rom from the card. I'm not sure why but it just refuses to work. I have a few old regular 1 and 2 gig regular SD cards and they will all flash seamlessly from SD. I don't know why but I remember this being an issue back in the TP1 days as well. I just keep an extra card with ROMS if I feel the need to flash but perhaps it's certain brands of SDHC? Again, I don't know but it has been the case with a few of my friends as well.

+1 here... Micro Center card. Could try to reformat but can't remember how I did the Garmin software & don't want to lose it. So, I just switch out cards now.