ROM issues

gopher2011 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 12:20 AM

I am having a problem flashing a rom to my phone. i dont understand, i have the winRAR program multiple ROM's on hand, but i dont understand what to do. I was supposed to look for a object that says rom.exe and i dont see any of those in any of the roms. If any one can walk me through with just a few steps from there that would be very much appreciated. Thanks

It says that its checking for information then it says that this ROM upgrade utility is not designed for my device, whats happening?

dprout69 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 09:18 AM

well... I guess step one would be for you to tell us which rom you are attempting to install.

gopher2011 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 09:29 AM

ok BigJ or Jbabeys rom, i think its the same person, ROM, its the revsion 1.3h (zelda). But i think i know what the problem is, my laptop is running windows Vista, would that be a problem?

dprout69 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 11:17 AM

Can't say I've used that rom personally, but vista shouldnt matter as there are plenty of ppl on here using vista. Are you extracting the .rar? You should just extract the .rar, click on the file and it should prompt you to connect your device and then load. What rom do you have on your device currently?

gopher2011 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 12:27 PM

i currently have the stock OEM rom the phone came with. I have WinRAR and i looked at the contents of BigJ's rom and there is no file that says .rar. Is the file i should be opening "APACUpgradeUt_noID.exe"? I must be just missing one crucial step i think.

dmitt25 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gopher2011

i currently have the stock OEM rom the phone came with. I have WinRAR and i looked at the contents of BigJ's rom and there is no file that says .rar. Is the file i should be opening "APACUpgradeUt_noID.exe"? I must be just missing one crucial step i think.

So here's the thing... The "BigJ's rom" you speak of IS the .rar file. a .rar file is like a .zip file. It's simply a compressed file containg other files. So basically what you downloaded from the net is not the rom, the rom is inside the .rar... Make sense? You have to extract all the files in the .rar using WinRaR to somewhere else, a folder of your choosing or your desktop even. Once they are extracted, you can use the files normally. A previous poster said something along these lines already.

Hope this helps... oh, and I'm a newb too.. and it sounds like you have a lot more reading to do before you try to flash your rom. You're probably gonna brick your phone! I just flashed mine this weekend to WM6, but I was scared outta my mind that I may have missed something. I kept reading and reading and reading until I felt confident that I knew enough to do it right.

Good Luck!

gopher2011 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 06:42 PM

I read a lot of info so far about flashing, but as far as i looked its not all in one spot. Also i did indeed unzip BigJ's rom with WinRAR and as i was explaining i dont see any .rar files around. I guess i dont know where to go from here