QUICK QUESTION about ROM upgrading..

wphend00 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-09-2007, 01:18 AM

Guys,

I just don't understand...
For some reason, I am unable to upgrade the ROM on my PPC-6700.

I tried hard reseting and then flashing the ROM to various AKU 3.5 ROMS, and each time, it stays in Rom Loader mode. I noticed this problem the first couple of times I tried upgrading, but was able to work around it by just loading Sprint's old AKU 2.3 Rom, and then upgrading that to either SAR's or Helmi's, or Colonel's 3.3 or 3.2, but now I can't get anything to run, except for the stupid SPrint 2.3... any suggestions?

wphend00 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-09-2007, 01:53 AM

Was able to load Sars AKU 3.5 ver6 by starting up the Sprint PC AKU 2.3 upgrade process and then opening the folder where the temp files were (in my documents and settings, local settings, temp folder) and replace the nbf file with the one from Sars).

That installed the Rom. I guess my issue is with the software that loads the ROM....its like it does not finish completely... perhaps I am running the wrong installation startup file...

**colonel** · #3 (**permalink**) 04-09-2007, 01:56 AM

are you putting the phone in bootloader before you flash?

josh33_unc · #4 (**permalink**) 04-09-2007, 01:56 AM

taken from kirvin's readme file included with one of the roms:

1. Hard reset your phone. Hold down both soft buttons with one hand and poke the reset hole with the other, ideally while holding a stylus in the second hand, unless you have really pointy fingers.

2. Put your phone in Bootloader mode. This is a special condition that prepares the phone to rewrite the ROM. While holding down both the power and record buttons, poke the reset switch, again with a stylus. The backlight should go off and the screen will say "Serial". When you put it in the crade, the screen will change to say "USB" and the backlight will stay off. This is normal. Wait for Windows to recognize the new USB device before moving on.

3. Run the rom EXE file. Keep clicking Next until it's done. Do NOT remove your phone from the cradle until it tells you to

4. When told to remove your phone from the cradle, pull it out and hard reset it again. Congratulations! You're running whatever rom you downloaded and flashed the ppc with

wphend00 · #5 (**permalink**) 04-09-2007, 02:32 AM

In most cases, the phone is already in bootloader mode, although I most say, that I do go straight to upgrading from the AKU 2.3 ROM, but that just keeps it in Bootloader mode...