Simple flashing guide w/Screenshots
 

Alright, since some people still have trouble flashing I will make a guide of my own for the Apache. There are others out there, but none with screenshots.

Step 1: Get the phone in bootloader mode by holding down the Power button the Record Button and your stylus in the reset hole. You will be given the dark bootloader screen saying "Serial" at the top and "v.X.XX" at the bottom, which is your bootlaoder version.
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Step 2: If you are on a computer running Windows Vista make sure you have Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 installed. Now Open the program and go to "Connection Settings" and uncheck the first box, "allow USB Connections".
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Step 3: Connect your Mini USB cable to your phone and straight into your computer USB port, don't use a hub or cradle. The Bootloader screen will now read "USB" at the top and the bootloader version at the bottom.
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Step 4: Run the RUU for your ROM. This step can be different for which ROM you are flashing. If you are using a stock ROM there will be an excutable you download then run, follow the directions and you will be fine. As for my custom ROM, open the folder and run the excutable, then follow the directions on the screen.
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Step 5: After the RUU is complete unplug the device and perform a hard reset, the go through device setup. If you turned off USB connections, turn them back on.
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/303/step5o.jpg

If you have trouble on Vista read here.

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That is so sweet that you are holding the newbs hands for them through this process. Nice job tho bro, seriously.

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Hahaha. Well all your "you're just so mean to them bro" comments made me feel guilty. Lol. Thanks.

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Hey. What can I say? Youve got your days. But hell, Im about ready to start a flame thread if all these damn :newb:s dont start adding thier carrier and device model in thier profiles. :twisted:

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You and me both. The Titan forum is even worse. I am going to stop coming here if n00bs don't stop posting threads on GPS and getting stuck in bootloader. And don't anyone try and tell me "lighten up on the n00bs". I find it funny how those who don't help n00bs and those who's rank here is "lurker or n00b or PPCGeeks Regular" wanna tell us that are a little higher up to lighten up when we have been helping people for a long time...

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man i tried this and it still wont work for the wm6.1 rom u did

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I'm still trying to figure out why it won't work for you. It flashed perfectly on my device.

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oo yeah i would do anything to help you bro

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Thanks. I am downloading Rob's ROM right now. I will see if his RUU works...

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oo so u should be done by tonight ? cuz my phone currently down

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Probably. I am going to Church tonight but I got some time. You can use mtty to get out of bootloader mode if you need to use the phone right now...

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i no lol

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Damn this would have helped alot when i was a newb

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hey man um i have a verizon XV6700 with wm5.0 with the messaging and security feature pack and i want to get that wm6.1 do you think it will work on my XV6700? my radio is 1.43.00 that what works or what? im new in this thing. help plz. oh if i flash my phone is my phone still guna work? oh yeah and my bootloader is v2.05.

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Please read stickies and search. All of your questions have been answered...

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what is that um idk man tell me what to do

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If you can't search and read up, you have no business flashing your device...

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your radio is fine download build os and follow the steps in the guide. if you have vista follow the directions linked under PDAPHONEJUNKIE's post.

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I am having trouble getting the bootloader to USB mode. I have unchecked the usb connection box in Windows mobile device center. if the box is checked it will connect to the computer. but the computer will not recognise the phone when the box is unchecked. Any suggestion?

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So your saying when your USB conneciton in WMDC is off, and your device is in bootloader, the bootloader does not change from "Serial to USB"? That is strage. I guess try whatever works...

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Hello. New to this forum. Just purchased a sprint version ppc-6700 off ebay. Attempted to flash with aku 3.3. I put the phone in bootloader with no prob. It says v1.00 at the bottom. It gave a "error 120 country code". Now it stays in bootloader, but changes to "usb" when plugged in. I just tried the PDAJ's Clean Apache ROM chose version 1.00 with NoID. It goes to 100%, on both the pc and the bootloader screen shows "ce upgrade complete". I hard reset, no go. Anybody have any ideas what my issues are? I appreciate it.

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Hello. New to this forum. Just purchased a sprint version ppc-6700 off ebay. Attempted to flash with aku 3.3. I put the phone in bootloader with no prob. It says v1.00 at the bottom. It gave a "error 120 country code". Now it stays in bootloader, but changes to "usb" when plugged in. I just tried the PDAJ's Clean Apache ROM chose version 1.00 with NoID. It goes to 100%, on both the pc and the bootloader screen shows "ce upgrade complete". I hard reset, no go. Any ideas what my issues are?

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Try searching how to get out of bootloader. Then you can get MTTY, and send the command for exit bootloader.

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I tried flashing my XV6700. It is V2.02 according to the boot loader screen. Once flashed "successfully", i unplug and do a hard reset and the screen comes up with Y or N and i hit Y and then space and it goes back to the boot loader screen. Any ideas? I am running windows xp and have activesync 4.5 installed.

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It went back into bootloader? You need mtty as well, to exit bootloader. Did you revert a 1.04 phone to a 1.02?

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I have tried the directions for getting out of the bootloader posted with something like "get out of 2.04/05 bootloader" as those are the only directions i can find. My phone is obviously infatuated with the bootloader screen and refuses to leave it. So, after reading more and more posts i found a very detailed one on switching from verizon to alltel (which was what i was attempting in the first place) and wish to just go back to the phone as it was when loaded with verizon software. How can i do this or is there something else i can try? Also, after searching i could only find the carrier rom for the 6800, so im pretty sure thats where i messed up and used the .nbf files from the bell ROM.

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Using another carriers nbf won't hurt it. Here is how you get outa bootloader.

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oky doky. got it loaded and booting. Now when i dial *228 it says call cannot be completed as dialed (from alltel). So i figured it was because i have yet to register my esn with alltel. I dialed 1800ALLTEL1 and got some nationwide roaming message, that didnt sound like it was from alltel. FYI, i flashed the phone at work on a different xp machine and then it started working fine, so some setting on my xp machine at home must have been mean to it. American roaming network*

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No no no no. You need to change the PRL to Alltel. Flashing an Alltel ROM is not gonna cut it. You can run any ROM as long as the PRI and ESPT settings are right...

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I had that done with 30038.prl (i hope thats the correct one) and when *228 is dialed i get "cannot complete your call as dialed" and when 1800alltel1 is dialed i get "welcome to the american roaming network...so on and so forth).

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Where did you get your PRL from?

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http://corolada.com/prl/alltel/30034.prl. this one. sorry its 30034

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Yeah that one will work. Get that ESN added then do a *228.

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ok so i re-did everything so i can give you the steps i took. downloaded the v2.02 apache rom in your sig. put radio_.nbf and ms_.nbf from the bell rom available for download on this forum into the v2.02 folder. ran the ruu and let it do its thing. reset the phone and it boots properly. dial *228 and get that alltel cannot complete my call as dialed. According to the alltel tech the esn is in their database. OH! and the 1800alltel1 number still gives me the roaming message. EDIT: yes the ESN is definately there because my old phone no longer works lol. would it be ok to activate it? would the 6700 esn stay in there database so i can try an activate it at a later date?EDIT2: I redid it with the plain v2.02 rom. i put the alltel prl back on. If the phone is in network only mode, verizon answers and wants me to register my phone. when roaming only is selected (all this is under roaming settings) alltel answers. i thought this was odd and might give a clue

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The ESN will stay in their database yeah. What method of PRL updating are you using?

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i dial ##775, type in 6 zeros, edit, point it to that file, hit ok, then the phone reboots. I tried another ROM and the same thing happens. It goes to verizon when *228 is dialed. so this leads me to believe the prl isnt catching for some reason? i don't even know if thats possible. Ill leave that to you, the expert.

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Yeah that's the way. And yes, it sounds like the PRL is not functioning right. Try this one, http://corolada.com/prl/alltel/30029.prl. See, newer is not always better. When I flash Cricket phones I have to try a few PRLs to get the right one. Also, I don't know what the "Special device" ones are, but maybe try one of those should the EvDo ones not work...

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OK! So, i think i figured out the issue. when i go into phone(settings) it says the phone number of the phone is that of the previous phone owner. I tried changing the voice mail nnumber to the desired number but that didnt change the phone's phone number. I'm kind of surprised this doesn't go away when it is flashed. any ideas on how to change it? Oh and i changed to that prl you posted P.S. the old phone number is a verizon, which is why i think this is happening.

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Wow. This was amazingly simple. I now have 6.1 on my phone and it appears that everything is working...except....my camera.

The button on the side does not automatically start the camera. Although I do not use it a lot, I would not mind having it back.

Oh yeah...the upgrade fixed two problems. The phone was running really slow (it is faster now) and I lost the Internet connection a couple of weeks ago (it is working now). I was not surprised on the phone being faster, but I was surprised the Internet connection was working again.

If anyone has advice on the camera problem, I'm open to all advice.

EDIT: I figured it out! I went into - Start - Settings - Buttons and I had to assign the button to the camera. For some reason, it was unassigned. Everything seems to be working now!

Thanks
Mike

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Enjoy the ROM Mike.