Did I BRICK My Phone? Help Loading SPL Please! [STILL Not Working]

[BfA]

Originally Posted by Rabid_Gypsy

Any custom ROM will not load until the unlocker has run to completion.

Without a card reader, you'd need another device that you could load the card into and then once you've got the file transferred over, swap it into the phone. If you have a SD card reader and your microSD card isn't SDHC (4GB or higher), I could mail you an extra MicroSD-to-SD adapter, I live in Edmonton and could get it off to you Monday or Tuesday, PM me if that would work for you.

Hey thanks for the info? My main question is though can I format the SD card to be like a boot-cd? Because when the phone turns on all I can do is go to the security screen.

If the SD card can be booted from without needing to boot to Windows Mobile then I'll do this option.

Thanks for the offer Rabid_Gypsy on the SD adapter, but I think if it works as boot media, I'll go buy a micro sd card reader today as I need my phone up and running ASAP.

[mastahc411]

I think you might be in some trouble here. There are two SPLs. The Hard spl, which is the one you are probably at, is the screen with the 0.37.0000 version. That is actually what you need to flash over to unlock the phone and as far as I know, you have to be at the SSPL to be able to flash it, which looks the same but will have a version of 0.25.0000, I think. To get into the SSPL manually to use the SD card, you have to be able to get into Winmo to run the exe file with the manual unlocker. Try flashing a shipped SIGNED ROM just so you can get back into winmo to run the unlocker. But the only CDMA shipped roms are for sprint and verizion, but I think the sprint one should be close enough. http://rapidshare.com/files/17615341...3_Ship.exe.zip

Run that to see if it at least gets you back into Winmo. This rom does flash the radio so it might not work. But if it does, flash the unlocker (manually always works for me, the updater never does), then reflash your custom ROM and a Telus radio, both of which can be found in the CDMA upgrades section. That should fix it as long as the sprint rom is able to be flashed on a telus TP

[BfA]

Originally Posted by mastahc411

But if it does, flash the unlocker (manually always works for me, the updater never does), then reflash your custom ROM and a Telus radio, both of which can be found in the CDMA upgrades section. That should fix it as long as the sprint rom is able to be flashed on a telus TP

Thanks, I'll try it when I get home. I'm currently getting the 0.38 screen which I'm pretty sure means it's still locked.

Just wondering how I flash the unlocker manually so I can try it that way?

[mastahc411]

Originally Posted by BfA

Thanks, I'll try it when I get home. I'm currently getting the 0.38 screen which I'm pretty sure means it's still locked.

Just wondering how I flash the unlocker manually so I can try it that way?

unlocking via the sd card is easy. put the raphimg.nbh and the sspl-manual.exe on the root of the memory card. then from file explorer (on the phone), open the sspl-manual.exe on your phone, it will go to the tricolor screen and then say something like press power to update or center button to cancel. press the power button and then the phone will soft reset. hold down the power button and the vol down button, press the reset button while still holding down the buttons. Make sure the screen says 0.37.CMONEX instead of 0.37.0000

[BfA]

Originally Posted by mastahc411

Try flashing a shipped SIGNED ROM just so you can get back into winmo to run the unlocker. But the only CDMA shipped roms are for sprint and verizion, but I think the sprint one should be close enough. http://rapidshare.com/files/17615341...3_Ship.exe.zip

Unfortunately, that one didn't work, although it did get to the transfer screen and made it to the first bar before I got this error:

ERROR [294]: INVALID VENDOR ID
This Update Utility cannot be used for your PDA Phone. Please check your Update Utility.

TMU3-RBRK<567-SQEVc568-RBRK<5670

I'm going to look to see if I can find a Telus stock ROM and try that I guess.

[BfA]

Originally Posted by BfA

I'm going to look to see if I can find a Telus stock ROM and try that I guess.

Ok, so I went to the thread that had the stock ROMs and downloaded the Telus ROM. When I run the RUU in admin mode it gives me the same error [262] Communication error as when I try to run the hard SPL unlocker. It didn't even progress 1 bar like the one I tried above. I'm just wondering what the difference between the signed one I tried loading and the Telus one I downloaded is?

Does anyone have any other ideas? Is there any way to completely wipe out what's on there and start from scratch or did the Diamond unlocker really **** shit up?

The really hilarious part (for you guys not me) is that I ordered the extended battery for xmas for myself. hahaha.

[DMWagner]

Originally Posted by BfA

Re-read it and saw I needed the Touch Pro unlocker so I went to that thread and downloaded it:

- ran raphael cdma hspl 037 unlocker
- got error
- asks to run recovery
- runs recovery and for current rom version says nothing
- i select update rom
- goes back to saying there was an error

I thought Tellus was GSM? They offer the iPhone which is why I thought they were GSM.

http://www.telusmobility.com/en/BC/iphones/index.shtml

[BfA]

Originally Posted by DMWagner

I thought Tellus was GSM? They offer the iPhone which is why I thought they were GSM.

http://www.telusmobility.com/en/BC/iphones/index.shtml

TELUS is NOW HSPA and also CDMA. It was CDMA previously and just released their HSPA network as of November 6. They built a nation wide HSPA network with Bell.

So instead of going from CDMA to LTE like Verizon, TELUS is taking the middle step of going to HSPA. I think the iPhone and the Olympics had reasons for that but it makes me kinda pissed off as we probably won't see LTE up here for a long while as they'll have to pay off their HSPA network.

Since the Touch Pro is CDMA devices that's why I ran the CDMA hard unlocker. It would've worked sweet if I didn't accidentally run the Diamon unlocker! DOH!

[BfA]

I tried running both the unlocker and re-locker and neither work. I'm guessing I ***@#)%*@% bricked my phone then because nothing will load on it no matter what I try.