Unbricking Vogue / and downgrading SPL

[ImCoKeMaN]

If you had the unlocker 2.31 fully loaded on your phone there is no way your phone would now say 0.36.0000. Did you ever verify that your phone had 2.31 bootloader on it? It sounds like something must have gone wrong with the install of the unlocker. Unfortunately there is no current fix from where you are until there is a new signed rom from your carrier.

[point5mt]

Stuck on Verizon Loading screen for half hour now.

Any ideas?

[amancharlas]

I have a interesting situation:
I tried to load the stock VZW ROM as my power button is not working and I need to exchange my phone.
The loading process completed succesfully and the phone rebooted but was stuck at the Verizon screen. I tried the instructions in this post to unbrick with no luck.
However, if I put my phone is boot loaded mode and use the "upload ROM to device" menu option in BuildOS, the load process goes through just fine and my phone works fine.
I am just not able to load a signed ROM.

Bootloader:
VOGU100 MFG
SPL-2.31.Coke
CPLD-3

and
Radio 3.37

What am I doing wrong?

-S

[ImCoKeMaN]

there is nothing about the unlocker that would prevent a signed rom from being loaded. You need to stay in bootloader to flash those too though. When you say power button is not working do you mean power will put it in standby, but not take it out? if so hat is because you don't have a GPS ready OS (aka verizon stock)

[amancharlas]

The power switch is useless completely. I cant use it to put the device into sleep mode or take it out. I have to let it time out to sleep and use other buttons to wake it up.

The power button was damaged when I dropped the phone... However, I am not sure if the power button is stuck in a on position (electricall) and what the effect of that would be, if any, on a signed ROM. My guess is the effect of this would be the same on both a signed and a unsigned ROM.

The loading of the stock OS goes thru fine. After the loading is done and it resets that is when it seems to hang up on the second boot image... only for stock ROMs. I get the htc image first (boot splash) and then the VZW image (sub splash)...where it hangs up!

I have tried flashing it twice from the PC and once using the SD card method detailed at the beginning of this thread. Same results in both cases... Any suggestions?

[journeyofthought]

OK, so I believe I have royally screwed this up and would appreciate any help.

1) I renamed the .nbh file from Sprint's official package to VOGUIMG.nbh, put it on the memory card that came shipped with the Touch (was already formatted to Fat32), and inserted it. When I put it into bootloader, it says loading for about half a second and then goes back to the rainbow screen, whcih says:

VOGU100
SPL-2.01.0000
CPLD-3

2) Using the mtty program, I did the following:

set 16 0
boot

It freezes on the "loading image" part of the boot command, and then the Touch becomes frozen on the HTC welcome screen.

Anyone else have any ideas of what I could do to fix this?

[StumpJuice]

Originally Posted by journeyofthought

OK, so I believe I have royally screwed this up and would appreciate any help.

1) I renamed the .nbh file from Sprint's official package to VOGUIMG.nbh, put it on the memory card that came shipped with the Touch (was already formatted to Fat32), and inserted it. When I put it into bootloader, it says loading for about half a second and then goes back to the rainbow screen, whcih says:

VOGU100
SPL-2.01.0000
CPLD-3

2) Using the mtty program, I did the following:

set 16 0
boot

It freezes on the "loading image" part of the boot command, and then the Touch becomes frozen on the HTC welcome screen.

Anyone else have any ideas of what I could do to fix this?

i have this exact same issue.... tried... everything... probably spent 50 hours plus reading and trying everything

[WolfGTI]

Originally Posted by ImCoKeMaN

there is nothing about the unlocker that would prevent a signed rom from being loaded. You need to stay in bootloader to flash those too though. When you say power button is not working do you mean power will put it in standby, but not take it out? if so hat is because you don't have a GPS ready OS (aka verizon stock)

I am stuck at the rainbow screen - the computer will not recognize there is something connected to it. - ideas?

[ImCoKeMaN]

is it a sprint phone? and what is the exact file you had and what file did you rename? you might just need to rename the larger nbh in the same file.

[journeyofthought]

Yes, its a Sprint touch. First I tried renaming the RUU_signed file from:

ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Vogue/Users/dh..._2.04_Ship.exe

Which is the big 90MB file. Then I tried the one that is attached to the OP which is is a few hundred KB.