Unbricking Vogue / and downgrading SPL

[smkstang1]

Originally Posted by OJM

I am trying to unbrick my Vogue and ask that folks bear with me and read through this post to see if they have any ideas on how to unbrick. First things first, as I understand it (based on a CoKeman post)the following is true:

Radios:
1.xx radios/non-GPS work with 0.40 SPL only
3.xx radios/GPS work with 2.31 only

Based on the above, I thnk I now understand why I have bricked my phone. I believe that I may have mistakenly loaded SPL 2.31 BEFORE upgrading my radio to 3.xx. I then flashed the new 3.05 ROM (w/ GPS). My device is now inoperable. It gets stuck at the HTC splash screen when I reboot OR, if I enter bootloader mode (take out battery, put battery back in, hold camera + power) I get the red/green/blue/white stripes and it reads "VOGU100 MFG, SPL-2.31.CoKe, CPLD-3".

I have tried the unbricking process and but every Sprint original signed ROM I download won't work (i.e., I get an RUU Error message telling me that the file is corrupted - this happens with every link I have tried). Any thoughts on how to unbrick? I appreciate all suggestions.

Ok this may apply to a few of you... (I did exactly the same thing)

If you have the old radio and you tried to upgrade to the new ROM and you unlocked with the 2.31, this may get you phone back in action:

Just make sure you did it like I did (you took your phone, which was bone stock and unlocked it with unlock 2.31 and then tried upgrading).

Do the Power + Camera + Soft

follow this thread: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=24925

start from step 4 because you already have the 2.31 SPL

Now I know some of you have had errors when you tried downloading the ROMS here... It seems there may be something wrong with the ftp so use a program such as FileZilla (its free) and navigate to it manually. (I dont think you need to download anything other than from the thread above)

After you get it going... Do the Power + Camera +Soft and load OMJ software or other.

That is what has worked for me when I was stuck in the same situation.

Best regards and good luck,

[TigerJK1410]

Originally Posted by smkstang1

Ok this may apply to a few of you... (I did exactly the same thing)

If you have the old radio and you tried to upgrade to the new ROM and you unlocked with the 2.31, this may get you phone back in action:

Just make sure you did it like I did (you took your phone, which was bone stock and unlocked it with unlock 2.31 and then tried upgrading).

Do the Power + Camera + Soft

follow this thread: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=24925

start from step 4 because you already have the 2.31 SPL

Now I know some of you have had errors when you tried downloading the ROMS here... It seems there may be something wrong with the ftp so use a program such as FileZilla (its free) and navigate to it manually. (I dont think you need to download anything other than from the thread above)

After you get it going... Do the Power + Camera +Soft and load OMJ software or other.

That is what has worked for me when I was stuck in the same situation.

Best regards and good luck,

Mine was stuck at the HTC startup screen and after following the steps mentioned above I was able to boot back into Alltel's WM6.1.

I will now try the steps from the first post to try and revert back to stock VZW rom and report back the results.

*update*
I tried the steps in post 1 again EXACTLY (formatted to fat32, 512mb card, etc.) DID NOT WORK.
after i tried it i was stuck once again on the HTC startup screen.
I am now re-doing the steps above and going to stick with the alltel rom for now. On that note...does anyone know how to get phone calls working after flashing to an Alltel rom (the VERY FIRST time I flashed it from verizon to alltel I did not know and did not soft-reset before customization and let it customize to alltel's settings)? I can see full signal but when I try to make a phone call it does not work. The radio is 3.37.10...does anyone know what I did wrong or what I need to do to fix it?