An Easy Guide to Upgrading

[buckyswider]

Hello there, I'm the latest n00b trying to jumpstart my XV6800...

Verizon. Windows XP. Stock everything (I think...more on that later)....

ROM=2.09 Radio=1.30

BL Screen:

TITA100 MFG
SPL-2.05.1000
CPLD-9

I *think* I started at something like 1.04 here when I started all the malarchy....but I'm not sure with the lots of lockers/unlockers/etc. that I've been trying to run (seemingly unsuccessfully...)

Anyhow, did reading. Lots and lots of reading. My eyes hurt. All 130+ pages of the no2chem thread. This thread. The other flashing for dummies. Anything I could find. The 3.16-is-real thread. Did't want to waste someone's time helping me with a RTFM error. Did I mention I read a lot ??

So, I finally get the nerve and start this process. Connect via activesync. Run the ROM updated in the Sprint 3.16 package. Connects, puts the device into BL....I see this whitescreen flash past on the device and back to bl:

00028002
Not Allow

XP errors out with "image error".

So I copy the 3.16 to a FAT32 formatted SD card. power/camera/reset - same white screen. "Not Allow".

Then back to the BL screen. Now I don't believe I need to run any locker or unlocker, since I'm starting from stock, but I try running the HARD-SPL-MFG code...Then it gets stuck in BL (Thanks for exitbl coke!!)

So, I'm at a loss right now. I want to eventually get to no2chem (hopefully the verizon-ized version, if blazingwolf re-cooks and gets it back up...) but I can't even get past step 4.!!!!

Search comes up empty for bothe the 00028002 and "not allow". Did I discover some new, obscure security?? Leave it to me!

Thanks for the help......