Upgrade to 3.16 Fails

[Geckotek]

Originally Posted by Shavkat

Without unlocking your PPC, you can't flash un-official roms! (if your PPC is unlocked allready )
If you flash any un-official roms without unlocking you PPC you will and should stuck in boot menu screen!
I had same problem, i flashed without reading tutorials and result was stuck in boot screen!
Then professional members told me to unlock you PPC, after that i successful updated my PPC!

You should probably be saying "you can't flash to un-signed roms" If I understand everything correctly (and I think I do) if you are using the leaked Sprint 3.16 ROM, it is signed and therefore should not need the unlocker on a Sprint phone.

On my Verizon phone, I used the Olipro 2.4 and it worked like a charm. Didn't try w/o it so can't say for sure.

Originally Posted by 1oddmanout

Any explanation? Every thread says that unlocker has to be run. Not wanting to run the unlocker is why I haven't flashed 3.16.

What's with the fear of the unlocker? You can always relock. Everything done here is reversible. But fear you not, young padawan. For in your favor the force is. (LOL at own dorkiness)

[kingsfan626]

I ran the 3.16 update using Vista and I was able to update the ROM. It failed 4 times on me and I just continued to run the update until it went through. The only time it ran through was when my phone was already on that color pattern screen and I just reran the update and although it could not find my current ROM information it still updated my phone to 3.16. So far it's been better.