Please help - hardware glitch preventing me from restoring xv6800 to factory!

[theTastyCat]

Hi all - thanks for reading this.

My xv6800 has gone buggy. I was running a nice, quick No2Chem ROM for a month or so and flew to England. As soon as I got there, the phone would completely power down after 3 minutes or so. In order to resusctitate it, I'd remove and replace the battery, plug in the charger, and reset. Then it would live for another 3 or so minutes. Did a hard reset, same old story. Soon it would begin flashing a red led - surely not a good sign.

Called Verizon and they are shipping me a new one, but here's the catch. If I can't get No2Chem 5069 off this thing before it goes back to the factory, I'm out $500 for a replacement charge (for being so stupid as so load a wonderful custom ROM that allows the phone to do what it should have straight from the factory). Problem is that now when I boot, it will only get 12 seconds into the second splash screen before dying. This way, the phone will live only long enough for any monkey at Verizon to realize that I'm running a custom ROM and the hardward glitch becomes immaterial.

Please help me restore this thing - I manually entered bootloader this morning, but without an Activesync connection, I can't reflash and restore it to factory defaults. Anybody know of a way around this? I do have a storage card that I could use if that makes any difference...

Basically, I think my only shot is to put it into bootloader before it dies and then find a way to get it to talk to my destop so I can flash - any ideas?

Thanks so much - your advice is worth exactly $500!!!!

- Gerry

[theTastyCat]

One more thing - when it's plugged into my desktop and I put it in bootloader, it does make the connection sound even if Activesync does not connect, which gives me a faint glimmer of hope!

Thanks,

Gerry

[theTastyCat]

Anybody? I'm desperate...

[dan-htc-touch]

see how long it lasts in bootloader, and try flashing from there

[theTastyCat]

It will stay open in bootloader, but when I try to start with the relocker it tells me it can't connect to the device. I guess Activesync has to have a connection in order for me to be able to relock/flash from my PC. Any idea about a workaround? Any way I can put some files on my storage card and flash directly from it?

Thanks,

Gerry

[dan-htc-touch]

don't use the relocker, just flash your stock carrier rom

[DerekV]

Download a stock rom, then extract the contents of the rom install file (you can use a few different programs for this zipscan for sure and i think winrar can also). Find the large (around 50-70 mb) file that ends in .nbh.

Now Rename this file TITAIMG.nbh. Take your sd card and format it to fat 32. Now place that titaimg.nbh file and put it on your SD card. Put the card in the phone and go to bootloader mode (power+camera+soft reset) and it should start to install the rom after you press yes.

Hope this works for yah.

[theTastyCat]

Thank you so much - it worked! Now I'm back to stock ROM and everything, and it will still die after 12 seconds into the second splash. But - now I can return it under warranty!

I seriously can't thank you guys enough - I never would have figured that out, but because you took time to post help here I'll be getting a new phone. Can't put a price on good people.

In your debt,

Gerry

[theTastyCat]

Okay, one more quick question - when I enter bootloader, it's still Olipro 2.40. Is it possible (or necessary) for me to revert to the stock bootloader?

Thanks again,

Gerry

[Lecithin]

Usually isn't a problem a lot of refurbs actually ship out with Olipro 2.40 on them.