I was receiving the Port Create retry error on flashing my omnia. I had installed the Samsung modem driver per instructions which are very straight forward (i thought) and it says it installed successfully. I run the HI3 update and everything was fine until it got to switching form USB to phone, to presumably flash the phone rom and I got the

Port Create retry (25)
Port Create retry (24)
Port Create retry (23)
.........
Port Create retry (0)

error.

The phone now reboots but with a small phone and orange warning triangle, indicating I believe that the Phone flash didn't work. The phone PDA status is at HI3, whilst the Phone remains at HG3. The phone still works and the the pda seems to work with the updates from HI3.

I have tried this repeatedly on 3 different XP boxes to reach a successful flash completion but i believe that the Samsung modem driver just isn't installing correctly on any of them, as confirmed under device manager.

Now everyone else here is flashing away, so they are obviously getting the modem driver to install correctly. I've tried installing, uninstalling, rebotting on 3 different xp computers with different service pack levels and no joy. It says it's installed perfetly, but it isn't. Each time, I am simply using setup.exe. (what am i missing). I've tried installing it manually etc etc.

I've seen a few threads here and there with vague ideas, but is there a definitive answer for this problem. I must say that Iphone hacking even last year where we had to do all sorts of things was a breeze compared to what should be a relatively simple operation. Having said that I do believe that the samsung is superior in features minus the vastly superior iphone touchscreen.

Any further ideas much appreciated.

Just a thought but have you tried running the update twice on the same machine, one immediately after the other.

The first time I tried updating after installing the modem drivers windows was very slow to load the drivers and if it takes too long the first time you can run out of time.

The second time you try it though hopefully the drivers should be cached and the load process should be faster.

here http://www.modaco.com/content/i900-omnia-h...hings-go-wrong/

Thanks. I didn't forget to install the samsung modem, I have tried installing/uninstalling it several times and it suggests that it is installed correctly. However it clearly is not, hence the error.


are there any compatible radio rom image files that i can use with grandprix and if so, how would i use grandprix to just flash the radio only.

Thanks - read that too. I was researching other options when i came across this for Vista which seems not to require the samsung xp modem driver. http://www.samsung-omnia.org/index.php/topic,630.0.html. In the process of downloading the Phillipines DXHH3 for vista, I decided to try another XP laptop.