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Hi folks,
hope somebody has some experience with this or can direct me to some resources/information on how to resolve my (? almost) bricked omnia 8000-II
i had recently installed a skin pack (kyro skin pack 4.3) for spb shell 3.5, but it corrupted some of my spb shell weather icons (and battery was draining faster). having made a reg backup before the install, i was using an sk-tools file manager to try and locate the backup registry file i had made so i could load it, but i made some type of error while browsing for the file and (i think) by mistake deleted some part of the current registry (which is the one i was trying to replace). i am normally happy doing those things on a desktop pc with xp/win7, but using the mini file manager on the small handheld device (with some unclear menu item labels) meant i clicked on one of the incorrect menu settings while i was hunting around in the file directories to locate the backup registry file i had made a little earlier
end result, phone crashes and turns itself off. big trouble, phone looked completely dead
the good news, after removing the battery and using the normal phone-off button to turn it on, at least the phone starts to boot to the "omnia II" screen, but that turns off a few sec later (as it should), but then just hangs with a black screen. at least its not completely dead. but using the usb cable from win7, my pc cant see the phone however, not even as a usb mass storage device
another glimmer of hope is that i can still get to the format screen with on/off/vol-up/lock-screen combo, so in theory o can at least reformat and start back from scratch to load a fresh RoM
- So is it safe for me to format ? right now my pc-usb connection cant see the phone, so i dont want to bugger things up further by doing another wrong step
- do i have any hope to recover my current install any other way and just reload my backup registry ? (prob not i guess)
- is there some type of safe mode i can boot into lie with a windows pc and work on things from there ?
- if i can format and reload a fresh rom, does anybody have a good url with the instructions of how to do that process ? i have installed 3 or 4 replacement roms since i got the phone, but try and avoid doing more then needed to reduce the risk
- anybody have similar experiences ? whats the safest way to proceed ?
hope somebody has some experience with this or can direct me to some resources/information on how to resolve my (? almost) bricked omnia 8000-II
i had recently installed a skin pack (kyro skin pack 4.3) for spb shell 3.5, but it corrupted some of my spb shell weather icons (and battery was draining faster). having made a reg backup before the install, i was using an sk-tools file manager to try and locate the backup registry file i had made so i could load it, but i made some type of error while browsing for the file and (i think) by mistake deleted some part of the current registry (which is the one i was trying to replace). i am normally happy doing those things on a desktop pc with xp/win7, but using the mini file manager on the small handheld device (with some unclear menu item labels) meant i clicked on one of the incorrect menu settings while i was hunting around in the file directories to locate the backup registry file i had made a little earlier
end result, phone crashes and turns itself off. big trouble, phone looked completely dead
the good news, after removing the battery and using the normal phone-off button to turn it on, at least the phone starts to boot to the "omnia II" screen, but that turns off a few sec later (as it should), but then just hangs with a black screen. at least its not completely dead. but using the usb cable from win7, my pc cant see the phone however, not even as a usb mass storage device
another glimmer of hope is that i can still get to the format screen with on/off/vol-up/lock-screen combo, so in theory o can at least reformat and start back from scratch to load a fresh RoM
- So is it safe for me to format ? right now my pc-usb connection cant see the phone, so i dont want to bugger things up further by doing another wrong step
- do i have any hope to recover my current install any other way and just reload my backup registry ? (prob not i guess)
- is there some type of safe mode i can boot into lie with a windows pc and work on things from there ?
- if i can format and reload a fresh rom, does anybody have a good url with the instructions of how to do that process ? i have installed 3 or 4 replacement roms since i got the phone, but try and avoid doing more then needed to reduce the risk
- anybody have similar experiences ? whats the safest way to proceed ?
Edited by nitrozen, 02 October 2011 - 08:02 AM.
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