wm5 problem

[Guest chedabob]

im not sure if im allowed to ask this , but here goes anyway:

i got wm5 installed on my c500. all good

then i wanted to go back. i read that if you do a hard reset it will go away. nope. it just loaded the bootloader then stopped. i managed to reflash it and get it working again.

now, i chose to downgrade it. i tried the r2dp all command in mtty from another c500 but got an error about certificate something or other. i did some more research and found a big long forum thread with images that can be written to Mini-sd cards with the pswrite command. tried that, held down volume down, it flashed, and then rebooted. then the orange screen appeared, then flashed white, then off, white then off. i wasnt sure what was happening and it did it for about 3 or 4 mins. i took the battery out, and tried again, and i got to the orange screen, then it told me about holding volume down to flash (strangely no IU test build screen this time). i tried, but it set not allowed, then it just goes to the flasher screen. ive tried flashing with an official orange rom but to no avail. can anybody help me? please.

[Guest chedabob]

right, i managed to reflash back to wm5 and its working. but how do i downgrade to wm2003se? am i doomed to run wm5 for eternity?

[Guest xda_gangsta]

Probably not, u gotta find a ROM for your phone and install it same way you did WM5..I wanted to install WM5 myself on my C500, but now I'm not since its way to risky, I don't know what I would do if it broke! But yah, get a ROM image and insatll it just like u did from the tricolor screen

[Guest Tech]

discussion of illegal ROMs/OS's is prohibitted from this forum im afraid.

Please do NOT download such software - just wait to purchase a device with the desired feature.

[Guest chedabob]

yeah, i got the orange rom image (are these classed as illegal, even though they come from the legal update) and flashed that to the card and it messed it up

[Guest andreicaadi]

Chedabob it seems we have the same problem but the difference is that i'm stuck in the tricolor mode (for eternity haaaahaaa LOL) if u find the way out of the freeze screen please tell me

Edited August 25, 2006 by andreicaadi

[Guest chedabob]

i know on spv-developers, theres a bunch of tuts for doing the downgrade. it was a simple matter of getting an old orange rom, flashing it with the command line proggy, then updating with the official orange update.

[Guest Monolithix (MVP)]

I'd second having a browse around the SPV-Devs forum, you should be able to get it downgraded using their help.