Guest burky1993 Posted June 8, 2010 Report Posted June 8, 2010 I just upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate :) And I was wondering if I could flash my phone with XP Mode providing I install all the drivers and all that of course, I hope I can as it really does beat bringing my old desktop out of cupboard everytime I flash my phone
Guest cruddasj Posted June 8, 2010 Report Posted June 8, 2010 I just upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate :) And I was wondering if I could flash my phone with XP Mode providing I install all the drivers and all that of course, I hope I can as it really does beat bringing my old desktop out of cupboard everytime I flash my phone Nope, incompatible drivers. Just dual boot :)
Guest burky1993 Posted June 9, 2010 Report Posted June 9, 2010 Even if I install the XP drivers on to XP mode? and the XP drivers to Win7. As practaclly all XP drivers are compatable with Win7
Guest cruddasj Posted June 9, 2010 Report Posted June 9, 2010 Even if I install the XP drivers on to XP mode? and the XP drivers to Win7. As practaclly all XP drivers are compatable with Win7 Yerp, even if you install it with XP mode. XP mode is just an emulation platform. Windows 7 differs from XP and it won't be able to address the driver properly on the native OS (see below). The only way to do it would be to install a virtual machine with full hardware access. That way you could use the XP kernel (from your virtual machine) instructing the hardware using the virtual machine (if you get my drift :) ). The Windows 7 OS part would just be skipped out as it is just the host. Yes, many XP drivers are compatible with Windows 7 as it adds an emulation layer. But the way that the flasher works is that it is emulating a COM port (serial connection). Unfortunately drivers that are made to emulate things (such as a different type of I/O port) wont work as there is already an emulation layer running (XP mode). Basically you can only have one layer or emulation running on each OS :)
Guest burky1993 Posted June 9, 2010 Report Posted June 9, 2010 Yer I get what you mean, well aint that a kick in so and so's....
Guest Adaho0 Posted June 12, 2010 Report Posted June 12, 2010 Why do not flash under native Win7 via GrandPrix? there is no problem with that...
Guest burky1993 Posted June 13, 2010 Report Posted June 13, 2010 Why do not flash under native Win7 via GrandPrix? there is no problem with that... Becuase if it is anything like flashing Vista with GrandPrix there was alot of problems rarely flashed, but as soon as I plugged it in to my XP it would flash straight away :/
Guest kimitza Posted June 14, 2010 Report Posted June 14, 2010 Becuase if it is anything like flashing Vista with GrandPrix there was alot of problems rarely flashed, but as soon as I plugged it in to my XP it would flash straight away :/ If you don't like using GrandPrix,use either dual boot system or vmware, but only if you want a full flash. Using GrandPrix under w7 it won't allow you to flash the phone part.If you flash without the phone.bin, it's easy with GP.
Guest cruddasj Posted June 14, 2010 Report Posted June 14, 2010 Why do not flash under native Win7 via GrandPrix? there is no problem with that...
Guest cruddasj Posted June 14, 2010 Report Posted June 14, 2010 (edited) Why do not flash under native Win7 via GrandPrix? there is no problem with that... Sorry for late reply. The software needs to emulate a COM port to flash the phone part. PDA section can be flashed via grandprix. But the question was how to flash the phone. If he were to flash a full ROM (PDA + CSC + PHONE) then he would end up with a PDA and no call functionality as I am under the impression that it would brick the phone part. Edited June 14, 2010 by cruddasj
Guest Adaho0 Posted June 14, 2010 Report Posted June 14, 2010 (edited) Sorry for late reply. The software needs to emulate a COM port to flash the phone part. PDA section can be flashed via grandprix. But the question was how to flash the phone. If he were to flash a full ROM (PDA + CSC + PHONE) then he would end up with a PDA and no call functionality as I am under the impression that it would brick the phone part. Using GrandPrix under w7 it won't allow you to flash the phone part. IMHO not true. Today I change phone (radio ROM) from PUJA to JCIC under Win7. Without any problem. Then I make a little experiment and flash several times the same phone part (i mean radio ROM). And everything works fine. My steps: * install Samsung Modem Vista * uncheck "allow USB connection" under Windows Mobile Device Center - it's really important. * open GrandPrix as an administrator - without XP Mode and others. Only as an administrator. * enter the location PHONE.BIN only and check if it is selected Phone Bootloader Update. If not, it should be selected. * plug DISABLED Omnia to USB cable, click Detect and turn on the phone. PDA Device 1 ready to download! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PDA 1 starts downloading... Don't plug it out until the label becomes blue!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHONE will be written. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloading PHONE... OnDeviceChange: DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL GetSize : 17014784 PDA 1 finished downloading![/codebox] Flash lasts, depending on the specifications of your computer, from 3 to 5 minutes. Blue bar, phone part flased correctly. I checked today and it works with 32 and 64 bit editions of W7 Edited June 15, 2010 by Adaho0
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