Story of a dead SPV (including a small warning)

[Guest Arisme]

Well, I finally toasted my first SPV, when trying to recover it :cry:

Short story : HTC loves buggy code - and avoid replacing your bootloader if not absolutely necessary.

Long story : the backup code (qfs thing) is flawed, and only backups ONE HALF of the bootloader (it should backup from 0 to 0x40000, but only backups 0 to 0x20000) - for the moment they managed to avoid breaking things between different bootloaders, but I don't want to imagine what will happen when they do - the bootloader will happily jump to a non existant part of the code and crash here :shock:

Less interesting part of the long story : I managed to get in this situation with a flawed backup, and ended with a semi functional bootloader (booting WinCE, but no interactive mode) - then I tried to find a way to flash it from Windows, finally found one, only to realize that the bootloader was write-protected, but not erase-protected (quite logical isn't it ?) - I'll let you guess what happened next :)

[Guest jlayous]

Hi there

hope that u have some time for me

this is my story

after updating the bootloader of the I-mate. i got a message stating that the upgrade "PASSED". After cold booting the device.... it won't turn on anymore. i was using USBTERM to upgrade via SD card. the phone is totaly dead there is no light when i plug the charger nothing

and from what u wrote above it seems that u had gone through the same thing that im in at the moment

i appreciate if u tell me what have u done exactly

regards

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

jlayous so the phone will not power on at all?

or if it does can you get to the bootloader?

[Guest jlayous]

the phone will not power on at all

[Guest Gorskar]

Oh dear. :)