Friday, September 14, 2007

How to bring your Glofiish X500 and M700 back to life after unsuccessful ROM update

ROM updates can be tricky and sometimes they fail. This instruction will help you to come back after disaster happens:

1) Find your 'TEMP' directory on your PC (should be C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\Local Settings\Temp)
2) Delete all the files in this directory
3) Start the update program on your PC
4) Run it until you get the "END USER UPDATE" screen
5) Go to your 'TEMP' directory, you need 2 files from there: USBDLUpdate_Console.exe and temp.dat.
6) Format a microSD card in "FAT" file system
7) Copy USBDLUpdate_Console.exe and temp.dat to the microSD card
8) rename temp.dat to temp.bin on microSD
9) put microSD card into your M700
10) press 'record', 'reset' and 'power' buttons; release reset' and 'power', you will eneter 'DOWNLOAD' mode
11) Update will run now from microSD card, wait until it stops with "usb host is not connected yet"
12) Remove your battery for 2 minutes.
13) Put your battery back.
14) You are done.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The problem with this is that you need to have the pda syncing with your computer for the update software to do it's this, and if you have already bricked it, then you can't do that, so what you're saying is impossible?