K510i Dead For Good Options

[Mrrrr]

So it seems. I have my K510i which won't start anymore. It shows a white screen and that's it.

Just tried to read flash with setool but wouldn't do it. Guess there's no battery. I set it to charge, a red light appeared under the on/off button. When it was working I've never seen this light... Is it good or bad?

I remember it wouldn't read the flash or couldn't initialize gdfs when I last tried. I'm gonna try again and show y'all what setool tells me, but I guess I need to charge the battery first. And that red light...

[Boysie]

Yes do try and charge the battery and the red light may indicate EROM/GDFS damage. Do you have a GDFS Backup? Try again with SETool2lite or XS and post the logs and you may need to connect holding 2 + 5.

[radwkw31]

So it seems. I have my K510i which won't start anymore. It shows a white screen and that's it.

Just tried to read flash with setool but wouldn't do it. Guess there's no battery. I set it to charge, a red light appeared under the on/off button. When it was working I've never seen this light... Is it good or bad?

I remember it wouldn't read the flash or couldn't initialize gdfs when I last tried. I'm gonna try again and show y'all what setool tells me, but I guess I need to charge the battery first. And that red light...

buy a new battery(all new battery are 60-50% charged)

[Mrrrr]

I could insert the battery from the t280 as it seems the same size.

I have a gdfs backup but it's on another hard drive and I can't get it until tomorrow
Anyway, first I gotta try and read flash or gdfs with setool or xs. Gonna try xs next. I'll post the logs as soon as I get at least some errors.

[Boysie]

There is little point in reading the flash or the GDFS as these maybe damaged.

[radwkw31]

I could insert the battery from the t280 as it seems the same size.

I have a gdfs backup but it's on another hard drive and I can't get it until tomorrow
Anyway, first I gotta try and read flash or gdfs with setool or xs. Gonna try xs next. I'll post the logs as soon as I get at least some errors.

try to not lose your battery power
believe me, i know how you feel(same thing will happen to me at my w810 long time ago)

[Mrrrr]

I didn't lose it's power, I think it's just discharged.

So I'll let it for half an hour, if it won't work (as setool doesn't seem to recognize anything and xs says: 11:32:51| Error: Cannot open phone communication port at first and on second try it won't recognize it either). I think it's the battery so I hope it's charging.

[Mrrrr]

okay... opened it with xs and i get:

12:56:43| Baseband ID: 8040
12:56:43| Protocol Version: 3.1
12:56:43|
12:56:43| Sending db2010_cid00_prodid_p3l.bin...

i held the c button for 3 minutes.

with setool2 i select k510, i hit read flash and connect. nothing happens within 3 minutes. After cancelling it says

phone pre-boot failed,possible RECOVERY needed.

[Boysie]

Connect with 2 and 5 keys.

[Mrrrr]

I tried. No reaction on xs, no reaction on setool2.

I tried again with C and setool2 showed me this:

ChipID:8040,EMP protocol:0301
erom_readvar: error reading unit 0/6
error while reading security units
SECURITY UNITS CAN'T BE READ !
DAMAGED FIRMWARE/GDFS OR EMPTY PHONE
phone pre-boot failed,possible RECOVERY needed.
Elapsed:29 secs.

I took it to a shop in the past, said they would fix it but they weren't able. I told a friend about what those guyz tried and he told me that they lack professionalism. So I though to ask professionals here on se-nse.

Empty phone... that means no software? Oh... they told me they will try to re-soft it and I'll lose everything... I guess they managed to empty it but no re-soft. I thought they did the re-soft. Anyway, now what?

[Boysie]

If you're sure there's life in the battery then I don't think you going to fix it for free. Try Davinci team.

[justme]

Did you try flashing the MAIN firmware yet?
DaVinci is not a very good option, I'd prefer d-ultimate unlocker.

[Mrrrr]

Dunno how to flash the main firmware if I can't load it with either xs or setool.
D-Ultimate Unlocker? I have version 3.11. What do I do with it?

[Mrrrr]

Ok, so I installed D-unlocker and did what it said there, but it won't give me the READY button so I can press it. After pressing 2-5 and inserting cable the screen lights and remains that way. Nothing else happens.

First I thought of uninstalling and reinstalling the flash drivers. I tried to uninstall using this tutorial HERE but I could not find the (hidden) Flash Driver in Device Manager. It was simply not there. I reinstalled drivers and tried again those steps. Still no Flash Driver in Device Manager under Universal Serial Bus Controllers or anywhere else.



Is it the drivers? Is it the phone?

[cchaos]

Try viewing from connection (thats devices by type)

[Mrrrr]

Tried that way... couldn't find them either.

Let's say they work. Could I patch it or should I take it to a shop?

PS: I got my GDFS backup.

This post has been edited by Mrrrr: 2009-08-21 19:17

[Mrrrr]

Now can I do something with it?

[cchaos]

PS: I got my GDFS backup.

From that phone? And when was it taken?

Also, what version of windows are you running and what service pack?

[razvan_06]

I have the same problem with a w810...for a few days it always said that same errors both in xs and setool but it finally connected and I managed to flash it..but now the problem is back and I cannot customize it. It may have some serious problems both mine..and yours and I don't think the gdfs has anything to do with it and before i begun flashing it I also had the same problems...white screen..restarting..anyway...If you manage to repair it please send me some ideas

[Mrrrr]

The GDFS backup is from the k510i. It was made last year, the first time I accessed the phone with SeTools (the first time when I accessed the phone ever). So it was made when the phone was working perfectly.

I'm running on Windows XP SP2 Professional.