Difference between revisions of "ModemFW Flash"
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Visit www.palm.com for help."</em></blockquote> | Visit www.palm.com for help."</em></blockquote> | ||
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| − | Before you Force Flash your modem's firmware because your | + | Before you Force Flash your modem's firmware because your it is stuck offline, you should try turning airplane mode on and off, reseting the phone, running WebOS Doctor, and any other safer/easier idea you may have. As flashing modem firmware can potentially harm your modem. As this is the message that appears when you run the PmModemUpdater command |
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Warning! You can potentially trashed your modem firmware if system lost the power in the middle of updating firmware | Warning! You can potentially trashed your modem firmware if system lost the power in the middle of updating firmware | ||
Warning! To Stop it now, ctrl+c</pre> | Warning! To Stop it now, ctrl+c</pre> | ||
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| + | In all cases you will need Linux access[http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Accessing_Linux]to you phone's shell. If your phone is stuck on <em>first use</em> run Meta-Doctor[http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:MetaDoctor] to bypass activation and enable developer mode so you can gain Linux access. | ||
Revision as of 22:12, 23 December 2010
Flashing Modem Firmware
To force flash the phone modem in WebOS you need to use PmModemUpdater.
Why you may need to Flash Modem Firmware
Flashing modem firmware comes in handy if your phone is stuck in phone offline mode and will not connect to a cell signal due to modem firmware corruption. Generally caused by phone being powered down in the middle of "Full Erase" or WebOS Doctor. The phone modem firmware version becomes unknown preventing WebOS Doctor to automatically flash it during operation. To check if your phone modem is unknown type ##radio# (##72346#) in phone app and it should give you your modem firmware version.
Your modem firmware might be unknown if you are receiving the following error on a phone that is stuck in First Use without activation.
The error will loop First Use card with this message:
"Phone Error
Your phone is experiencing an error that cannot be resolved.
Visit www.palm.com for help."
What You Need
Before you Force Flash your modem's firmware because your it is stuck offline, you should try turning airplane mode on and off, reseting the phone, running WebOS Doctor, and any other safer/easier idea you may have. As flashing modem firmware can potentially harm your modem. As this is the message that appears when you run the PmModemUpdater command Warning!
Warning! Please make sure you have a healthy battery or using a power supply before you do your update Warning! You can potentially trashed your modem firmware if system lost the power in the middle of updating firmware Warning! To Stop it now, ctrl+c
In all cases you will need Linux access[1]to you phone's shell. If your phone is stuck on first use run Meta-Doctor[2] to bypass activation and enable developer mode so you can gain Linux access.