How to manually Restore the Original Partition of HIMALAYA DOC (DiscOnChip)?

11:37 pm in How To by toenailed

okih GUYS .. heres my instruction .. i believe buzz will create a UI
for his wonderful Hima_DOC_Tool … its a lot better and a lot easier
to restore the old partition using that option best part is even you
lost your SD backup of DOC .. you can still use that application to
restore the OLD Partition..”;”

anyway for the MEANTIME heres the very long Method on how to restore your Partition using your OLD SD backup ..

for those WHO HAVE THERE ORIGINAL DiscOnChip SD ROM BACKUP ONLY ..

  1. Kill or End Processes of wcescomm.exe under Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete)
  2. Put Your device in Bootloader mode (Power+Directional Pad+Reset)
  3. Put the Device in your Cradle Then Run Multi-Port TTY (mtty.exe or romupdate.exe)
  4. On the ListBox choose .WCEUSBSH001 if you are using mtty v1.11a or USB if newer(like version 1.42)
  5. under the Multi-Port TTY Window enter this command ….. task 28
  6. Then Remove the Device in your Cradle
  7. Then Now put your SD that contain the SD backup ..
  8. Put Your Device Again in Bootloader (Power+Directional Pad+Reset)
  9. Wait till you see the Message Saying PRESS Power to Flash, Then
    Press power Button, If it didnt respond and the message is not Showing
    just, Press Camera Button

now for those who lost their SD backup heres the instruction ..

  • Kill or End Processes of wcescomm.exe under Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete)
  • Put Your device in Bootloader mode (Power+Directional Pad+Reset)
  • Put the Device in your Cradle Then Run Multi-Port TTY (mtty.exe or romupdate.exe)
  • On the ListBox choose [b]\.\WCEUSBSH001[/b] if you are using mtty v1.11a or [b]USB [/b]if newer(like version 1.45)
  • Put a Blank SD/MMC in your Device SD slot
  • under the Multi-Port TTY Window enter this command .. d2s 70000000 01080000
  • after this dont remove your Device in the cradle, now use
    PSDread.exe to extract the Binary0: or the first 80000h bytes + the SD
    Header

if your using bootloader 1.01 to 1.06 heres the command
psdread.exe i: 0 0x0008019C DOC_Binary0.img

if your using lowerthan bootloader 1.01 (1.01 is not included) use this
psdread.exe i: 0 0x000801DC DOC_Binary0.img

  • now Download the DOC_Fat0.img and extract on the same location that you put DOC_Binary0.img
  • Open the Command Prompt (Start->RUN->type CMD then Enter)

then type this
type DOC_Binary0.img>DOC.img
type DOC_Fat0.img>>DOC.img

  • Now Ntrw the Doc.img to your SD, put your SD to your Card Reader

and under the DOS Command Prompt use this command
NTRW.exe Write DOC.img i:

  • Back on the Multi-Port TTY Window enter this command

task 28

  • Then Remove the Device in your Cradle
  • Then Now put your SD that contain the SD backup ..
  • Put Your Device Again in Bootloader (Power+Directional Pad+Reset)
  • Wait till you see the Message Saying PRESS Power to Flash, Then
    Press power Button, If it didnt respond and the message is not Showing
    just, Press Camera Button

Okih this is still complicated and long but the UI version of
HIMA_DOC_TOOL.exe is better .. just for the meantime use this guys .. ;)


PS .. i: is the Drive Letter of my SD/MMC in my CARD READER .. it will depends on your PC