Posts by mastercare

hi like my s10 its prob corrupted the flash chip...as already mentioned you will need beg still borrow a pc with genuin com port to have any hope of restoring the firmware..at worst if emupgrade does not restore it may need a new flash chip fitted..if u in uk u could send to friend who perhaps has a suitable pc..
cheers

sounds like the problem i had with my S10 U39 the flash chip is corrupt if null modem method does not work you will have to remove chip and reflash new one with good bootloader and file...just been down that root myself..
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good news guys..programmer arrived along with flash chips..i removed U39 flash chip attached to programmer it read chip ok althogh the data looked a bit strange in places..but tried to rewrite known good flash to it...no way now i know why the null modem method failed..anyway fitted new flash chip to programmer loaded my new firmware...carefully soldered it back into S10 and voila it booted fine scanned satellites fine..im well pleased...thanks for all your help....
cheers paul...

thanks Lutz for reply...believe me i have tried prob 100 times now while im waiting for flash chips and programer to arrive without any luck..im using a known good nul modem cable which i also use to update my techomate 1500 with out problems..ive now tried on a xp machine thinking it might be summit to do as i was using win 7...still no luck i cannot get the upgrade program to talk to s10..are u saying i can just program a ready made bootloader firmware into new flashchip once programer arrives?
on light of what u have said and others i will try and revive via comport again....
thanks for ur reply..

hi guys thanks for quick reply...well ive tried most of the week to revive the s10 with various vers of emupgrade and diff timings all to no avail..ive order some blank flash chips and a programmer with the intention of reading the flash out of a working s10 and blowing into this faulty one...if anyone on forum has done this i would appreciate any advice, once agn thanks guys for your input...

i all just been reading through forum alot techies on here...my problem is just bought a cheap s10 off ebxxy when booted all menus were in greek eventually after playing found lang section changed to english...then my mistake did a factory reset that was the last of it no boot no display nothing...ive checked psu etc seems to be a software issue from what ive read prob the u39 flash has got corrupt?
i tryed the emrom upgrade with my null modem cable no luck at all...cant get it to connect says com port not connecting or mem error...i do have a working s10 so could a read contents from flash chip and blow to a new blank flash chip? can i have your thoughts on this ...
cheers

hi im in s/w uk...if u have not thrown it out i would gladly have a look at it for..i have a few s10 recs here so could at least find out whats needed..
but if thrown out already....not to worry..
cheers paul.