Upgrade mode dead?

Hi,

This morning, I tried to upgrade my firmware even my touchscreen was half dead, but i had a problem, i can't touch both button 'Upgrade' and 'Restart', so i decide to give up, and i unplug the battery to close the phone (big mistake? ).
After this, i start the phone, it works good, and i decide to go to meizu office (im in China, chongqing), to change my broken touchscreen.

They did it fast and everything was nice, so i tried to upgrade the firmware again, but now, i can't access to the upgrade mode.

If someone can tell me if i can do something to make it work, or if i dont have choice and must send it to meizu...

Thanks you by advance for your help.

Vid of the problem:

can you do a registry reset? Do it and try again...

I had the same problem..put out battery and so on, at last I did a registry reset and all worked fine..

Arg, i have clear the registry and then tried again as you said, but no change, the screen still black =(

and reinstalled the FW new? mmmmmhhh... tried other FW?


How long you are pushing the Power.Button and the Vol Button? You leave the buttons when the Upgrade-message comes? On the video there looks you pushing the buttons always!?

Originally Posted by forty7eleven

and reinstalled the FW new? mmmmmhhh... tried other FW?

How shall he upgrade the FW if the upgrade menu doesnt come up?

With or without xip.bin in /Disk folder, i can't boot in the upgrade mode, so i can't reinstall firmware or something like that, this is the problem =(

Originally Posted by Greckoe

How shall he upgrade the FW if the upgrade menu doesnt come up?

Oh yes, I forgot it.....

Your still in China? Visit the Meizu Store and ask what to do.

I dont think they can help me about it, in fact its not a meizu shop, but a company working for meizu, just about fixing broken hardwares... etc. Whatever I will ask them next time i go there (its far from my house, so i dont know what time i can go there again).

Anyway, if someone know a solution to fix this problem, he is welcome to help me (us? maybe im the only one )

When you are living in China and your phone has warranty I think there gives no problem with replacement in Meizu-Store..

Yep, but my warranty is expired, i buy my meizu last june =(

better paying a few $$ then having a dead phone :-)

ps, did you try to enter the upgrade menu while charger connected? (in the youtube video it seems not to be connected)

You can upgrade the update function with a serial cable (if you have a FE m8)

r3wdy,

Could you be so nice to explain how to do this?

too bad hondaracer can´t use this trick

Yes, it is... Any idea they didn't put the Serial-Cable capability on the SE? How hard is it to build a JTAG for M8SE?

It´s a wild guess but the 4 pins missing in the schematic from Banxian provide a serial out. Or from the baseband or the regular one.

Thing you might want to do is test it with a voltmeter whilest hooked up on the charger, to make sure if it is a serial out or just some useless pinout.

somewhere in the serial-out topic i mentionend the needed readings to declare it a serial out. (quick resume you´d should have at least 1 "0" & 1 "+-3.3" volt pinout)

Once you know this you´d be able to proceed further with the possible serial out.

On the Jtag, untill now nobody really made succesfull use of the jtag except Bill, but we don´t hear him anymore.
Personally i would not build a jtag tool but just buy it (price starting at 30€) Hook it on and use the provided tools to get some readings...
edit, maybe it is easier for you to search someone who has a jtag & experience in this??