[Check4SPAM] RE: HTC Vogue (VZW) cant flash rom (please help)

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When I use either the 0.40 coke (see here http://wiki.ppchaven.com/index.php?t...IX_VERIZON_GPS) or the 3.21 cokeman unlocker, from the command prompt window, I follow the prompts until it tells me to get to the connect/disconnect screen. I do as instructed and version 0.40 tells me that activesync won't connect in the bootloader four-color screen. Version 3.21 does not. I connect and disconnect as instructed. But then the RUU utilility which autoruns after pressing any key in the command prompt for the unlocker says one has to establish an ActiveSync connection before running the RUU. If I check the boxes saying that I have established an ActiveSyc connection, ActiveSync can't find my phone in bootloader mode. I also get a Windows Hardware wizard trying to install Microsoft USB sync when it goes into bootloader (four color screen) mode) as long as it's in booloader mode.

The only way I can get the RUU utility to go to the stage with the progress bar is by soft resetting the Vogue back into Windows Mobile so ActiveSync recognizes it. It won't work and will give me a connection error if I leave it in bootloader mode with the SPL unlocked. I'm using Activsync 4.5. But if I soft reset and go back into WM so that ActiveSync will recognize the device, then the RUU utility is able to communicate with the phone and see what ROM image is on it. The RUU software tells me what it's going to do to update the phone to the new ROM. But when I click next, I get the progress bar and after a minute or so, I get 206 connection error as soon as the RUU upgrade utility puts the phone back in bootloader mode.

When I tried unlocking using the 2.31 cokeman updater, and it went into bootloader, I think it put it in a temporary bootloader of version 2.00 as opposed to 0.36, but after soft resetting to put back into Windows Mobile so Activesync would recognize it so I could run the RUU, if I Power+Camera+Reset it goes back to 0.36 so that bootloader mode appears to be a temporary one.

So it would seem that the RUU requires the ROM flash in the bootloader mode and the issue is that Activesync loses its connection with the Vogue the moment the phone goes back into bootloader mode, so there is a conundrum here.

I saw a post here for a Vogue-specific unlocker, but then it tells me that page is dead and another user replied with the poster sharing his unlocker is outdated and the page is recycled.

Help, please?

I'd also like to find the ROM here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrHOyjNUkVM

Or if you can recommend a better ROM, that'd be swell. I want to be able to use my Verizon Vogue with Google Maps, Live Search, and Garmin. I'd also like some games too. Is there a game for pocket pcs (and does the vogue have that sensor that can sense tilt like the iPhone) like the wooden one we played as kids with the metal ball and wooden maze with holes like you can get for the Pocket Pc?

I'm a total newbie and while I started as a CS major years ago, I'm not a progammer and the geekspeak here at ppcgeeks and xdmadevelopers loses me very easily. I'm hoping to find someone who can tell me what to do in plain English.