Hello, I'm a new member, who would very much appreciate some advice please.
I have recently been given an HP ipaq H5550 with docking station, and it does power up. It has a Rom Revision of 1.10.10. I'd like to know if this ipaq can be upgraded at all, either with a new OS and how to go about upgrading it, or even where to get software for this from, even something like a basic drawing program that my nephew could use without it being online.
It does see my wifi network, but won't connect to it, I know though it is something I'm doing wrong, just not sure what.
My friend also still has his H4700, and would appreciate a similar answer. Can this model be upgraded with a new OS at all ?
Any comments would be appreciated, or any links where we could send the ipaqs to in order to be upgraded so that it's done by those with experience would also be appreciated.
Thank you
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Hi all, just been given a xdaIIi, 1st pda ive owned and I think its great albeit old. Ive managed to unlock it for t-mobile already using this site but would really appreciate some guidance as to what I could do to improve this unit.
I think im correct in saying its running rom version 1.1 as thats what comes up on the screen on a fresh power up.
any advise would be greatfully appreciated.
regards Lee.
Firstly hello! This is my first post on here so go easy please
Secondly I need some advice, I am at a stage where i need to replace my current phone and i have been looking at the O2 Orbit2. I don't like to buy without reading a review but they all seem very conflicting. You guy's seem to know what you are talking about so i would welcome your opinions / options.
My current phone is the Nokia E61 but it struggles now so it has to go, I also have to change networks because Vodafone has little or no coverage at my new house.
Thanks in advance!
Nick.
Nick, it might help a little if you state what you expect from the device, I am currently using an Orbit-2 on a T-Mobile contracted sim card, what applicatons/ software or GPS based applications do you want/ need from this device - Mike
Thanks for the reply Mike, sorry for the delay in reply and the sketchy original post. My main uses are web access/email and Excel/powerpoint based programs not sure how it would cope with these. Also any troubles with PC sync as this is something I do regularly and would be a pain if it was unstable!
The reviews I have seen have been very mixed hence i thought I would ask the experts.
Thanks again in advance.
Nick.
Hello everyone,
i've posted it on the Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking section but maybe it is more indicated to be here... I'm new here...
sorry for posting this noob questions here, I see that you all are discussing software development and stuff, but it is the only place I've found to ask about it.
My situation: I have a Dell Axim X51v wich is still on warranty and CompleteCare (until march 2009!). It has a WM5 A04 Portuguese Rom wich is very unstable and quite lame (I don't like the system in portuguese!) and I'm looking forward to use the WM6 Football Rom, that everywhere I read says its very nice.
The fact is: If I had to call Dell for support, I'll need to give them the Ax with the WM5 Portuguese rom. I really consider this since the device isn't brand new and if something happens I don't want to loose it.
So, what I need to know is how (and if it is possible of course) to get the image of my Ax as it is now, to store in a safe copy on my pc or a cd, upgrade to Football's WM6 (wich version, btw? I see that there are RTM and Preview A06 on the thread) and then eventually get it back to my current rom, if I need to use the warranty. I know that the upgrade part is well documented around the internet, but the downgrade to the same or similar system is the major doubt.
I'll be grateful for any help. I'm new to all this and there are lots of knowledge around. Never had any experience flashing, just upgraded my ROM one time with the official procedure from HP, on my old Ipaq.
Thanks!!
anyone here?
Hi,
I work as a support analyst at Dell headquarters.
I wanted to let you know that the A04 ROM for the Portuguese version of WMV 5.0 can be downloaded from our website. You can find it here:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&releaseid=R131773&SystemID=PDA_AXIM_X51&servicetag=&os=PPM&osl=BP&deviceid=7638&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=4&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=7&fileid=174977
That should help out. Let me know if you have any problems.
John
Dell Customer Advocate
This is John again. After posting that link, I realized that the link was for the x51 ROM. Do NOT download that link!
The link to the x51v is here instead:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R131772&SystemID=PDA_AXIM_X51&servicetag=&os=PPM&osl=BP&deviceid=7643&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=5&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=7&fileid=174968
Sorry for the confusion!
John
Dell Customer Advocate
Thanks John!
If I run this brazilian WM5 rom "update" application of version A04, it will install on my X51v even if it has installed on it a more recent english WM6 rom?
If so, I don't have much to lose testing the hacked rom... of course, there is the risk of bricking it if I make the wrong procedure, but I guess that is well documented around here, right?
thanks again!
You should be able to flash the ROM, even if a more recent version is installed. You shouldn't be bricking your Axim by doing any of this.
Glad I could help!
all right!
I shall try the alternative roms then!
but, I am downloading this rom from dell:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=7&fileid=174968
it seems to be the right one since mine is X51v 624 mhz.
Hey there guys
I have posted this exact same post on aximsite, but I figured that I might as well post here too since maybe more people would read it.. thank you very much!
I'm quite desperate right now. My Axim x50 is tottally dead. Let me explain: I have it for about 2 years now, and when I bought it, it came originelly with wm2k3, and about 3 months later, Dell shipped a update CD with WM5 (it had just come out) and so I made the update succesfully, and had this WM5 vrs. A01 installed till this week.
Then, this past weekend I decided to update it, but I ended up bricking it by trying to force install WM6 MagLite's version for X50v (mine is x50[mid]). Well, as we all know, that would do the job. I was just so exited to do the update I didn't bother to read the threads.
Well, now my axim is tottally dead, I decided to read all posts and threads from all sorts of forums on the web, specially AximSite and xda-developers, and so I no longer consider myself a total noob, since I have read so much.
However, none of the intructions seem to do the job, because my Axim won't load the SD bootload screen at all! And I am doing it correctly, pressing wireless+power+reset. I have done that before and it worked. I think somehow the unsuccesful instalation of wm6 must have corrupted something and is now impeding the device from eving bootloading...!
The only thing it does is turning the power led red when it's connecet to the battery charger, then it becomes green when it is full (as usual). Won't turn on though. If I try to turn it on, to reset, load that test (rec+power+reset), or load bootload, nothing works. The only time something happens is when its on the PC USB craddle:Then when I try to bootload, the power light flashes in red pretty fast, then goes off again and that's all.
Yesterday, it all of a sudden showed a screen saying I had a problem on the memory, and invited me to press I think Contacts in order to solve it by recalling the standard configuration, but after I did so, it died again.
I'm completely desperate cuz I really liked it, it was part of my life already after so many years, and plus in my country (that would be Brazil) such eletronic devices and simply unafordable (I bought mine when I was an exchange student in US on 06), so if I actually screwed it up tottaly, I'm pretty much gonna be aximless forevermore.
I'm sorry for the gigantic post. I made an effort to post all information I could. I'm desperate and willing to follow any procedure for bringing my PDA back to life. I have the USB craddle if that helps, FAT32 SD, PC card reader, etc. If you guys could give me any help I would fully aprecciate..
And I fully endorse the words from the other members thanking you guys that are always trying to bring up something new for PDA lovers across the world, specially for us Axim users, forgotten now by Dell aparently..
Sorry for my possibly bad English! Thank you very much in advance.. I'm available for further explanations about my situation, if any of you is willing to help..
Cheers from Brazil!! Best regards to u all!
Oh, and I'm new here, so I hope I have posted this on the appropriate place. If not, I'm sorry, I guess I can move it then.. Thanks again
And I meant to say that if any of you actually read this and understands that there is pretty much nothing I can do, then I would appreciate if you tell me so, so that then i can simply get over it.. thanks
have you tried to run the ruu you were talking about that they shipped you on a cd for wm5?
Yes I have indeed, however it requests that the Axim is connected to PC via ActiveSync (it was designed to intall wm5 especificly on wm2k3 running devices) and that is not possible, since the Axim is bricked and won't turn on at all.. If only there was some other way to acces it trough the PC or something..
But thanks for the atention josefcrist! Please do share any other ideia that might come up
Hello guys,
I am new here at XDA, I dig out this forum for two days allong trying to find any information or resources to the Ipaq 116.
This PDA was given to me by a friend that don't even remember that he had it, when he found he gave it to me before move to another State. So I am here with this old new gadget without manuals or even basic CD. And even in this situation I am a little excited to do things with it.
As I said before, I already dig out this forum trying to find any information to this specific model but I had no success, even on the HP site they give no downloads, informations or any other stuff about this one.
Apparently this specific model, 116, is exactly like other models as the 114 (but with a largem rom, 256 vs 64) So, since I am really a n00b with PDAs I am here asking and calling people that have it, or had it in the past and still keep good memory (and or files) for it.
There's any chance to find a Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM to upgrade this model? Right now the ROM date is "04-07-2008" and the revision number is the v1.01.03.
Does Android would work on it? If yes where should I start?
My point is to try use it the best way I can, so far I was able to find some ebook readers (that don't work very good) and the updated application to it's TodayPanel.
Any kind of information would be appreciated. I know that is couple years old gadget but it is working fine and can be usefull to me, so, any contact would be appreciated.
Just a information. I am not sure that this is windows mobile 6, i am just replicating the info that was on the chart. As I see, the OS version is the 5.2 so, I have another "problem".