early model PH10A XDA II...ROM updating weird problem..

[jvrvasquez]

Here's something weird...

I have an early model PH10A XDA II...

was on ROM 0.81.00 USA
Radio: 1.05.09
Protocol: 1337.10b
Date 8-11-03

I'm trying to upgrade it to the latest i-mate ROM.

I have gotten to the point where it says "The current software is now being erased....the update should take 30 minutes." but the first time...it gave me an error and it asked me to reboot the device and try again...since then...

....it stays there for hours with no update, no errors, or feedback of any kind. All I get on the RUULog.log is "17:24:10 Connection with USB"..then nothing happens...

I have tried re-boots, hard boots, taking the battery out and waiting a few mins, making sure the battery is charged, I'm on XP and the latest Activesync 3.7.1, also I kill the wces...exe. app and still sits there..

I have tried the O2 version, the UK-02-version, himalayaupgradeut_197.exe...all to no avail...

Any other things I should attempt? I'm bootloader 0.23....

I'm still scouring the groups to see if anyone had this problem..

thanks!

[jvrvasquez]

Thanks to these posts I can safely say I found a partial solution that works. From other similar posting, it seems the early bootloader 0.23 was a pre-release demo and not for public consumption...so this USB upgrade process does not work for this version.

What worked for me using this bootloader version was a combination of the posting here http://en.pdamobiz.com/en/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=93&PN=1 - using their choice #3.

1. Download ROM 1[1].72 SD.rar (ROM 1.72)
2. Extract ROM 1[1].72 SD.rar with WinRAR, you will find two files; ntrw.exe and ROM.nb1
3. Put them in any folder; say c:\ROM\
4. Go to DOS command and the folder contains the files
5. Type C:\ROM>ntrw write ROM.nb1 E: (Assume your card reader drive is E:) as shown in the below figure. Wait until finish writing the rom.
6. Put SD card into your XDAII, go to bootloader mode (Power + Reset + Directional Pad) and follow instruction on your device screen.

However, for this bootloader it definitely wanted a RAW formatted SD card, not a card formatted by XP/2000 card readers. I also tried other devices format Treo 600, etc...but what did the trick was to do a save to SD command using the USB/Serial program ROMUPDATE.exe located somewhere on this board.

This allowed the card to work with the bootloader...
Once this was done...I was able to insert the card on the card reader (and get an error - ingnore since it was raw format)...and type step #5.

Once this was done I was able to boot the device again.

To note..most of the solutions posted here work for public release bootloaders above 1.0...but this was an early release bootloader...and this is how you get this one to work. NOT using USB.

Now the next task is ...how do I upgrade the bootloader?

[pedjaar]

hi i have an old pda ph 10a ,and i want to know how to hard reset device, when i pres (power,navigation key ,and reset) mesage apears on screen says( serial v1,06) and nothing hapens
does anyone know how to reset and try to restore setings from pda (its on a german ,so that is more dificult):)

[cem_ozgur]

removing SD card from device should solve your problem

[krishan2207]

hi i have an old pda ph 10a ,and i want to know how to hard reset device, when i pres (power,navigation key ,and reset) mesage apears on screen says( serial v1,06) and nothing hapens
does anyone know how to reset and try to restore setings from pda (its on a german ,so that is more dificult):)

for hard reset u need not to press the navigation key just press power and reset.

and if this does not help try reinstalling the rom in boot loder mode(serial 1.06).