done a lot of reading, some newbish questions

[ultimase]

Ok I've done a lot of reading...

I was able to upgrade my i-mate jam from 1.06 to 1.11 last night.

A few questions, I'm a bit confused between the differences of ROMS. There's shipped, extended and radio. From what I've seen it seems like there's three roms on the jam. The actual rom, a radio rom, and an extended rom?

I think the shipped roms, where I got my 1.11 rom, are the complete packages. And the extended roms are small customizations from the manufactuers, ie i-mate and qtek, for their small programs etc.

I wanted to actually install the qtek rom because I've read somewhere that they include a pdf and ppt reader in their rom. But I think I can't install that without the actual rom. So I have to let the rom upgrade, and then when it says it's going to restart in 3 seconds, soft reset it. Then when it comes back up, apply the extended rom?

Someone set me straight.

Thanks in advance,
UltimaSE

[ampda]

I'm a little confused on what your question is but here goes.

YOur on the right track, when you do a soft reset before the 3 sec warning it stops the device from installing the apps in the extended ROM. You then need to use your file explorer and you will see an "Extended_ROM" folder, click on this folder and you will now see all the apps in your extended ROM. To install the 2 items you mentioned you need to find the files called.

CV2.41.386_wwe.CAB (this is from my O2 Mini)

Don't forget there are other CAB files from the extended ROM that you will probably need.

Does this answer your question?

[jimmy-bish]

And if you want to save a bit of main memory, you can get a free program called CabInstaller that will let you select where you want to install the extended rom apps. Something like a pdf reader would work fine if you installed it to an SD card or your Storage folder.

[ultimase]

jimmy-bish, I've already downloaded cabinstall, great great program. Don't know how I put up with cab's before it.

ampda, basically I'm confused on the question of the different roms.

the main rom for the actual functioning of the device
the radio rom for the "radio"
and the extend rom, for the customizations from the suppliers?

So again, if I wanted to apply an extend rom I would download it from the ftp here, place it on my storage card. And reflash it, when it tells me it's going to reset in 3 second, I soft reset it. Then apply the extend rom, from my storage card?

Sound about right?

Thanks again,
UltimaSE

[jimmy-bish]

Yup, that's correct.

[ultimase]

Weird, I reinstalled the rom, and reset it before it restarted itself, and then applied the qtek rom by running the auto run. Everything seemed to be working fine, except, I still have truefax and others. Nothing seems to have changed.

I'd like to apply the qtek rom because I've heard that it has a ppt and a pdf viewer, anyone have any suggestions?

UltimaSE

[ampda]

Weird, I reinstalled the rom, and reset it before it restarted itself, and then applied the qtek rom by running the auto run. Everything seemed to be working fine, except, I still have truefax and others. Nothing seems to have changed.

I'd like to apply the qtek rom because I've heard that it has a ppt and a pdf viewer, anyone have any suggestions?

UltimaSE

I don't think you need to install that ROM for those programs, If you want I can upload the CAB file I mentioned above and you should be able to install it

[ultimase]

Hmm, is there anything functionally different between the qtek extend rom and the one that comes packaged with the 1.11 850 rom?

If you could upload it i would appreciate it. Please let me know where it will be...

Also, is there any difference between upgrading the rom in a 850 mhz, versus the 900 mhz jam? I have a 850, but I need to upgrade my gf's jam that is a 900, so I'm curious if there are any differences.

Thanks again,
UltimaSE

[ampda]

Hmm, is there anything functionally different between the qtek extend rom and the one that comes packaged with the 1.11 850 rom?

If you could upload it i would appreciate it. Please let me know where it will be...

Also, is there any difference between upgrading the rom in a 850 mhz, versus the 900 mhz jam? I have a 850, but I need to upgrade my gf's jam that is a 900, so I'm curious if there are any differences.

Thanks again,
UltimaSE

Not sure what the differences are but heres the file.

[ultimase]

Thanks, so for the most part it doesn't look like I can get rid of the fax program and other stuff bundled with the 1.12 american 850 rom?

UltimaSE

[ampda]

Thanks, so for the most part it doesn't look like I can get rid of the fax program and other stuff bundled with the 1.12 american 850 rom?

UltimaSE

The only way is a hard reset then do a reset before the 3 sec warning appears, or better still do a Big Storage mod that will get rid of all the apps