help....ipaq 614c rom update fail

[mfclyau]

i have flashed my ipaq 614c but fail.... the machine cannot be boot and hang ath the "hp" screen...

nothing happen even perform clean boot...

try to reflash but it hang at "SDLoader" screen.....

any suggetion to fix it?

thanks

[bigu1975]

What microSD card did you use? Please be informed the SDHC card are not recognised by device during SDloade stage. You must use not SDHC card.
Maybe this is the reason of flashing fail?!?

You may repeat flashing any time. Until you are able to get the SDloader you are able to flash it again.

Good luck.

Regards,
Big1975

[mfclyau]

thanks,.... i am using 2G kingston micro SD...

not sure but i think it is not SDHC as it is not printed....

i try to unload the micro SD from the phone and then boot the phone... still no respone...

[saxxon]

very bad situation.
most likely modem FW with bootloader messed up.

call support and replace it.
or try to find out how to reflash the rom using jtag. A good start would be to find out where the 5 jtag connection points are at the 61x.

let me know if you found it out. i was not successful.

saxxon

[mfclyau]

oh...i give up...

will take it back to the service center later this week...

thanks for your suggestion....

[analyzer.x]

I am trying to gather as much information as I can before I decide to flash my iPAQ 612c as I 've never done it before.

I came across the following information, I hope it can help someone. I think its possible to recover from a failed rom update.

There is a fair bit of reading and searching involved. Please note I have not executed any of these steps but I think it might be worth it.

http://www.pocketpcaddict.com/forums/hardware/16088-how-fix-your-ipaq-after-unsuccessful-rom-upgrade.html

you can read more here and download the romupdate.zip it contains the
Multi-port/USB TTY utility mentioned
http://discuss.pocketnow.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14619

let me know if it was helpful.

Regards

[d@r]

Hello all!
I had similar situation - my notebook crashed during ipaq (614c) ROM update. I tried to run upd utility several times without success (stops still on the same percent with error like this: "Code 402: cannot communicate with device") and 'course I almost gave up. I decided to run upd utility last time but now with SDloader "ON" (voice com+mute+powerOn). And this was success, upd ended with no error, and I got my ipaq back - running!
Cheers,
d@r

[David@]

Hi mfclyau,

can you please tell us what happened at the end? I am facing the same issue, its getting stuck at the SDloader or at the initial boot screen. I flashed the wrong flash.dio

any help pls.