ipaq 5455 rom problem HELP!!!

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I have an ipaq 5455 that I have been going around and around with tech support about. they say It has a corrupted rom, but I can load ppc 2002 or 2003 at will and it works for the most part. The problem is that it will not update the wifi , fingerprint or bluetooth drivers no matter what I do . Bluetooth continues to have the problems that are encountered in the old driver and the driver release dates are wrong for the drivers loaded. the driver for wifi shows a release date of 2-9-2005 and the wifi driver version is not shown anywhere on hp's site.

what appears to be happening here is that in a non user accessable area of rom , some of the driver files are incorrectly listed as read only and the rom update cannot update them, I have tryed moving , renaming , deleting and generally beating on the files for bluetooth and they will not budge.

hp support told me the device is out of warranty and wants 80 usd just to look at it and they will call me with a quote to fix it. I am reliant on the gps for work and cant be without it for a week. can someone ( possibly an ex hp tech) suggest what diagnostic tools will allow me to fix the non user accessable area of the rom that is the problem here??

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shteev

Its a bit of a long shot, but you culd have a look at www.handhelds.org you may be able to use the tools there to wipe the rom and then reflash from the newer hp rom packs. I did this with my 5550, to try linux on it (it's pretty good, but not quite there yet), and my ppc is back running 2003 fine. The forums are pretty informative too.

what did you do exactly??

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i searched handhelds .org and this does seem risky for me .
you went through loading linux and then restored your ppc 2003 from a backup or a new rom image that they had specicically for that device???


what I gather is that the rom is only updated by the hp ppc 2003 upgrade and this is not changing the corrupted files in my rom hense the problem continues.

you loaded linux which changed the firmware rom of your 5555 and then loaded back from a backup or from a new image from handhelds.org???


was it familiar you loaded and where did you get the restoration rom from?

ok , i dont think that will work

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i found the page where they talk about restoring win ce , and they have a tool that extracts the file from the softpaq file compaq/hp puts out , mind you when i talked to hp 2nd level tech support they stated this is only an update to the rom and does not completely replace it , therefore given the state of my rom i dont think the linux install would even work as it would not be able to un write protect the files that are locked down.

what i really need is the tool hp uses to flash the rom or diagnose problems with it , since this handheld is out of warranty the patent on such software should be gone , all i need to do is find it. Im not about to pay 80 bucks for something i could fix myself if hp was not such money grasping gluttons. someone surely has had this issue and fixed it so that someone could help. any ex hp techs out there have any advice????

I am not sure this is a hardware issue, I did a search on google and found lots of people having problems with bt and wifi since upgrade to 2003, here is a link to one of them and a suggested fix for the wifi. Did you experience problems when running 2002 ce.?