Lets add a pc4100 section

naack · 20th May 2005, 03:52 AM

Lets add a pc4100 section

Who makes those decisions? The ppc4100 is becoming more popular everyday and its verry similar to what xda phones. Windows mobile is generic so it works the same way on the xda as it would on the ppc4100. there is already a section for the ppc 4100 in the ftp site so y not make it official?

Who do I convince? Lets make it happen!!!

you ppl might not be interrested but there are thousands out there with that silly phone itching to mess with it.
brings more members. isnt that good for this site?
more fame!!!

naack · 20th May 2005, 03:53 AM

yay for fame..
i think its a grate ida lets do that.

Rayan · 20th May 2005, 05:56 AM

I have no problems if the administrators create a section for the PPC4100 (I have a friend who would love to see that happen), but this forums are for XDA, MDA, Qtek, iMATE, etc devices, also known as (HTC Devices) HTC is the manufacturer of such devices, wich also are somewhat more popular in general.

QUOTE FROM XDA-DEVELOPERS.COM FRONT PAGE:

"The only two things not wrong about the name of this site are the dash and the dot. This site is about certain PDA-phones, made by a secretive firm called HTC in Taiwan. Their makers named them 'Wallaby', 'Himalaya' and 'Blue Angel', but almost nobody knows them by those names. The mobile provider O2 sells them under the brand-name 'XDA', and that's what we had in our hands first. They're also known as Qtek, MDA, SX-56 and many, many other names.
Then there's the 'developers' part: we noticed a profound lack of developer information for these devices. Since we develop software for it, we need information, and nobody seemed eager or ready to give us what we needed. So we 'reverse-engineered' the devices, found a lot of information, and shared it with the world.
But as our site grew we realised that lots of ordinary users were also suffering from a lack of support. They started using the xda-developers forum to communicate and before long the forum was as much a user forum as it was a developer forum.
And then finally there's the 'com' part of our name: we're not very commercial: no banner-ads, no pop-ups and we're not selling anything. The entire site is supported by private donations from the community that uses it. You are encouraged to make a donation if the site is useful to you.

So in short: never mind this site's name. No matter who you are or what brand-name is printed on your phone: if it looks like one of these, this site is for you. "

nemo3 · 21st May 2005, 04:54 AM

yay, me too.
I've been messing around with XDA-tools and the PPC4100. I'd greatly appreciate the chance to get help from more experienced people.

naack · 21st May 2005, 09:27 AM

audiovox 4100 has an extented rom ?

the 4100 has 2 flash id's first can be the main one used as an operating sys. thesecond would probably be called the " exteded rom " the flash id can be found in the diagnostics menu. pda was not built by audiovox as there is another version of this pda that is acailable at http://www.anextek.com i dont know how it is developed by anymore it may verry well be part of the xda family.

so far we know that the pda copies the flashes image to pda in 8 parts. it copies it to the pda first to the extended rom then is extracted to the main rom. i can be corrected if anyone know s otherwise. i will list the addresses tha the rom is devided into jsut incase anyone needs them as soon as i flash my next pda with the update available.

windows is made to be generic. i dont see y it should exclude the 4100. lets make it part of the family. if u hagve a 4100 join us in testing the unit and expanding.

as far as modifications i have modified the cradle to charge the battary of the pda using one wire i will post a photo as soon as i can.
my next step is to flash win mobile 2003 ont the 4100 but taking extra precausions on this one so it might take a while

if u hold down the rocker while resetting u will be able to get into the boot strap menu. as soon as you are there u have may shoices.
- press on bootloader. will boot to write rom from sd card
- press on format tools ( this will allow you to format the pda ram ) if internal storage is missing this will fix it.
- press o os to boot normaly.
- shift the rocker upwards u will go into the hardware test mode.

Rayan · 21st May 2005, 06:04 PM

I agree that 4100 users should unite and help eachother... 8)

But just to clarify, even though Windows Mobile is made to be generic, there are some specifics built in by manufacturers, plus there are some hardware differences, even between HTC devices, that's why you have not seen Windows Mobile 5.0 on other devices except the Himalaya.

Cheers and hava a great weekend!!!
Rayan