HP iPAQ 21x upgrade

hx2000???
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=383173

No such beast exists. You are stuck with 6.0 until someone hacks it. But what is wrong with the version you have?

Alan

alan sh said:

No such beast exists. You are stuck with 6.0 until someone hacks it. But what is wrong with the version you have?

Alan

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Not exactly wrong. But the existing ROM is simply very BUGGY. It can´t compare to the cooked one I´d installed on my past Loox C550 device. There´d be no end to whatever goes wrong with Wi-fi and Bluetooth, CF card support, power management , general instability of the system, various software incommatiblity issues etc. But so far we have to live with it.

Hikoki said:

Not exactly wrong. But the existing ROM is simply very BUGGY. It can´t compare to the cooked one I´d installed on my past Loox C550 device. There´d be no end to whatever goes wrong with Wi-fi and Bluetooth, CF card support, power management , general instability of the system, various software incommatiblity issues etc. But so far we have to live with it.

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Yup, my 211 is now on the shelf and waiting for an update. My hx4705 is now back in service with Kozura's WM6.1 v5 ROM. I have lost more data with the 211 than ALL the IPAQ's I have used over the years...combined. It is a sad day when the 'development ROM's - not to be used for daily operation' are more stable than the ROM in this new device!

So, I hear that the 21x series bootloader is difficult. Does anyone have details of what the roadblocks are?

dceggert said:

Yup, my 211 is now on the shelf and waiting for an update. My hx4705 is now back in service with Kozura's WM6.1 v5 ROM. I have lost more data with the 211 than ALL the IPAQ's I have used over the years...combined. It is a sad day when the 'development ROM's - not to be used for daily operation' are more stable than the ROM in this new device!

So, I hear that the 21x series bootloader is difficult. Does anyone have details of what the roadblocks are?

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if you know how to enter the bootload mode of hp21x,I can make a rom for you

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if you know how to enter the bootload mode of hp21x,I can make a rom for you

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Hi,
a friend has an ipaq 214 and has difficulties with the original rom (CF-GPS, Wlan).

Therefore I'm also interested in a 6.1 ROM.
I'll call HP on monday to get support - maybe I should ask them how to get into the bootloader mode (if there is any)?

Is there anyone who could really make WM6.1 rom for 214?

That would really be something...

i'm looking for english rom for hp 214. Can someone upload it?

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if you know how to enter the bootload mode of hp21x,I can make a rom for you

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We need ENGLISH Rom!!! First thing - find rom, bootloader - is next task.

if you tell me how to copy my rom from pda, i can send you

http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaq214HowTo

Looks like someone has figured out how to put their Ipaq 214 into bootloader mode. Their page says to hold down the Calendar & Windows keys and then soft-reset.

Any luck with a 6.1 rom for ipaq 2xx yet?

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if you know how to enter the bootload mode of hp21x,I can make a rom for you

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Any luck yet making a wm 6.1 rom for ipaq 21x?

I have the English ipaq 211 version and would really like to try 6.1 to see if it fixes any of the 6.0 instability issues.

Here's the link again the other poster referred to for getting into bootloader mode on the ipaq:
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaq214HowTo

Thanks! tom

Good work. Now the work is how to get the rom file.
My most wantted thing is flashing the 212 to the chinese rom.

Hi,everybody, I have got the ipaq 212 english rom. And I can extract it.
Can somebody give me the ipaq 214 Chinese rom?
The method is :

HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies
valuename '00001001' was set to dword:2, change it to dword:1
use pdocread tools to do this:
pdocread -l

"
224.38M (0xe060000) DSK1:
| 1.50M (0x17f000) Part00
| 2.13M (0x220000) Part01
| 57.88M (0x39e0000) Part02
| 162.88M (0xa2e0000) Part03
1.91G (0x7a1fc000) DSK2:
| 1.91G (0x79f00200) Part00
1.88G (0x78800000) DSK3:
| 1.88G (0x787e0600) Part00
24.75M (0x18c0000) IPQ1:
| 24.75M (0x18bf000) Part00
STRG handles:
handle e6f4f7da 24.75M (0x18bf000)
handle a701d116 1.88G (0x787e0600)
handle 4796c202 1.91G (0x79f00200)
handle 67c8652a162.88M (0xa2e0000)
handle 67c9a11a 57.88M (0x39e0000)
handle 07c9a0f6 2.13M (0x220000)
handle a7c9a0ae 1.50M (0x17f000)
disk e6f4f7da
0 partitions, 0 binary partitions
customerid=00000000 uniqueid= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
disk a701d116
0 partitions, 0 binary partitions
customerid=00000000 uniqueid= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
disk 4796c202
0 partitions, 0 binary partitions
customerid=00000000 uniqueid= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
disk 67c8652a
0 partitions, 0 binary partitions
customerid=00000000 uniqueid= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
disk 67c9a11a
0 partitions, 0 binary partitions
customerid=00000000 uniqueid= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
disk 07c9a0f6
0 partitions, 0 binary partitions
customerid=00000000 uniqueid= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
disk a7c9a0ae
0 partitions, 0 binary partitions
customerid=00000000 uniqueid= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

"

then
pdocread -w -d DSK1: -b 0x800 -p Part02 0 0x39e0000 Part02.raw

the part02.raw is the rom file

I can use viewimgfs tools to extract the part02.raw file.

Now can some body flash the rom ?

You can download the english rom file from this
http://bbs.pdafans.com/viewthread.php?tid=649400&extra=page=1&filter=type&typeid=240&area=

Can somebody try to use pdocwrite command to write the ROM?

finally something is moving with 21x roms....

great news, now we just need to find someone smart, to make wm6.1 rom!

thank you everyone for informations!
WODP

The good news is I have got the English and Chinese ROM file.
The bad news is :when I try to write the ROM with pdocwrite tools, it failed, the pdocwrite tools said "media protected". So I can't flash the rom file to the machine now.
So we need the solution of get the ipaq to the bootloader mode or the way to update with sd card.
Can someone help ?

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The good news is I have got the English and Chinese ROM file.
The bad news is :when I try to write the ROM with pdocwrite tools, it failed, the pdocwrite tools said "media protected". So I can't flash the rom file to the machine now.
So we need the solution of get the ipaq to the bootloader mode or the way to update with sd card.
Can someone help ?

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I'm assuming that you've already tried this http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaq214HowTo