I stupidly tried to flash my hx4700 with the Windows Mobile 2005 beta rom and now it wont boot! I can get to the bootloader but I dont know what do do from there.
How do I flash it back to the default hx4700 rom? Can anyone who has a hx4700 copy their rom and tell me how to reflash mine?
I stupidly tried to flash my hx4700 with the Windows Mobile 2005 beta rom and now it wont boot! I can get to the bootloader but I dont know what do do from there.
Bad move. That was just asking for trouble, and now your device has been rendered unusable. You have two options: (1) Reflash it with the default ROM, which isn't publicly available so you can effectively scrap that option already, or (2) Contact HP and have them fix it. Since you've gone outside the limits of the warranty contract, you'll most likely have to pay to have them fix it.
Wish I could offer a simpler solution, but your options are very limited.
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Or I could just wait until the Windows Mobile 2005 update and flash it with that. Would that work?
Nothing's official yet. We don't know if HP will release a hx4700 update for the next version of Windows Mobile. Only time will tell.
What Juni suggests is another idea, but then, you'd need to wait for HP to release that update (which has seemingly taken forever). The other thing you'd need to consider is that if your Pocket PC is in a totally buggered-up state, there's a slight possibility that your computer may not even recognise it via a USB connection (i.e. direct cable or cradle). If that's the case, you'll need to resort to the second suggestion as mentioned in my earlier post.
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I stupidly tried to flash my hx4700 with the Windows Mobile 2005 beta rom and now it wont boot!
I'm not sure whether this means that the 4700 IS capable of running WM2k5 or if it's NOT capable of it. I just know us consumers don't have access to that yet
Or I could just wait until the Windows Mobile 2005 update and flash it with that. Would that work?
Nothing's official yet. We don't know if HP will release a hx4700 update for the next version of Windows Mobile. Only time will tell.
What Juni suggests is another idea, but then, you'd need to wait for HP to release that update (which has seemingly taken forever). The other thing you'd need to consider is that if your Pocket PC is in a totally buggered-up state, there's a slight possibility that your computer may not even recognise it via a USB connection (i.e. direct cable or cradle). If that's the case, you'll need to resort to the second suggestion as mentioned in my earlier post.
Actualy we do know that HP will release the update to for the hx2100, hx2400, hx2700 and hx4700.
"HP will offer Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrades for the HP iPAQ hx2100, hx2400, hx2700 and hx4700 series of handhelds. These software upgrades are expected to be available this summer and can be purchased directly from HP."
Note that they call it Windows Mobile 5.0 not Windows Mobile 2005.
I'm not sure whether this means that the 4700 IS capable of running WM2k5 or if it's NOT capable of it.
Actually, this once again is a reminder that you should not reflash your ROM unless the image has been designed for your device. Way too many hardware differences now between devices and, unlike desktop Windows, a WM ROM pretty much only carries drivers for the hardware used by the device for which it was created. That helps keep the footprint smaller. If you don't know that a ROM image has been prepared for your device, DO NOT USE IT! Otherwise you will probably end up with a flashy brick.
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