Hugh Nano
12-13-2003, 05:42 AM
Forgive the re-posting, but I posted this in a thread whose title was no longer appropriate to my new situation... My beloved iPAQ is now a brick, and I now need help recovering from the disaster--if recovery is possible at all! How did this happen? Read on...
I asked earlier if the Pocket PC 2002 upgrade was still available for my old iPAQ 3650, which was getting slightly outdated. eBay was the place to go, I was told. Well, I did as was suggested and obtained an upgrade CD off eBay and began upgrading... And then the worst happened (as seems to be usual with me)! My laptop froze during the upgrade process, just as the new ROM was being copied to my iPAQ. There was no way to recover from the crash that I could think of, and a soft- and then a hard-reset revealed that it was too late for my iPAQ. It is now dead, dead, dead. :cry: The much-feared brick/fancy paper-weight that I had always feared and that, up till now, had convinced me not to upgrade.
Is there any way to recover from such a disaster? I know there were some suggested solutions posted when upgrading to Pocket PC 2002 was a hot topic two years ago, but they are fairly hard to find now. So far I've tried Compaq's Recover from an unauthorized ROM upgrade fix (not that mine was unauthorized) without success, and have looked at myITforum.com's The iPAQ and the Parrot (http://www.myitforum.com/articles/9/view.asp?id=4710) article, but have been unable to locate either a "friend's ROM" or a question mark on the parrot screen. A backup copy of my original ROM was successfully created during the upgrade process, but I don't imagine it's of any use now that my iPAQ's ROM is trashed and I can't even connect through ActiveSync.
Any suggestions?
I asked earlier if the Pocket PC 2002 upgrade was still available for my old iPAQ 3650, which was getting slightly outdated. eBay was the place to go, I was told. Well, I did as was suggested and obtained an upgrade CD off eBay and began upgrading... And then the worst happened (as seems to be usual with me)! My laptop froze during the upgrade process, just as the new ROM was being copied to my iPAQ. There was no way to recover from the crash that I could think of, and a soft- and then a hard-reset revealed that it was too late for my iPAQ. It is now dead, dead, dead. :cry: The much-feared brick/fancy paper-weight that I had always feared and that, up till now, had convinced me not to upgrade.
Is there any way to recover from such a disaster? I know there were some suggested solutions posted when upgrading to Pocket PC 2002 was a hot topic two years ago, but they are fairly hard to find now. So far I've tried Compaq's Recover from an unauthorized ROM upgrade fix (not that mine was unauthorized) without success, and have looked at myITforum.com's The iPAQ and the Parrot (http://www.myitforum.com/articles/9/view.asp?id=4710) article, but have been unable to locate either a "friend's ROM" or a question mark on the parrot screen. A backup copy of my original ROM was successfully created during the upgrade process, but I don't imagine it's of any use now that my iPAQ's ROM is trashed and I can't even connect through ActiveSync.
Any suggestions?