Re: WinCE restoration again (Gert Menke)

    I have successfully restore the bootloader and wince on a 5450, to apply
the wlan firmware updates.
I used the procedure at the bottom of this link
http://www.handhelds.org/handhelds-faq/wincerestoration.html.
I'm not sure where in the process you are having a problem, but basically
reset the ipaq as if you were installing linux.
When you have the console prompt up, type load bootldr and then xmodem up
parrot.bin.
This did work for me, although I had the "Oh sh1t I'm going to make a brick"
fear through the whole thing.
If the upload does fail, the old bootloader "should" still be there, just
reboot and try it again or post and let us know what the problem is.

Kevin

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> From: Gert Menke <g.menke_at_gmx.net>
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> Hi again,
>
> I still have not been able to restore WinCE on my H5450.
> (I need it for updating my Wlan firmware.)
>
> I can write back the root partition and boot WinCE from the bootldr. The
first
> thing that I see then is WinCE's Wlan settings dialog. I don't know if
that
> is normal. However, WinCE seems to work fine, except that suspend/resume
does
> not work (it seems to do a soft reset on every resume). What's worse than
> that is that I am not able to update to the latest WinCE version from HP.
(I
> need to do that in order to update the Wlan-firmware.)
> So I guess that I need to have the WinCE bootloader installed. But writing
> back the WinCE bootloader reliably bricks my iPaq. I have tried writing
the
> WinCE bootloader with the Linux bootldr and via JTAG, and in both cases
the
> iPaq would not boot afterwards. I compared my saved bootloader image with
the
> one I found at www.handhelds.org/feeds/wince/ and they are identical.
>
> Any ideas?
> Has anyone ever been able to restore WinCE on a H5450?
> Or is there a way to update the Wlan firmware from Linux?
>
> Regards,
> Gert
>
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