I have an Ipaq 3630. I bought it from auction few weeks ago. It came with USB sync cable. It has linux installed on it. ("CLR/OHH ARM Bootldr" on startup screen). Anyway, it wont boot linux correctly, only black gray textured screen comes after boot and stylus cursor is active and it can be moved with stylus. nothing more. I tried to reinstall pocket windows, but activesync does not find any handheld connected. I have WIN ME installed my PC. Tried different ipaq, which has pocket windows 2002 (same PC, same configuration, same cable) and connection is estabilished without any problem. How can I reinstall pocket windows on my unhappy Ipaq? Do I have to find linux PC and reinstall Pocket Windows there, or what should I do? (sorry about my english skills)
Please help!
AnswerDude
12-06-2002, 07:25 AM
Here's the site where you can get all the info about linux on ppc.
http://www.handhelds.org/
Is there any way to reinstall Pocket Windows to my Ipaq using Windows PC ?
zeke5x
11-21-2003, 01:47 PM
I have dead ipaq as well (lost my rom installing linux). Unfortunatly the best way to fix it for me with 39xx model at least is to dump a bootable rom image to a cf card from the same model. Carefull I don't know if it applies exactly to 3630 but could be usefull if your ipaqs problems are do to a corrupted rom and hopfully not damaged hardware. I haven't un bricked mine yet as I am still trying to do it with out another ipaq which involves writing a 1k boot sector to the card manually(*sigh*).
(found this on a random forum)
"today is a happy day for me, because I FINALLY got my dead iPAQ rise again. After read all your replies and more from the other experiences, I got to the fact that none has been able to waking up the dead H3900 yet. Because the debug mode (a.k.a. the parrot) of the 3900 is very much different from the 36s,37s or even the 38s.
I will write every details here so someday when someone's experiencing the same, he/she still could solve his/her problem.
Here's what you need to rise a dead H39xx:
- Serial cradle (I'm using the supplied Y-split cradle, it works too).
- the A/C adaptor to make sure you're not losing power while the process.
- 64MB or more SD card (a blank one! I really mean it. It should be blank).
- a healthy iPAQ H39xx (hard-resetted).
- a free serial port on your laptop/desktop PC.
- a hyper terminal (every WinOS has it, I'm using WinXP).
- last but not least, lot of prays!
Here's how:
1. First insert the formatted SD card to the healthy iPAQ. Connect the cradle/cable to your computer's serial port. Install the A/C adaptor to your cradle.
2. Prepare the healthy 39xx to enter DEBUG mode:
- press and hold button: power, contacts, and inbox, and do pin reset.
- if your iPAQ shown all-red COMPAQ display, with 'SERIAL' text above, then you're in the debug mode.
- sit the debugged iPAQ to the cradle.
2. Open hyper-terminal, make a new connection, using these setting:
- the COM port where the iPAQ is connected.
- 115,200 bps
- 8 databits
- no parity
- 1 stop bit
- NONE handshaking.
- Connect!
3. Once connected, hit once to show the prompt SER>
4. On prompt SER> type "?" for displaying all the commands avail.
5. On this process of ressurection, we'll gonna use only two command: "d2s" (device to storage) and "s2d" (storage to device).
6. type "d2s" and hit .
7. The ROM copying process will begun, and you'll see a 'progress bar'. This may take apprx. 10 minutes.
8. When it's finished, you'll see the confirmation on both of your hyper-terminal screen and your iPAQ.
9. Disconnect the hyper terminal session.
Now the resurrection steps:
1. Prepare your dead 39xx to debug mode.
2. insert the SD card (which is now already filled with the 39xx ROM)
3. start a session on your hyperterminal again (using the same setting as above).
4. once connected, hit once to shown the SER> prompt.
5. type "s2d"
6. Your iPAQ will display a warning that current ROM will be erased, press 'power' button to confirm.
7. Starting the process of erasing the ROM of your dead iPAQ. This will take apprx. 7-9minutes.
8. Once the erasing process is done, it will automatically re-write the ROM of your dead iPAQ with the NEW ROM from the healthy iPAQ. This process took much longer, apprx 15 minutes.
9. When the copying process' done, both of your iPAQ and hyperterminal will shown an OK confirmation.
10. Disconnect the hyperterminal session.
11. Unplug your iPAQ from its cradle, do a soft reset.
12. Your dead iPAQ's risen! "
and have a look at
http://handhelds.org/projects/wincerestoration.html
note: alot of these assume that you are running a linux boot loader which you probebley aren't.