545 to Ppc 2002??

[Manny007]

Does anyone know if i can update my 545 to pocket pc 2002 ?

Thank you:confused:

[daddyo]

From what I have read it is not possible to upgrade the 54x series to 2002.

The next best thing to get the look an feel is to install Facelift.

www.pocketfacelift.com/

[alraygraham]

Sorry, as a 548 user I wasn't thrilled to hear it either but the SH3 Machines cannot do flash upgrades. Details are at:

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x10123d853cd9d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

The Jornada is still one heck of a machine but only the ARM and newer processors allow flash upgrades.

[alraygraham]

I doubt this will run on a jornada 540 series. It calls for CE 2000 or 2002 OS (which is pretty stupid any machine running these should be upgradeable).

[daddyo]

alraygraham
I hope your not saying that Facelift won't run on the 540 series.
Especially since I have been using it on my 548 for over a year now. :)

[alraygraham]

Sorry, been wrong before, it's sort of a hobby, but that's what the developer's website says. I guess if you're running it on your jornada 548 it should work on mine. I'll give it a go.

Incidently, do you know what's become of the Palm OS emulators that are supposed to be runnable on CE machines. Surely someone has to still have a working beta on a CF card or hard drive out there.

[daddyo]

The facelift site is a bit ambiguous about all the OSs it runs on.

You can download a trial version of it here.
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=3148

This is practically the only software I have ever thought was worth buying. ;)
In fact it is one of only 2 software packages I own. Everything else I use is either shareware or freeware. :)

The following link is to another forum that I frequent that has some screen shots from my 548 using Facelift.

http://forums.pdabuzz.net/showthread.php?threadid=40380&highlight=daddyo

As for PocketPalm. This link says that it is currently still under developement.

http://www.pdablast.com/cgi-bin/printversion.pl?itemID=236&site=pocketpc

Alpha versions located here:
http://www.kodeness.com/download/index.htm

[daddyo]

delete me

[alraygraham]

Thanks, I couldn't find any live links last week just dead ends.

I'm playing with the idea of working up a hinge fix for my 548... can't believe HP did such a shoddy job on the hinge design.

You don't know of any after market fixes out there currently do you?

[daddyo]

One of the plastic hinge locks on the top side of my Jornada broke about a year after I got it.
I fixed it by cutting a tiny rectangular piece of spring steel from an old battery clip. The piece I cut was the same length as the original piece of plastic but about twice as wide. (about 0.150x0.2 in)
Using a pair of tweezers and a soldering iron to heat this piece of steel, I melted it into the side of the Jornada case where the piece of plastic broke off.
This was the easiest way I could come up with to fix it.

[alraygraham]

Very resourceful grasshopper! I had tried epoxies and was reluctant to marr the case... but that was back when it looked a little fresher (and before it lost the second hinge stop).

I think I'll get out the snips and soldering iron for New Years and give it a try.

Have you loaded calander plus or gigabar on your 548? Those were a neat freeware find from pocketgear.com, most of my free games and software I've checked out came from them.

E-books from blackmask.com and a free KJV Bible from olivetree.com are some of my other favorite freebies.

pocketgear.com blackmask.com olivetree.com

[daddyo]

You also have to have a steady hand to do the fix. (Although I don't and I did it. To much coffee) ;)

I'm running Olive Tree's Reader version 2.20J and have the MKJV and the ASV installed. :)

I actually use wisebar with Facelift instead of Gigabar. I felt that Gigabar had to many features and seemed to slow the unit down.

All I wanted from wisebar was the smart minimize and battery status features, Facelift takes care of the rest of the desktop.

I have Mobipocket, Palmreader, and Microsoft readers installed.
I have read about 30 books this last year using the Jornada. It actually helped to get me back into reading after having cut back quite a bit over the last few years.

The book sites I know of are:
http://www.promo.net/pg/
www.dotlit.com
http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
http://esspc-ebooks.com/
http://gort.ucsd.edu/jj/1/book.html
www.memoware.com/index.html
www.ojster.com/cgi-bin2/?
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/
www.ppcsg.com/links.php?node=01/03/22/2004542
http://utenti.tripod.it/libridigitali/publicdomain.htm
http://classics.mit.edu/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
www.lib.utexas.edu/books/etext.html
www.pda-archives.com/wince/12.htm

I also have media player loaded so I can listen to music when I go for my morning walk.
Don :)

[alraygraham]

Blackmask.com is pretty inclusive. There are hundreds of books on the site. I haven't found any books elsewhere I haven't also found there.

One reader is enough. I like to leave plenty of RAM on my machine.

[daddyo]

You need to get a CF card so you don't have to worry about the onboard RAM. ;)

I got mine from www.newegg.com

[alraygraham]

;) I have a 128 MB Sandisk compact flash I just bought from Amazon for $39 (after $20 rebate) and was using a 64 MB before. Now I'm using it for an archive + critical backups.

I find that the 548 needs some free ROM to run sharply so I try to keep at least 15 MB free.

My CF card is loaded with backups, e-books, documents, MP3s and the ocassional download or project I'm taking home that won't fit in e-mail or a floppy.

I tried the hinge fix and was partly successful... probably too much coffe and being a parent of two teens. The result is a little better than before but not OEM by any means.:rolleyes:

If you don't already have a compact flash reader I recommend you get one it won't take 6 minutes to transfer a 4 MB MP3 to the card like it does through the Jornada - it's almost instantaneous (but protected MP3's like my new Lord of The Ring CD's will need to be loaded into the device by ox-cart using Media player or whatever via the SH3 processor the old way).
;)