Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "HP iPAQ hx4700 users, hereâ€™s something you will LOVE â€“ YES, a REAL, GREAT WM5 AKU 3.5 (!!!) upgrade!!!!"

Mennie, I'm absolutely sure this upgrade won't run on the 6915 - it's an entirely different device.

However, make sure you thoroughly read thru the related Brighthand and XDA-Devs (and, if you need more info, even the Russian threads- let me know if you need more help with the language / translator tools) forums; there might be custom, hand-cooked upgrades for your particular model as well.

Definitely worth upgrading to any of these hacked WM5 (or, if you don't mind having not paid for the license, WM6 - note that I disagree with this) versions.

Yup, there already are some unofficial (but, at least as far as WM5 is concerned, still legal) ROMs out there. See THIS for more info.

Of course they won't stop it. They would long ago have done it if they had wanted to.

I'm pretty sure the Microsoft folks also know that the Windows Mobile platform would be FAR weaker, FAR less supported and FAR less popular with Ordinary Joes (that is, not the corporate folks only using their device for, say, job-related data entry and nothing else) if they would make it impossible to do any hacking / cooking.

See for example the story of the DUN patch. Without it, WM5 AKU3+ / WM6 devices would be far less useful. It was a bunch of XDA-Dev hackers (incl. me) that come up with a solution which, now can be used by thousands of WinMo users. If you read the comments at MS's site, you will see that this hack has made it possible for Microsoft NOT to lose all those people.

To the "08/29/07 @ 23:27" comment: nice idea; I'll bring it up with the MS folks. This would legalize the various cooked WM6 ROM's for officially WM5-only devices.

I'll also try to make them comment on whether they could force / ask device manufacturers to re-release various "cooked" ROM's as official upgrades.

I don't think for example HP could refuse this on the basis of "hey, we would need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on quality testing these ROM's" as they have already shown us, with the 2.00 (and, to a lesser degree, 2.01) upgrade their upgrade quality assurance is far from perfect. I don't think anyone at HP has spent more than a hour quality / bug testing the 2.00 upgrade :D

bub181, sorry, I'm not allowed to review it - see THIS.

vinz, it's English. You, however, want to contact Football (the original author) to create a French version.

make sure you switch off (suspend) yiur device at least once before resetting so that the Registry is flashed back to Flash ROM.

Creator, just give it a try (using the desktop-based flash utility at first)- if it doesn't work, you'll be notified at once.

I am planning to publish a BIG article on everything ROM flashing and editing some time (in the next 1-2 weeks); in there, I'll also elaborate on these q's.

Ryan, either purchase Pocket MSN (I don't really recommend doing so, it being so featureless compared to Live Messenger, which *might* be released as a downloadable program by MS some time in the future), or, have a look at alternative solutions (there're several of them; of them, I prefer mov Messenger Enterprise the most.) See THIS for more info.

Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "HP iPAQ hx4700 users, hereâ€™s something you will LOVE â€“ YES, a REAL, GREAT WM5 AKU 3.5 (!!!) upgrade!!!!"

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "HP iPAQ hx4700 users, hereâ€™s something you will LOVE â€“ YES, a REAL, GREAT WM5 AKU 3.5 (!!!) upgrade!!!!"