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Help for Newbie

Hi,
Just wanted to get BT working well on my PDA2k.
Did the Radio upgrade as told in wiki to 1.10 - as I saw a few comments saying 1.12 was unstable.
WEnt through fine, except now I cannot get a phone signal at all and the phone call buttons don't work.
What is the best thing to do? Should I just do the whole upgrade to 1.40. I read that the phone was locking up on this and was not confident to do the fix.
Appreciate your help.
(Going back to 1.22 for now as I have now wasted 4 hours precious work tome just trying to get the device to work as it originally should!)
Russel

W know have 3 threads on the 1.40.
All seem to post errors with that rom in some minor way.
Myself I went for the 1.40 converted to type I and have not added the ext rom (yet). also have 1.12, in all I am happy with it as I have not come across any of those issues (as i dont use the camera, ect). So far Imate makes the best rom IMHO.

MDAIIIUser said:
W know have 3 threads on the 1.40.
All seem to post errors with that rom in some minor way.
Myself I went for the 1.40 converted to type I and have not added the ext rom (yet). also have 1.12, in all I am happy with it as I have not come across any of those issues (as i dont use the camera, ect). So far Imate makes the best rom IMHO.
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MDAIIIUser, which 1.40 rom are you using? The one from the original thread "New Rom 1.40 on FTP" or the one you converted from this thread "BA_WWE_14000_147_11200_Ship" ? There should not be any differences between roms i think, but i find there are some subtle variances. Is it possible that conversion can corrupt the final rom produced? Your converted rom seems to work better for me but still need a soft reset now and then

converted to type I qtek 147.
It could be possible that conversion is corupt but dont think so, check wiki avlible roms and see the passed with new tool. all of these roms have been confirmed to work.
Sure I have issues with this rom but they are carry over from 1.02, 1.22, 1.31 and now 1.40. Most based on alarm issues as well as remove from power were i get locked due to i-pass (i think)
I will do a hex file compare on the 1.40 ce from qtec and see if i see anything.

Type I and Type II
Thanks for the reply - appreciate it.
Which download was it that you used - the one from wiki?
Also what is the difference between type I and type II?
Cheers
Russel

Type I and Type II
Thanks for the reply - appreciate it.
Which download was it that you used - the one from wiki?
I tried to download 1.40 - but got a country error - any suggestions?
Also what is the difference between type I and type II?
Cheers
Russel

Type I and Type II cont'd
Thanks for the reply - sorry a bit slow here.
I get there is a difference between types according to the origin - however how is it relevant? If I am coming from 1.22.162 (Type I) ext ROM should I make sure I only install a ROM upgrade that is type I? :?
Cheers
Russel

Clear text.
Type I roms work with tool xda3nbtool.exe
Tpye II roms give you a header error when used with tool.
Thus you can only upgrade type I roms unless you know the country code fix that seems to work.
Wiki is my prefered choice for downloading roms, in the case of the 1.40 I used the thread to download the converted 1.40 to type I rom which was not hard for me as I posted it. (its the qtek 1.40.147)

Thanks
Thanks MDAIIIuser. It is clear now.
Regards
Russel

MDAIIIUser, i saw your reply in another thread after comparing the 1.40 roms. How about the first 1.40 rom posted in this file BA_1.40_radio_1.20_untested_extrom.rar on the ftp? This should be the same as all the others right? I seem to have had fewer problems with this rom than the converted to type I qtek 147. My main problem seems to be turning the phone on after being in flight mode, losing network signal and GPRS sometimes not connecting. All need a soft reset to resolve. The from BA_1.40_radio_1.20_untested_extrom.rar gave me problems when trying to turn on wifi. Im using radio 1.12.

efjay
It takes me just over an hour to download roms of this site which I know is my problem.
I dont like working with baked roms as I can't post them to wiki as they are not complete,
I can't cook the Ext Rom as it to is not original,
I can't post the ext rom in wiki
and thus the hour download is a waste of my time.
I seem to spend enough time updating wiki and finding new roms on the web so sorry the answer is no I wont check that rom untill I see a original ship.exe.
You could though

MDAIIIUser, sure i would be happy to. Im not too sure what tool i should use to do a comparison. Im reading wiki, if its there ill find it. thanks

My choice would be ultracompare
http://www.ultraedit.com/
you will notice that the header is different this is due to the file timestamp and date.

Windows media player v10
MDAIIIuser or anyone else.
I upgraded my CE ROM to 1.40, however I cannot get windows media player to pick up any of my music files as valid .wma files. It also seems to be endlessly looking for a skin.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
Russel

read something about that in one of the 3 threads on the 1.40 (well I think I did)

How to fix
DId a search for WMP problems - couldn't find anything useful at a quick glance. Any ideas how to resolve it?
Cheers
Russel

MDAIIIUser, i downloaded ultracompare and can see there are differences with all the 1.40 roms but the output doesnt make sense to me. I guess ill try all the roms and if there is a difference it should show up. thanks for your help

BA (MDA3 TMobile) + Camera

Hi there,
first, I'd like to thank you for the great job you all are doing here with the WM05 version for BA.
I've got it right on the first day from here and I'm allmost happy with it.
OK,... it's a little slower than before but thats OK. The main advantage to me is that the BA isn't erased anymore after power loss (and that happend several time to me :roll: ).
So, as I said, I'm allmost glad with it but I can't get the buil in camera to work with the patch provided on xda-dev.
No way to launch it till now!
It's starting the app but then its always giving me the error below and shuts up the cam app:
Failed to init the cam.
Please reset your hardware.
36001:100:2
Installed ROM are:
5.03.02 WWE (not the 2ndone without DRM check)
Radio 1.13.00
As I've seen, the patches provided shall run ONLY with the 2nd Maimach version. Is that really true? I mean do I have to flash this version to get the cam working?
Because I was a little too quick in the beginning, I didn't do resize pf extended ROM, so it's still at 43Mb. So this might be another reason to reflash the whole thing. I dont really like to do this but if its neccessairy, I'll do so.
Can you please advice what to do?
Furthermore, I'd like to have the german word catalog file back, wich is used to propose words when you're writing a mail or SMS.
Is there somebody here having an MDA pro to upload neccessairy files?
Thanks and bey,
Jo

OK, anyway thanx for your help.
I did it while the weekend.
I downgraded the BA to WM2003SE (original TMobile).
Unhide and unlock the extRom
reinstalled WM2005 (patched Maimach)
Did a "format storage" in Bootmenu.
...and reinstalled a whole bunch of software.
In deed,... the CAM ist working (except Album link), BT and Wifi are OK now AND.... it is in deed quicker then before!!!!
At least standard apps are responding much quicker so I'd like to advice everybody who is planing to do an upgrade to WM2005 to follow these steps to become happy with its device.
Bey,
Jo

wm5 downgrade.

Hi all. I am having trouble with the tuma wm5 and i am trying to downgrade back to wm2003se. I have the directions listed below but I am unable to pass the first step.
I cant find the
"??Your_DIR??\Downgrade to WM2003SE" folder.
Im sure its simple but its beating me up.
Can anyone help me? has anyone done this before? any help would be greatly appreciated.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_Downgrade_WM5

What the wiki means by ??your_dir??\downgrad...... is that you need to download the BA WM5 Downgrade Pack and save it to a new folder. Once you have done that you should be able to follow the wiki instructions.
Why dont you try the new Logout WM5 ROM first. I just flashed it and it seems very stable. Better than going back to 2003SE any day!!
Good luck

I checked out the logout thread earlier today. Im very interested, but this tuma rom has given me so much trouble that was kinda scared. oh well what the hell, ill try it out.
Do I have the downgrade to 2003se first?
my current memory settings on my phone is
storage
total 43.26
in use 32.10
free 11.16
program
total 91.16
in use 23.29
free 67.87
On the tuma upgrade it says I should change my storage total from 43.26 to 60mb, does the instructions on the logout instalation include how to do this?
Thanks a bundle in advance!!!

Should I upgrade to the latest radio and bluetooth stack first? or after?

stevenk916 said:
Should I upgrade to the latest radio and bluetooth stack first? or after?
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The bloetooth stack is part of the ROM. When you upgrade, whatever you had is wiped.
The Radio ROM is upgraded independently. I have been using Radio 1.13, which came with my machine, until I finally decided to try 1.15. No regrets so far.
Upgrade whichever you want first...

thanks alot brazilian joe. I also have a qtek 9090...I just got it after someone gave it to me. Im usually a treo user, but when i get this bad boy up and running im probably gonna give my treo to my brother.
Do you recomend any memory settings? some instructions just tell you to set it without telling you how to do it. do i need a special program?
thanks alot

it is not required to change it to 60mb, and it is easier to downgrade if you dont, so for now unless your sure you want to keep wm5 then leave it as it is.

Thanks for the info...im gonna go for the logout rom.
I dont mean to be asking so many questions, but Ive been looking all over
on how to set my memory to 60mb and all i get is brocken links. can someone help?
the closest ive gotten is this but i cant find the Repart_DOC.exe file.
Setup the Storage size to get a full 60MB and not 43 MB
Copy Repart_DOC.exe from the "Preparation\DOC repartitioning tool" folder to your device and launch it.
Set size of Extended ROM to 128 kb (or a bit more, if you want a NOT working extended ROM)
Press "Format now!" and wait until it is done (A few seconds). You will see a message that it is done.
Soft reset.
You will get an error message about your storage, just press yes and wait a few seconds.

Big author Pride on the line...Molsk, Sumitter, Mr. Clean, .

First of all, I install T-mobile clean 2.26, I recall the internet working and with activesync, cause I got sbsh weather updated. Dunno why now it does work on my gf phone. Then I bought a phone and install the T-mobile 2.26 and realize it didnt' work and mokiz version too, then I try Mr. Clean 2.24a, and still doesn't work.....any help would be great.
My home connection with PC.
Microsoft activesync 4.2 on telus DSL line. Try all these rom,
My 8125 CID lunlock ...not sure..I tried to unlock it but dont' know if I got it
IPL -1.08 SPL 2.25 ...try all these rom....Mr. Clean 2.24a, Mosik 2.26, Sumitter 2.24, T-Mobile 2.26.
My gf 8125 CID lock
IPL 2.x SPL 2.x too, try all the rom on hers too, same prob.
But I swear her phone could update the weather before cause i'm looking at it wiht only two days with weather but now I can't do it.??
I thought it was my computer setting cause one time my comp frozen and had to reboot and it was around the same time. So instead I tried on my brother labtop which he just formated so everything should be alright.
But I was still unable to connect to internet with Activesync or bluetoothl.
Please help ......big Cooks.

There's a checkbox in AS that lets you forward the connection... tried that?
I'm running the molski 2.26 rom and had a mr clean rom before, as well as some factory TMO/I-Mate/Qtek roms. Never had any problem connecting with AS.

Appreciate the help and reply.
Hi, tomasz
Thanxs for pointing that out, in AS, I went to connecting setting and found what you were saying, the section my computer is in automatic setting, but I also tried my computer is connected to internet. Still I get this error in IE when loading a webpage, "The page you are looking for cannot be found due to unkonwn error 0x80072f78".
I wouldn't be so annoy if I didn't have internet in the beginning, but when I first got my 8125. Everything works fine with Mr. Clean and T-Mobile rom, without touching any setting in my comp and the phone, AS works like a charm, internet thur AS work fine without any manual setting.?? I didn't know things can change so much all a sudden? I hope someone out there know exactly what the problem is? thanxs again for the post tomasz, hope you have another solution or someone out there does....

Q9100 half dead!!!
Hi pals..
Listen gotta a big problem with my Qtek 9100.This is it. I've tried to update the pda to spanish so I could sell it to a friend of mine.I've downloaded the 1.3.7.5 version from xda-dev.Everything was working fine but in the middle of the process the power in my house failed.So the process stoped now I got the damn OS in Spanish but it doesnt work because it didnt installed properly.I've tried out everything I new about this pda.That is try to install in bootload mode,the only thing I've managed was update the IPL and SPL (that I dont know what doest that means) for that I've used an Orange ROM,if it would have updated properly it would show up the W2k5 customised by Orange but no,it keeps stuck in the same Qtek welcome star up image.
What and I supposed to do? I heard that I could install it loading it direct from the SD Card but I have to do it by copying an Backup SD card already done once mine OS is damaged. I've already tried the one in Dutch on the XDA ftp web page.But it seems not to be working.
Regards
Luiz Santos

Finally got my internet working thur AS
Okay for anyone that is having problems with Internet working thur Activesync, you can try to go into start, setting, connections, usb to pc and uncheck enable advanced network functionality.
And it work for me, yahooooooooooo....

Old Radio Stack Won't Upgrade

[writing from work in a hurry, so excuse me for not having all my details in front of me]
I'm a long-time avid user/flasher of the Wizard who recently bought an old BA on eBay for my wife. First thing I did was download the xplode WM5 ROM and flash the sucker. Very nice and now up-to-date.
Call volumes sucked, so I checked her Radio version, and it was 1.02 or something ridiculously old. I tried to flash the newer 1.15 Radio Rom using the bootloader app that came with it (MAUUpdate something). I got a country code error, so I added the special line to the config file to cheat.
Now it starts the process and never gets past 0% on radio flash. Just hangs. And then some strange 114 error when it finally dies.
I've tried with the newest MaUpgradeUt_noID files I could find. I even tried the 1.13 Radio ROM with no change.
I even re-flashed to WM2003 and tried to flash just the Radio from there. Kept getting "wrong device" message or connection error or something. I tried multiple times in a row (one post suggested the first time will error but second time will work).
I did SIM unlock just in case (Cingular on Cingular so shouldn't have been a problem).
Any suggestions out there? I think I've tried everything!

And yes, I've read all posts and wiki's. (Usually I read only Wizard, but have extended my reading to cover the BA).

Have you tried downgraging to WM2003 then upgrading to Radio 1.15 then finally back to WM5?
I had upgraded my radio ROM when still on WM2003 and found no problems!

xummy111 said:
Have you tried downgraging to WM2003 then upgrading to Radio 1.15 then finally back to WM5?
I had upgraded my radio ROM when still on WM2003 and found no problems!
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yes, I did. mentioned that above.
I get either country code error (or after correcting that per the wiki advice, I get long period of hang followed by an odd error 113. I think.
does device origin matter? my BA is from ebay and the getdeviceinfo.cab leaves me a blank result except model number and a few random numbers...

I take it that when everyone else flashed to WM5, they followed the simple Wiki instructions and everything went fine? I think I got some odd-ball sub-model that is resistant to Radio flash.

Downgrade Your BA to the WM2003SE, then unlock it with xda3_all_unlock-v1.6_138.exe tool (You can find it in the BA forum here with description how to use it) then try to flash the Radio ROM You want....And then You might upgrade to WM 5.x again if only You wish.

I've tried one of the other sim unlock apps already (successfully) without solving the problem (was tried on WM5). I'll try the order of downgrade, unlock, then upgrade and see if it works.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Jeremy how did it go? are you able to upgrade to the latest radio rom? I also have the same problem as you do. Do you mind telling me the steps if you somehow able to upgrade to latest rom?

this worked for me. after you flash to a new rom (like xplode's), do not take out the BA yet. flash to the new 1.15 radio rom. then you can do the no/yes/yes routine.