Here’s something you will LOVE – YES, a REAL, GREAT WM5 AKU 3.5 (!!!) upgrade!!!!

Menneisyys · 06-27-07, 05:55 AM

Guys and gals, go and read AKU 3.5.2 for HP 4700 by kozhura ENG and RUS - xda-developers - you'll like it :)

spud42 · 06-27-07, 09:13 AM

sorry to seem a bit thick but what is A2DP ?? and what will not work without it?

Menneisyys · 06-27-07, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by spud42

sorry to seem a bit thick but what is A2DP ?? and what will not work without it?

Stereo Bluetooth headphones. See my related articles (use a forum search for a2dp and my nick)

LooseGoose · 06-27-07, 07:34 PM

With this new update, has anyone performed any activesync tests? I sync my PDA to a Windows XP SP1 (activesync 4.5) and also a Vista Ultimate (WMDC 6.1) PCs. I cannot lose this capabilty. I sync my Samsung Blackjack to the Vista Ultimate PC.

Thanks

mannc7 · 06-27-07, 07:53 PM

Thank you!!!

Cannot wait for the rom hacking to commence in full force over at MoDaCo.

spud42 · 06-27-07, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Menneisyys

Stereo Bluetooth headphones. See my related articles (use a forum search for a2dp and my nick)

thanks. will it affect bluetooth syncing?

06-27-07, 10:37 PM

I'm not trying to be smart, but why is this hacked ROM OK on Aximsite and others not? I'm sure there's a valid reason, I just don't know much about hacked ROMS.

06-28-07, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by paulcb

I'm not trying to be smart, but why is this hacked ROM OK on Aximsite and others not? I'm sure there's a valid reason, I just don't know much about hacked ROMS.

Probably because the 4700 was pretty much useless running WM5 and the developer community has made it useable as Menneisyys points out. No credit to HP for first creating the disaster with 2.0 and then abandoning any hope of fixing it. They left it to the community to fix their mess.

All credit to the likes of Kozhura and PdaViet for giving the 4700 with WM5 a life.

Regards.

Menneisyys · 06-28-07, 11:10 AM

UPDATE (later the same day): if you overwrite the contents of the already installed OzVGA (see above) in \Windows with the contents of THIS file, you’ll get all the taskbar icons. (Thanks to XDA-Developers forum member xktygfhnbb for the link). Note that, during copying (in standard SE VGA mode - do NOT do it in real VGA!!), you will see some original files not overwritable. This is NOT a problem - leaving them alone (that is, leaving the old versions) won't cause any problems.

UPDATE (06/28/2007): some answers to questions I've received:

unfortunately, there's still no WPA-2 support and, given that cooked ROM's for, say, the Wizard also had problematic WPA-2 support, I don't think it'll work either
it seems you don't need to do apply the fake server hack either, unlike in the previous, 2.01 version
CF handling seems to be OK (it was fixed in 2.01)
Bluetooth seems to be pretty stable upon resumings. So far, I haven't encountered out of (driver) memory errors (which plagues most other Widcomm BT stack-based devices / OS versions) when resuming the device with Bluetooth enabled. This is definitely good news. (I only wish A2DP were supported.)

Menneisyys · 06-28-07, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by imported_sanjay

Probably because the 4700 was pretty much useless running WM5 and the developer community has made it useable as Menneisyys points out. No credit to HP for first creating the disaster with 2.0 and then abandoning any hope of fixing it. They left it to the community to fix their mess.

All credit to the likes of Kozhura and PdaViet for giving the 4700 with WM5 a life.

Regards.

Exactly. If it was an upgrade of a perfectly working model, I wouldn't have dedicated an article to it. The old, 2.01 (2.03) version of the WM5 iPAQ was useless - it's a "hacked" ROM that fixes this mess and makes the hx4700 an up-to-date, highly useful PPC (except for the current problems: lack of A2DP, WPA-2, which may affect some users).

06-28-07, 03:16 PM

Menneisyys,
It is good to see the review you did of this ROM and your endorsement of it as an improvement over the 2.01. There are many of us that have followed your advice on making this work and appreciate your work. If you get a chance and time, I would appreciate your review (and possible comparison) between this ROM and the PxDxA .08 version from the thread linked in your post. I have been using this, with your fake server hack, for a while now and seems stable and fairly quick most of the time. With your support for the kozhura ROM though, I'm about to try it.
Regards.

06-28-07, 04:48 PM

Hello, Thanks for info ! Currently updating the ROM. Is navpoint + VGA hack only ones needed with this ROM version ? What about server hack and others ? Thanks again for your efforts making hx4700 usable :approve::)

LooseGoose · 06-28-07, 11:20 PM

I answered my own question on activesync and WMDC. They both work with this ROM. Yahoo!

06-29-07, 05:54 AM

just tried this update via vista and it's bricked my handheld.

It's stuck on a white screen with the hp logo in the middle, and v1.01 at the bottom and usb or serial at the top.

I hope there's a way to save this.

Menneisyys · 06-29-07, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by imported_JJJ

Hello, Thanks for info ! Currently updating the ROM. Is navpoint + VGA hack only ones needed with this ROM version ? What about server hack and others ? Thanks again for your efforts making hx4700 usable :approve::)

See the update section.