Originally Posted by StinkyPaul

I screwed up my 3970 once when I downloaded a pirated PPC2003 ROM from the net.

I fixed it later on with some searches on the internet, but forgot where I got it from. But my procedure is as follows:

1. Put your 3970 into Engineering mode
Press Contact (2nd) + iTask (4th) + Power + Soft Reset
It will show a red background with "Serial" on top and "0.48" on the bottom.

2. On your PC, end "wcecomm.exe" process
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to call up the Task Manager and end the above process

3. Download the latest ROM for your 3970 (don't know what OS version you have, PPC2002 or PPC2003)

4. Run the ROM executable file to extract to C:\IPAQ directory
it should create a sub folder as the exe file

5. Connect the 3970 to the PC via the USB cradle
Make sure you have the power cord connected to the cradle as well, otherwise it may not work. Do NOT use a USB sync-charge cable!!! I tried to use it and it did NOT work.

6. Run RUU.exe file
This will go straight to the last screen before applying the ROM update

If this still does not fix the problem, I really have no idea how to get this resolved.

Good luck.

Originally Posted by CookieKid

I hope this helps