@ nemo3

i havent heared from jr97ai for a few days now. i am pretty sure he got cought up with something thats keeping him verry busy. we are all working ppl so it seems and verry little time to soend on this isue.

at this time i am looking for a bn1 rom wm2003se image to try and flash it on the ppc4100 using the original bootstrap that came with the ppc 4100 i havent seen one around that looks good to me so as soon as i find one i will let u know how it works out.

Did you manage to make a back-up of the rom and flash it back? If I knew I could flash it back to the original rom I'd be more willing to experiment. Unfortunately I depend on it and I can't afford messing it up.

look at your first post on this threa right above it i have posted the info needed to get the original rom file for the ppc 4100
its the latest one i go tthose from audiovox on a cd with a letter wich is posted onthis thread i believe.

if u are going to flash a differe operating system on this phone i dont think u should play with the bootstrap file (the small file)

u cna download the rom file u can extract it with dump rom u can do wahtever u want with it. u can also flash it back but that wont change a thing unless u get a different os
let me know if u have trouble downloading the file and do let me know if you found a good second edition image. post here tell us what u find out.
thanks for taking interest.

Thanks. I'll try to mess around as soon as I have some time. Did you try if the rom they gave you locks the phone to ATT?
I want to upgrade to the rom because I am hoping it'll solve my problem with opening the BT com port for my GPS (see my other post about BT), but, on the other hand, I don't want to lock the phone since I use it for international travels.

u have blue tooth in u'rs? its an addon right? how is that working ?

well the phone gets locked after updateing it. but u canbuy un unlock for it from ebay .. there is one for 5 bucks i think

play with dump rom its fun

I bought a Toshiba BT SD card3. I spent the week-end trying to get it to work. I can't get it to pair to any device. I can't understand if the card is defective or if it just won't work with my ppc4100. In any case, it's going back to to the store today.

I was looking at the XDAtools page, and read that it can only save the PDA rom, but not the phone rom. Can that be the reason why you can't find rilgsm.dll once you dump the rom file?
It that's the case, I doubt we can package a rom that will keep the phone unlocked, unless we find a way to save the phone rom too.

ucant find it because he file is hidden. umust set the browser to vew system and hidden files to see it.
its there.

let me know how goes the compiling of the rom.

I can see rilgsm in activesync. What I was referring to is what you said here above. Did I understand correctly that you extracted the files with dumprom but could not find rilgsm among them? Or have you found it now?

I downloaded your files tonight. I'll play a little with them after I make a few back-ups of my rom. BTW, you may want to edit your message: the pass for the ftp side should be "xda" (low caps).
I am also uploading my unlocked rom to the same site.

BTW, I found that if you press the rocker after you enter the bootloader you get to a diagnostic menu. The speaker test is kinda creepy. The pda hard-resets after doing that, so better have back-up copies handy.

if u press the rocker in what way that it will give you that menu?

reset while holding the rocker down
press on boot loader
press the rocker down again ?

that didnt work withme.. am i missing something ?

reset while holding the rocker down
press rocker down.

yup got it. the audio test is pretty funny, i like it makes me happy

I found that today while at work. Sure made heads turn

oh wow posting at the same time.
so about the rom making process,

i have been told that u need the operator file from waht i understand it contains info about all files in rom file and directory structiure.

on another note there is a file from the http://www.anextek.com/ it updates the audio drivers. now that file is anexecutable it runs from th epda andupdates the rom. i like that little proggie. now what wouldbe really cool is if we could dissassemble it and replace the audio drivers with what we would like to change.
i am sure thats not easy to do but its worth a try

I extracted both your copy of the ROM and my back-up copy. I am doing some comparison. I am rather optimistic about being able to cook an unlocked ROM...we'll see soon. Now I have to stop.

here's the short list of files that are changed (only 9):

coredll-dll.sig
DialParser.dll
initdb.ini
mxip_misc_100.rgu
nk.exe
nk-exe.sig
rilgsm.dll
UnlockAP (this is new, it's missing from my ROM)
YMB.exe

I wonder what each one does...

I think if we can repack it back with the unlocked rilgsm.dll should work. Enough discoveries for today though, next time.

Upgrading to WM2003SE, now that'll be more fun...

i am not exactly sure of the following but these are my guesses for the files
i have seen someof themand others not.



coredll-dll.sig i think this has somethign to do with the audio drivers its visible in the hex of the audio update

nk.exe these 2 are mostlikely part of the boot loader.
nk-exe.sig

rilgsm.dll there are a bunch of good reads on this one. also contains the lock information in it

UnlockAP my guess would be that this is the annoying screen that comes up asking for an anlock code

DialParser.dll
initdb.ini
mxip_misc_100.rgu
YMB.exe



oh i was doing the idra client test on my pda and it fails. i dont think thats good. but the ir works fine.
the server test loops forever how did u'r tests go?

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edit:
u probably have different file because th eimage i posted is up todate and newer from the one u are using on u'r pda.

when writing the rom image to the pda it shows its writing the following:
address: a0680000
Len: 580000

from what i understand from this is that the image starts writing from address and the len is the size of the file.

also i noticed that they display the flas id inthe test screen and it lists 2 flash ids that are identicle. booth flash ids are : 88128812

Yes, my ROM is older (17 may 2004). I was trying to figure out what they improved in the new ROM they sent you. Apparently not much beside locking it and audio parameters.

You're right on those files, I checked xda-developers wiki.

I flashed mine with the new rom, and it shows the right ROM date after I hard reset. However, when I restore my data with activesync, the ROM date goes back to 17May2004. It seems that activesync restore copies over also the old ROM files?! Go figure...I'll have to find a way to stop it from doing that.

I haven't had time to try much else and will probably not have any until the week-end.

I did not try all tests in the diagnostics. I got freaked out by the speaker test

Any luck finding a WM2003SE rom?