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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
Hi all,

I've upgraded my MIO P550 to WM6.1. Everything works just fine except one thing. Bluetooth search for devices, found them, make a connection and immediately disconnects and never connect again to this device. I've tried it with several mobile phones and computers, but effect is the same. Have you any ideas what can be wrong ?

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
WM 6.5 is Here!

Windows Mobile 6.5 for Mio p500/p350/Airis is Ready to Test

Demo

YouTube Video Demo: Here

Download

French Beta: MegaUpload

English Beta: Coming Soon

Installation

Backup your data first. Upgraded formats your device.

1. Extract the file using 7-zip or WinRAR

2. Copy the 'winceimg.bin' file to your SD card.

3. Put the card in your Mio.

4. Hold the down button (on the joystick) and press reset with a paperclip.

5. When the blue screen comes up, use the joystick to navigate:

If you want, choose number '6= LowLevelFormat' before you upgrade. It just makes the process a little safer.

6. Choose '0= Image Upgrade Tools'

7. Choose '1= Image by SD/MMC'

8. When the process is done, press the reset button.

The fist start might take a while, but are fast after that.

If you can only read english still, give it a try. French is fairly easy to understand with the icons.

English version coming soon ;).

All credit goes to 'Nixeus' or crashoverhead.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] azboo13:
Awesome!

that's awesome, great work, looking forward to the English version.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Xnergy:
I can't wait for the english version, it's very cool,my p550 will get a new life :D

Thank you very much:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] humaxman:
im waiting for English Version Windows Mobile 6.5 for Mio p500/p350/Airis

and is beter for cooking lite versions
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] danimajo:
Is it only for Airis or is it for P550 to?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
It is for both PDA's and i have been using it for 2 weeks on my mio.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] paha77:
I have the same issue and don't know how can I solve it.

What is the latest version of WM6.1 ROM?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowxie:
p550 bricked?

Hi folks,

I've got a Mio P550 and wish to flash with WM6.1. The unit came factory set up with WM5. From this site and many others, I've found the ROM that I want and instructions for flashing. So far, so good. However, I've not been able to complete the process because of something related to the following 2 mesages:

- lowlevelformat find ba; which occurs after a successful USB or SD ROM load. And then I get a...

- getblockstatus error.

The Mio seems to complete the process, because it asks to be restarted. However, I suspect that the actual memory chip may have issues and consequently does not take the re-flash.

Any suggestions whatsoever would be appreciated. Or locations for more info on this matter. Thanks much.

/cowxie
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trooper44:
Sync problem

Hi All,

I installed the WM 6.1 to my P550, but unfortunately I can not sync with my PC.

I've tried the Activesync 4.1 and 4.5 also, but the PC can not identify my device.

What should I set to make the contact, 'cause I would like to use some programs on my mio. :(

THX in advance.

Trooper
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
I got this message too but i was brave enough to restart, and it worked flawlessly. I

wouldnt worry about it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowxie:
Thx, moonscapex. I did try to restart and only got a black screen. So, I re-flashed the ROM. Restarted and got a black screen. Tried 3-4 more times, each time got a black screen. Any other suggestions?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
You should

a) Re-download the ROM in case it got corrupt

b) Download a different ROM

Which ROM are you using now? I can give you links for one that works.

Could you try the wm6.5 ROM? It worked on mine really good. The download link is above in one of my other posts.

Hope this helps :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowxie:
moonscapex, i've now tried wm6.1 and 6.5 without success. the one item that is consistent is the lowlevelformat and getblockstatus messages during the flash process followed by an unresponsive p550 (i.e black screen). any thoughts? suggestions?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
OK, how are you transferring the ROM (USB or SD)?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowxie:
edit - see next post
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowxie:
moonscapex,

i've tried both SD (on 512MB and 2GB, freshly formatted FAT16 cards) and via USB (using DNW v0.50I). In all cases, given the messages showing up throughout the Image File upgrade, it looks like the winceimg.bin file is read okay. But then the format process starts and i see the lowlevelformat msg, then a little while later the getblockstatus error. not sure what to do next...

/cowxie
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
I've gone over almost all the troubleshooting I know. A couple things you could try is upgrade the BIOS (the thing that is used to upgrade) or try wm5.0 (the 3rd post i think). When you reset after the upgrade, do you see the white and green mio logo?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
Moonscapex,

As I understood this beta version for WM6.5 has not been optimized by Nixeus (alias CrashOverHead) yet and since the memory in the P550 is rather limited, did you experience any slowdown during navigation with TomTom or any application frozen due to insuffcicient memory? Thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
I found that it boots faster (20 seconds after the first boot) and has more free RAM. If you don't clutter it with hundreds of useless apps, it will be just as fast as wm6.1. If you uninstall an app, i would use sktools to completly remove it. I have about 25 apps, and my boot time is 2 minutes.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cowxie:
moonscapex,

Thanks for trying to help me out, but i gave up and sent it back to a local, authorized Mio shop. They turned it around in 2 days, which i thought was great. They said that they re-flashed it, but... Maybe they used a JTAG setup or something else that i don't have. So, i'm a little leery about trying again to load wm6.1; i don't want it to cost me another $80
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
Installed all right WM6.5 on P550 but TomTom7...

Hello,

My beard is getting long and grey waiting for the final WM6.5 from CrashOverHead. So today in a moment of despair, I decided that I would flash my P550 with the beta version. Well, I have to say that MoonScapex has explained things really well. In fact I completed the work in less than 5 minutes.

When I started the new-look device, I realized that not only CrashOverHead has made a great Rom work but he also made miracles! My Mio has meanwhile become an Airis (from the initial Logo) and it is now equipped with the telephone capability! Of course I'm joking as I'm very admirative of CrashOverHead.

I recall Nixeus, the younger CrashOverHead, was struggling back in Sep 2007 asking loud and around for a Rom of some devices of his. 2 years later he wrote Rom with such a quality that turn happy thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Mio customers all over the world starting with WM6.1. If it depended from me, I would designate "CrashOverHead for President!" (for the place of Sarkozy).

Coming back to earth, I realized that with this beta version, TomTom7 presents now abnormally big characters (only for its messages) and the map seems to stretch out more than normal. The version I installed was exactly the same as when the device ran with CE 4. I tried to search in TomTom customization and WM6.5 settings but found nothing useful. Do you have any idea?

Another point is that I found no way to decrease/increase the screen backlight. Could anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks for your help.

Best regards.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
Hello,

1. The problem of stretched TT7 has been fixed. I actually installed by error the VGA version (480 X 640) instead of QVGA (240 X 320) version. Sorry!

2. I'm still unable to see how to gradually lower or increase the screen backlight to save battery life. This option was possible with the original Rom (CE 4.0) as far as I can remember.

3. By clicking on the battery icon on top-right corner, nothing happens! Is there a way that you know to check the level of battery?

4. I found that compared to my HTC Touch Cruise (2.8" 240 x 320), the resolution of the different icons is not that cut clear. Perhaps because the Mio screen is bigger (3.5") ? or perhaps there's something to tune that I'm unaware of?

5. Is there a place somewhere that talks about the application QuickGPS from HTC to fix satellites positions?

Sorry for so many questions especially when we know this is a Beta version! I wish only that CrashOverHead takes these into account for the coming Rom. Thanks for your help.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
MoonScapex,

By surfing in the AIRIS T620 forums, I read that even though the Airis T620 and Mio P350/P550 are clones, there's however some HW difference between them. That means that the ROM for T620 is slightly different from the ROM for P550.

I have downloaded and flashed WM6.5 to my P550 from the link you gave in your previous posts and everything went perfect. But now I have a small doubt. Everytime I reboot my P550, there's a logo of Airis that appears first! Do you encounter the same Airis logo on your device? Or have I simply downloaded and flashed the wrong version for Airis?

Thanks for your help.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
Yeah, I have that bootscreen on mine too. There's nothing wrong with it, and when the official Mio version is released, it will have the normal bootscreen.

JVChawk: The backlight widget will be released in the final version, Im not sure if you can get a freeware app or something to change it. To check the battery I use resco system info, but I think you can do it through the settings. Crashoverhead will probably fix the res of the icons. And I would look to xdadevs or an htc forum for the last question.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trooper44:
Guys,

You discuss about the French version of the WM 6.5, don't you?

Or the English version is ready?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
When the English version is ready, you guys will be the first to know... Be patient, I think Crashoverhead will be releasing it sometime this month...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
MoonScapex,

1. Thanks for the information on the backlight. By installing Resco Today, in the batterie area, there's a link for backlight at the bottom of the screen. There you can actually change the backlight. The light intensity varies when you move the cursor left or right.

2. For the QuickGPS, I downloaded the application extracted from HTC but miserably failed to make it work. As a matter of fact, I found nowhere packedephemeris.ee in Windows folder.

3. Another point is the keyboard. Mine is AZERTY and I warmly wish a QWERTY one. Then again by using Resco Keyboard I have a fabulous QWERTY keyboard with a very nice design.

4. Have you noticed that there's no soft Reset application in this Rom? I found one on the Web and it works like a champ. Its name is "Singh's Tings Soft Reset V1.00" . I integrated it in Resco Today and it sits there as a button.

That's it! Looking forward to testing the final rom.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
MoonScapex,

Sometimes I think you must be in a very close relationship with CrashOverHead because you know a lot of things that nobody else does!. I personnally think you must be his brother!

Jokes apart, I feel so grateful to CrashOverHead for that Rom that gave me so much fun. Half of the colleagues in my office have been shown for the 1st time of their life a Mio P550 running WM6.5!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
Haha not really, I've just done a lot of research about Windows Mobile and his ROM. Since my Mio is basically my PC, it is important that I can make it work the way I need it to. Good ideas for the back-light and reset, I will try them out.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
{UPDATE INFO #1

I d/led a WM5 version (the stock one) and i used the same procedure to upload the ROM and it works. Which leads me to the conclusion that the failure to install the WM6.1 lies on the ROM itself and not on the procedure.

}

Hello,

I have the P550 and decided to take the big leap and upgrade into wm6.1 english

I download the correct (?) image and I i followed this procedure:

1) Formatted my SD card (1gib) from my computer using FAT16.

2) Copied the wm6.1 image in the SD card and renamed it as "winceimg.bin"

3) Removed the SD card from my computer and pluged in my MIO.

4) Booted the OSCAR loader (hard reset + joystick down).

5) Perfomed LowlevFormat option - *Competed*

6) Went to "Image Upgrade Tools" -> "Image by SD/MMC".

I get the following output:

MountDisk SUCCESS!

Open WholeImage ....

(now its proceeding on reading the image and gives me

an ascending percentage)

Invalide WholeImage!

Any key to continue

downloadAddress = 0x300400

Checksum: 0x1333bc36

ROM Upgrade: OK

Restart your device.

So i do hard reset again but nothing happens. The LEDS turns off, the screen never opens.

= The Bootloader OSCAR250/260AB_UT_R12 still works fine. =

Any ideas?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
ROM image corrupted?

BLiapis,

I have a doubt in this case. Sometimes the image downloaded could be corrupted. I followed exactly the same procedure as you did but used the WM 6.5 beta FR image directly from the initial CE 4.0. Everything went perfect in less than 5 minutes.

So download and try again with the 6.1 version. If it still doesn't work then your P550 is anyway unusable. In this case you don't loose anything to download the 6.5 beta FR and try with this one that works. If it works then it's the 6.1 Rom that is corrupted. If it doesn't then there's something we need to further dig. On the MIO this time.

Good luck!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
Where did you get the 6.1 download link? I can give you the one that worked for me. And the 6.5 download link is in my signature, so do what jvchawk said.

Hope it works ;)

EDIT: I read on the french forums that the English 6.5 could be relesed this month...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
Hello guys and thanx for the fast replies :)

Like i said its the wm6.1 rom thats problematic, since I did reinstall a wm5 setup afterwards.

And after that i was still restless: I thought i give wm6.5 french a go and it did load correctly aswell.

So its my wm6.1 thats not working.

Now im not sure i wanna keep the wm6.5 because its french and although i kinda manage to work around the language with google translator its still is a pain in the ass, and far from comfortable.

I would like a valid link for wm6.1 if you please :) And not rapidshare, its getting very hard to download anything as a free user :(

I wanna add this aswell. My brother bought the HTC HD2 (!!!). While my french wm6.5 has the basic "start" menu with his, the whole "desktop" is wholly different!

Animated weather with rain falling on his screen, messenger live integration and what not!

So that brings me to another question. How (and where from!) can i get all those widgets from for the weather, where can i get the MSN from (cant find it for the life of me.).

Thanx Bliapis
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
Here you go :D

http://www.zshare.net/download/591709639d417dc1/

http://dl.free.fr/jok65wZqA

These both worked for me.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
Thanx mate, the second link with the french site is working.

Although i did notice the filename is the same one i tried to load on my PDA and failed.

Anyway, concerning the french-wm6.5 image, is there a way to enchance it with visuals alike my bros HTC?

And any ideas what to do to install the MSN client please?

Thanx, Bliapis
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
For MSN I use Palringo - http://www.palringo.com/, but if you want real MSN, tap the Marketplace icon (which is like the apple app store) and use it to install msn. And what do you mean by visuals? Themes, maybe?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
Yes probably themes.

Let me recap about my "experience" with the HTC D2 my brother bought.

On the front screen, the desktop lets call it, you can see the weather and big clock numbers. Also you get rainfalling on the desktop if its raining. Its great visuals :)

Aside from that, there is a great issue with my explorer running any youtube videos. I think it tries to open an outside application to play those videos (i guess there is no embeded-play code in the explorer yet?) and it prints out an error.

Also is there a way to play shoutcast (www.shoutcast.com) ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
No, in the next release (probably January) there will be embedded code in IE.

As for visuals, the Mio doesn't have enough graphics power to handel the incredible HTC visuals, but look in to SPB Mobile shell, which almost looks as good and runs on the Mio.

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/

For playing YouTube and shoutcast, use Kinoma Play.

http://kinoma.com/play/

There is also a free version, but with limited features.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
Thanx for the good info mate :) Im gonna try to load the trial version for the visual shell you linked for me and also will try the player for the youtube and the shoutcast.

I will post my experience as soon as i do :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
What Bliapis explained I saw it on my HTC Touch HD after the flashing of WM6.5 Miri. In the cook WM6.5 beta FR from CrashOverHead you have another flavour. Go to Start/Settings/Today/Items/ and go for Windows Default. Let us know if you like it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
During the previous note, I just forgot to add something on the limited graphic capability of the P550 highlighted by MoonScapex.

I read somewhere that one of the major problems encountered by CrashOverHead in cooking WM6.5 EN for P550 is that he does not have huge memory at disposal with this device. (MIO P550: CPU Samsung S3C2440 400 MHz - 128 MB ROM - 64 MB RAM).

So I guess there might be a few apps that will be left out from the stock Rom but that you can download later on from the web and install. Perhaps still with a quite acceptable performance!

On my P550, I installed with no problem Microsoft .NET CF3.5, TomTom7 with Europe 1GB map, Resco, Soft Reset...They all run very well and I'm truly delighted. Stability and reliability is what I appreciated more from this Rom.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
I got pretty much excited with the new version of windows i installed on my pda.

I finally decided to stick with the french version of wm6.5 and not go into trouble installed the 6.1 english ( i was getting a feeling it would be again a corrupted rom and so much waste of my effort).

I installed msn live and its pretty much awesome :) It simply delivers the package by activelly taking the role of an MSN suite with hotmail pop3/smtp and messenger in one package. Nothing bad to say about it.

I also installed the newest Skyfire browser. What really takes Skyfire apart from the rest browser is that it actually works and not hanging up like Opera does.

Its user-friendly with finger screen panning and zoom in-out. It displays all the page at 100% giving the feel of a real desktop broweser.

The feature tha really pulled the trigger with this browser is its build in modules to load youtube and the like sites with embeded video. It actually works -albeit the perfomance is around average, but still!

Gave a go at kinami's(?) free player aswell. After a rather easy registration you enter into the player's menu. It works like a media center front but focused towards internet services like youtube, flick, shoutcast and many more.

The video perfomance on Youtube is excellent. Which with Skyfire you get the ability to watch youtube video its nowhere as fast as with kinami.

The shoutcast also works very nicelly with easy search engine and predefined categories to choose from. Streaming music doesnt get interrupted and when you close the player it actually keeps on playing (apparently it gets minimized and keeps on running).

I installed the TCPMP player to see if the PDA can play DIVX files. And not surprisingly it does! The quality is nice but the speed suffers from freezes. Its watchable but it wont substitute your desktop player for sure! I watched a Sanctuary episode and it was nice to have for sure :) I have to note though that when i go into full screen it freezes evenmore. Maybe a player that can downgrade the bitrate will work seamingly.. Any proposals ?

I left the last bit for the end. I installed a desktop front called "SPB Mobile shell" that really transformed Wm6.5 into a next gen OS.

Don't get me wrong. WM6.5 is an improvement compared to the 5version but the SPB shell is where the OS gets a boost and rides the rocket for the moon.

The visuals are incredible and the new menu you get is amazing! It feels like Vista or Windows7 there are not many words to explain how it feels unless you install it. You can modify the SPB desktop (the normal wm6.5 desktop still exists and you are able to navigate it) and add/remove widgets like weather (coolio!), time, connection status, file manage, msn and what not.

The biggest drawback is the memory consumption that really tightens up the available memory left for any other running apps.

For that reason and only im not gonna buy it straight ahead but lets it bloom with the passing of the days and see how it turns out. Its a really amazing front end.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
Hey BLiapis, what a fireworks! Your enthusiasm is contagious! Very happy to know you are having a good time. I warmly wish many happier days are still to come...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
I still havent figured how to connect my PDA over the USB. Activesync definetelly not working.

I got these files but not sure how to use em:

dnw5.03.exe

dnw.ini

USB driver FOLDER

Any help please? :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
Glad your enjoying it! Instead of TCPMP, I recommend coreplayer (commercial but has a trial). It plays &

720p videos on my Mio, without any freezing, even in fullscreen. I think there is also a free pocketdivx player. One of the disadvantages of 6.5 is activesync is not working. It will probably be fixed in the final version.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jvchawk:
I surprisingly realized that in my case ActiveSync works much better than when the device was under CE 4.0. It connects every single time when the USB cable is connected.

What have I done? Well, when I first connected my Touch-Cruise to my XP PC (I hate Vista!), XP recognized the USB device but found no driver for it and failed to embed the device. So I took the CD shipped with the product and installed the base setup on my XP. After that, everything went OK. The device could be seen by the OS and the connection easily established with ALL the 3 devices.

The ActiveSync installed by that setup was 4.5.0 (Build 5096) and the msi file about 7.7 MB.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BLiapis:
So far everything work as a dream - all things considering. Coreplayer got installed, it opens, but when i try to load a divx movie from its own menu it freezes for a bit and exits (crashes?).

I manage to fine tune TcpMP and i'm pretty much satisfied with its perfomance now.

I had to deactivate dither and set the video driver to null or framebuffer. Now it runs fast :)

How is the English WM6.5 comming? I wonder if i can expect a greek version in the near version aswell?

Thanx, Bliapis.