[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] Dipak:
Upgrading Blue Angel using Vista (without Mail Button)

Hy everyone,

Yesterday I had a bit of a struggle trying to upgrade my SPV M2000 (aka Blue Angel) but in the end it worked.

As you guys are having some trouble too, I'm going to post the way I did it and hope that it works for you as well..

Note I: This steps worked for me but there is no guarantee that they will do so for you too and everything you try is at your own risk. However I am sure, you are all aware of this and really hope that this is going to help you.

Note II: My Laptop runs Vista Business, my BA WM2003 non-SE. I modified the installation process as the mail button on my BA is not working anymore, preventing me from following the normal instructions found in the wiki.

First of all (Prerequisites):

- Ensure Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) is installed and updated to the most recent version. The latest version is 6.1 which worked fine for me.

- Get the drivers for the BA, to be found in the wiki

- Get MTTY 1.4.2, attached to this post

- Get the ROM you want to install, I used Sun Dream's WM6.1 which can be found in the wiki as well

Now, to the task:

To begin with we can follow the instructions given in the wiki for ugrading to wm6 using vista, so I'll just copy&paste those steps from there:

Next Steps, different from those described in the wiki:

9. Go to the task manager and kill the wmdc.exe process

10. Run MTTY; select the USB option from the dropdown list

- There is also a USB button but the instructions I found said NOT to use it, so I did not test it

- Apparently, the option could also be called something like WCEUSBSH001, but always has to contain USB. In my case it just said USB

- If you do not get a USB option something is not connected correctly, ie it will not work with the stock drivers Vista uses

Next Steps:

11. Take the phone off the cradle. I am not absloutely sure anymore, but I think it still was in bootloader mode at that point. If that is the case just soft reset the device.

- When the device has rebooted it will ask you whether to flash some settings (can't remember which..) about 3 times. Just answer no to all of them.

12. Restart WMDC and re-allow USB connections (under connection settings)

13. Reconnect your device to the cradle and start Active Sync on the Blue Angel

- Make sure your device is shown as "connected" in WMDC

14. Start the ROM installation.

Note: Using "BaUpgradeUT.exe" resulted in a Device ID error. In this case you have to use a version which does not check the ID codes. I used the version attached to this post

15. When the installation is finished, the dialogue on the computer says to cold boot (hard reset) the device.

- If your mail button is not working, just soft reset the device (what I did)

- If your mail button is working you may attempt this. (Please report back!)

I have not yet gotten through really testing the device and I never had a WM6.1 device before, thus no basis for comparison. From the first impressions the soft-reset at the end did not cause any problems and everything seems to be working fine.

16. You're done :)

Whew, this has gotten rather long. If this instructions work for you, please let me know!

As there seem to be several BAs out there where the mail button doesn't work this might be a useful addition to the wiki.

However, I will not post it there without some feedback whether it works for others as well..

(I hope there aren't to many mistakes in the text; I am not a native speaker)

Final Note:

This is not my work, all the steps described above were found on this forum and on the wiki pages. I just did the job of combining them in a way that worked for me.

My biggest thanks to:

- crabiorc

- ramram

- sp3dev

- all the people who contributed to the wiki pages

Best wishes,

Dipak