NYS Business & Marketing
Honor Society So you want to upgrade your Grant PDA....
You have been chosen as the recipient
of a Symbol / Suffolk Community College PDA Grant.
You have 
33 Personal
Digital Assistants that now need to be upgraded
from an older Window CE Operating System to the
newer, more efficient Pocket PC. Directions
are available in PDF. Need some additional
help? Write to the Susan Wilson at swilson@rockypoint.k12.ny.us.
(after 9/1/04)
There are five files and one program that must be loaded on a PPT 2700 family terminal in order to completely re-flash the unit. This is because the flash ROM of the PPT 2700 is partitioned into sections, each of which stores different information. These files are provided below, sorted by terminal configuration, in a .hex format as needed to load them to a PPT 2700 terminal via the Terminal Configuration Manager (TCM 7000) application or using HexLoader v1.2 provided below.
The HexLoader
v 1.2 is an easy-to-use, hex-file download
utility. Just save a copy of this executable file
anywhere onto your PC and run it. HexLoader allows
you to flash the demo applications onto a Symbol
Pocket PC terminal, without having a copy of TCM.
TCM, which is normally installed with an SDK, allows
you to customize hex files as well as load them
to terminals.The Initial
Program Loader (IPL) needs to be upgraded
first. Click here for the directions on
HOW to upgrade to the IPL version 3.05P.
You are currently running 1.0. - The role of the IPL--The first step performed by the software is to load the OS image.
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What is an OS image? An OS image is simply a file. When you've created your executables (programs) that you want your embedded system to run, you need to place them somewhere where they can be loaded from. An OS image is the file that contains the OS, your executables, and any data files that might be related to your programs. Actually, you can think of the image as a small "filesystem" -- it has a directory structure and some files in it. An image can be bootable or nonbootable. A bootable image is one that contains the startup code that the IPL can transfer control to (see the chapter on customizing IPL programs in this book). Generally, a small embedded system will have only the one (bootable) OS image.
The Partition
Table file maintains a record of the memory
allocations to the Platform and Application partitions.
This file needs to be updated if the sizes of
these partitions are modified from the default.
It is always advised to update this file right
after IPL and before any other partitions are
updated.The Splash
Screen file contains the default "Symbol
PPT 2700" splash screen that is displayed
on boot up of the terminal. If you have
created your own splash screen for the
terminal, you will not want to re-flash
the terminal with this file, as it will
over-write your splash screen.The Windows
CE ("System") file
contains the far majority of the files that make
up the latest version of Pocket PC for the PPT
2700. It is the largest of the memory partitions.The Platform file
contains some additional components of the Pocket
PC platform, and also Symbol unique files and drivers
added to complete the PPT 2700 solution. Hence
this is the file that will differ between various
configurations of the PPT 2700 terminal family.The Application file
contains the default complement of optional
tools and demonstration/ diagnostic applications
that
ship on the PPT 2700. Directions
are available in PDF. Need some additional
help? Write to Susan Wilson at swilson@rockypoint.k12.ny.us.