hx4700 Software Maintenance Update ROM

By Jack Cook, posted Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005
Reader Comments: 14

HP is in the process of developing a Software Maintenance Update ROM release for the hp iPaq Pocket PC hx4700 series to address WiFi improvements, CF Card Recognition, performance enhancements and upgrade to Microsoft Windows Mobile Media 10.

HP will be releasing this Maintenance Update ROM in the Spring 2005 timeframe, and will be available free of charge at www.hp.com/support, in the following languages:

English
German
French
Spanish
Japanese
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Italian

Software Maintenance Update Features:

· WiFi improvements

· CF Card Recognition

· Windows Mobile Media 10

· Performance enhancements

I updated and am having a lot of problems with rebooting and lockups. - maybe due to putting some of the apps on a 2 GB Kingston CF card.... I'll try to let everyone know what I find out..

Posted by ckershner, Saturday, Jun. 25th, 2005

It's out... posted on 05/05, from what I can tell... downloading it now. I was actually looking for some commentary from someone who had done the upgrade to see if there were any problems with it... guess I'll be the first to post.

Posted by stac, Tuesday, May. 17th, 2005

Think we will get WPA Radius AES support in the update?

Posted by ckershner, Tuesday, May. 10th, 2005

Jimski hit it right on the nose. Definitely, the memory allocation problem with bluetooth/wifi is the most irritating hx4700 problem. You shouldn't have to reboot a pda unless you've installed or uninstalled a program. I thought the main feature of a pda was that you didn't have to reboot it 5-10 times a day.
Next is the graphics issue, inconsistent today screen refreshes and some icons not displaying in program toolbars. I hope they address these issues because this ROM update is a long time coming.

Posted by Brent Wold, Thursday, May. 5th, 2005

Jack, sometime ago in a similar post you stated that you expected to see "several ROM upgrades for the 4700 series". Any idea why HP has taken so long to get this one out, and do you still maintain your view that there will be more upgrades? Do you think we'll see WM 2005 for the 4705? Thanks for your comments.

Bernie Torbik

Posted by btorbik, Wednesday, May. 4th, 2005

What! No improvement of memory allocation when launching Bluetooth. That is problem #1. My CF cards read fine. And I don't need WMP10. But I do want to turn on Bluetooth with my 128MB RAM (PPCTechs) device and 55MB available program memory without having to do a silly soft reset. Come on HP. How hard can this possibly be.

I am almost ready to start learning how to program and help make the World a little better place. Please HP, save me the trouble and just fix this. This test (turn on Bluetooth after opening 2-3 other programs) will be my prerequisite for any future device. I don't plan on purchasing the same problem again.

Posted by jimski, Wednesday, May. 4th, 2005

Great News, Thanks for sharing!

Posted by stronggeek, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

Any chance of it being WM2005 as well?

Posted by jmbneaf, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

Goody Goody Two Shoes!

Posted by SHC, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

Thanks Jack, that is great news to have real confirmation!

Posted by jeffm, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

This is great news since I thought I had read that HP stated they would not be upgrading any PPC with WMM 9 to WMM 10. Awesome news!

Posted by jp08361, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

WOW !

Posted by Laura, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

You bet it is!

Posted by Jack Cook, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

WMP 10!!!! GREAT!

Posted by David Ciccone, Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2005

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