Hi Esra, On Jan 18, 2008 11:09 AM, Esra Kummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I got an HTC Himalaya (as well known as: Qtek 2020, i-mate PDA, O2 Xda > II, Krome Navigator, T-Mobile MDA II, Orange SPV M1000, Vodafone > WirelessPDA, Dopod 696 and movistar TSM500) for free. Unfortunatelly > there is WindowsMobile Edition installed. Yeah i know... > > Thatswhy I would like to change it. I found in the wiki that the HTC > Magican is supported > (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko-supported_hardware)
Nobody has been working on Himalaya kernel support for quite some time, so a little bit of kernel work might be needed. The best way to get some help is jumping into #htc-linux on freenode at the right time. Basically you'd have to build a Himalaya kernel (from handhelds.org CVS) and boot it with HaRET (http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET). > Has anyone some information or better success with the HTC Himalaya as > well? I really would love to have OM (I'm a student, so no money for a > Neo :( ). As far as I know, Himalaya has the same phone chipset as both Neo and Magician (and Blueangel), and I think hardware-wise it is more similar to Blueangel (see http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Himalaya, http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Himalaya), as it is based on PXA263. > How does it work? I would need it productive (just phonecalls, SMS and > adressbook needed) or in the worst case I take it to play (if i can > install OM but can't use it productive) and try to get a Nokia 3210 for > normal use :P I don't think it is ready for productive use yet. > Is it difficul/dangerous to install? I have no money to let flash a > bricked phone. Difficult? Probably. Only if some kernel work is needed. Dangerous? No, unless you write something to the flash memory _on purpose_. To the PXA263's internal 32MB NOR flash we could write, but for the external M-Systems DoC chip I believe we don't even have drivers capable of doing that. regards Philipp _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
