ok all you engineers .... hermes ... with 64 gb usb flash cards around now, HOW hard would it be to modify one OR the hermes ... to take the new RAM.
obvioulsy the casing is too smale, but could the hardware side of it be done?
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Ok guys, ive got a spare smashed up XDA sitting here.. just the screen has gone, but when i swap boards it doesnt work.
My OLD xda has some software issues, it crashed during the radio stack upgrade and now it doesnt work or detect a bettery.
So what i need to know is WHICH one of these are th erom chips. I cant take a picture of it open because my camera's gone walkies for now.
So here are the chip numbers / names.
(front of phone top > bottom LEFT > RIGHT)
TWL3011GGM - 2CS3CNJL
1010COZTLD
HERCOM200GI - 2186.3200
TRF6053 - CYLK
HTC - F02465760 V1.0
WINBOND - 311WB (looks like memory)WINBOND - 311WB (looks like memory)
StrongARM (looks like processor)
(BACK OF PHONE TOP > BOTTOM . LEFT > RIGHT)
PF08109B
Just tell me what i need to swap and ill do it
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/uploads/tmobile-pocketpc.pdf
Maybe this helps....
Stefan
Thanks stefan thats a great help
All i need to know now is.......... shall i swap over the SDRAM & FLASH chips?
Or just the flash chips ? the XDA's are both PW10A1's so there the same inside.
Dont bother swapping ram!
Im impressed at your soldering skillz if you can successfully swap ANY surface mount chips inside the XDA.
Is this XDA 1 or 2?
If its the XDA2 all the important information is inside the Flash inside the processor, so you would have to swap that too.
xda 1
I have no choice. unless i can soure a new board
Where would one buy the internal D-Pad for Herm100s? (Not the external one)
And what would it be the correct terminology for it??
maybe http://cnn.cn/shop ?
this place has very cheap parts that are prefect quality!!!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=307
real funny g35driver
http://cnn.cn/shop doesn't have it
they have the one for herm200 but not for herm100
OK I made a quick search in the forum and didn't find anything which is quite a surprise...
I came along with this...
http://www.linpus.com/xampp/webmaster/Products/Linux9.4Lite.htm
Its inside the hardware limitations of Athena and could be running from the miniSD or the microDRIVE.
3G/EDGE, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS all supported
For all of us using the Athena as laptop/replacement or just have another cellphone for actual phone calls maybe is the best news out there...
It might also support phone calls I don't know!
Also optimized for 4~7 inches screens... WTF???
I don't have the nerves to tested right now as I'm on a trip
Anyone knows more about this???!!!???
Hm...listen nice.
But i will wait, untill you will finish your trip. Then you can test it.
Thx for the informations.
wow that is cool. i would love to do this. but i would have to go back to using my kaiser ) i might give ti a try.
ummm... guys - a quick check reveals that it needs an Intel CPU and 128MB RAM - two things that the Athena doesn't have...
If you take a look at the wiki it looks like we do have the neccesary hardware.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Athena
It shows us having an Intel processor and 128 mb of ram.
MWillis561 said:
If you take a look at the wiki it looks like we do have the neccesary hardware.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Athena
It shows us having an Intel processor and 128 mb of ram.
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I got all hot and excited by this thread but the above statment was correct you will find that the Athena doesn't have the required cpu
although you are correct it's an Intel Xscale, the Xscale cpu is based on ARM instruction sets not x86
Quote from website:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
CPU
Intel x86 compatible
Intel, AMD and VIA at 366MHz and up
this alone bombs the thought of this linux flavor on the athena.
I agree it's possible to a limited degree i've seen other threads about this idea and the such as qtopia, Opie and similar will run their basic functions on the athena, it wouldnt' support the gsm radio or many other chips already in the athena due to a lack of development specs that haven't been worked out.
I'll never profess to be an expert in linux even though i consider my self as an average user. But i don't know how to develop or program applications in full but i know enough from my old tinkering days that the instruction set of the cpu rules alot
good thinking though =)
MWillis561 said:
It shows us having an Intel processor and 128 mb of ram.
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The athena hardware is documented here
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=AthenaResearch
This may sound stupid,but....
Is it possible to boot Athena form any USB pheriperal such as a stick or a cd-rom ?
safak said:
Is it possible to boot Athena form any USB pheriperal such as a stick or a cd-rom ?
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Yes. I'm running qtopia compiled for Universal off the USB stick, and the touchscreen is supported too.
It's also possible to attach the USB keyboard and mouse at the same time,
but then you'd use the external USB hub.
I've bought the USB host adapter exactly for that purpose.
The complete code can be dowloaded from the handhelds.org CVS
(including the ATI SD test driver, which does not work yet)
What about the new Athena that is going to come out?
Would it be able to support this linux platform ? or is the new Athena will be ARM based too?
Thanks
marek101 said:
What about the new Athena that is going to come out?
Would it be able to support this linux platform ? or is the new Athena will be ARM based too?
Thanks
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The new Athena is practically the same aside from its cosmetic changes, software developments and the 16gb drive
Hi,
I have just bought a small hard dirve and was wondering how i could connect it to the xda II.
if you can find a sdio card which alow it
or if you use old wm2003 and got the backpack
and can find an cf card which alow it
then it can be don but in general i doubt it
himalya dont use a hd internaly at all
and 2.5" hd's use much more power then most pda's can provide without
external power
hard drive
hi,
I don't quite understand how to solder it in. Please help.
mohitrulz said:
hi,
I don't quite understand how to solder it in. Please help.
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Nobody does!
What part of: the device doesn't have an HDD don't you understand?
Thread closed
you 99% surely cant solder a hd into it
the ram storage inside your himalya is flash and sdram which
are small chips a harddisk is much bigger and use much
more power and require a controller to opperate
if thisn is posted else where im sorry, but i searched for a good 30-45 mins with no results.
my question is this, is it possible to upgrade the hard drive in the g-tablet? read and noticed upgrading the ram was minor brain surgery, is it as difficult to upgrade the hd?
There is no HD in the Gtab the memory is 16 G of flash that is partitioned into several sections. There are several threads on upgrading it, but includes desoldering and resoldering surface mount flash chips.
I haven't taken mine apart yet, but there probably isn't enough space in there for a HDD either. Otherwise you could hard wire one to the USB port.