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WARNING: free firmware upgrade for Motorola MPx200 is being sold by some people January 04, 2004 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1. There is a free firmware upgrade for Motorola MPx200 available at certain places in Internet, but some people got idea to charge for this free firmware and to earn some easy money. This firmware among others has the following new features:
(on picture above: Bill Gates holding Motorola MPx200 - one of the most succesful Microsoft smartphones of all times - in his hands) If you own Motorola MPx200 you can reflash your phone with it, by taking this firmware for free from here: MPx200 Firmware thread at MPx200.org. ... where you can find link to current mirror, where this firmware is located (we donīt provide direct link because if the mirror changes it gets updated in the thread there). Please note: there is no way to come back from this update so we recommend everybody who considers to use this firmware to look through the posts in the main thread about this firmware (in the above mentioned link). Excerpt from the insruction manual of this Motorola MPx200 firmware upgrade follows. * * * * * Re-flashing MPx200 This procedure will re-flash your phone to any firmware file. It will not back up any previous firmware version. Be 100% sure to save your personal data before proceeding as it will wipe the phone clean! This procedure is not reversible. To go back to a previous firmware version requires having a copy of the previous version and following this procedure again to install it. Unzip the PCUpgradeWizard file to your hard drive Double click the setup file (setup.exe) and follow the instruction to install the PCUpgradeWizard Package. Installation of USB driver for Handset Unzip the driver file to your hard drive (smartfon.inf) from Compass Power off the phone. Hold the left direction key. Plug in the USB cable. Windows 2000 should launch a splash which indicates that a new USB device is found. Then a hardware wizard is launched. Press Next to continue. Search for a suitable driver and press next button. Check "Specify a location" and press Next. Browse and select smartfon.inf from where you saved the file on your hard drive to install Smartphone 2002 Wireless Modem driver. Press Yes to continue the install. Finally check the computer manager, and a Smartphone 2002 Wireless Modem should appears in Modems. Download the new software Unzip the latest s/w file (such as: BEN5-0400-012.bin) Save this file to your hard disk Starting PC UpgrageWizard Simply execute the PC UpgradeWizard file from your Programs Menu Follow the menus Once complete - unplug your phone Done  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]
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