Push Email :) finally.. just not with O2 rom
Over the last few weeks there have been more and more rom releases for Windows Mobile 5 devices that included push email but still nothing from 02. Oh yea… they did update their XDA website to make it look a bit more pretty but no rom updates. Last night I finally plucked up enough courage to try a different rom on my XDA Exec. I use a Vodafone sim in it so wasn’t too interested in the O2 rom that was on there I was just more concerned over the actually process of flashing it to a new rom and ending up with a very expensive brick.
After reading that a few people were having good results with the Imate JASJAR rom and that this rom did include the push email update I decided to go for it. The process in the end was quite simple. You need the Imate JASJAR rom file which I downloaded from
ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/Universal/Shipped_Complete_Updates/
The file that you need is JASJAR_WWE_13076_164_10900_wwe_ship.zip.
First thing to do is to extract the files in the exe. There are two ways you could do this.
You can do this by running the exe file this will extract the files into a temporary directory in your profile.. for example c:\documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Temp, look for a very recently created directory in there, don’t ok the error message that you get when you run the exe as it will delete the temporary files. Just copy the files out of the temp directory somewhere else.
OR
You can use winrar to extract the files from the exe. Extract all the files into a single flat directory. Remove all directory structures so that you are left with just one directory containing all the files.
Then download this file
ftp://xda:xda@xda-developers.com/BlueAngel/Tools/MaUpgradeUt_noID.zip
Extract the .exe in there to the same directory containing all your other files.
Then you need to make a small change to one of the text files. Look in the directory for
RUU.conf
Open it in notepad and add this line
[CHECKCEID_TYPE]=1
That’s about it…..
Usual wavers at this point.. upgrading flash may lead to dead device.. do so at your own risk… invalidate warranty…etc etc
Once you have plucked up the courage connect your device up to Active sync and run the exe file that was contained in the MaUpgradeUt_noID.zip file that you downloaded.
It seemed to take around 30 mins for the whole update process.
Im just going through adding my applications again and setting up the Vodafone GPRS configuration but so far seems fine and push email works nice and fast so I am pleased I have made the change.