To do

• Try to figure out how to save the Image before flashing with the Siemens bootloader.

maybe a bootblaster from hh.org would do.

Legal Stuff

Today I have written a E-Mail to Microsoft and asked them about the legality of the Imgages. Hopfully they will be cooperative. auf Deutsch

Windows versions

The last official Siemens Windows version was Windows CE 4.0 available in English and German; there are also unreleased CE 4.1 images in english and german.

There is a Windows CE 4.2 upgrade service available from mullengers.com

Upgrade to a different Windows Version

Connect your SIMpad to your PC with the Siemens SIMpad serial cable (not a Siemens mobile phone cable!). Use the serload program and drag and drop the image that you want onto the serload program, or run from the command line. Updates take about 40 minutes using this method.

Going back from Linux to Windows

• See Reinstalling_the_Siemens_bootloader

• Now you should have the original Siemens Bootloader on your device. If in doubt, visit Checking_your_bootloader_version to check the Bootloaders version.

• Follow instructions on how to update the Siemens Bootloader, located here: Upgrading_the_Siemens_bootloader_to_2.5.3

• Download appropriate WinCE-image from WinCE Images and extract (format should be .img)

• Get serload for MS Windows serload.zip or for Linux Serload-1.1_cvs.tgz

• In prompt type:

# serload Sl4_winCEnet41eng.img

Where Sl4_winCEnet41eng.img should be the filename of your WinCE-image

• On "Ready to download file "Sl4_winCEnet41eng.img". Press RESET!" the SimPAD is ready for the request, so reset ("Key-r") your device. If you dont see a progressbar reset again (or you will wait forever)

This process will take a while, about 42 minutes.

Once "successfully written" just restart your device using "Key-r". The new windows should boot up. Congrats!

Images

Those I found at simpad.pdaclub.pl. Though they were downloadable from the Siemens website before the SIMpad was discontinued, you were meant to only download the operating system version for which you had a license i.e CE 3.0 or CE 4.0. It was possible for you to download different language versions, but always remain on the same operating system version; another way to say "use at your own risk".

An explaination: "SI" versions are for the Siemens branded devices such as the SIMpad. The "DT" versionas are for Deutsche Telekom branded devices such as the T-Sinus pad. I don't know what the Swisscom devices' software release was called.

SL4

S842-SI-GER-020 SL4, Image Rel. 020 languague: German, HPC 2000 (CE 3.0)

S842-SI-INT-008 SL4, Image Rel. 008 language: English, HPC 2000 (CE 3.0)

SLC

S843-SI-GER-104 SLC, Image Rel. 104 languague: German, CE .net 4.0

S843-SI-INT-104 SLC, Image Rel. 104 languague: English, CE .net 4.0

T-Sinus

C421-DT-GER-064 T-Sinus Pad, CL4 Image Rel. 064 languague: German, HPC 2000 (CE 3.0 Build 126)

C421-DT-GER-104 T-Sinus Pad, CL4 Image Rel.104 languague: German, Win CE .net 4.0

CL4

C241-SI-INT-053 SIMpad, CL4 Image Rel. 053 languague: English, HPC 2000 (CE 3.0)

C421-SI-INT-150 SIMpad, CL4 Image Rel. 120 languague: English, Win CE .net