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Rumors on Herald having built-in GPS

Hi everybody,
Today one of the Russian PDA forums was claiming Herald to have a built-in GPS (!!!) just like the one in Artemis. The only problem is that there's some contact needing to be soldered.
What do you think, is that possible?

Interesting )))) 4PDA ????

Please post more info

BackDraft said:
Interesting )))) 4PDA ????
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Yup. It was on 4PDA.

Biom Defiler said:
Yup. It was on 4PDA.
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I see )))))

gpsd possibility ??
Please send a link so we can take a look at this and research the possibility of gps.

this would be great, anyone can post a link so that we can view it and practive our russian.
best regards

any new informations?
it's a nice fact, my vpa compact 4 will come in 3 days

Wheres the link
Still waiting for the link on that gps coverage ?????

The source of the rumor is here.
But there is nothing more than was said already. Just a pure claim (speculation?), without any detalis.

The initial source says that he had heard it from a person who is an official HTC representative. No more no less. Blueprints unavailable.

I heard fm a newsgroup said that, Herald using the same radio chips as Trinity, which has GPS capability.
But the problem is, Herald doesn't have built-in GPS antenna. That may be what "soldering" needed

Herald and Trinity have different RF modules. Don't confuse it with TyTN, pls.
I've dissassembled Herald - there's no anything inside about GPS

Well.. i think every HTC has an build in GPS because the Herald uses EDGE. that's an sort of GPS so maybe if you search the internet for an edge gps converter, it will show up something promesing. but if you guys want me to contact the HTC company and ask them if the phone has an GPS, i'd do that. a friend of mine works at HTC. i can contact him.
Sry about my rubbish english. it's early in the morning.

^What?! I... wha... I'm gonna go smoke a blunt.

Even if it has GPS, where do you think we can put the antenna? I think Artemis and Herald are same from hardwer point of view.

that cant be true. in trinity there was antena and cpu with integrated gps chipset. in hermes there was same cpu with same chipset but there was no way to install antena and project was quit.
in artemis there is same cpu as in herald but this cpu is in wizard to for example (and in some smartphone) and gps isn't integrated. in artemis this is a standalone chipset which i cant find on my heralds motherboard.. and.. even if that chip is somewhere on our mb's it will not work at all because of lack of antenna.
and between gps and gprs (edge) there are "huge" diffrence...
"edge gps converter"?
and this as a bonus for them who dont belive me that omap850 doesnt have gps implementation. http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wt...lateId=6123&navigationId=12000&contentId=4679
sorry for my english :/

It was probably misread from here.
Such a large portfolio makes it difficult to differentiate individual models substantially. A quick look at the technical specifications will reveal many similarities with the HTC P3300 (Artemis) that we reviewed recently, although the devices look completely different. In short, take out the GPS module and the unique HTC RollR™ control, add a slider keyboard and voila: we can herald a new device.
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Wlan for Pharos (Some common features of all OMAP 850 phones)

I thought it was so strange that when I scanned for bluetooth devices I picked up my (pc) internet modem (which is wireless enabled) so I thought bluetooth and wifi must share a lot of the same characteristics.
I was browsing for the latest Android developments and stumbled on the following
Please take a look at this page http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12000&contentId=4679
And this one http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12019&contentId=4635&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+bluetooth
This seems to mean that FM Radio and WiFi is a standard feature of OMAP 850 chips and (for the touch owners look at this page http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12028&contentId=4636&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+agps)
Seems If you have Bluetooth you also have wifi and possibly fm radio built in only lacking the drivers (no special wifi antenna is used in the omap 850 solution accoriding to TI)
It would seem that all we need is the right drivers and regsettings (so no new rom or radio rom should be needed)
Who can make it a working cab?

Woooooooooo!
Good news.

great job
if some solution, make me to buy one.
by the soft solution, strange story !no idea for none cost effective option. why do HTC designers make a 2008 PDA with no WiFi Option!

wow
wow...it might be dream come ture if it happens....please some body develop a driver for pharos Fm radio n wifi.....please buit up some regsettings......

This is a good information. Hope that we could make it work on our Pharos.

Good News... I hope who will make it soon because I don't understand about ARM work.

That is an awesome find man. I hope this info is used to get a wifi working ROM.
I thought it was some kind of cost saving to not include wifi, i.e. some missing hardware. If it's just a driver, that is the so friggen stupid! Why have such a great phone and then neuter it by taking away wifi? And the price is still just as high as the Artemis when it came out. The lack of wifi is the only thing that would keep me from buying one. Otherwise, it would be a great upgrade phone for me since I don't need nor have 3G with my service and and it has the cool flush screen that I wish my Artemis had.

someone knows if the touch dual then also could have the wifi option turned on by drivers? the touch normal has wifi, so i guess it should be possible.
anyone tried the drivers from the htc wizard? it also has a ti omap 850, so driver from such a rom could be coocked into the rom of other devices.

@VOODOOS!L
The touch dual uses the Qualcomm 7200 chipset. That chipset uses the arm926tesj as a co processor but i dont think its the full OMAP 850 chiset.
but there is a project for enabling niki wifi (started out as a project ot enabkle both wifi and gps)
@shawndh
Phone manufacterors do it all the time. Look at the Kaiser story, yes they have some great graphical chip (would be too expensive to make a different chiset with another graphical chip) so they just didnt include the drivers for it.
With some other phones like the touch HTC disabled the wifi in the radio rom... maybe some techies here could try to put an artemis radio rom in the pharos... but for none techies this would probably be an instant brick (thats why i didnt try it) tom_codon maybe you could say something about this....input would be apreciated.

Come to think of it, I remember that they had a crippled GPS radio or something in the TyTn I. The only reason I could think of for disabling wifi is so people who need wifi would buy the the Artemis. To be honest, if I had a choice btwn the two, I would get the Pharos over the Artemis if they both had wifi. Even so, it should still have wifi.

This ia a good news.
I'm waiting.

you know what... im giving up.
ive tried pm ing some guys working on the wifi on nike project, asking tomcodon. no response as yet and prolly not going to get one.
And tried to get qtopia and winlizard(gizard) working.
but in the linux world up is down, left is right, and smart is stupid. those people are (in dutch: contactgestoord) communicationally challenged. you cant find anything on their sites. there is no(or very little) documentation on how stuff works ...noone explains anything... so in order to learn linux you have to know it.
thats why m$ can afford to be so sucky: their competition sucks so much more
i said to the guys at irc #linzwizard hey thnx for the build, i can boot it too (gizard aka linwizard 0.3.0) but the touchscreen driver crashes.
he then said make a support request at sourceforge which i did (btw it isnt obvious how to .. it should be very simple. but hey... thats the linux way, isnt it) response was.. and this is a shocker.. your touchscreen driver doesnt work(.... grrreeeaat) you should disable it...(no description on how)

up for the rom with wifi for the pharos!
Thanks

Not to rain on anyone parade but from the first page from TI, it looks like to get wifi support you have to have a special chip in the phone(upper left corner) thats diferent that the chip to get wifi, so unless someone knows for sure that the WiLink chips are present, I think we are without wifi

Wait and see...
The only problem is... How long does it take to finalize such a ROM?
If it takes 1 yr, for example, I think I will have already changed to at least TouchHD..
Anyway, good news!

Hello! I have a HTC Pharos for one month. Yesterday, i accidentally have wetted phone by tea, and then i disassembled it for cleaning. Cleaning was finish sucсessfully, now phone is working
During disassembly of the device I have made some pictures. I think Wlan module is in the device. Look at the photo! Motherboard have many connectors for external antennas, and Wlan connector is on the board!
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos.jpg

thank you for the picture, its in a good resolution! but what would have made it more clear is if you would have looked for a specific Texas instruments chip with letter combinaton BRF or BL (there are 4 chips mentioned with a dual solution BL6450 BRF 6350 BRF6300 and BRF6150 last one is not good because its a bluetooth only chip) we should also be looking for TI chips with a WL designation and number 1271 1273 1251 1253
at least (BRF6300) - Bluetooth specification v2.0 + EDR single chip should be in the Pharos since we have that bluetooth spec.
in the picture i can make out the TWL3027 chip with extra designation BZQW (at least i think its that chip ... according to the ti site that would be the baseband chip but it doesnt describe on the site what the extra letters mean)http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12311&contentId=4706
[URL="http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12025&contentId=4645&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+mwlan"]http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12019&contentId=4635&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+bluetooth[/URL]
hope this is readable since i have a hangover

Kostyan could you post the other pics you made of the interior of the Pharos

avathar behemoth said:
thank you for the picture, its in a good resolution! but what would have made it more clear is if you would have looked for a specific Texas instruments chip with letter combinaton BRF or BL (there are 4 chips mentioned with a dual solution BL6450 BRF 6350 BRF6300 and BRF6150 last one is not good because its a bluetooth only chip) we should also be looking for TI chips with a WL designation and number 1271 1273 1251 1253
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Maybe this iron box is Wlan module?
http://flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos2.jpg
I may open this box, if it is requires for this research
And on this picture, front side of device it is found Wlan antenna? (if overwind board, supposed Wlan module with connector correspond (matched) to on position with Wlan antenna, and it connected with module)
http://flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos3.jpg

avathar behemoth said:
Kostyan could you post the other pics you made of the interior of the Pharos
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Of course, there is all photos:
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos2.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos3.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos4.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos5.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos6.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos7.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos8.jpg

HP RW6828 Cannot Receiv call (SOLVED)

Hi
HP RW6828 shows full reception, however, people cannot call me. "The mobile phone you are calling is switched off. Please call again later." There is just something wrong with my HP rw6828.
also i cannot call any one its showing Call ended withing few seconds.
i try to install latest firmware but still no luck. if i remove the battery and fix after 5 minutes then it work and its again after 2 minutes happen. i thing probably its a hardware fault.
Anyone got this problem?
I need to find out this problem and need to repair it. still it show full signal.
Please if anyone got the same problem? and how do you solve it?
I do Soft Reset,Hard Reset,install latest firmware change the sim card with other provider. profile in Normal general mode(not in flight mode)

Problem Solved
Hi Guys.
I found the problem and repaired. problem on Skywork SKY74045-21 RF IC (RF Subsystem for GSM, GPRS)
and i found this Rf ic on Water damaged old O2 Atom Pcb i just remove RF Ic from Atom PCB and fix to My HP now phone is working perfectly.
Here is the picture of ic and PCB.
I dont know how to attach Pics here so here is the link http://i40.tinypic.com/icnzv4.jpg
Thank you.

pmmali said:
Hi Guys.
I found the problem and repaired. problem on Skywork SKY74045-21 RF IC (RF Subsystem for GSM, GPRS)
and i found this Rf ic on Water damaged old O2 Atom Pcb i just remove RF Ic from Atom PCB and fix to My HP now phone is working perfectly.
Here is the picture of ic and PCB.
I dont know how to attach Pics here so here is the link http://i40.tinypic.com/icnzv4.jpg
Thank you.
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I saw your pic.Which one is the RAM? im curious..just asking if you dont mind.. i see you pretty good on hardware tho.did you replaced it by you self?

Redtabs said:
I saw your pic.Which one is the RAM? im curious..just asking if you dont mind.. i see you pretty good on hardware tho.did you replaced it by you self?
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ITS A RAM?
what are you talking? Here is the DATA sheet of SKY7405-21
http://www.skyworksinc.com/uploads/documents/103152H.pdf
ITS not RAM its a RF IC.
Yes i have replaced it my self.
and everyday i REmove-Rebole and replace Flash/Ram CPU ics for Nokia BB5 samsung and and other Brands. coz iam a Hardware Technician

if my 3g not working but gsm are working,is it this IC that bring the problem?

pmmali said:
ITS A RAM?
what are you talking? Here is the DATA sheet of SKY7405-21
http://www.skyworksinc.com/uploads/documents/103152H.pdf
ITS not RAM its a RF IC.
Yes i have replaced it my self.
and everyday i REmove-Rebole and replace Flash/Ram CPU ics for Nokia BB5 samsung and and other Brands. coz iam a Hardware Technician
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yes mate i know its the RF FC.im a hardware technician also perhaps you can show me which one is the ram.probly i can try to upgrade my ram by myself. btw did you try to repaced any atom ram? it should be good if we can upgrade the ram to 128mb or 256mb tho.

naset said:
if my 3g not working but gsm are working,is it this IC that bring the problem?
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For you Most propebly Antenna switch if it fail then same RF ic
@Redtabs
RAM IC on ATOM is Spansion S71PL032J its Located near the CPU (CPU Analog Device AD6532AXBCZ)
and iam very new to Windows phones still i dont play too much with any windows phones.and i dont thing atom phones ram can be upgrade coz there are no any extra pin connection to upgrade or swap different rams.
Regards,

pmmali said:
For you Most propebly Antenna switch if it fail then same RF ic
@Redtabs
RAM IC on ATOM is Spansion S71PL032J its Located near the CPU (CPU Analog Device AD6532AXBCZ)
and iam very new to Windows phones still i dont play too much with any windows phones.and i dont thing atom phones ram can be upgrade coz there are no any extra pin connection to upgrade or swap different rams.
Regards,
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thanks man,i can see where the ram is.i agree with that.and also there's no extra pin slot on the board.very disappointed. actuly i own an atom life.i been thinking probly i can swap the CPU to other phone that got bigger RAM.coz the pin got the same number.very wasted 624mhz proccessor comes with 64mb RAM.what do you think?

Caska CA712 4.4.2 Possible to upgrade to new ROM?

Hi all
I am the new owner of a Caska CA712 Android headunit. Pretty cool but couple of things. Firstly, Play Store is not working for me. No idea why. I have internet connection and all is good.
Other than that, the device is ok, kinda sluggish when running BT music. Interface kinda sucks and accessing different functionalities is kinda crap.
But besides that I like it.
Onto my question however. I have looked around to see if it is possible to install a different ROM but so far there is only really 1 thread about it and it is not really going anywhere.
From what I understand, Malaysks ROM has 2 different versions that work for the RK3066 and RK3188 and you use the one that is depending on your processor? Mine is dual core so from what I have read, I need the RK3188. My monitor is also 1024*600. That is all good. But has anyone bricked this device yet? Has anyone successfully loaded up the ROM with no issues? I read someone had an error half way and had to revert to the original ROM.
Does anyone have any info on rooting/installing new ROM onto this device?
Cheers guys and gals

Was messing around some more on the device there and figured out a few things.
Firstly, I get the suspicion that the firmware currently installed on the device is from a D200 android mobile. I realise of course that the build number says that its the D200 but kingo root clarified saying that the device was the D200 which it was trying to root.
Speaking of kingo root, doesn't appear to work. I have tried it several times and once it gets to 90%, it restarts the device. This may need to have a laptop introduced to it.
Turns out the Play Store worked all the time on it, not sure why it did not load before but all is good there.
Netflix works, Facebook works, everything fine apart from Google Play Music.
It opens the app but then just continues to load, then a black screen with no response from the app.
Another thing I noticed, I managed to install Kingo SuperUser app on the device (thinking it would allow me to root) and it showed a system app that is installed on the device called "RK K1102V1.1 ####" and then Chinese (hope that's not racist or anyting :S ).
Also, I tried to copy over the update.img file from iNand to card which is a 32gb sd card I put in but that did not work oddly. But someone here did mention that it was failing also because it wasn't named as "sdcard" or something along those lines.
Anyway, that's everything I managed to dig up from the device today. May take another root around (pun intended...).
Let me know what your thoughts are!

Root Caska Android Pro
Hello guys follow some tips that are having problems with the central multimedia of Caska .
Got the central Caska Android Pro
RK3066 processor 1G Ram 1024x600 resolution
From what I have researched Android Pro hardware models are all the same .
Here some indications
1- Root - Use NewKingrootV4.82_C1
2 great program for automating some settings- XposedMTC_v1.4.2
Any doubt inbox
I'm brazilian. [email protected]
Makarintosh said:
Was messing around some more on the device there and figured out a few things.
Firstly, I get the suspicion that the firmware currently installed on the device is from a D200 android mobile. I realise of course that the build number says that its the D200 but kingo root clarified saying that the device was the D200 which it was trying to root.
Speaking of kingo root, doesn't appear to work. I have tried it several times and once it gets to 90%, it restarts the device. This may need to have a laptop introduced to it.
Turns out the Play Store worked all the time on it, not sure why it did not load before but all is good there.
Netflix works, Facebook works, everything fine apart from Google Play Music.
It opens the app but then just continues to load, then a black screen with no response from the app.
Another thing I noticed, I managed to install Kingo SuperUser app on the device (thinking it would allow me to root) and it showed a system app that is installed on the device called "RK K1102V1.1 ####" and then Chinese (hope that's not racist or anyting :S ).
Also, I tried to copy over the update.img file from iNand to card which is a 32gb sd card I put in but that did not work oddly. But someone here did mention that it was failing also because it wasn't named as "sdcard" or something along those lines.
Anyway, that's everything I managed to dig up from the device today. May take another root around (pun intended...).
Let me know what your thoughts are!
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wolf4.0 said:
Hello guys follow some tips that are having problems with the central multimedia of Caska .
Got the central Caska Android Pro
RK3066 processor 1G Ram 1024x600 resolution
From what I have researched Android Pro hardware models are all the same .
Here some indications
1- Root - Use NewKingrootV4.82_C1
2 great program for automating some settings- XposedMTC_v1.4.2
Any doubt inbox
I'm brazilian. [email protected]
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I have tried to install NewKingroot but it never loaded on giving me a failed error (nothing specific).

Thanks to wolf4.0!
This root (NewKingrootV4.82_C1) worked (sometimes not on first time - if it fails just run it again)!
Done at my HU (Caska CA712 analogue - RW6MS-33010-S1 headunit for Toyota Camry in variant 'Exclusive', made in Russian Toyota factory).
Tried some other programs before it - but they didn't works: Universal Root 1.6.9, Baidu Root.

wolf4.0 said:
Hello guys follow some tips that are having problems with the central multimedia of Caska .
Got the central Caska Android Pro
RK3066 processor 1G Ram 1024x600 resolution
From what I have researched Android Pro hardware models are all the same .
Here some indications
1- Root - Use NewKingrootV4.82_C1
2 great program for automating some settings- XposedMTC_v1.4.2
Any doubt inbox
I'm brazilian. [email protected]m
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Hello friend
I have a CASKA CA712-XL7 and it does not have the RK066 processor, has the ARM 32F101.
I took this photo inside the unit and as you can see it has that processor.
Excuse me, The forum does not permit me to link the photo, but I can send you by mail.

AlbertoJorge said:
Hello friend
I have a CASKA CA712-XL7 and it does not have the RK066 processor, has the ARM 32F101.
I took this photo inside the unit and as you can see it has that processor.
Excuse me, The forum does not permit me to link the photo, but I can send you by mail.
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Sorry, but ARM 32F101 is just for MCU - not HeadUnit processor, and - as i see at aliexpress - CASKA CA712-XL7 has quad-core CPU with 1.6GHz speed (looks like an RK3066 or newer). You can try to download software like AIDA (from any apkmirror) and check by yourself.

ilya.b.e. said:
Sorry, but ARM 32F101 is just for MCU - not HeadUnit processor, and - as i see at aliexpress - CASKA CA712-XL7 has quad-core CPU with 1.6GHz speed (looks like an RK3066 or newer). You can try to download software like AIDA (from any apkmirror) and check by yourself.
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My friend, you are right. Thank you.
¿Have you tried flashing with the Malasky ROM this unit CASKA CA712-XL7?
¿Is this reflashing convenient? ¿works?
Thanks for your reply

Did anyone manage to install new ROM on this thing? Or did root give any more functionality? Thanks

No name Head unit update

Hi, i own some no name unist. Is there any one that could tell if there is any rom that would work with my device and how to get it on it.

michael205 said:
Hi, i own some no name unist. Is there any one that could tell if there is any rom that would work with my device and how to get it on it.
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What do you expect with another ROM?
It won´t get faster and has still the issue of only 1GB RAM.
You nearly won´t be able to get navigation and MP3 working at the same time.

True, what i want is root and 3G or 4G modem compatibility. That would do the trick for me.
I want it mainly for navigation and speed cameras
P.S. Not the best option but small swap would be nice

Anyone ?

There are no custom roms. Read forums.
Consider buying a 4GB FYT uis7862 instead.

I will consider it. For now, is there any way to pinpoint test pins on my board ? I'd like to give it a try with different rom but don't wont to brick it complitly.