PPC6700 Windows Mobile 2003
 

Hi Folks
I'm a newbie on this forum and would greatly appreciate any info.
My problem is that I have a Sprint ppc6700 with WM2006 on it. Due to a specialized application which doesn't run on Wm2006, I'd like to downgrade to WM2003. Any info on this, I've searched and actually found links to get this ROM version but they seem to all be dead links.
Thanks in advance.

If you havent installed any roms, you have the stock rom which is windows mobile 5. And as for getting windows mobile 2003 on there, not really possible unless you start hacking it, and even then it could be an extreme long shot. What is the program you are trying to use on it?

Thanks
The application i'm using is a custom application that we use for field service reports and records. I work for GE Healthcare and from what I understand the application will not run on wm2005 or wm2006.
Thanks again for the help
Ken S.

Sounds like you need a different application or a different PPC/PDA. At some point I would imagine whoever you work for will have to find suitable up-to-date software. Not too many people still run Windows 98-ME anymore. Understand? WM2k2 and 2k3 are gone and with good reason, theyre outdated. Does you employer not supply you with a PPC/PDA or are you finding at some point they had this software available and you want to use it for convience?

I'm still using a very old windows mobile device for my company which is running CE...
this thing SUCKS! its bulky and I have to use dialup to connect with it to my companies network...

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its an itronix rugged pocketPC... been lugging this thing around for 4 years, and that is when I started with this company.

when I worked for IBM, we were using blackberries that RIM developed for us, I was hacking away at the one I had then, isntalling my own apps, etc, then to swtich jobs and get one fo these things.... almost like going from a nice quad core system to a pentium 1.

Yeah, that is huge and old. Reminds me of my old Toshiba 2032 and Hitatchi G1000 (but smalled than that you have). But they were bulky also. I really hate to see a company try to skim along and save money instead of staying current.

I can tell you that you would be surprised to find what versions of windows are lurking in your hospitals.

There are two kinds of healthcare in this country; non-profit and for-profit.

The non-profit people use obsolete equipment because they cannot afford to upgrade. They have custom software written for Windows 95 and will continue to run it until the hardware dies.

The for-profit people won't spend the money to upgrade the equipment because of the old addage 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.'

In both cases, the software platforms are old and antiquated. But since the vast majority of hospital PCs still run on a Win9X platform that is what the specialized vendors still write for.

I've seen fetal heart monitors that still run on DOS. And most of the PDAs I've seen are of the old Palm V generation. Trust me; Windows Mobile 2003 is still considered standard in most hospitals.

i think you're best bet is to find a developer/hacker that can hack the software to work on WM6. I mean what does WM2003 have that WM5/6 dont'?

I know it sounds like a long shot. If you have the original cab file it will make it so much easier, but if it's proprietary software you probably shouldn't give it out.

I think I just had a heart attack from what I read, do me a favor and dont take me to a hospital, just take me straight to the morgue and save me the time.

I think that you would be happy (at least happier) if you tracked down a Hitachi G1000 and gave it a shot. I loved mine.