Orignal site for Windows Mobile 6.0 for LOOX N560

Download: (! google translation from russian !)

1. Save installed on the PDA firmware (ROM) using the utility ROM Backup (detail)

2. If your PDA operating system is different from the language of the new firmware, then in order to successfully make the upgrade PDA using PocketLOOX ... FlashTool.exe, in the title should be a new firmware install the same language as your PDA. Using ROM Lang (detailed), you can change the language firmware to successfully ask (what would you have not set any language in the firmware with this tool, language itself will not change firmware).

3. Cradle of USB, cradle connected to a power supply, power supply - the network.

4. The battery is charged at the PDA 100%

5. PDA and PC saw each other through ActiveSync.

6. If you have files stored on the SD through Encryption, to avoid losing data in these files, I recommend to rewrite them with the PDA to PC via ActiveSync.

7. Memory card (SD) to remove from the PDA.

8. I recommend at the time of firmware for PC, from which the program will PDA, disable the firewall (including built-in system). Because the operating system on your PC at this time would be open to attacks from outside, at the time firmware disable your computer from the local network, the Internet.

9. Remove all sekretki and remove passwords from PDA. Check whether withdrawn password in the FSC Secure Lock.

10. Download from this site proshivalschik (FlashTool) and firmware for your PDA. Unpack archives and place the files received from 2 - x archives in one directory on the PC.

11. Start program firmware (for N560 -> PocketLOOX5xxFlashTool.exe, for S550 -> PocketLOOXC550FlashTool.exe), started Xbox PDA, against the backdrop of dolphins fill two strips on PDA, the screen time out, there were climbers.

12. PDA is removed from the cradle, are waiting longer to blink when the full upper left LED set PDA (calibration screen, etc.).

13. Overburden PC (or you can start to implement the program at PC wcescomm.exe), present the PDA in the cradle configured, set up ActiveSync on the PC.

14. The result should be synchronized with time on the PDA time at PC, the device exchanged data.

15. If there is a way out PC to the Internet, that the Internet was available in the PDA do the following:

- not removing the PDA from the cradle, press the button briefly Power, PDA moved to sleep,
- the gap occurs connect through ActiveSync, waiting a couple of seconds, push the button Power. PDA awakened, automatically synchronized with a PC, then on the PDA is accessible through the Internet PC. Should automatically zakachatsya data via satellites QuickGPS (from whom she is at the PDA).

16. Voilà ...

The procedure in firmware OS Microsoft Vista is described here. (i.e. elsewhere!!!)


Rarely, but sometimes that after the firmware, inserting the PDA in the cradle, the PDA appears that began charging batteries and the battery is not charged, that is in less than 10% battery charge, although before the firmware was 100%. Then you need to remove the PDA from the cradle and make a cold restart.