O2 XDA Flame

The XDA Flame is a Pocket PC device (also called PDA or Personal Digital Assistant) first released in May 2007, produced by Arima Communications and originally distributed by O2 Asia Pacific & Middle East. This device belongs to a wide O2 Xda device family, including XDA Atom, XDA Atom Life, XDA Zinc, XDA Orbit (aka HTC Artemis), XDA Stealth, XDA II Mini (aka HTC Magician), XDA IIs (aka HTC Blueangel), XDA II (aka HTC Himalaya) and XDA (aka HTC Wallaby). It is one of the first Pocket PC device that was enabled with 3D accelerated graphics nVidia's GoForce 5500 graphic processor ( GPU). XDA Flame is also a 3G enabled phone ( UMTS 2100 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900) with VGA touch screen, 2GB flash memory, 128MB RAM, Intel XScale PXA 270 520 MHz processor and integrated FM radio.

Specifications

As of 2010, the specifications are these:

Brief history

In May 2007, O2 Asia Pacific & Middle East released the XDA Flame. O2's cooperation wit
nVidia
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allowed this company to advertise their new product easily, because there was a big demand on the market for a 3D graphics enabled PDA, with a lot of internal memory and many additional functions like USB On-The-Go and TV-out. However, at the end of 2007, O2 began to release new products and they stopped supporting this device, passing all copyrights to a new company called Mobile & Wireless Group
MWg
. MWg has released XDA Flame under its own brand with Bluetooth 2.0. Many Flame owners felt a relief knowing that someone will still support their devices. Yet, after a half year, MWg resigned from further supporting this device on its main site and create
O2 Asia Support
where users can still get a support. In the near future Mwg is planning to release a Flame successor called Flame II with probably Windows Phone 7.

Device issues

XDA Flame has several software bugs. From the beginning MWg's support center have not released a new Windows Mobile 6 version since it appeared on the market.
After some time a class action lawsuit page was established to raise awareness of the problem, similar to HTC TyTN II case. In ''The Point'', Tim Osborne wrote:

Battling with the lack of support by MWG and nVidia, community users have repackaged many Windows Mobile ROM images by their own. After several months dealing with some issues (as ''sleeping beauty'', which caused the device not to wake up from suspension; or a long-standing SDHC problem with Wifi), there have aroused stable and fully functionals ROMs including versions with Windows Mobile 6.1 and SDHC. , community driven support for the Geforce 5500 GPU is still improving but far from fully functional.

Maintenance

* Soft-resetting
To perform soft-reset on XDA Flame - put stylus in a hole next to a microphone.
* Hard-resetting
To perform hard-reset on XDA Flame - while pressing Camera and Comm buttons (two buttons on the left and right at the bottom of the device) soft-reset device. When asked, user should press left soft-key (YES).

OS updating

Operating system (OS) updating, which is also called ''flashing'', is a process similar to installing a new Windows on a PC.

On PDAs, Windows Mobile ''"disk image"'' or ''"ROM image"'' (archive containing OS files) is installed in internal flash memory.

XDA Flame OS updating steps:

# Micro SD card format (FAT, default cluster size).
# Creating empty .txt file and renaming it to 1xdtgklo.kez.
# Copying created .kez file and diskimage.nb0 (new ROM image) to a micro SD card.
# Charging device battery over 50%.
# While keeping pressed both soft key buttons (buttons at the top of keypad with a horizontal line), soft resetting PDA (buttons should be released after the appearing of a bootloader screen).
# Waiting for the device to finish and soft-reset itself.

Internal devices

1) Intel XScale PXA270

Application Processor

Vendor: Marvell (or Intel, which sold this processor family to Marvell in June 2006)

Product code: PXA270C5C520

Developer's manual
https://web.archive.org/web/20080820054727/http://balloonboard.org/hardware/300/ds/PXA270-dev-manual.pdf
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Developer's guide
ARM System Developers Guide
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2) 2 × 64MB Hynix low power SDRAM

Vendor: Hynix

Product code: HY5S7B2LFP-H

Frequency 133 MHz, CAS Latency 3, 4banks × 4Mb × 32, interface LVCMOS

Datasheet
https://web.archive.org/web/20071019045810/http://www.hynix.com/datasheet/pdf/dram/HY5S7B2LF(P)-xE_series(Rev1.0).pdf
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3) 2 × 32MB Intel StrataFlash wireless memory L18 in stacked chip scale packaging

64MB stacked together into one chip

Vendor: Intel

Product code: 4400L0YTP0

NOR, 1.8 Volt I/O, Individual Chip Enables, Non Mux, x32 Ballout

Quick reference guide
http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mirror/intel/flcomp/linecard/qrg.pdf
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Resources

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4) mDOC H3

2GB NAND Embedded Flash Drive

Vendor: M-Systems (bought by SanDisk in 2006)

Product code: MD2533-d16G-X-P

Extensive datasheet
mDOC H3 Data Sheet Rev 1.2
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Brochure
https://web.archive.org/web/20110716002732/http://uk.sandisk.com/Assets/File/OEM/WhitePapersAndBrochures/iNAND/EFD_brochure.pdf
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5) LP3971 National Semiconductor power management unit

Chip sign: VM67RA 71-B410

Datasheet
https://web.archive.org/web/20110710170059/http://www.ed-china.com/ARTICLES/2006JUN/3/2006JUN13_PM_POW_TS_4.PDF?SOURCES=DOWNLOAD
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6) TSN74AVC16T245 16-bit dual-supply bus transceiver

Chip sign: 61A4R4J G1 WF245

Resources

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7) bq24032A dual-input Li-ion charger

Chip sign: BPE TI 6BK AHL J

Resources

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8) TPS65110 Triple Chargepump for LTPS LCD

Resources

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GSM parts:



Ericsson integrated circuits (IC)

A) DB2020 R2A/7 (Baseband processor)

B) DB2102 R1A (Application processor)

C) RF2111 R1A (Radio Frequency processor)

D) RF2101 R1B (Radio Frequency processor)

E) RF2001 R1B/3 (Radio Frequency processor - transmitter)

F) AB2012 R1A (Power management IC)

G) Intel Flash Memory 3050L0YTQ2



H) NVIDIA GoForce 5500 GPU with 8MB stacked memory

Core speed: 200 MHz

Embedded SRAM: 640KB

Stacked memory: 8MB

Technical specifications

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I) Wolfson WM9713G Audio and Touchscreen Controller

Resources
http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/WM9713/
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J) BlueCore4 WLCSP Single Chip Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR System

Vendor: Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR)

Datasheet
http://www.csrsupport.com/document.php?did=1932
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K) SyChip WLAN6101

Vendor: SyChip (subsidiary of Murata)



L) Imagis ISE2200 Video Processor for TV-Out

Technical specifications
http://www.myungmin.com/products/encoder_ISE2200.php
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M) Si4701 FM Radio Receiver

Vendor: Silicon Laboratories

Technical specifications: https://web.archive.org/web/20070308132512/http://www.silabs.com/public/documents/tpub_doc/dshort/Broadcast/Radio_Tuners/en/Si4700_01_short.pdf

Registry tweaks

Windows Mobile, like any Windows version, has a Windows registry. TweakingWindows Mobile registry tweaks
/ref> a registry refers to changing registry entries so that many OS functions will work differently. It is commonly used among Pocket PC users to get the best performance from devices and to get to OS hidden settings.

Known tools for Pocket PC registry editing:

* Total Commander

Resco Explorer
(requires add-in)
* Regedit

SKTools

WM registry hives:
* HKEY LOCAL MACHINE (HKLM) - this is the main key with all internal device and WM functions. There are all settings connected with drivers, services, connections, installed software, OS design and general data flow.
* HKEY CURRENT USER (HKCU) - this is the key with installed software settings and OS predefined values. There are standard user settings which can also be found in WM user interface.
* HKEY CLASSES ROOT ( HKCR) - this is the main core of WM services, files and application - data flow. In this key user can connect file extensions with programs that should use these files. There can also be found Soft Input Panel and other hard coded system applications.

Editing WM registry steps:

# Navigation to the proper registry entry.
# Changing its value / creating a new one.
# Acceptance of all made changes and suspending device for about 30–40 seconds.
# Soft resetting device.

Most registry entries can be changed by using special .cab files. Those can be made with the help o
WinCE CAB Manager
for PC (for example). An option that allows user to uninstall such cab file should be unchecked.

The second option for quick registry entries import is through .reg files. Those are standard .txt files saved in Unicode that can be pasted in Total Commander or imported in Resco Explorer.

References

External links

XDA Flame manual (English)

XDA Flame manual (Chinese Traditional)

XDA Flame manual (Indonesian)

XDA Flame quick start guide

Windows Mobile version comparison chart

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Windows Mobile Professional devices