MPX Upgrade Your MPX200 to WM5

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by milkbone98

Portions from ardec1's original guide to upgrade.


1. Make sure your phone is unlocked, if not download an unlock utility and unlock it.

2. Download the Motorola Mobile Upgrade Wizard v. 1.3.0

3. Download the three image files containing the WM 2005 upgrade. Part 1 should be 14,680 KB, part 2 should be 30,099 KB and part 3 should be 41 KB.

4. Install the Mobile Upgrade Wizard and follow the instruction to connect you phone. For now, just make sure the Upgrade Wizard can connect to you phone.

5.get an SD card. I have used a 64 mb Sansick, a 512 Kingston Micro SD with an adapter, and a 1gb Sansisk successfully. Do not try MMC, its supposed to be problematic.

6. Get some kind of a card reader so you can format the SD card, and format it but do not insert it in the phone yet.

7. You are now ready to start the upgrade after you have removed your SIM card if have not already done so.

8. Start the Mobile Upgrade Wizard and connect the phone. Start flashing it with the first image file. When the flashing is completed, disconnect the phone and remove the battery, replace the battery and do a master reset by holding down the big round blue button while pressing the power button. The phone will start up and go to a screen with some garbage about “This is a ROM for use by engineers and other authorized personnel”, after that it will display a screen with “Mobile Operator”, it will stay on that screen for quite a while so don’t get impatient and think that it is not doing anything, finally it will display the device id together with an error message (it is VERY important that you wait for that screen to come up, if you interrupt the process before that screen comes up you may as well start over). Remove the battery, replace the battery and insert your SD card. Start the Mobile Upgrade Wizard and flash part 2 of the image files. Some of the ROMS out there are mislabeled, go by the file size rather than the file name. When that is done, leave the phone connected and start the Mobile Upgrade Wizard again. Flash the phone with part 3 of the image files and when it has completed, disconnect the phone and remove the battery.

9. Replace the battery and do a master reset. Now the screen will have three options, scroll down to “clean reg hive” and chose Yes by pressing the blue button, scroll down to “format storage” and chose Yes again. Scroll down to “Done” and press the blue button. The screen will go white and stay that way for a while (how long depends on the size of you SD card).

10. Congratulations! You now have WM5 on an MPX200. And they said it couldnt be done.....

You will notice that the entire filesystem is on the SD card, your phone wont work correctly without the card inserted. If you switch cards its a giant PITA too, so if you are going to switch, do it before you get a lot of apps installed. The phone will format a new card, but it can take some time.

One addition, please do not ask for the ROM, or where it can be found. Look for it, its available.

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