ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC - README
Version 1.1
IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES:
Pocket PC 2003 (version 4.x) or later devices are supported.
Attention phone users: this installer supports Pocket PC phones (touch-screen/stylus interface); non-touch screen phones must install ERG 2008 Mobile for Smartphone.
This README will be available in the DOT ERG 2008 Mobile group of your PC's start menu when the installation completes.
Contents
System Requirements
Installation
	Quick-Start Instructions
	Detailed Instructions
	Upgrade Instructions
	Resolving Installation Errors
Uninstalling
Known Issues
Release History
ERG 2008 Mobile Overview
Disclaimer
System Requirements
To install and run ERG 2008 Mobile you need the following:
·	A Windows Mobile "Pocket PC" (touch screen) device (Windows Mobile devices without a touch screen must download and install ERG 2008 Mobile for Smartphone)
·	Pocket PC 2003 (version 4.x) or later devices are supported (includes Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0)
·	A device with 64MB or more of RAM is recommended, though a 32 MB device is adequate
·	Approximately 6 MB of storage memory, either on the device or on an expansion card, for ERG Mobile and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
·	Approximately 5 MB of program memory to run the ERG Mobile application
·	A personal computer, on which is installed the required device synchronization software. On Windows XP, Microsoft ActiveSync 4 or later is required. On Windows Vista, Windows Mobile Device Center is required and is already part of Vista, but it must be upgraded to version 6 or later. For the latest versions of either, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/activesync/default.mspx.
To determine the version of your device’s operating system, select StartàSettings, select the System tab, and then select About.
To determine the amount of memory on your device, from the same System tab, select Memory, and then the Main tab.  If your device has an expansion card, you can go to the Storage Card tab to determine its free space.
Attention phone users: If your phone has a touch screen (you use a stylus to interface with the PDA on your phone), it is considered a Pocket PC; this includes Palm Treo's running Windows Mobile. If your phone does not have a touch screen (such as the Motorola Q and the Samsung BlackJack), it is considered a Smartphone, and you must instead install ERG 2008 Mobile for Smartphone.
Installation 
If a previous version of the ERG 2008 Mobile is already installed, see the Upgrade Instructions section below.
The ERG Mobile installation consists of two parts: installation to your desktop/laptop PC (documentation and files required for device synchronization), and installation to your Pocket PC device.  After the PC portion of the installation, your device synchronization software will download ERG Mobile to your device and launch its installation.  If your device is not connected, then the ERG Mobile installation will continue the next time it is connected.
Quick-Start Instructions
1.	Cradle/connect your device to your PC.
2.	Download the setup program (ERG_PocketPC_Setup.exe) to your PC and run it.
3.	The PC files, including this README, will be installed. 
4.	The Pocket PC setup program will start and install ERG 2008 Mobile onto your device.
5.	Respond to prompts presented on your device, including whether ERG Mobile should be installed to the default location on the device, or an alternative location (e.g., a storage card).
6.	Upon completion of the installation, run ERG 2008 Mobile by selecting the icon of the same name in StartàPrograms.
Detailed Instructions
1.	Download to your PC the ERG_PocketPC_Setup.exe setup program from the DOT website and run it (double-click it). This installs the ERG Mobile documentation to your PC, as well as the files that will be downloaded and installed to your device during synchronization.  By default, these files are located under the folder "C:\Program Files\DOT ERG 2008 Mobile\PocketPC", and consist of:
	C:\Program Files
		\DOT ERG 2008 Mobile
			\PocketPC
README.rtf (this file)
				\DeviceInstallerFiles (files downloaded to the device during synchronization)
2.	When the PC installation completes, the Pocket PC installation is launched.  This will install the following:
a.	system dependencies: Microsoft .NET CF (Compact Framework) 2.0
b.	ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC application and database files
3.	If the .NET Compact Framework is already installed on your device, you will first receive a prompt on your PC: “Microsoft .NET CF 2.0 is already installed. Do you want to proceed with the re-install/upgrade?” Answering “yes” is recommended to ensure that you have the latest version (for example, new service packs may be included).
The remaining details of the installation depend on whether you have a Windows Mobile 5.0 (or later) or Pocket PC 2003 device.
Regardless, upon completion of the installation, run ERG 2008 Mobile by selecting the icon of the same name in StartàPrograms.
Windows Mobile 5.0
NOTE: even if installation to a storage card is desired, the ERG Mobile installation files must still be temporarily downloaded to the device; if the installer presents a "Not Enough Space On Device" dialog, then cancel the installation and follow the instructions in the section below titled, "Resolving Installation Errors".
After completion of the PC portion of the installation, respond to any prompts presented on you Pocket PC device:
1.	If you elected to re-install/upgrade the Microsoft .NET CF, a prompt will be presented indicating that the existing version will be removed before the new one is installed.  Select “OK”.
2.	If your device has a storage card, you will be prompted on the device to choose a location (Device or Card) to install each of the following:
a.	Microsoft .NET CF 2.0 – install this to the device
b.	ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC – note that optimum performance will be realized by installing to the device
3.	An unknown publisher warning for the “DOT ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC.CAB” may be presented. Answer “Yes”.
4.	You may be prompted to restart the device.
ERG Mobile is installed under the folder “\Program Files\ERG 2008 Mobile” on either the device or storage card, depending on what was selected for the destination.
Pocket PC 2003
1.	A dialog will appear on your PC asking if you want to “Install ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC and other pending applications using the default application install directory?”  By default, ERG Mobile application files and database will be installed in your device’s main memory at ”\Program Files\ERG 2008 Mobile”. If space on your device is limited, you may need to consider placing ERG Mobile on an expansion card instead, if your device is so equipped. Note that optimum performance will be realized by installing to main memory.
a.	Answer “Yes” to continue installation to the default location if your device meets the memory requirements, OR
b.	Answer “No”. A “Select Destination Media” dialog is presented with a list of options. The default option will be “Main Memory”, and an indication of the amount of required and available space will be provided. If your device has an expansion card, it will be included as an option in this list, typically as “Storage Card”. Select the desired option and then press OK. On a storage card, ERG Mobile is installed under a folder “\DOT ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC”
2.	The Pocket PC installer will proceed to download ERG Mobile and its dependencies to your device.
3.	At completion of the download, an “Application Downloading Complete” dialog will be displayed on your PC and present the following message: “Please check your device for any additional operations that must be performed on the device to complete installation.”  This is an indication that your device may be presenting additional dialogs to complete the installation. In particular, on some devices the installation of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework may result in a Confirm File Replace dialog that displays messages similar to the following: “The file ‘\Windows\mscoree.dll’ is hidden, read-only, or a system file. Would you like to replace the existing file?” Answer this with the “Yes To All” option (“Yes” can also be selected, but this dialog may repeat for several other files.)
Upgrade Instructions
Note that the 2004 and 2008 versions of ERG Mobile are separate applications; if the 2004 version is already installed, it will remain installed even after installing ERG 2008 Mobile. To uninstall the 2004 version, see the Uninstalling section below.
An upgrade is performed the same as a normal installation, but with the following considerations. Note that user settings (preferences) will be retained.
1.	Before attempting to install the new version of ERG Mobile, determine if your existing version is running on your Pocket PC device, and if so, stop it.  This can be quickly achieved by simply performing a “soft reset” of your device (save any unsaved data first).  Or, ERG Mobile can be explicitly shut down as follows:
a.	On your device, select Settings from the Start menu
b.	Select the “System” tab
c.	Tap “Memory”
d.	Select the “Running Programs” tab
e.	If “ERG 2008 Mobile” appears in the “Running Program List”, select it, and then tap the “Stop” button
2.	During the installation of the new version of ERG Mobile, you will see dialogs on your PC displaying the following notifications. In each case, select “Yes”, including for the Microsoft .NET CF 2.0 component, since the installation may include updates to it.
•	“ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC is already installed. Do you want to proceed with the re-install/upgrade?”
•	“Microsoft .NET CF 2.0 is already installed. Do you want to proceed with the re-install/upgrade?”
3.	Windows Mobile 5.0 devices: for both the Microsoft .NET CF and ERG Mobile, dialogs will be present indicating that the previous version will be removed before the new one is installed.  Select “OK”.
4.	Pocket PC 2003 devices: If there is not enough space on the device, this will be indicated on the Select Destination Media dialog by the Space Available and Space Required values. Press OK, and a “Not Enough Space on Device dialog” will be presented.  Select OK to indicate that you want to continue anyway.  The calculation of available space does not, unfortunately, account for the fact that the previous version of ERG Mobile will be removed, and thus that space is available. Therefore, continuation of the installation should be okay.
5.	As with a normal install, if the device displays prompts asking if files should be overwritten, answer “Yes to All”.
Resolving Installation Errors
This section describes the typical causes of installation errors and how to resolve them.
SCENARIO #1: “Not Enough Space On Device” error is displayed on the PC.
Cause:
This error is presented on the PC when it attempts to download the ERG Mobile installation files to the device, but there is not enough space. The message will include an indication of the amount of space available and the amount required. Note that even if the desire is to install ERG Mobile to an expansion card, space is still temporarily required on the device during the install.
Solution:
1.	Delete unneeded files and/or programs to free up space on the device
OR
2.	Manually install ERG Mobile to a storage card
Procedure:
If manual installation of ERG Mobile to a storage card is required, the procedure is as follows:
1.	Using File Explorer on the PC, you can access the file system (including the storage card) of the connected device, and thus copy to the card the "CAB" files that must executed to complete the installation. The CAB files are available on the PC under
	C:\Program Files\DOT ERG 2008 Mobile\PocketPC\DeviceInstallerFiles
	They consist of the following
		NETCFv2.wm.armv4i.cab (installs the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, required by ERG Mobile)
		ErgApplication.ARM.CAB (installs ERG Mobile)
2.	Once these files have been copied to the storage card, open up File Explorer on the device and navigate to the storage card.
3.	Select each CAB file to launch its installation.
4.	Each installation will prompt for the location where the install should occur: the device or storage card. For .NET, choose the device; for ERG Mobile, choose the storage card.
5.	The CAB files may be deleted after completion of the installation.
SCENARIO #2: “Installation of ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC.CAB was unsuccessful” due to lack of space
Cause:
This error is presented on the device. One of its causes is a lack of storage space: the device contains enough space to download the installer files, but there is not enough remaining space to complete the installation. (Another cause is a timeout; see scenario #3 below.)
Aside from deleting unneeded files and/or programs to free up space on the device, there are two solutions: install ERG Mobile to a storage card, or install ERG Mobile from the storage card to the device.
Solution #1:
Install ERG Mobile to the storage card:
1.	 Repeat the installation.
2.	When the device prompts for the location to install ERG Mobile, choose the storage card instead of the device.
Solution #2:
Install ERG Mobile from the storage card. If the CAB files are executed from the storage card instead of the device, this will likely free up enough space to install ERG Mobile to the device.
The procedure is the same as the procedure above for scenario #1, in which the CAB files required for installation are copied to and executed from a storage card. When prompted for the location for the install, select the device or the card as desired.
SCENARIO #3: “Installation of ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC.CAB was unsuccessful” due to a timeout
Cause:
This error is presented on the device. One of its causes is the failure to respond to prompts presented on the device, and the installation eventually times out. (Another cause is lack of storage space; see scenario #2 above.)
When installation of ERG Mobile is launched on the device, a prompt will be presented indicating that the software is from an unknown publisher.  In the case of an upgrade, there is also a prompt alerting that the previous installation is about to be uninstalled. If these prompts are not acknowledged, the install will eventually time out.
Solution:
Repeat the installation. Once download to the device completes, be sure to monitor the progress of the install on the device.
Uninstalling
PC Uninstall 
The PC portion of the ERG Mobile installation can be uninstalled from your PC via the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs option. Select the "ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC" entry in the list of programs, and press its remove button.
Pocket PC Uninstall
There are two ways to uninstall ERG Mobile from your Pocket PC:
1.	On the device, go to StartàSettingsàSystemàRemove Programs. Select "ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC" from the list of programs, and then select Remove.
2.	If your device is connected to your PC, open your syncronization software (e.g., ActiveSync) and select ToolsàAdd/Remove Programs. A dialog listing the applications on your device is displayed. Find "ERG 2008 Mobile for Pocket PC" and clear the checkbox.
ERG Mobile’s third party dependency, “Microsoft .NET CF 2.0”, can be uninstalled in the same way IF you are sure that it is not needed by other applications on your device.
Known Issues
ERG Mobile was designed for the standard Pocket PC display, that is, a rectangular, portrait-oriented display (240x320 resolution, or a 480x640 VGA). It will adjust for alternate screen sizes (e.g., square) and orientations (landscape), though certain parts of the interface will require scrolling of the screen that would not otherwise be required.
Release History
February 5, 2009 - v1.1.79 - account for DOT URL changes

August 7, 2008 - v1.1.15
•	Account for errata (http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/DownloadableFiles/Files/erg2008errata.pdf)
•	Add intro/caution text for placard/rail car/road trailer pages to the table of contents of the reference document viewer

April 2008 - v1.0: initial public release
ERG 2008 Mobile Overview
The Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) was developed jointly by the US Department of Transportation, Transport Canada, and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation of Mexico (SCT) for use by firefighters, police, and other emergency services personnel who may be the first to arrive at the scene of a transportation incident involving a hazardous material. It is primarily a guide to aid first responders in (1) quickly identifying the specific or generic classification of the material(s) involved in the incident, and (2) protecting themselves and the general public during this initial response phase of the incident.
ERG 2008 Mobile is a software version of the 2008 edition of the ERG. Distributed by the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT), its development was provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
For downloads and additional information, see http://phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/library/erg.
For comprehensive hazardous substance data and identification support, see NLM's Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER): http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/.
Disclaimer
ERG 2008 Mobile is a software version of the 2008 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG). It relies strictly on the information contained in the ERG, and reflects corrections for errata published as of July 16, 2008.
The ERG is normally revised and reissued every four years. However, in the event of a significant mistake, omission, or change in the state of knowledge, special instructions to change the guidebook may be issued. Users of the guidebook and this software should check periodically to make sure their version is current at http://phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/library/erg.
The U.S. Government does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the ERG as presented by this software. The published ERG, plus any published errata, should be the final authority over this software.