ah! thank you! I didn't think to use half words! (ok, I did for a sec but didn't know the command :P)
but! it still didn't work :P
I'm trying this one now:
but it didn't work eitherCode:ldr r0,=0x021D88FE ldrh r2,[r0] add r1,r2,#0x1 strh r1,[r0] bx r14