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Originally Posted by bigdave240
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While I would never pretend to know even half as much as Chris on this subject, I don't see how you can avoid soft resetting it while it is turned on about 90% of the time. Usually what happens is that something gets hung and you soft reset to clear it. Some of those times it might not even turn off. If his theory is correct it would really change the way a lot of people use the pda IMHO. It almost makes it too fragile.
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True but it is maybe something we should look at. It may be why applications hang in the first place?
Another one is the finite number of read/writes in memory:
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...=76407&page=16
""""Traditional EEPROM chips of 10 years ago have Write-Erase durability of 10,000 cycles.
Flash chips have higher durability cycles of 100,000 cycles or up to 500,000 cycles depending on the manufacturer - BUT Flash chips have a problem where if you want to make any small change to it, what it does is actually :
1. read entire content of flash block
2. erase entire content of flash block
3. rewrite entire content of flash block with new changes
(a flash block can be anywhere from 0.5MB to ?MB)
This is different from EEPROM where changes are only made on byte level - where if changes required on one byte, only that byte is changed...
Does anyone know who manufactures our "ROM" and whether it's FLASH memory or EEPROM memory?
If our BIS is FLASH, then we must be careful that we don't store any programs which will write and erase a lot of "temporary" files - or else we will use up our 100,000 cycles pretty quickly... """"""""""""""""""""