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Originally Posted by Blegate_x50v
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Jake- I don't mean to come across negative here but resetting your PDA 10 times per day is not acceptable. If you are truely resetting 10 times per day (that's about 300 times a month give or take) I would have to believe your PDA is defective and should be called in. Personally I can live with resetting my PDA once a week. I've had several other PDA's in the past and I've never heard of having to reset soooo many times.
Peace.....
brian
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I have a lot of apps on my PDA and not all of them are compatible with each other. That's just one of the facts of life. So, I end up with deadly embraces, frozen screens, unresponsive machines all the time. Soft reset is just like the CTRL-ALT-DEL on a PC--no big deal. It has the benefit of killing misbehaving apps, recovering memory leaks, defragmenting memory and generally improving performance. It only takes a few seconds and only requires minimal handling (The X5 was better, with that handy button on the side, but the little hole isn't bad.)
My PDA is NOT defective, I just put a lot of stress on it. I do the same with my Laptop. I reboot it several times a day, too. Sometimes the two get hammered together, which means I C-A-D one and Soft Reset the other to get them back to polite behavior. In my normal, quiet day, I'm logged into a network on my laptop, tunnelled in via VPN to my company, with the Axim in a cradle using Activesync to sync to Outlook and mNotes to sync to Lotus Notes. I sometimes then fire up WiFi from the cradle to see what networks I can see operating. TCP/IP gets lost on a regular basis! No big deal, I soft reset and get control back.
I also beta test and review software on the X50, so I'm always installing immature software that crashes it, too. I'm a power user, so I do expect to see problems. I backup a couple of times a day, usually just before I install the NEXT package, so even hard resetting is not that traumatic.
Soft resetting ten times a day is perfectly acceptable to me, given my circumstances. Soft resetting a couple of times a day would be a good practice for any PPC owner, if only to recover memory leaks and defragment memory. It's houskeeping.