jvenables

Hiya Guys, I thought I would post some of my experiences of upgrading my x50v to the latest Windows Mobile....Both good and bad

Installing Active Sync 4.1 was as usual relatively painless & then I plugged in my device to perform the ROM upgrade. To be honest, it went very well the upgrade was completed in about 5-10mins with no problems incountered at all.

I then proceeded to install my base apps:- Pocket Informant(latest), Pocket Weather(latest), Pocket Breeze(latest), Contact Breeze(latest). These all installed painlessly - I really like the new feature that Active Sync doesnt ask where u want to install it, i.e. RAM, Built in Storage, CF or SD....That always was a pain I felt, especially at the PC level. However what it does now is once it gets to the PDA, it asks main memory or extra storage...I think this is a nice feature.

This is where the problems started, I found that my PDA was really really slow, It crashed very regularly.....even loading base menus seemed to take an age or just didnt happen.....my today picture corrupted.....I eventually performed a Hard Reset and havent touched it since..

I am really concerned that the upgrade has destroyed my machine, however I dont really want to revert back to WM2003se just yet.

some more testing and config needs to be done I think & I have been reading the Aximsite boards quite heavily as from what I can gather about 95% of all people who have done the upgrade have had serious problems...

Its a shame really.

Will post if I pluck up the courage to continue.

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John Venables

Dell Axim x50V with Windows Mobile 5 - A02