rlarson_mn

Originally Posted by adamdemuth

I got my x51v about a week and a half ago, and to be completely honest, I am severely dissapointed. I had an x5 that was an absolute trooper! Rarely locked up, bullet-proof construction, great battery life. It's only downfall was size: it was a behemoth. Oh yeah, and somebody stole it. So I decide, as a christmas present to myself, to get the newest greatest latest PDA, and since my x5 treated me so well (regardless of how I treated it :)), I'd go with another Dell. This go around has been less than impressive. Out of the box, it was sluggish - tap on the start button, and it takes a little less than a second for the menu to drop down, my x5 wa near instantaneous. It also seems to take longer to start an application than on my X5 (and it was the 300mhz model) Is there any way so make it respond a little snappier? Then it locks up quite a bit. I installed my favorite programs I had on my X5 (repurchased, to have the most up to date versions) BatteryPack, JournalBar, MSMoney, Vito Button Mapper. I also have the dell BT keyboard driver loaded and a 1Gig toshiba SD card. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why or when it locks up, but it stops responding, and I have to soft reset. This happens several times a day, and it will lock up on a certain application sometimes, and then other times not. Do I have a dud, or am I doing something wrong?

All of the issues you have had have been experienced by others here. If you do a search on the issue you will find solutions and others experiences. For me the answers to the issues you have and others you have not had as yet have been the following. First do a update to ROM A04 for the X51V. Second turn on BT and leave it on even when turning off your unit. After these two tasks were complete I have had a X51V that works perfect. BTW the X51V will default to a CPU speet of auto (the slowest) after a hare or soft reset or battery change. The first thing I do after each battery change is to turn the CPU speed to 624 mhg. Hope this gets you on the correct path with your unit. I think its the best PDA I have had in the last 6 years.