It seems bad luck has befallen me, as now my Axim X50v has a strange memory error and won't fix itself. Can't soft reset, can't hard reset, battery/ handheld keeps overheating. My waranty had expired last month (November), thus relequishing my wish for Dell to replace or fix my Axim X50v. Thus meaning my X50v is now... a paperweight. I'm no longer able to do anything pocket pc related, thus this may come as a shock, i'll be stepping into my shadows to disappear from the Pocket PC realms. I'll be informing the Morphgear staff and i'll eventually see you guys sometime late 2006 or early 2007, which are the possible dates i'll have money to either fix my X50v or just grab an X51v (or newer, since Dell likes to release new handhelds now and then.). Unless someone comes up with a fix to reflash my handheld via a bootloader through a CF Card (which i haven't had much luck at all with), I'm open to any suggestion to get my X50v running again. For now, Its been real everyone and i hope i've been alot of help to many of you. Sorry goes out to anyone i wasn't able to help and sorry again biohzrd for the earlier months, friends still i hope :approve:. I'll catch you all on the flipside when handhelds one day will be perfected. You can still catch me on instant messengers and I will try to pop by to see how you all are doing. Forums/sites that i'll be on from now on are these below. Cya later everyone, it's been real !
Note- I will be selling my Axim X50v for parts if i'm not able to get it fixed by suggestions/ posts/ emails from you all. It will possibly go on ebay next week...
If I get a good bid, I'll just buy a USED Axim X50v off of Ebay!
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It might be a stupid question, but have you tried letting it run completely dead, depleting both batteries? I've heard once or twice of this helping, but I don't think that was with memory errors.
Also, have you tried to contact Dell regarding this, even though you're a month out of warranty? They might be willing to help anyway or at a reduced cost, but I'm basing that off my experience in general, not just with Dell. I don't know what their policy is about matters like this now.
I've had this memory error several times, and I was able to get out of it by removing the main battery for a period of time. It wasn't even long enough to drain the backup battery (I checked it after) but you may also try leaving for as long as it takes to deplete the backup battery. The other alternative I've read about is putting it on the cradle to charge (not sure if the main battery needs to be removed or not).
Nick D:
I found out my warranty was up by calling Dell themselves about my problem. Tossing me to the extended warranty appartment, they said they could replace my handheld for $399 with an extra year of warranty. I recently bought a new SUV (2 weeks ago) and I will be soon going on Leave (I'm in the Air Force) to go see my family for X-Mas and my tickets will cost over $1,000. So money is currently my issue right now, later on in the year 2006, I shouldn't have a problem buying a new handheld or fixing my current one (I might even upgrade my rom throught PPCTechs!)
I've also let my battery die 4 times, 2 inside of the handheld and 2 outside of the handheld. No go.
Gigi:
I'll try your suggestion tonight about trying to get the backup battery depleted and maybe chargeing it on the cradle without the battery...
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Try bootloading from SD...Always works. Just buy a small SD card, heck go big. 1 GB cards are only ~$40 and 512 MB are only around $20-$30 nowadays. Hope it works out somehow.
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Well draining out the backbattery seemed hard as i can't even tell i did or not (can't get past the load bar on the Dell screen.) I did pull out my lithium battery and let my pocket pc die out on me. The suggestion was a failure i guess, still can't get past the load bar on the dell logo start up screen.
@pmcizhere: I tried coming up to the bootloader screen (mentioned in my first post) but i've had no luck so far, have to push 3 buttons at the same time to get it working. I keep hearing that Dell's Axim X50v does not have that (bootloader) included with their hadheld/program in its entirety (meaning it does not exist unlike other handhelds).
Am I doomed to not get my handheld running again unless i spend a little cash. If i have to go spend over $50, I'm just going to buy it used (rather buy it new) but like i said in my first post, i'm very tight on money currently (Recently bought a NEW Suzuki XL-7 4WD SUV for $19,000 and my payments are currently killing me. I also bought tickets to go see my family for X-Mas, which cost over $1,000 because of where i'm at and where i need to go, round trip wise. These purchases were way before my X50v decided to die on me, so the death of my handheld was of course totally unexpected, mind you.) It's extremely hard now to say no to certain things, Soul Calibur 3... Need 4 Speed: Most Wanted... No! Bad hand, get away from my wallet !
Note- I may want to say that i'm not asking anyone for money, hardships in life come to everyone. I am only asking for help to get my handheld running again by some trick or program or by some kind of help, I am thinking about PocketPC Techs
( http://www.pocketpctechs.com/main~un...em~PPCDIAG.htm ). Suggestions are welcome of course, I thank everyone that feels my pain and are trying to help me get my handheld up and running again :approve: !
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For me, the memory error usually comes as a result of overheating.. maybe CPU and battery working together to overheat. I think the battery hits a critical point and just cuts out so the PPC thinks there was a memory error when in fact it was a crash. Want to try? Push the battery lid sensor on the back of your x50 (yeah, I know yours is a brick atm) turn it on, pull out the battery... put it back... put the cover on and you get the memory error (might cause a hardreset so I dont really think you should try it).
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/DellAximX50 if they can get linux to run on the X50v, doesn't that mean they can access the bootloader? (unless this is the other style where they run the code within WM2003 and upon reset they load up linux)
For me, the memory error usually comes as a result of overheating.. maybe CPU and battery working together to overheat. I think the battery hits a critical point and just cuts out so the PPC thinks there was a memory error when in fact it was a crash.
I totally agree with you. People are reporting the memory error as a WM5 problem but it's not. I got it several times while testing my battery for the Mugen review. I am still running WM2003SE.
I totally agree with you. People are reporting the memory error as a WM5 problem but it's not. I got it several times while testing my battery for the Mugen review. I am still running WM2003SE.
How can this be though, I've never had such a seriuous crash before on my X50v when i had 2003se. When 2003se crashed, it was more like a hard reset effect, have to hope you had a backup to restore your stuff. Once i updated to wm5, it crahsed to the point of no return, can't go back to backup, can't reflash, nothing...
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Chances are, you'll see him fade into the black
Continuously watching everyone's suggetions and problems,
Not overlooking the ones talking smack,
Your NEW Morphgear Project Administrator,
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New Handheld I'm getting! Jumping out of Pocket PC World for sure now ;) ...
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How can this be though, I've never had such a seriuous crash before on my X50v when i had 2003se. When 2003se crashed, it was more like a hard reset effect, have to hope you had a backup to restore your stuff. Once i updated to wm5, it crahsed to the point of no return, can't go back to backup, can't reflash, nothing...
I never had this problem with my X50v running WM2003SE UNTIL I started doing battery testing, which implies that it occurs when the system is stressed beyond a certain point. WM5 is more unstable compared to WM2003SE, so perhaps its overload threshold is lower?
(BTW, I also use battery monitoring programs, so there my be some connection there as well, similar to WM5.)
After talking to emulamer (one of my good buddies online), he has helped me out by getting my handheld to the sd image update bootloader.
1. Hold down *Power* and *wirless button*, i know this is kinda hard but trust me it will work. Now press (not hold) the reset button on the back for less than a sec (almost like you never pressed it). Make sure you still have *Power* and *Wireless Button*
held down. Screen should be black for a moment and then a white screen will flash up with the words "Sd Image Update A01".
Now i'm up to this, i just need an nbo file to run with the bootloader. I'm not sure how big the nbo file is so i'm now waiting for someone with the info of how much so i can buy a certain sd card amount (64mb, 128mb, 256mb, etc.) to get my handheld back alive and running again! Someone please help!
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Chances are, you'll see him fade into the black
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Not overlooking the ones talking smack,
Your NEW Morphgear Project Administrator,
Will always be able to answer them back...
New Handheld I'm getting! Jumping out of Pocket PC World for sure now ;) ...
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I actually had a very similar problem last week. My PPC locked up, and the power button wouldn't work and the soft reset button wouldn't work. Took out the battery, and was finally able to do a soft reset, but it never got past the blue logo screen. Finally had to do a hard reset (at least that worked).
Maybe this is why Dell releases a new PPC every year? This is the first one I've had for over a year.
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Not sure if you got it working, but I'd be more than happy to help!
I have a spare 128mb SD card sitting around and would be happy to mail it to ou or something so you can use it lol...
I hate it when shit like that happens, that's why I would never buy a HP PPC again , they ship broken lol.
But seriously, if you need a card, I can help!
*EDIT* Pm or Email me, my info is in my profile.
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