Sport

I wonder if it is possible that this patch addresses the Alarms bug??? Tech support keeps telling me to install it for that reason but I'm not sure the guys I've talked with so far are competent. One of them actually sent me an elaborate link which was designed to teach me how to do a soft reset. :crooked: to solve my "alarms" problem. I've called them 4 times about my alarms and have even told them about all of the third party attempts to fix it, so I keep wondering if they know what they are talking about. The "sound" on my X5 255 (AO5 pre-installed) is certainly limited by the tiny speaker. However, I did not buy my Ax for the sound system. I use a headset when using WMP and the sound is much better. But I do need the alarms to work all the time. The readout on the patch link here at Aximsite says, "This patch fixes issues with audio on the x5 with Windows Mobile 2003". What issues I wonder...

Does anyone know what "Issues" they address?

Thanks,
Sport

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wcoppola

Thanks for the tips here. I was going mad with 2 apps where the sound would bomb out after one sound clip. I did a hard reset and reinstalled everything, and things seem to work OK again. Amazing that this was caused by a Dell patch, and very worrying. For reference, I have PPC 2003, and apps SmartST and Dialamatic were failing.

Thanks

Will

Gerard Samija

Just having installed WM2003 this past week, I find that the audio is very much worse (it actually wasn't bad at all uner PPC2002) on my Axim X5 PXA250 400MHz. Inconsistent, that's the main new problem. It seems to mute itself randomly. In GSPlayer or WMP sometimes the playback wil get so quiet, even at max volume, that I have to soft rest to get sound back. Not quite off-volume, but very close to it, like I'm hearing a bit of leaked radio transmission through earbuds. And there's clicky problems, worse with the audio patch. And of course not one reminder has powered on the X5 since I updated to WM2003. A new version of SuperAlert for this OS is supposedly on the way... but it's the weekend, so probably Garry will email it Tuesday or something. Hope that works. as without reminders I'm lost!

The other very pesky 'patch' problem is system slowdowns/audio breakup when adjusting volume. The volume sliders in every player used to work silky smooth under PPC2002 on this same X5, but with WM2003 they sort of jerk and cause interruptions, and with the 'patch' it's a whole lot worse.

As for getting rid of the wavedev.dll file which an Add/Remover or Remover uninstall fails to get out of the \Windows folder; I just used Resco to rename the extension to .old. Gave me an error saying "cannot delete wavedev.dll", then it renamed it anyway after a flakey couple of seconds of hourglassing. And, oddly, the ROM-based wavedev.dll suddenly appeared right above it in the file list when things calmed down. Of course I still couldn't delete wavedev.old, as it was linked to the audio system and as such 'in use', so I soft reset and then deleted it. This patch doesn't overwrite ROM, just supresses it.

So, does anyone have a clue if Dell might ever release a real audio patch, one which works? That'd be nice.

philosophy62

This was a really helpful discussion. Thanx for the tip on how to uninstall the patch. I found that there was a .dll file called something like dellaudiopatchv1.dll in the windows\appmgr folder. Once you rename wavedev.dll, reset and delete the renamed version, you can also get rid of this dellaudiopatch*.dll file. I found I couldn't reinstall until I killed both files.

Originally Posted by Gerard Samija

Just having installed WM2003 this past week, I find that the audio is very much worse (it actually wasn't bad at all uner PPC2002) on my Axim X5 PXA250 400MHz. Inconsistent, that's the main new problem. It seems to mute itself randomly. In GSPlayer or WMP sometimes the playback wil get so quiet, even at max volume, that I have to soft rest to get sound back. Not quite off-volume, but very close to it, like I'm hearing a bit of leaked radio transmission through earbuds. And there's clicky problems, worse with the audio patch. And of course not one reminder has powered on the X5 since I updated to WM2003. A new version of SuperAlert for this OS is supposedly on the way... but it's the weekend, so probably Garry will email it Tuesday or something. Hope that works. as without reminders I'm lost! The other very pesky 'patch' problem is system slowdowns/audio breakup when adjusting volume. The volume sliders in every player used to work silky smooth under PPC2002 on this same X5, but with WM2003 they sort of jerk and cause interruptions, and with the 'patch' it's a whole lot worse. As for getting rid of the wavedev.dll file which an Add/Remover or Remover uninstall fails to get out of the \Windows folder; I just used Resco to rename the extension to .old. Gave me an error saying "cannot delete wavedev.dll", then it renamed it anyway after a flakey couple of seconds of hourglassing. And, oddly, the ROM-based wavedev.dll suddenly appeared right above it in the file list when things calmed down. Of course I still couldn't delete wavedev.old, as it was linked to the audio system and as such 'in use', so I soft reset and then deleted it. This patch doesn't overwrite ROM, just supresses it. So, does anyone have a clue if Dell might ever release a real audio patch, one which works? That'd be nice.

Gerard Samija

Well now, that is odd. I hadn't looked into \Windows\AppMgr before uninstalling this patch, just renamed the main DLL in \Windows and then used S_K's Remover to uninstall the thing. Since dellaudiopatchv1.dll is not there now, I can only guess that Remover cleaned it out, unless there's more than one version of the patch - which I rather doubt.

In an even odder turn of events, my X5 started having sort not-too-bad sound last week. I didn't do anything special, just carried on as before, tweaking the odd thing, adding some software, losing other titles... It's still glitchy the odd time when adjusting volume in WMP or GSPlayer, but usually not so, or not much. I've actually had volume sliders go up and down smoothly a handful of times in the past week, no static or music-faltering at all. Minor miracle, I suppose. Of course, it's probably just a bug. Eventually it'll sort itself out and I'll have worse audio again.

I think this WM2003 OS is haunted, frankly. For the first few weeks Pocket IE was behaving well, except for a big memory leak when viewing PHP-coded forums. Then last week certain automatic redirections stopped working, just one morning I started seeing 'you will now be redirected to the updated page...' and nothing would happen. Always worked before. Now forums which use this, and places like PocketGear and others all just leave me waiting so I have to tap the 'if you don't want to wait' link. What a silly thing to change. And without provocation, it would seem.

Anyone know a good PPC excorcist?