Please post your answers to the following questions regarding the WM2003 A04 to A05 update:[LIST=1][*]Success or Failure?[*]If Failure, at what point did the update fail?[*]If it failed at 1/13, how many dots (next to the indicator) are displayed?[*]Were you updating an Axim Basic (300 MHz) or Axim Advanced (400 MHz)?[*]What type of PC were you using to update the Axim?....and what OS is it running?[*]Were you using a USB or a Serial connection?[/LIST=1]


The purpose of this survey is just to see what problems legitimate updaters were having with the A05 update.

Please use this thread ONLY to post answers to these questions. Any posts other than answers will be deleted. Thanks for your help.

Jordan M. Wigley
Aximsite.com
Email: jordan AT aximsite.com

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1. Success.
2. N/A
3. N/A
4. Axim Advanced.
5. Desktop PC, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor, 512Mb RAM, Win XP Home
6. USB.

1. Success
2. N/A
3. N/A
4. Axim X5 Advanced (400 MHz)
5. Dell Optiplex GX100, Intel Celeron 500MHz, 256MB RAM, WinXP Pro
6. USB travelsync cable

2x SimpleTech Bonzai USB2 mini-drive/SD card reader
2x Lexar 1GB (Non-Hi Speed!) SD (USA): write speed = 5.5MB/sec (37.5X) Space avail. (formatted) = 975MB
1x SimpleTech 512MB SD (Taiwan?): write speed = 5.3MB/sec (36.4X)...... Space avail. (formatted) = 489MB
RMA'd: SimpleTech 512MB SD (Japan): write speed = 3.9MB/sec (26.6X)... Space avail. (formatted) = 491MB
Sold: Viking 256MB SD (Taiwan): write speed = 1.5MB/sec (10.2X)........... Space avail. (formatted) = 241MB
Sold: Viking 128MB SD (Japan): write speed = 1.5MB/sec (10.2X)............. Space avail. (formatted) = 120MB

1. Failure
2. Hung up on 1/13
3. 3 before the numbers, 3 after the numbers
4. Axim Advanced
5. Dell Dimension 4600 (2.6 GHz w/ HT, 512 MB RAM, XP Pro)
6. USB

1. Failure (I'm up to 9 attempts on 3 different PC's)
2. Hangs at 1/13
3. 3 dots before, 3 dots after
4. Advanced
5. AMD Athlon 1.87 GHZ, P4 2.4 GHZ, AMD Athlon 1.33 GHZ (All running Win2K SP4)
6. USB cable and USB cradle (Each attempt I would alternate)

Other notes: I've attempted all ActiveSync configs (Guest, Named and none at all). I also tried twice with removing all batteries (1st time for 10 mins -- 2nd time for 4 hours)

1-Success
2-N/A
3-N/A
4-Advanced
5-Dell Dimension 4100 PIII 933 with Windows2000
6-USB

Success, Basic, AMD K6-2 (192MB RAM) running XP Pro, USB.
Remark: I did a hard reset just before updating.

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1. failure.
2. Hung up on 1/13
3. 3 dots before, 3 dots after
4. Axim Advanced (400 Mhz).
5. Dell Latitude C810 - Win XP Prof
6. USB.

1. Sucess
2. N/A
3. N/A
4. Advanced/400
5. Home built P4 1.8, 512 Mb RAM Windows XP Home
6. USB/cradle

Those of you who have not tried the battery removal method discussed elsewhere in this forum may find it useful. It seems to be working in many cases.

1. Success
2.
3.
4. Basic
5. AMD 1000, XP Pro, 384 MB
6. USB

[list=1][*]Success[*]n/a[*]n/a[*]Basic[*]Toshiba Satellite, with Windows XP home, USB 1.1, ActiveSync 3.7.[*]USB Cable[/list=1]
Notes: Had to do a hard reset during the process, after waiting 20 minutes with a blank screen (after the reset of the backup). Also while the update didn't touch anything, even when the welcoming Windows screen appeared, I left it there, didn't perform the first time Wizard until the full update was done.

1. Success.
2. -
3. -
4. Advanced.
5. No-name P4 1.5ghz, 256mb ram, Windows 2000.
6. USB cradle.

Dell Axim X5 400mhz.
WriteShield screen protector.
Truemobile CF WLAN.
Viking SD 256MB
Netgear MR814 router.
DSI holster case.

1. Success
2. n/a
3. n/a
4. Axim Advanced
5. Self Built, AMD xp 2400+, 1024 MB DDR, Asus mobo, WinXP
6. USB

[QUOTE]Originally posted by deftech
[B]Please post your answers to the following questions regarding the WM2003 A04 to A05 update:[LIST=1][*]Success or Failure?[*]If Failure, at what point did the update fail?[*]If it failed at 1/13, how many dots (next to the indicator) are displayed?[*]Were you updating an Axim Basic (300 MHz) or Axim Advanced (400 MHz)?[*]What type of PC were you using to update the Axim?....and what OS is it running?[*]Were you using a USB or a Serial connection?[/LIST=1]

It was a Success after a couple of tries.

Updating An Axim Advanced

Using a Custom Built Desktop, Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz, 1024 Megs of DDR Ram using Windows XP Professional

Using USB connection

Insanity, Keep doing the same things & expect different results!!