WermerSkoch

I recently upgraded my x50v to WM5. I liked it, but was having trouble running a couple programs on it. I performed a hard-reset, taking it back to the fresh WM5 install. the system was hanging like crazy, and it was taking a rediculus amount of time to boot up. Thinking this was a bug in WM5, I decided to downgrade. I did another hard reset, and ran the downgrade utility from Dell. My unit is doing the SAME THING even though it's back at A00 WM2003SE. It took me about 15 minutes to get through the welcome set-up thing (calibrating the screen, learning how to change an apointment, etc...) because the system was hanging SO much (it took about 30 seconds for the curser to creep from spot to spot when calibrating the screen). It's all set up now, and running a little bit better, but still slower than I remember. Anyone have any ideas on what this could be? Thanks!

Warner

jhennig

the part about it taking forever to get to the welcome screen after a hard reset sounds like when my Asus A730w fried the mobo FOUR times. (Yes, that means that I have owned 6 different pocket pcs.)

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SENATOR

I think it's because when you upgrade to WM5, it reformats your flash drive. That cannot be undone. From what I've seen, it's that firmware change with the flash memory that makes everything run so slow. In effect, it's changed the whole device memory into that slow backup 128mb memory that no one used.

pjs_new

I had the same thing happen to me. I had read the posts here about people having better performance from WM5 on the second install after rolling back and thought I would try that. I did the roll back and it took forever to get to the welcome screen. Since I was rolling back with the intention to re-install WM5, I didn't worry too much about it and went on with my re-installation. It worked great and now the Axim is faster than ever. I haven't installed my apps yet though, so we'll see how long it lasts. It is significantly faster than my first install though so hopefully I'm on to something. I am very new at all this and only steal the ideas of others so take anything I recommend with a very large grain of salt.

SENATOR

Interesting. This partially worked for me. I downgraded to WM2003, which ran INCREDIBLY slow. I then read this post, and thought I would try to run the WM5 upgrade again. Well, it would get about 3/4ths of the way finished, then say it lost the USB connection to my computer. I've tried it 3 times - and it gives the same error.

However, after a hard reset my WM2003 runs perfectly again. I figure I'll wait for WM5 A02 before I try that upgrade again.

SENATOR

Well, finally got 05 to install after trying all of this and it works great! VERY fast indeed!

x6tenz

I have exactly the same problem. One thing I noticed is that after installing WM5 the battery was runing extremelly fast. I checked the speed on the device and it was set in "auto" but it always showed 624mhz.

I got so frustrated that I downgraded again, like you, and also had the same issue of the device being dragging on the setup screen. (I really do not logically understand why this is happening).

Also, it is very stupid that a PIM backup from 2003 can not be restored with WM5. What they expect??? people retyping all their contact information again?

They rename this WM5 as an upgrade.... well it isn't.... if you can not port your info back in an automatic way.

I just hope they do fix all these issues really fast...

iancjc

Originally Posted by x6tenz

Also, it is very stupid that a PIM backup from 2003 can not be restored with WM5. What they expect??? people retyping all their contact information again? I just hope they do fix all these issues really fast...

I'm waiting on the wm5 cd at the moment - I take it PIM info can still be restored via an outlook sync?

thanks

Ian

greyseal

Originally Posted by SENATOR

Interesting. This partially worked for me. I downgraded to WM2003, which ran INCREDIBLY slow. I then read this post, and thought I would try to run the WM5 upgrade again. Well, it would get about 3/4ths of the way finished, then say it lost the USB connection to my computer. I've tried it 3 times - and it gives the same error. However, after a hard reset my WM2003 runs perfectly again. I figure I'll wait for WM5 A02 before I try that upgrade again.

This happened to me, too -- WM5 was pissing me off (a looong story), so I flashed back to 2003. But it was flat-out broken. The "align screen" part of bootup took almost 20 minutes to get through!

So I clenched my teeth and tried going back to WM5. Halfway through the image transfer, my PC throws a blue screen of death at me (I haven't seen that since Win98!), and the whole thing crashes. I thought the Axim was doomed, since it stopped halfway through.

But I gave it another shot, and it upgraded. WM5 seems to be working ok for now, but I haven't really installed anything yet. Want to test stability first...