Hi guys, after a lot of fighting I have WM5 working nicely. My only complaint is the battery lasting a much shorter time. After reading through all these great forums I have found a lot of tips regarding battery life and acivesync and battery meters found in diverse today plugins. Well, I think there is more to this ssue and I think we should all ull together a list with any application that puts our auto cpu mode up to 624.
[B]- Pocket informant 2005 Rev 3 Build 457 Trial Version:[/B] I have definitely identified this application as a full battery drainer and cpu abuser. This doesen´t happen on every function of the softwarebut as soon as you try to add a event, task, etc. it usually happens. Anyone can confirm this????
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My PI2005 works good in my axim.Although it takes too much system resource,I think it is a good program,and I didn't feel anything wrong with my AXIM after install the PI2005.
[B]- Pocket informant 2005 Rev 3 Build 457 Trial Version:[/B] I have definitely identified this application as a full battery drainer and cpu abuser. This doesen´t happen on every function of the softwarebut as soon as you try to add a event, task, etc. it usually happens. Anyone can confirm this????
Wisbar Advance author mentioned in the thread Axim/WM5 and WA:
"I think I've found the problem. In Visual Studio 2005, I turned on the "Full Optimizations" option in order to make things work faster. However, I just read a post on WebIS's forum where Alex discovered that that compiler option has a bug in it. It probably is what's affected the performance, too.
I'm going to do a rebuild with the option set back the way it was and see if helps out any...."
I hope Chris(WB) and Alex(PI) are on something interesting here!
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Hi guys, after a lot of fighting I have WM5 working nicely. My only complaint is the battery lasting a much shorter time. After reading through all these great forums I have found a lot of tips regarding battery life and acivesync and battery meters found in diverse today plugins. Well, I think there is more to this ssue and I think we should all ull together a list with any application that puts our auto cpu mode up to 624.
[B]- Pocket informant 2005 Rev 3 Build 457 Trial Version:[/B] I have definitely identified this application as a full battery drainer and cpu abuser. This doesen´t happen on every function of the softwarebut as soon as you try to add a event, task, etc. it usually happens. Anyone can confirm this????
Right now, PI is running in the background, and my CPU is at 104, I don't see PI contributing to poor battery life, in my case (WM2005, Dell x50v)
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Hi guys, after a lot of fighting I have WM5 working nicely. My only complaint is the battery lasting a much shorter time. After reading through all these great forums I have found a lot of tips regarding battery life and acivesync and battery meters found in diverse today plugins. Well, I think there is more to this ssue and I think we should all ull together a list with any application that puts our auto cpu mode up to 624.
[B]- Pocket informant 2005 Rev 3 Build 457 Trial Version:[/B] I have definitely identified this application as a full battery drainer and cpu abuser. This doesen´t happen on every function of the softwarebut as soon as you try to add a event, task, etc. it usually happens. Anyone can confirm this????
How did you identify it as such? Pocket Informant for WM5 works essentially the same on WM5 as it does on WM2003 and it certainly never was a CPU/battery abuser there.
If its happening when you add an event, task, or whatever - you may be seeing the operating system itself be the abuser - not PI. Why? Because when PI just read the data from your databases we are reading them directly using the most efficient direct database code you can do to read that data.
But when we add, edit, or delete a task we use the Windows Mobile 5's POOM2 (Pocket Outlook Object Model) API to access these same databases. POOM2 is a full subsystem that affects the whole device. It operates on several databases, sends update notifications and so on.
So I doubt PI itself can be a "CPU Abuser". Its most likely the OS subsystems themselves that PI uses to do its job since that's whats changed between WM2003 and WM5 plus I can say that when I do anything in POOM such as simply run ActiveSync, the whole system slows down dramatically and that's not even with PI running.
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Thanks for your insight. I am not trying to put the blame on PI. I am just reporting what I can see as an end user in my case. I love PI!!!! I don´t really know who´s fault it is. The thing is that after creating a new event this happens to me, that´s all. I just want really badly to get my Axim/WM5 battery life up. I am really enjoying the new operating system. Thanks.
See, I can't see any CPU use going up for any longer than a second after creating any appt/task, etc... Do you have Pocket Breeze 5.0 installed or any other PIM utility? They may be getting update notifications from PI and then using POOM2 to reload their data. That would do it too.
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I had used PI for several months with my X50v running 2003se and loved it, but with WM5 and the battery issue I deleted it to see if it made a difference. My battery life is still pathetic so I'm about to reinstall PI so I can enjoy the battery life I do have. I installed the trial version of Pocket Breeze and it slowed things down so much that I immediately uninstalled it and saw things go back to normal. I also experimented with Magic Button and without and the processor issue doesn't seem to change. Sometimes it ramps up and down but most of the time it just stays maxed out. I hope that Dell will have a ROM update soon that addresses this.
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Can't one use a program like XScaleMonitor to get a real-time CPU usage meter, then use the memory tab to stop processes until CPU usage drops? That's what I do if I suspect a "runaway" process on my system. Today plugins don't show up in the memory tab, but you can shut them down by going into Today options.
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I have found that when I syc with Avantgo, the cpu (if in auto mode) will get stuck at 624. Only a soft reset will cure this. When Avantgo is deselected and not synced . . . it will throttle back to 104 after I pull it out of the cradle.
I'm using Pocket Informant and haven't found any connection between it and the Auto CPU problem. In fact, I can't find any correlation between any program and the problem. Usually Auto works fine on mine, but sometimes it inexplicably locks at the top speed. I have no idea why. One moment it could be fine and the next not, and I hadn't opened or closed any programs in the meantime.
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