In case anyone was wondering what the joys of WM5 on an X50v are, I decided to document a day with my PDA.

Morning:

Get up to the sound of my alarm at 6:30. Attempt to turn the alarm off. Alarm doesn’t turn off. Check the button lock. It’s off. For some reason there are two copies of the alarm and pressing the dismiss softbutton doesn’t actually do anything. Turning off the PDA does.

Take care of morning necessities. Use the X50v as a mirror to put my contacts in. Wish someone would invent an app that turns the edges of the display white to use as a mirrored light.

Hop in my truck. Put my pda in my piece of crap Arkon mount I got free with my GPS. I don’t think the grippers on the sides have ever actually closed properly. Attempt to turn on the PDA.

The PDA doesn’t turn on. Armed with weeks of WM5-kung-foo, I know that I must unplug it from the mount, remove the battery, reinstall the battery and reboot the pda after it recovers from its memory error. PDA reboots and gets put back in to the piece of junk Arkon mount.

Bring up iguidance and tell it to detect my Bluetooth GPS. Watch in amazement as it actually finds it and tells me to “proceed to the nearest road.” 30 seconds later, watch in amazement as it once again locks up my pda requiring a soft-reset.

Start driving to work without gps assistance (not a hard task after a few years.) After a block, I’m annoyed at the constant popups requesting if I want to join the ‘linksys’ wireless network that I’m driving by at 40 mph. I hit the disable wireless button twice, hoping to cure my problem. Of course, it doesn’t. For some reason it only disables Bluetooth and leaves the wifi on. I turn off my pda and find my way to my office.

Afternoon:

Plug my PDA into my desktop and go about my day. Important conference call that I figure would be nice to record. Open up notem and have it record an mp3 to my SD card. 10 minutes later, I look at my pda which has turned itself off for some reason. 4.3 minutes of a 10 minute call were recorded. Double check notem settings to disable auto power off while recording. They are fine. Make a new task to look for a new mp3 recording software. Plug my PDA back into my desktop.

Go to lunch. After ordering, open up some chess. I ask myself why I bother playing when the computer always beats me. 4 moves into “Chess” by Valentin Iliescu it tells me that it can’t connect to the remote game server even though it’s playing single player. I open up file explorer and delete the settings file and play another 3 moves. Give up for now.

Eat lunch. Too bad there is no wifi within range here.

Head back to the office.

Check to see if there is a rom update for X50v’s yet. No dice. Head home.

Evening:

Watch the latest CSI in TCPMP. I’m glad there is at least one app that doesn’t crash my PDA regularly.

Be very careful to plug PDA in to power while its turned on, then turn it off so it doesn’t crash until the alarm goes off the next morning.

I don't know how you use your PDA as a mirror, but in an effort to help you, I just wrote you this program.

If you are able to use your PDA as a mirror with the backlight on, then it should work. It has a white border (Light) and a black middle (Mirror?).
You need the .NET CF available from microsoft.com.
Let me know if I did it wrong and need to change something.
My screen protector makes it so I can't give it a try for you.

Attached Files

LitMirror_PPC.ARM.zip (6.5 KB, 14 views)

 

What a piece of crap! I have my X50v working just fine, and I don't think I'll 'upgrade' to WM5. If and when my X50v goes out, THEN, I'll pick a PDA w/ WM5 already on it from the factory; hopefully by then I'll have most of the bugs worked out.

Sorry you're having such a hard time.

The X51 (preloaded with WM5) doesn't have any fewer problems than the X50 upgraded to WM5.
So, you might want to just wait until the bugs in WM5 are fixed.

 

Funniest forum message I have read this month.

  

Good one Q3Man! a nice summary of the problems, and the frustrations of x50/v users.

Seriously, we should forward the post URL to Dell rep whenever we got a chance to chat with them online.

Steve

I'm sure Dell reps have already heard this complaints once or twice before.
But what the hell, it wouldn't kill us to cry to them once more. tomorrow morning I will chat with a Dell rep and make sure he hears about this type of threads!

BTW, this is my first post through my ax!

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Nice story man. Personally, I think Dell and MS should hear this because if they keep covering these problems up, they might convince themselves that there are no problems since they've heard no complaints (the complaints that they cover up).

Don't take this the wrong way but that was a very funny post Thanks I needed that
Mike

"I'm not a real Idiot I just play one on Aximsite"

That was a great post Q3man! When I finished I wanted more. You're a very good writer and held me captive.

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probably wasn't very funny for you, but it was for me!

happy as hell that i downgraded (upgraded?) back to wm2003se from wm5 after wm5 sucked so bad.

Axim X51v
InnoPocket Magnum
8GB Seagate MD
1GB SanDisk SD
(4) 1100MAH batteries
Sennheiser CX300S

Previous PDAs: Palm M500, Toshiba e335, Axim X50v (run over by car )

Great and really funny post! After reading the horror stories of the WM5 upgrade, I'll be waiting for a while.

--Andrew

    

Yeah, *I have been fortunate as I have none of these problems that you have mentiioned. I also use TCPMP and It works great, I watch DVDs on it. I also do have to soft reset about twice a week, sometimes more, but other than that, no problems whatsoever. I am sorry to hear you are having such problems and I hope you have better luck!

Thanks Aximsite team!

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that whoever believes in him may not die, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Lord, I am Yours, Make of me what You Will.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life
In nomine Patris et Filius et Spiritus Sancti.
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Funny? Taking pleasure in someone elses misery? It is hilarious!

I was almost falling off my desk chair, tears, laughing tears!

Then, icing on the cake, I saw your post, the Avatar! What a pooch! Does doggie have a name?

Sorry but, even in pain, a great post! Have a great Holiday (note I didn't say Christmas) Season!

Stickin' with WM 2003SE, you helped make up my mind. WM 5 still in the wrapper and staying there.

Thank you for an enjoyable post!

Tankman

X50 High
X50v
WM 2003SE

"Minds are like parachutes.
They only work when they are open."
James Dewar Sr.

 

Funny? It figures someone from Mass would take pleasure in someone elses misery! How dare anyone laugh at this Ax holders woes!

His post was hilarious! I had to scold two of you so I could stop crying (laughing tears).

How come when I visit New Hampshire they always say, "Quick take a shower you just drove thru Mass!" What's that all about?

Tankman

X50 High
X50v
WM 2003SE

"Minds are like parachutes.
They only work when they are open."
James Dewar Sr.