Ever since I upgraded my X50V to WM5 it will kill the battery in about 24 hours! I have even made sure that the safety switch in on so that I don't activate the X50V by accident, but without fail, I will try to turn it on and nothing! I have to charge it and then it is fine. The battery life seems about normal (no better, no worse that with WM2003 during normal use). I checked the tips section, and made sure that nothing is running in the background (processor click down test), and nothing is. It was fine up to the time I upgraded to WM5. Anybody else having this problem or have any suggestions?

One week away from downgrading to WM2003!

Did you try the ActiveSync fix here? I just did that and I'm hoping that it will fix the battery drain issues. I was experiencing 60-70% drain during the day without my x51v even being on.

Even though you tried the clickdown test...can you please tell us what you have installed?

I had the experience that I installed a battery monitor plugin that worked on the toolbar. I had also already done the activesync change, but it didn't seem to impact battery consumption one way or another. I began to experience this phenomenon. I quit the program and deleted the executable, and soft reset. I could not find any trace of the program on my Axim. But the problem wouldn't go away. So I had to do a hard reset, since which I have not re-installed the program, and also not had this issue. Last week I didn't use my Axim much, and I charged it last night for the first time in ten or eleven days.... And it still had 30% power.

Same issue here. I'm to the end of my rope at this point. I've done soft and hard resets, validated all settings - absolutely nothing running (no wifi - nothing) on the axim and still the battery is dead in short order. I'm certain at this point that there is some issue in wm5 with the axim that is causing the quick battery death.

I like being on the edge of new software releases and I am willing to suffer a reasonable amount of pain, but this is beyond my patience level. I've been checking Dell for any update, but so far nothing but the link on how to go back to the earlier 2003 version of pocket pc. Thinking that at this time that maybe my only option - I can always upgrade again to wm5.

You can always set the power button to fully power down the Axim. A full shutdown keeps the battery from draining. I have heard turning off bluetooth and wifi, no toolbar monitors, and Active sync set to manual will keep this from happening, but I still have the problem so I just fully shut it down. I think this is also a soft reset, so that is nice.
Works for me, but won't work for all. Some people need Axim in standby mode.