fusiondev

Not sure whether this belongs here or in the X51V hardware forum, but anyway :P

My X51V seems to disregard my processor speed settings after it has been fully turned off. Does anyone know if there is a way around this or an app to do the job?

- Thanks, Ashley.

rcab

I have the same problem and I don't recall any posting that offered a solution. I also get the brightness 15sec dim setting change even though I change it to 5 minutes.

mostlylisten

Sounds like theres a simple solution so I'll throw it back on the front page.


Axim X5 guy

Haesslich

Did you just do a restore using a backup program? The registry errors that those can induce have been noted to cause this kind of problem...

fusiondev

Nope, my Axim has always done it :rolling:. Oh well, if anyone finds a solution then please post it here :approve:

Mokubai

Do you mean it goes back to auto, which is kinda expected, or that it sticks on some other speed setting after a power off?

fusiondev

It goes back to auto. Why is that expected?

Mokubai

I had noticed that on A06 the processor speed was saved across a soft reset but that a number of settings didn't store across a full power off, and this denotes certain assumptions about how you percieve a device is going to get used. These assumptions are based on the fact that you believe that there is always going to be power going to the RAM, which is reasonable on a WM2003 device with backup battery but is flawed on a device that can fully power off like WM5 devices.

With this assumption you can set aside a chunk of memory that you will always use to store the most frivolous of system settings, like processor speed and certain other "important at boot, but may be loaded before certain operating system components so we have to guard against." This means that you'll be able to almost guaruntee that across soft resets you will have the right data, but that it will be gone on power off. I'd put it down as a WM5 migration issue, the software engineers aren't being told to look back at their software and take account of this new ability for full power off.

Programmers aren't inherently lazy about these things, but a lot of the time these little things just don't have any priority, so they get left out in the rush to get bigger things done.

If you absolutely need to have it go to a particular speen then I would suggest Xcpuscalar.

VtJay22

As noted earlier, my processor speed is saved during a soft reset (rom a12), and while i'm not trying to hi-jack the thread, maybe i dont understand the benefit (if any) of a full power off, as i've never done that before?

fusiondev

I remember seeing a link to the a12 update on the homepage a while back, but didn't want to install it until people had posted it worked. lol I know I should search, but might anyone be able to send me in the direction of a download?

And I'll try Xcpuscalar, thanks for the tip.

Mokubai

A12 update link:
https://support.euro.dell.com/suppor...&fileid=172104

Have fun ;)
Just remember, the first hard reset it asks you to do *isn't*, let it reset and the update utility will let you continue once activesync reconnects to your Axim.