When i use the main directional button (not sure what exactly its called) to highlight items how do i select that item, like if i select a name in my contacts how do i select that contact to see more info? shouldnt i be able to just push the button down? when i do it clicks but nothing happens, maybe its a software setting? maybe its not made to do that? let me know

the main button or "d pad" does not have a 5th or enter function. there is much debate about this but dell has confirmed the axim d pad only has the 4 directional functions. if you want to "enter" you can use the side scroll button. press it straight in and that works as enter.

good luck

Related issue...... my Windows Media Player no longer works. This started after installing Metalshard's PocketWar, or perhaps because I was playing around reallocating buttons (including the 'fifth button' that does not exist).

Tully Edson at Metalshard thinks its because the Axim is one button short.... I dont understand this stuff, extract from his email below!.

Steve
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> From: Tully Edson [mailto:tedson@metalshard.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:22 PM
> To: Foister, Steve
> Subject: Re: PocketWar Demo on Axim - Media Player no longer works
....
> As it turns out one of my testing team has just upgraded to an Axim I will
> have him check to see if his media player is ok.
>
> This is going to sound kind of stupid but how many buttons does the Axim
> have? I am asking this because your problem sounds familiar. On an XDA
> Pocket War (and many other applications) will kill the media player if you
> run them.
>
> What I found out was this...
>
> To get control of the buttons on a pda you call a windows method. The
windows
> method does not check to see if the button exists (and there isn't any way
> to find out.) The windows method adds a registry entry that says the
> non-existing button now exists. Windows media player tries to access the
> buttons directly by walking the registry entries to find out what buttons
to
> attach to. It then tries to attach to the non-existing buttons (and
dies.)
> The net result is it won't start again.
>
> The frustration he is having is it isn't just Pocket War. Many, many
> applications try to map the hardware buttons and they all kill off his
media
> player, so I hope this isn't the same way with the Axim.
>
> I will am going to find out if my other Axim user is ok, and I will try
and
> find the registry entries.
....
>
> Tully

Steve
?First Axim in England?

Come on ... that should be painfully obvious.

Persistence can pass for brilliance
FFR Roadster on order for 04/3/04.
Mike

See the D-Pad (Nav Button) Fix listed on this same Page.

The future ain't what it used to be.---Yogi Berra

5th/enter function can be enabled using the "Navigator Button" item in the settings window.

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This settings item is only in the A02 or A03 ROM upgrades. If you still have A00, you can either install the d-pad fix mentioned my MyUncle or install the ROM upgrade (the 'fix' is easier but the ROM upgrade also takes care of a few other issues).

-Ike-