And you honestly don't notice periodic screen refreshes and taps that don't register for 15-30 seconds at a time? Wow. Stunning how some people accept this.
I agree, because I had the slow screen taps periodically under 2003 too. Overall the system is no slower than the original OS. As for the screen refreshes, since everything I installed is WM5 compatible, I haven't noticed a problem. I stand behind my advice to upgrade. Out of the group, all 4 are still thrilled at how much more stable the machine is and we all like the new look and feel. If you're happy, I'm glad for you. maybe you could sell your upgrade disk to someone out there who's wanting the latest OS on their X50V and you'll be free of the demon OS.
And you honestly don't notice periodic screen refreshes and taps that don't register for 15-30 seconds at a time? Wow. Stunning how some people accept this.
What's stunning to me is; I don't have that problem so I don't have to accept it. My taps register instantaneously, and no screen refresh problems. It seems you don't want WM5 to work for anyone else because it didn't work for you, as you are implying that we are all walking around with clunky, slow machines. The problems you had are not what we are having, so stop trying to make it seem that we don't know what we are talking about. My unit is on for 14-15hrs a day, every day while I'm away from home; I think would notice a problem in that time. If my Dell was running slower or causing me any problems, I would not honestly advise anyone else to take the leap. Us "successful upgraders" aren't knocking the the people who didn't upgrade successfully. Each of us use our units for different purposes, hence forth we load different software. This of course will lead to different behavior and performance across each platform. Keep this in mind when upgrading.
Yes, I did bash WM2003SE in this thread, but that was my experience. If you could have heard just one day of me spewing out obscenities while trying to make my unit stable, you would understand my point of view. A02 changed all that for me.
This little thing kicks ass now!:approve:
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I don't remember signing up for a speed contest, and I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. Maybe yours is faster than mine, but who cares? All I'm trying to say is that it works for me and it may work for the next guy. I think we have all established that a few people have had trouble, and others haven't. If you don't want to accept what I say is true, then so what to that also. I'm just trying to help as member of this forum.
And by the way, I bet I'll be selling my x50v one of these days on ebay when I'm ready to upgrade; probably this year. There is always something better just around the corner it seems. I wouldn't mind having the x51v with more internal memory. Anyone selling one, let me know.
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And I'm glad were clear with that. WM5 works for you, that's fine, I'm happy for you . Trying to help others, good for you. But no need to blast 2003SE just because it didn't work for you, even it it caused you a lot of frustration. Like I said, you are just one of the rare ones who had that problem with 2003SE.
I'm kinda in the same boat as ValCor - my son bought Axim X50, upgraded to WM5, crashed w/ hardware fault (under warranty). Replacement (refurbished) unit was also upgraded to WM5, crashed about a week after warranty expired. He's vowed never to own another Dell of ANY kind. Rather than leave the corpse on his desk, I paid the repair fee and got this refurbished unit. Gotta say, I'm more than a little gunshy about "upgrading."
I am pleased with the upgrade from WM5 A01 to A02. My history:
Bought new X50v in August 2005 which came with WM2003se.
Installed WM5 in October 05 from free upgrade CD from Dell. Very poor performance and I soon rolled back.
Bought new versions of Franklin PlanPlus for Outlook and DeLorme Street Atlas 2007 Plus in December 06.
Installed WM5 in December 06. Very sluggish open and close of programs. Also got white screen of death (WSOD) periodically; lost CF card occasionally.
Performed ActiveSync (AS) disable fix. No more WSOD and better performance.
Installed A02 February 07. No battery drain. Quick open and close. Still must watch AS. Also disabled “beam” in power settings to allow processor to automatically ramp up and down.
My installation notes:
I didn't find good notes to go by before upgrading. Maybe these will help.
I used ActiveSync 4.2. WM5 doesn't run on AS 3.8 from what I read. AS 4.5 is out now. Maybe it's better. I was unable to backup in WM5/A01 on the Axim, and AS 4.2 doesn't have the feature.
Don’t need to delete your AS partnership. However, you may wish to uncheck sync items (calendar, tasks, files, favorites, notes, etc.) in AS before you begin. You’ll have to resync them all after the upload anyway. Old Aximsite threads encouraged you to resync one or two items at a time for best success.
You might wish to enable the device connection icon to be visible Go to Network Connections, right click, click on Properties, and check “Show icon in notification area when connected”. During the installation you can pop it up and see the data exchange rates.
I downloaded the zipped file from Dell’s site, and put it in its own folder and extracted it there. I read the readme file, which didn’t help much. I then removed my CF card. This is important. With the Axim connected to USB and the battery fully charged, I began the install by double-clicking the exe file. The instructions will urge you to run with the Axim on AC power. You can ignore it if your battery is in the 90%+ charge range.
You will have to hard reset twice during the installation process. When you first begin the installation, it will say that it will take about 15 minutes. Overall that’s true, but it only takes about three minutes before the first hard reset. Be sure to be patient throughout and wait until the on screen instructions tell you to proceed.
Then it will begin the next phase of the installation, which takes about 10 minutes. You’ll see a progress bar on the Axim. The bar will complete at least two loads (I did not watch it the whole time.). When all that is complete, it will tell you to do a hard reset again (the second one). The hard reset takes about the same amount of time as a soft reset, perhaps just a little bit longer.
Once the reset is complete, the Axim comes up like it’s new out of the box. It has you calibrate the screen by tapping the crosshairs and then going through the very short tutorial.
Now you are ready to put in your personal info, sync your calendar, tasks, etc, and then reinstall your programs. If you have updates, delete the previous version in ActiveSync. Then run the installs from the programs in your file folders. Else, install them from AS.
Check your processor speed and disable beam under power settings if it doesn’t seem to ramp down to 106 when you running off of battery power. It is designed to run at max when the Axim is powered externally. :)
I tried WM5 A01 a number of times, tried every hack & fix on this site, but finally gave up & went back to 2003SE. I figured Dell just wasn't going to do anything about the problems with A01.
I hadn't been to this site in months, but a search on Google for something completely unrelated returned a hit that mentioned the A02 ROM. I was skeptical but decided to download it.
The performance after upgrading to A01 again was what I expected... crappy. I pushed on & upgraded to A02 &, WOW, what a difference!!!
A02 is fantastic! It might have taken a looongg time to arrive, but I'm finally happy to have WM5 on my X50v.
After all my bitc***q about Dell, & angry calls to Dell Support, I now feel I must offer my thanks & congratulations to Dell, both for delivering a great product & for deciding to stick with it until it was right. Dell, take a bow; you've restored my faith in the company.
I'm sorry to hear some people are having problems with A02, but my experience over the past 2 days is all positive.
Please read previous posts for history. This is an addendum. DeLorme Topo 5 runs/redraws topo lines amazingly fast. It is much faster than A01 in either WM5 or 2003SE. This could be partly due to me only having one program loaded in the device, PocketPlus. The rest of the RAM is free for programs other than what is loaded by WM5.
I also reenabled beam in power settings and checked my processor. It does cycle down to 104. However, I went back and turned it off since I don't use it. If I do, I'll turn it on then.
Finally, ActiveSync is managed different in A02. Apparently, it comes up every 5 minutes or so to check activity. There's no way to use the fake server trick that was successful in WM5/A01. I'll search the forum to see if there's a workaround with messing with the registry.
I'm even happier with the upgrade to A02 since I tried my DeLorme programs.
Iv try WM5 upd2 last week, the speed was has improve alot. The speed much like normal devices with WM5 which is good. The most thing I love most is AS via bluetooth, very easy. Its like 70% faster than stock WM5 (1st release), quite stable
However I still love WM2003, so I revert back to WM2003se ;). Im glad (& proud) my X50v (p.s; let kick @ss the x51v users :P) can use both WM2003 & WM5 with no much issue.
WM5-A02 still rock solid after 2 weeks of heavy usage with all programs (see My PDA). I've had no white screen of death (or black screen of death that required battery removal before rebooting). Battery drain is minimal and on par with or less than with WM2003se. I occasionally get kicked out of one program, Olive Tree Bible reader if I leave it loaded, shut off the power, power back up, and start using it again. It's not a real big deal to me. I just start it up again. It could be the current version I'm using. Olive Tree updates it quite often to fix new issues.
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