A WM5 Experience

[beerjay]

I appreciate the wealth of info here as a start.

I read all about WM5. Tried it and it ran actually fine on my X50v with basic intalled apps.

Pocket Plus slowed it to a crawl and MS Reader was a little flakey but seemed to get its legs after a while.

Biggest issue was that ActiveSync 4.1 would not let me connect to the X50v on both my computers (one a Dell 4600, other an IBM T41 laptop). The 4600 (XP Pro SP1) goes into BSOD and reboots on connecting the PDA to USB(worked OK to intall WM5). Tried everything, including Dell Support but no way it would work. On the IBM (XP Pro SP2 mod) it would connect but drop the link during the search for changes, or after a while not connect at all.

I finally got stuff loaded and synced using the IR port on the T41...duh. It gets better.

After seeing more info here I decided to go back to WM2003SE. Interesting task with no ActiveSync on USB. I deleted the partnership on the T41 and just let AS4.1 connect via IR then ran the Dell update/downgrade utility. It got he config info and when I hit continue it dropped AS and went looking for the USB connection...of course. So I plugged the PDA in the cradle and said a few encouraging words. It found the X50v and copied the image to the PDA and upgraded to WM2003SE (that may not be an incorect meaning).

The hard reset was very tense, it took a looong time to reset and ran very sloow during startup config but it seems fine now.

AS4.1 works on the Dell 4600, no changes! I think the culprit here is M$ as usual. The new Activesync on the x50v is getting the PCs confused as well as network and firewall software.

beerjay