WM5 is here to stay! - WM5 Tips...

[Patrick Y.]

Can someone help me?
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=105629
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/foru...ic.php?t=44401

[xaris777]

I'm glad I waited to do this upgrade...I already have a full time job.

I upgraded my x50v to 5.0 after several days of problems of increasing severety, it eventually reached the point that it could not even be turned on with a hard reset. After several hours online with Dell Tech they repalaced the unit with one with 2003 SE 2. I have this constructive advice that I had learned the hard way but had ignored in this case.

IF IT SAYS MICROSOFT AND ENDS IN A ZERO RUN!!!!!!

Question: How does Microsoft spell Beta Tester?
Answer CUSTOMER.

[Bright]

y upgrade went smoothly. The PDA works well. No complaint. Now, ROM upgrade is bonus.

[Bright]

I've a theory on the battery drain that some had experienced. The new OS is a little too helpful. The moment it comes near any Wifi or BT points, it starts to attempt to connect automatically. This action will definitely push your battery consumption to max. Sustain long enough, battery will be fully drained.
Previous OS needs us to fire up the relevant hardware before any attempt to connect. WM5 seems to be set at automatic. Logic implies that the Wifi and BT hardware must be coming up at intervals (and short ones at that) to be able to search for access points so quickly.
I was driving on a highway and as I passed some housing estate, the Wifi attempts connection with signals it picked up (and I did not enable the Wifi -- at least not while driving).

Any thoughts?

BTW, anyone knows of how to make it truly manual, working only at my command?

1-Blue Screen of Death on with ActiveSync 4.x/USB on my Thinkpad laptop

Sorry I'm a newbie with this site and I may have posted the same request incorrectly. Regarding your problems with the ThinkPad and Blue Screens what did you do to solve them? I have a Thinkpad T30 that formerly synced fine with my iPaq 5555 and Windows Mobile 2003 - now with my new Axim X51v I can't sync at all. When I try, Activesync tries to retrieve my device settings but Blue Screens indicating an IRQ problem. Can you help?

Solsie, thanks for your tips, :approve: I can now get the Axim to sync with my Thinkpad. I still have firewall issues but there is plenty of information in this thread of posts to figure that out. Like you my Axim is a toy first but an important business tool close behind. I was using mNotes to sync my Notes 6 Calendar and Address Book when I used my WM 2003 system but I find that it does not work completely with WM 5. I bought the latest version last night and removing the old version and installing the new version solved some of the problems. Interestingly I'm having problems with its main functions, syncing the Calendar and Address Book. Have you heard of anyone else with problems with mNotes and WM 5?

Ok, guys. I was wrong. I decided to test the Cache size running SPB Benchmark for different Cache sizes and in that way to find out if these registry hacks work or not. I'm attaching a word document with the results. The conclusion is that having the CacheSize = 4096 (Dec) will increase the general performance in 20% (see word document). The 4096 is 0.3 % faster than a CacheSize of 8096 (Dec).

In the same way that I found that some of these registry keys really work I did not find any evidence of these two keys doing any good:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\ MSFlash\FATFS\DataCacheSize=0x1FA0(4096)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\ MSFlash\FATFS\Flags=0x28(40)

In fact they did not exist in my machine neither in the WM5 emulator.

Taking in consideration these tests I have decided to include this trick in the next release of Tweaks2K2. The hack will use the optimum value of 4096 and will only change the following registry keys that are the only that gave me some possitive results in my tests.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize=0x1000(4096)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache=0x1(1)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize=0x1000(4096)

[geng]

In the first post it says that these cache changes will incur additional RAM consumption. Is it a standard amount of RAM that gets lost or it varies with the use of each ppc ?

4096 is the quantity of Sectors and it's the same than around 2 MB of RAM.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...rySettings.asp

[SolSie]

If you want to change the look of your "dull" WiFi icon on the bottom of your Axim. Courtesy of Scott Seligman.
If you already have Tweaks2k2, then just go to step-3

Step-1: download on to your device (axim) setsecurity.exe and
run it

Step-2: select the option 'Security Prompt Off' (yay no more
security prompts when installing apps)

Step-3: Copy the mui file to \Windows; Soft reset.
:approve:

the wifi icon is awsome!finaly no more dull dell icon.
anyone seen a bluetooth one yet?the default one is vile!

[theodorecarras]

Surely the new WiFi icon shouldn't show full signal when it's replacing one that shows no signal? Just a thought... And also, doesn't WM probably have 2+ icons for different signal strengths that you could all replace? This would give aesthetics and function.

[SolSie]

Surely the new WiFi icon shouldn't show full signal when it's replacing one that shows no signal? Just a thought... And also, doesn't WM probably have 2+ icons for different signal strengths that you could all replace? This would give aesthetics and function.

No this new WiFi icon actually is fully functional, it shows different icons according to the signal level!
:approve:

[theodorecarras]

Great. Will be installing this ASAP. Any way of changing the Bluetooth icon? Is there any way I could do that myself?

[SteveFLHTCI]

I unzipped the file to my PPC Windows folder and did a soft reset. Still the same icon. What am I doing wrong?

[jowilk]

hi, copied mui to windows directory did a soft reset and shows the same icon. do we need to reanme the mui file?