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Originally Posted by domme
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5. Press the action key twice, this starts the update process. DANGER: If this process fails your device will be a 300$ paperweight...
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Can you elaborate a little bit on this? If I were to ('intentionally') send bad data to my axim, sure it won't work, but does it
also mean that from then on this SD image loader process won't work any more? No second tries?
Anyway good work, a lot of people will be happy to have this as a backup, especially now that we can start to toy with images and make our custom ones.
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Originally Posted by Shrink
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Good job! Now the question on a lot of peoples' minds might be: could I use this method to flash an X51v WM5 rom onto an X50v with WM5 on it already?
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An X51v image will NOT work in the x50v. The reason for this is that the x51v uses a different memory hardware configuration (specifically: NAND instead of NOR for its BIS, which at least means XIPing is not possible with the x51v). This also means that various burnt-in configuration settings (specifically: the page pool) do not apply. Too big differences to unify a ROM. That said I have NO idea why dell is being so ungenerous toward x50v owners, the differences between the roms are so slight that a finished x51v rom should be convertable to x50v in a negligible amount of time.
Maybe an axim hacker can figure out this process.. comparing the x50v and x51v roms could be quite enlightening.. assuming they are basically identical.
I suppose that in theory you can make an image that works on both devices but that image can't be instructed to use caching so it would suck badly on both devices.