Thankfully, I never bothered to even get the upgrade. The softkeys at the bottom are the stupidest idea I've ever seen.....they should have been userconfigurable and or hideable.
I have hung in there since the begining with WM5 - despite the fact that I have hated it all along... If dell doesn't do something in the next month, my patience will have been exhausted and I am going to roll back.
For me, upgrading has been the worst decision I have ever made. Before WM5 I used my ax everyday for everything, since, it is a daily struggle just to keep it working...
So dell has until 1 March to fix this crap for us x50v users or I am rolling back...
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Thankfully, I never bothered to even get the upgrade. I'll stick with WM2003SE! :)
With all the "news" 'bout WM5, I'm keeping the upgrade CD just like I received it, in the wrapper for several months and stayin' in the wrap! :rolling:
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yea i downgraded just yesterday and boy am i happy to have it back...i rolled back cuz it was just too damn slow...everything u clicked on was like 5 sec delay which really bugged me...and also some software caused my axim to crash or not work at all...i did have a problem when i rolled back to wm2k3se that it was REALLY sluggish but i just did multiple hard+soft resets like 30 times and it somehow went back to normal..right now all is fast,stable, and all programs work good so i am a happy camper
I tried upgrading once. It lasted afew minutes before the White screen of death, it was really slow and a ton of other things, so I downgraded. However that effort failed miserably and my ax bricked.
WM5 is on indefinite hold for me.
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Just rolled back yesterday and am now a happy camper. Like many of you, I simply wasn't happy with the performance of WM5 upgrade. Sometimes the speed of the upgrade was okay and at other times it was as slow as molasses. I also had problems with the display becoming corrupted and program crashes. Whether those were caused by WM5 or software that simply wasn't compatible with WM5, I simply don't know. All that I do know is that my downgraded handheld is working so much better now. It'll be a long time before I even think of re-upgrading to WM5. At least until they release enough patches to bring about the stability that I see with the WM2003se A05 ROM. Of course, that's assuming that Dell is committed to getting WM5 working that well for X50v owners...
Well between this and that I give up on WM2005. It's crap, or at least Dell's version of it is.
I don't feel like having to "work around" all the glitches, program problems and down right lousey perfromence.
And on another note, I don't agree with some of the interface and MS changes either, but I could live with those if it worked well.
Anyone else just fed up with it, why?
Fortunately I sat this one out. WM2003SE is so stable and reliable (everything works) that there simply is no temptation to fix anything - because there seems to be nothing broken.
Most of the X50 users are familiar with the Widcomm stack and it's excellent bluetooth manager that came with WM2K3SE. Those who doesn't use it or know about it won't miss it. The bluetooth manager just makes the bluetooth functionality more versatile and easier to use than the pitiful ms stack manager Dell shipped with WM5. To be fair, I've seen some advantages with the X51V (eg. battery life), but personally, it's the X50V(WM2003SE of course) that I bring to work because of it's reliablity and we use bluetooth network access at work.
Well, I too am succumbing, and rolling back. I really really didn't want to, but dammit.. I can't keep a battery charge at all!!! And I've done everything I've read. So.. wish me luck and I hope I don't end up with a brick.
I was so happy initially to get WM5 on X50v in November, after reading several people having issues just installing it. At that time, people were already complaining how bad it was. I figured "hey, I'm pretty technical, I'll figure it all out".
Nope.
Like someone else mentioned, my Axim went from a useful tool that got use nearly every day to a joke. When I pulled it out, I could feel how warm it was, and knew it had run down the battery. If you installed anything on it at all, it slowed to a crawl. The Bluetooth stack is a joke, but I got DUN and my GPS working on it ok.
I eventually got fed up, and rolled it back a long time ago. It's back to being used nearly every day, and I don't have to soft reset the thing for weeks at a time. Even when I do, it's rarely for a lock-up problem, but just a way to free up lost memory.
I just don't understand how Dell can have this attitude that nothing is wrong. Why has a Pocket PC magazine not picked up this story and look into it? Or are they in the "pocket" of these manufacturers?
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