THUD's WM5 on x50v Story....

[THUD]

Blimey what on earth is going on, you hard rest by pressing the little button on the back and holding down the on/off main button at the top, you do this simultaneously

if you are having problems with connection to activesync initially, just uncheck the USB to PC setting under settings connections on the Axim

[FunkyCowie]

yeah and then after that you have to confirm this by pressing the button 2nd from the left... except mine just seems to have completely stopped working... actually having played with it I found only the calender button is working (far left) nothing else works... grrrrr

EDIT: I'll just have to revert back to 2003SE and if it keeps doing it there then atleast I can pull the battery and it will perform a Hard reset itself if I ever need to.

[makuu]

Hi Thud,

You can check on the tip & tricks section, I wrote an new script for Opera with cache in RamDisk, I tested it yesterday with my WM5 x50v, I din't get anymore freeze with opera, and I did browse Super Fast with Opera, definitively a lot better than PIE. :)

[THUD]

ohhh makuu, ÉNORME MERCI....

[FunkyCowie]

wooo found software to do a hard reset, so I can try WM5 for the second time using yours and makuu's findings :)

[psionandy]

A02 installing now.... Thanks Thud :approve:

[FunkyCowie]

just curious if either of you (makuu and thud) would or are using the widcomm bt?

[THUD]

I just use the standard Bluetooth, use it for connecting to my BT338 for Memory map navigator, Igo and RunGPS...

Works better than 2003SE bluetooth which I forever had to reconnect and re-setup..

[FunkyCowie]

hrmm I never had any of the issues with 2K3SE that you seem to have had, they sound more like the issues I had with WM5 originally, things are going smoothly with my X50v at the mo though with WM5... except Im having issues trying to connect with my Visiontac GPS hence the BT question :)

[makuu]

I don't need the widcomm stack, I tried it once to check that I could connect a BT handset to use with SJPhone, but I finally prefer to use a a regular Micro-Headset the sound quality is much better while calling. I don't have any issue with the MS stack, I can connect both my BT338 and Visiontac GPS. However I only use the visiontac as backup GPS, because the BT338 sensitivity is much better.

[FunkyCowie]

Just to bump this thread by reporting in, my axim is still singing and dancing and having a great time on WM5 :)

I finally got my Visiontac to work, I think it was mostly down to user error :)

[psionandy]

And after a week of wm5, I'm very happy too.

still haven't got my full load of software on, but speed and stability is excellent

[THUD]

Excellent news, I have and am still running WM5 A02 on my x50v after quite some time now, and rarely have to soft reboot, games like Virtual Pool, Toy Golf and a few tetraedge ones, just run without a single problem, my GPS bluetooth just works and stays connected perfectly, igo just runs with memory errors like it did with 2003SE.

the only today plugin I use is PocketBreeze and that again just runs.

I run all my programs installed on the SD card with music, movies, maps and large games etc...on the 2GB CF

With the help of Makuu I run mortscript PIE and it runs like a swift dream, opening a ramdisk then PIE automatically, then closing both when you leave, brilliant bit of scripting.

so all in all, why would I want to go back to 2003SE, except for constant re-booting, games sometimes not loading till you soft boot, bluetooth not connecting till you soft reboot...conclusions

2003SE- Soft reboot is your friend

[makuu]

Excellent news, I have and am still running WM5 A02 on my x50v after quite some time now, and rarely have to soft reboot, games like Virtual Pool, Toy Golf and a few tetraedge ones, just run without a single problem, my GPS bluetooth just works and stays connected perfectly, igo just runs with memory errors like it did with 2003SE.

the only today plugin I use is PocketBreeze and that again just runs.

I run all my programs installed on the SD card with music, movies, maps and large games etc...on the 2GB CF

With the help of Makuu I run mortscript PIE and it runs like a swift dream, opening a ramdisk then PIE automatically, then closing both when you leave, brilliant bit of scripting.

so all in all, why would I want to go back to 2003SE, except for constant re-booting, games sometimes not loading till you soft boot, bluetooth not connecting till you soft reboot...conclusions

2003SE- Soft reboot is your friend

I also use script to launch iGO, you can try to use it and adapt it for you.

Here is the one I use:

############################################
# iGo Launcher #
############################################

#Reading BT state
RegReadDWord HKLM,System\State\Hardware,Bluetooth,btState

#if BT inactive
If ( btState = 8 )

# we run BTSwitch
RunWait "\Program Files\BTswitch\BTSwitch.exe"

EndIf


#If Calligrapher active
If ProcExists CalliGrapher.exe

Kill CalliGrapher.exe

EndIf

#We run Hibernate to free Max of Ram
RunWait "\Program Files\Hibernate.exe"

#We launch iGO
RunWait "\SD Card\iGO\IGO.exe"

#We stop BT
RunWait "\Program Files\BTswitch\BTSwitch.exe"

#Calligrapher restart
Run "\Program Files\CalliGrapher\CalliGrapher.exe"

You need to get BTswitch (v0.1) and the old version of Hibernate

In my exemple I use the following path for BTswitch, Hibernate and igo:

"\Program Files\BTswitch\BTSwitch.exe"
"\Program Files\Hibernate.exe"
"\SD Card\iGO\IGO.exe"

You must update the path that you are using and change it accordingly in the script. I also notice that iGO needs a lot of memory to run OK, that's why I'am shutting down calligrapher to free some memory, and then I restart it after closing iGO. So you can also write your own script to terminate some apps or process prior lauching iGO and then restart it after closing iGO.

Also this script will check if BT is running or not, if it's not running it will run it and make it ready to use for iGO. Then BT is turned off after closing iGO.

[THUD]

Cheers Makuu, have just installed and changed your script to suit my CF installation and now I just click Igo mortscript icon...

Bluetooth auto starts
Igo loads
everything works
when I exit
Bluetooth auto exits

Brilliant, hope you don't mind but I have also saved similar versions of this script to do the exact same thing, but with Run.GPS and Memory Map navigator and they work perfectly, no longer do I have to fiddle about starting up bluetooth..

Blimey how lazy am I...

Your a star Makuu