Easier way to recover your X50 after you bricked it+premade nb0 files

[amysu]

Hi

Yes I looked but not sure which I should be using....I dont quite understand what difference the bootloader makes and I think I've flashed it to A02

What do you suggest I do? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[amysu]

Hi all

Have been reading and reading and reading again and again and again and finally got my PDA working....more by luck than design but I'd like to thank everyone that posted anything about unbrickin....all of it helped in some way or another.

[Steven855]

Thank you, that's good. Stuff like this should be common knowledge for everyone.

[12brandon12]

i pulled my axim out of a box where i keep my old tech about three mos ago and i had just put wm6.1 on my dash/excalibur - so i thought.... i'll just upgrade the axim too!!!!!!!!! after an entire weekend later i still could not get it back up and could not figure out why (realized later i didn't use the right bootloader as you mentioned when going from wm03 to wm5) - so i gave up because i was so frustrated.... i saw your post today and thought i'd give it a whack - lo and behold.............. i'm back up and running!! just wanted to say thanks for the post...

[Steven855]

No problem (yet another satisfied axim user, all in a day's work)

[Fish63]

Steven855,

I see from the bottom of your post that you have a WM6/WM6.1 coming out soon for X50's. I have a couple of questions. First, will you have to upgrade from WM5 to the new WM6/WM6.1 or will it be possible directly from WM2003SE, which I am running now?

Second, when I bought my x50 like three years ago, I ordered the WM5 upgrade from dell (I'm not sure what ROM version it was). I loaded it onto my x50 and it ran like crap so I put 2003SE back on it and it works fine. Do these new versions of WM5 for X50 work better than what I got originally from Dell? Would you recommend WM5 on the x50 mid rather than 2003SE I'm running today? Your comments appreciated.

Thanks,

Fish

[johnhu_2005]

Hi,
1. You cannot directly go from WM2003SE to WM6/6.1. You have to flash WM5 first.
2. As I do not have a x50, I hear from people that WM5 is horrible for the device. So, based on the general public, avoid WM5.

[Steven855]

Hi,
1. You cannot directly go from WM2003SE to WM6/6.1. You have to flash WM5 first.
2. As I do not have a x50, I hear from people that WM5 is horrible for the device. So, based on the general public, avoid WM5.

You are correct about point #1 (to be specific, WM2003 SE to WM5 A01 to WM5 A02 to WM6). As for your second point, do not make recommendations about these things when you have no experience with it. From your pda info, you have a X51v (not even part of the X50 series), which runs WM5 perfectly. Try out both WM5 and WM2003 SE. If you do go with WM5 be sure to stick with the WM5 A02 rom until I roll my own rom out.

[johnhu_2005]

Hehe. Proud owner of a x51v!
True, I was generalizing about the "general public".

[Fish63]

I have both an X50 and an X51V. The X51V runs WM5 quite well, but my experience with WM5 on the X50 was horrible. So, I'll wait until you have the wm6 available for the x50 before I flash WM5 on my way to WM6. Thanks,

Fish

[johnhu_2005]

Looks like I got some proof backing me up saying WM5 on x50 is bad. Don't take my word for it!

[Steven855]

I'm waiting on the decision from the mods as to whether I can post the WM5 upgrade iso link or not.

[Cornetet_Braz.]

Hullo there Steven, guys..

I'm quite desperate right now. My Axim x50 is tottally dead. Let me explain: I have it for about 2 years now, and when I bought it, it came originelly with wm2k3, and about 3 months later, Dell shipped a update CD with WM5 (it had just come out) and so I made the update succesfully, and had this WM5 vrs. A01 installed till this week.

Then, this past weekend I decided to update it, but I ended up bricking it by trying to force install WM6 MagLite's version for X50v (mine is x50[mid]). Well, as we all know, that would do the job. I was just so exited to do the update I didn't bother to read the threads.

Well, now my axim is tottally dead, I decided to read all posts and threads from all sorts of forums on the web, specially AximSite and xda-developers, and so I no longer consider myself a total noob, since I have read so much.

However, none of the intructions seem to do the job, because my Axim won't load the SD bootload screen at all! And I am doing it correctly, pressing wireless+power+reset. I have done that before and it worked. I think somehow the unsuccesful instalation of wm6 must have corrupted something and is now impeding the device from eving bootloading...!

The only thing it does is turning the power led red when it's connecet to the battery charger, then it becomes green when it is full (as usual). Won't turn on though. If I try to turn it on, to reset, load that test (rec+power+reset), or load bootload, nothing works. The only time something happens is when its on the PC USB craddle:Then when I try to bootload, the power light flashes in red pretty fast, then goes off again and that's all.

Yesterday, it all of a sudden showed a screen saying I had a problem on the memory, and invited me to press I think Contacts in order to solve it by recalling the standard configuration, but after I did so, it died again.

I'm completely desperate cuz I really liked it, it was part of my life already after som many yrs, and plus in my country (that would be Brazil) such eletronic devices and simply unafordable (I bought mine when I was an exchange student in US on 06), so if I actually screwed it up tottaly, I'm pretty much gonna be aximless forevermore.

I'm sorry for the gigantic post. I'm just desperate and willing to follow any procedure for bringing my PDA back to life. I have the USB craddle if that helps, FAT32 SD, PC card reader, etc. If you guys could give me any help I would fully aprecciate..

And I fully endorse the words from the other members thanking you guys that are always trying to bring up something new for PDA lovers across the world, specially for us Axim users, forgotten now by Dell aparently..

Sorry for my possibly bad English! Thank you very much in advance.. I'm available for further explanations about my situation, if any of you is willing to help..

Cheers from Brazil!! Best regards to u all!

[Cornetet_Braz.]

Oh ahn, I meant to say that, if any of you believes there's nothing I can do, it would be real cool if you tell me so, then I can just get over it.. thanks