Windows Mobile 6 on your Dell Axim - UPDATE

[Box]

Reflashing the ROM from the SD card is what is shown in that video.
It may fix your Hard reset problem.
You can reflash to wm5 using this method.

[mousearoma]

Hi guys,
I welcome your new decision.
until today I was reluctant to try the new WM6 because I was afraid of lack of support in case of trouble - but no more!

This is a perfect example of my point. BECAUSE of the decision to allow discussion of illegal ROMs there are many who will, AS A RESULT, download and use illegal ROMs when they would not have otherwise done so.



And for one of the first tests of the statement:

We're not going to write up a FAQ on how to obtain, install, or setup any shady ROMs, but we are going to attempt, as a community, to help folks fix their Axim.

VS

Hi guys,
I would appreciate your guidance as to how to upgrade my x51v wm5 a12 device to wm6.

So: Reply, ignore, modify, or delete?



And finally:

Basicly, it's ok now, but we still stand by no hosting of files that are not legal here on our servers.

VS

This is one site for WM6.1 where the ROM and instructions can be found.
[X51V] ROM WM6.1 EN classic, private edition - Page 13 - xda-developers

This is the other site for a WM6.1 ROM with instructions also.
Dell Axim x51v WM6.1 (LennySh Edition) - Lenny's Forum

Doesn't that roughly translate to 'I won't give you the crowbar and lock pick set, but if you ask my main man over there he'll supply you with everything you need to know to commit the crime.'?


John

[Steven855]

Enough! What is done, is done!

[Chris Leckness]

What really sucks about all this is that I am going to get beat up no matter what I do. Which ever way I decide.

[Box]

Don't take it too hard Chris, it's always the minority on both sides that do that.
The quiet majority are happy to follow what You decide for Your website.

[harpgliss]

Hi,

What really sucks about all this is that I am going to get beat up no matter what I do. Which ever way I decide.

This will be my last post on this but just something I need to post.

The almost total about face is baffling for some users here, including me.

Yes, you own the site but when you institute policies, are we not allowed to question reasons if we do not understand or agree with them.

You ask for input and participation but then complain when the participation is not what you anticipate or expect.

This is just the nature of forums.

The flipflop is baffling after the staff had been so adamant on the exclusion of this discussion.

Your site, your rules, but do not be surprised if people question what they do not understand or agree with.

This site has been around for how many years now? and you just now seeing that you will have people question a policy like this no matter which way you go with it?

[harpgliss]

Hi,

Don't take it too hard Chris, it's always the minority extremists on both sides that do that.
The quiet majority are happy to follow what You decide for Your website.

O.K. I have to comment on this.

Minority extremist?

Boy, Now we sound like terrorists or something of the like.

Maybe I put a little bit too much into your posted statement but when that is what I and others are judged and labeled by, then I use the same to do the same.

Never thought of someone who questions reasons was an extremist.

Have to keep from posting here anymore now, I guess.

[Box]

The true meaning of the word Extremist is only a person from one extreme or the other.
It doesn't make them a terrorist.
I used the word in it's original sense.

[Julie]

This will be my last post on this but just something I need to post.

The almost total about face is baffling for some users here, including me.

Yes, you own the site but when you institute policies, are we not allowed to question reasons if we do not understand or agree with them.

You ask for input and participation but then complain when the participation is not what you anticipate or expect.

This is just the nature of forums.

The flipflop is baffling after the staff had been so adamant on the exclusion of this discussion.

Your site, your rules, but do not be surprised if people question what they do not understand or agree with.

This site has been around for how many years now? and you just now seeing that you will have people question a policy like this no matter which way you go with it?

When Chris & the moderators discussed the policy ad nauseum last year, we went around and around about it before we settled on it. At the time Chris mentioned that he might want to revisit it again sometime in the future.

You seem to think there is some kind of hidden agenda here....there isn't. Lately, I've read threads from users who have come here seeking help when they bricked their devices by attempting to update it to WM6.0. The policy made it difficult for anyone here to help them. In some respects, those threads have been the impetus to relaxing our position.

Don't read so much into this policy change. Relaxing the forum policy makes it easier for forum members to help users who come here seeking help. People who really want to upgrade their pocket pcs to these questionable ROMs will go ahead and do it with or without a policy and they will do so at their own risk.

[hofshi]

I just wanted to say thanks to all you guys both for the new and good decision and for your kind assistance.

[Surferjesus]

*ps. I just woke up. Sorry if I sound drunk.

Dude..........................

Well, anyway, thx. Now I can "get to know" WM6 a bit better. We haven't talked or introduced ourselves yet, but I'm gonna take it out dinner, and maybe ...... when we get home...... keep it installed . That is, unless it crashes my Ax and dumps me

[harpgliss]

Hi,

The true meaning of the word Extremist is only a person from one extreme or the other.
It doesn't make them a terrorist.
I used the word in it's original sense.

Extremist: an adherent or advocate of extremism;

: Radical

: Of, relating to, or favoring extremism or extremists.

Source: Merriam Webster Unabridged.

Julie, not thinking there is a hidden agenda nor did I imply from my posts this idea.

Just the policy and the reason for the ban on the discussion was so specific and for a particular reason that, the last I looked, Microsoft was still around still employed lawyers.

And this was the reason for the ban and did this change?

Are they no longer suing or prosecuting for copyright infringement or going after sites that condone or promote such action?

Again, this is a privately owned site and can set whatever policy the owner wants, but I had just not seen the original reason change.

Color me blind, I guess.