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Originally Posted by Menneisyys
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Originally Posted by sojourner753
Why is it none of the "official" will answer questions about the lifecycle of ROM memory once everything starts to be written to it?
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Well, this question has been partly answered by HP's not providing the WM5 upgrade for the iPAQ rx3xxx (the worst PDA, file store life expectancy-wise) :devilboy:
I'm also afraid of the upgrade because of this fact. I'll try to find ways of relocating the Registry and the WinCE databases (especially if there will be a lot of PC -> PDA, for example, mail synchronization) back to the main memory, I think... My PIE/Netfront cache will also go back to the main memory. I don't want to have a paperweight (my PL720's warranty will run off this Autumn...) |
Unfortunately you won't be able to do this. For one thing, the registry/databases all are being looked for at a certain path. The best you can do is make a RAM disk and copy non-system databases/files there if the apps allow that.
One thing that people don't realize is that any app built for WM5 will most likely do some buffering. Buffering minimizes the file read/write speed issues of the persistent store. Most apps read/write files byte by byte or section by section. If you do that on WM5, you will be terribly slow. If you buffer read/write operations with an 8k to 64k buffer, then the speed difference will be negligible, and may even be faster than the previous WM2003 release (of course the WM2003 release would then benefit as well).