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Originally Posted by Tim Rapson
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Originally Posted by bvkeen
I have actually become very good at hard-resetting the x51v.
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Ouch! That is not encouraging.
How long does it take to do a hard reset on your X51v? Is all your information still there due to the new persistent memory? How long for a soft reset? Are you a software tester or doing something extraordinary to need so many resets? |
Actually, the data is no longer there after a hard reset, so it is just as painful as with any other PPC.
I am involved in one closed beta, but it turns out not being problematic. Some of the biggest problems I have had were with not realizing in advance that I should install and run Tweaks2k before installing and running anything else. Tweaks2k turns off the security install "feature" in WM5, which, while not a real bad idea, is very poorly implemented within WM5: when you are installing, you get a box that asks something like "do you want to install this, since it doesn't have a security certificate?" If you say yes, the OS authorizes the executable file associated with the installation but not any of its associated DLLs. You wind up with stuff that runs incredibly poorly. And, no software seems to have a certificate. Not even the latest MS Voice. One of the reasons I bought the x51v was to be able to run MW Voice without worrying about how much memory it takes up. But, MS Voice command is not fully compatible with the x51v implementation of WM5, in that saying "show contact name" shows a blank screen (as does "call contact name," although one user reported that the latter actually works for him). So, to get to the point, finally, a lot of the resetting has been to get back to a performance level that was acceptable, and finding out what software really works on it and what does not. You can see why I have been reluctant to load FITALY, given that some have reported it to be incompatible, since some stuff does not work that you would think for sure would work.
Sorry for the rambling.