Is Windows Mobile 2003 making my new Axim sluggish?

[MoelBrain]

I was playing around with my new Axim and noticed that is was more sluggish than my old one, especially when running Reader or WMP. Is this normal or is it a problem with this one.

[MoelBrain]

I was playing around with my new Axim and noticed that is was more sluggish than my old one, especially when running Reader or WMP. Is this normal or is it a problem with this one.

[David Prahl]

What switcher app are you using? I thought that some software I was using was slowing down my Axim (1st gen), but it turned out that it was my switcher software, which was not shutting down open programs.

Close everything down, and then try those apps again.

How much free system RAM do you have left? 10 is cutting it close, I always aim for 20 or so.

[MoelBrain]

I'm using switcher bar and I have 20+ mb of ram for for program memory.

[David Prahl]

Nevermind! ops:

<slowly turns and walks away>

<sulk>

[merle]

Looks like others have seen a slow-down with WM2003 on an Axim. See this thread:
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...threadid=15367

[mr_Ray]

Originally Posted by MoelBrain

I was playing around with my new Axim and noticed that is was more sluggish than my old one, especially when running Reader or WMP. Is this normal or is it a problem with this one.

I infact registered just to say "AAARRGH IT'S SLOW!!!"

Now that's over, I'll get on with it. Yes WMP and Reader are really buggy on my new today Axim. WMP skips and chops even simple audio if you dare do something else while it plays.
Reader seems a bit slow but especially when bringing up menus - do you get the five or six second delay while it draws the menu shadow?

Also, in the SPB benchmark results, file performance is MUCH slower.

Moel - have you ran this too? If so, how were your results?

[Kevin C. Tofel]

For the folks who have benchmarked their ROM upgraded Axims (as opposed to new Axims with WM2003 already installed): I'd be curious if you have the PXA250 or PXA255 processor.

I'm wondering if WM2003 is slower on the 250 chip that has a slower bus speed......

Thanks!
KCT

[JoeMoon]

I have a first generation Axim that I have always thought was sluggish... But after confering with a friend who recently purchased a new Ipqa - we kinda concluded is was the operating system.

We are both using PPC 2002 OS. We were used to the previous version of the OS on our former devices, which seemed more responsive and snappier.

I am curious if it would be hardward related...

Joe...

[guinness]

Over on the Dell Axim boards, an individual ran the spb benchmarks on 3 different Axims, 2 PXA-250's with 2002, and a PXA-255 with 2003. In the overall index score, the Axim with 2003 finished last.

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfor...essage.id=4348

Not a good sign for Axim owners.

1. Dell Axim X5 (2002, 400Mhz PXA250) benched by SPB

2. Axim 400Mhz PXA250 2002 A0 I ordered when they first came out.

3. Axim 400Mhz PXA255 2003 A4 I just recieved this week.


Spb Benchmark index
752 757 543


CPU index
912 882 1768
File system index
855 929 291
Graphics index
434 423 448
Platform index
629 630 286
Write 1 MB file (KB/sec)
657 725 944
Read 1 MB file (MB/sec)
15.9 15.6 8.74
Copy 1 MB file (KB/sec)
716 730 1004
Write 10 KB x 100 files (KB/sec)
477 496 614
Read 10 KB x 100 files (MB/sec)
5.26 5.72 2.98
Copy 10 KB x 100 files (KB/sec)
376 401 533
Directory list of 2000 files (thousands of files/sec)
112 121 2.98
Internal database read (records/sec)
398 684 316
Graphics test: DDB BitBlt (frames/sec)
41.8 41 40.7
Graphics test: DIB BitBlt (frames/sec)
12.3 12.3 22.3
Graphics test: GAPI BitBlt (frames/sec)
47.1 45.8 46.7
Pocket Word document open (KB/sec)
22.5 21.4 35.3
Pocket Internet Explorer HTML load (KB/sec)
4.73 4.95 0.775
Pocket Internet Explorer JPEG load (KB/sec)
79.7 79.5 134
File Explorer large folder list (files/sec)
238 234 234
Compress 1 MB file using ZIP (KB/sec)
65.5 61.8 229
Decompress 1024x768 JPEG file (KB/sec)
423 412 567
Arkaball frames per second (frames/sec)
38.2 38.5 40.3
CPU test: Whetstones MFLOPS (Mop/sec)
0.061 0.063 0.073
CPU test: Whetstones MOPS (Mop/sec)
54.1 53.6 53.1
CPU test: Whetstones MWIPS (Mop/sec)
3.96 4.03 4.82
Memory test: copy 1 MB using memcpy (MB/sec)
65 63.7 107

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