Arg! This thread has become a caldron...brewing a rant within me! I don't know if it's just this iPaq, or an indication of flaws within WM5. If it's a case of the former, then I can say without hesitation that the iPaq rx1950 is hands down the absolute worst mobile device on the market today...and I mean worst. We're talking Palm-Size PC bad here.
I bought this damn thing mainly for the coveted form factor, and integrated Wifi. All I wanted was a basic no-nonsense PDA with integrated Wifi for gruntwork wirless connectivity in the home and office. As it turns out, this iPaq (or WM5) is worthless for anything but. Aside from the annoying habit of refusing to turn on presented in this thread, and the Wifi amnesia problem I indicated earlier, I have had to endure incredibly long sync times. Has anyone else noticed this problem too? When I dock my iPaq, it connects fairly quickly (I emphasize the word fairly), but it takes like 5 minutes before it actually begins syncing data. During that time the ActiveSync window displays a message saying "Looking for changes", which stays in that state for like two to five minutes, then and only then will it transition to the sync queue. AvantGo takes FOREVER to sync, as does the pathetic WMP integration. Whatever you do, DO NOT sync your music playlist.
As I said, I don't know if it's just this iPaq or whether WM5 as well as AS4 have some serious issues, but whatever it is someone screwed up in a major way. The rx1950 is completely worthless and I would advise ANYONE here NOT to buy one. I wish I could eBay the darn thing, but I cannot in good conscience peddle such a product to anyone else, knowing what it is. Such as it is (or should I say suck as it does) this will probably be my last Pocket PC handheld.
Funny thing is...I just bought a Palm TX and it works absolutely flawlessly. It syncs..it connects to my Wifi network INSTANTLY...it turns on when summoned. All while running on Grandpa Garnet. Funny, that.
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I started experiencing this yesterday after I've installed SPB GPRS Monitor on my Dopod 900. Everytime I turned on the device, it would not turn on or just a white screen. I have soft reset the unit so many times since then.
Just uninstalled the SPB GRPS Monitor but have not really tested it. Let's keep my fingers crossed it is okay now. 0X
I've done the rant bit before so I won't go there again, but I had this problem a lot. I found it happened when an alarm went off and I wasn't around to see it. It would kill the whole battery and go white screen. I found that by using the extended battery and deleting all of the reminder bells from my recurring appointments, the problem seldom happens.
Sorry to lead off topic, but now the problem is that Pocket Internet Explorer won't work. Last night night I deleted the cache, and it powered off before completing. Now nothing will bring PIE to life. That and the media player won't read my CF card made me resolve to do another hard reset (my 4th in 3 months). By the looks of this thread looks like I have some reading to do before I take that step.
When I dock my iPaq, it connects fairly quickly (I emphasize the word fairly), but it takes like 5 minutes before it actually begins syncing data. During that time the ActiveSync window displays a message saying "Looking for changes", which stays in that state for like two to five minutes, then and only then will it transition to the sync queue. AvantGo takes FOREVER to sync, as does the pathetic WMP integration. Whatever you do, DO NOT sync your music playlist.
Where large databases are concerned, Windows Mobile 5.0's sync is generally slower (though not 5-minutes kind of slow). Are you running ActiveSync 4.0 or 4.1? If the former, check to see you don't have any firewalls making your connection funky as that can lengthen the sync time. You might also want to upgrade to v4.1.
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Anyway, to keep on topic, I've encountered the 'soft-reset/turn on issue' about 5% of the time on my E-TEN M600 (E-TEN is aware of the problem). I've also seen the white screen problem on many X50v's upgraded to Windows Mobile 5.0.
Seems like these issues apply to almost all Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, whether it be due to a problem with the OS directly, tweaking performed by the OEM, or third-party software interfering with the OS.
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Arg! This thread has become a caldron...brewing a rant within me! I don't know if it's just this iPaq, or an indication of flaws within WM5. If it's a case of the former, then I can say without hesitation that the iPaq rx1950 is hands down the absolute worst mobile device on the market today...and I mean worst. We're talking Palm-Size PC bad here.
i couldn't agree more. i've been ranting in the HP ipaq section of these forums about how crappy this device is. cept i went from the tx to the rx1950 and now to the hx2495, and although the hx2495 is nice an all, i may go back to the TX simply cause i'll save 100 bucks.
Anyway, the rx1950 wouldn't be too bad if it had more ram, an xscale, and none of this sd card lock up stuff this thread is about. in fact, they should have just released wm5 for the 4100 series.
anyway, when i was talking to the engr team at HP regarding the sd card issue, he basically told me he doens't know if it's software or hardware, and they're still diagnosing the problem. I wouldn't expect a ROM update till Feb 06 for this device.
I started experiencing this yesterday after I've installed SPB GPRS Monitor on my Dopod 900. Everytime I turned on the device, it would not turn on or just a white screen. I have soft reset the unit so many times since then.
Just uninstalled the SPB GRPS Monitor but have not really tested it. Let's keep my fingers crossed it is okay now. 0X
Update: My device appears to be okay since I uninstalled SPB GPRS Monitor. Thank goodness for that. ops: :roll:
this happens intermittently on my Orange SPV M5000 (universal)
its really really annoying, because there is a problem with the software that deletes all recent changes to your text message inbox when you reset!!!!! for example if you have deleted messages, they will magically reappear in your inbox, or if you have recieved any new messages they will disappear...this problem has been documented over at xda developers.
note i have NO extra software installed, no drivers etc....its just plain vanilla WM5.
i do however have a 512mb sd card.
WM5 certainly has its issues. I'm having this problem every day or two, but haven't spotted a pattern yet. No way am I taking my storage cards out of my X51v when I'm not using it! They'd get lost in no time. Bottom line is, WM5 is too easy to crash when certain things happen.
with Dell x50v
ops: :roll:
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