[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Darius Wey

Definitely not a problem affecting all Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. My M600 is able to pick up the card coming out of standby - in fact, instantaneously. 8O

That is good to hear. That isn't an HTC device is it?

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Darius Wey

Definitely not a problem affecting all Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. My M600 is able to pick up the card coming out of standby - in fact, instantaneously. 8O

That is good to hear. That isn't an HTC device is it?

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

That is good to hear. That isn't an HTC device is it?

Nah, it's one of the very few non-HTC Phone Edition devices.

[KTamas]

The disappearing SD card is not only a WM5 bug IIRC. The fact is that the OS unmounts the card when you turn off the device, and mounts it back when you turn on - and here is the problem, it can not always mount it back correctly or it can not mount it back at all. Also, the applications/games/whatsoever does NOT get told by the OS that the device is turned off when you press the "off" button, nor it gets notized when you turn on the device; your app pretends that nothing happened. Rarely my SD card disappears too under WM2003SE; mostly the app i run and / or an app that reads / writes something from the SD card hangs / gives me errors (yay, tricky sentence.. :P). For example I read a book in uBook, turn off the device, turn on, and i go a few pages forward then i get blank pages. I turn off uBook, reopen it and it can not reopen my ebook at all, i have to go to the open page and reopen it. This is also a reason why I don't keep my bible on the SD card, cause Olivetree biblereader (i had problems with pocket e-sword...) does not likes bibles in SD card too. Once i got an even weirder thing: it _looked_ that the data on my SD card totally messed up (like the FAT got wrong). Fake files with fake filesizes and filenames, fake folders etc...but i did a softreset and everything came back.

[David Hettel]

Try changing the following, seems to work for me.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\]
"PNPUnloadDelay"="8192"
"PNPWaitIODelay"="8192"

Allows PocketBible to function after a power cycle for me.

David

[Clinton Fitch]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

. I'd be curious to see how this works with the Dell Axis X50v with the upgrade or the new X51v, or any non-iMate device. If things work great for you in this regard, let me know the size of your storage card. I had a 512MB SD card but I can't find it to test.

I've experienced some problems with my SD getting "lost" after a power off but most of my problems with this have been associated with my CF card. That card, a 512MB SanDisk, is where I store my games and application data (Temporary Internet Files, etc).

[unxmully]

Originally Posted by clintonfitchdotcom

I've experienced some problems with my SD getting "lost" after a power off but most of my problems with this have been associated with my CF card. That card, a 512MB SanDisk, is where I store my games and application data (Temporary Internet Files, etc).

That explains a lot. I stopped using a perfectly good, it now appears, 512meg CF card for this very reason :?

[Paragon]

I'm using a Qtek 9100. Using audible as an example I only see this behavior after a soft reset. I can turn the device off and on at will and it will still open to the correct file on the storage card. If I soft rest it looses that file, and opens with the audible welcome piece which is in main mamory. I then have to drill down to the proper file to open.

Dave

[dermite]

I'd be curious to see how this works with the Dell Axis X50v with the upgrade or the new X51v, or any non-iMate device.

Unfortunately, I am having the same problem with an X50v upgraded to WM 5. Personally I am using a 1 GB compact flash card, but there have been many complaints about similar probems with various card configurations over on Aximsite.

[halljames]

Has nobody got anything to say about the My Documents issue?

[Akeldama]

I noticed the exact same "lost storage card" issue on my Dell Axim X50v shortly after upgrading; it was maddening! However, after changing the registry value for PNPUnloadDelay to 4096, I haven't noticed this behavior any longer.

I usually have a 1gig SD card and a 2.2gig microdrive CF card plugged in at all times on my Axim. I noticed that after the upgrade to WM5, I could hear the microdrive click, spin-up and then power back down on its own every few minutes. It would do this while sitting suspended on my desk. Needless to say, this had a dire effect on battery life. I've done a few other registry tweaks, so I don't know if the PNPUnloadDelay fixed this issue as well, but I'm not having the microdrive problem any longer now.

- Akeldama