OK, after going through the screen alignment process about 7 times, it finally kicked over into the next steps...So far, so good. I really like the new 'power' icon in the top menu.
Now to see what happens after an Spb Backup restore!
Interesting news, a month too late for me since I rolled back to WM2003SE after thinking my X50v was about to die as it barely responded to clicks. Actually it took it a while to get back up to speed with WM2003SE, not sure why. First reports sound encouraging, please keep us posted on usage over a few days, thanks.
Looks like the update doesn't work from a Vista machine. I tried it on both a Vista laptop tonight and my XP Pro desktop and finally got it to work. Got a little nervous when my first hard reset didn't take (I must not have pressed both buttons at quite the same time), but so far - so good.
Now, if they could only do something about the bogus "oops, the battery door was opened so I'll shut down" problem I have after a certain well-known Pocket PC repair company fixed my connector plug.
Actually, the purpose of a hard reset is to restore your device back to default settings, so your data gets nuked as well. That feature is still in place.
Persistent storage is what you may have been referring to. Under the old WM2003SE model, your data would be wiped upon depletion of the battery. Persistent storage overcomes this issue by storing data on the non-volatile ROM. Personally, I feel that's enough of a benefit to move from WM2003SE to WM5, and then there's the other added benefits you mentioned earlier.
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Guess I'll have to find my upgrade CD. Bought one but never installed it, because of all the issues. Since then I have pretty much moved to a K-Jam as my day-to-day machine, though the X50 stays charged and updated. Be fun to see how it goes.
Stay with the K-Jam besides I don't really know how fun it will be. But I wish you luck not everyone had a tale of woe to tell but enough did that you should think about it for a while.
I have two x50v's. One became a brick a few weeks after the upgrade. I should send it into PPC Techs but I got really turned off with Dell - nobody to talk to so it's just laying in a box. The other one (I think) was upgraded at the same time but right after the first one died I rolled back the other to 2003se. I won't go through the upgrade again, at least I got a really really slow PDA that I turned into a a desk clock - cool but I should have bought a Rollex. I went back to my iPAQ 4155. Runs fine - too bad the Dell couldn't compete. I will never buy anything with a Dell label agian. No servers, laptops, desktops or PDA's - finished.
Guess I'll have to find my upgrade CD. Bought one but never installed it, because of all the issues. Since then I have pretty much moved to a K-Jam as my day-to-day machine, though the X50 stays charged and updated. Be fun to see how it goes.
Stay with the K-Jam besides I don't really know how fun it will be. But I wish you luck not everyone had a tale of woe to tell but enough did that you should think about it for a while.
Too Late :wink: Did both the upgrades and it seems to Be running OK. Really wasn't using the Dell, but my wife uses hers. Wanted to see how it comes out. If it is farly stable, I'll build it for her and keep her other one at WM2003SE just in case. Mine has the PPCTechs upgrade in it. FYI the memory readings look like this now
Too Late :wink: Did both the upgrades and it seems to Be running OK...
I wish you all the luck possible. I really hope you don't become one of the sorry few. Anyway, I liked WM5 on the Dell while it lasted - really nice. I would upgrade my desk clock to WM5 but I guess I'm gun shy at this point and since I've gone back to my 4155 it looks fine just there. I really should check out with PPC Techs if they can revive my brick. If so then I would upgrade both since I do have 2 full WM5 upgrades laying in my draw. I would keep one as a desk clock (maybe a chess clock) and the other I would give to my friend who is a Palm freak (poor guy :deadhorse: )
Don't get me wrong - even if my Dell's do get revived I still will never buy another dell - never, neVER, nEVER, NEVER!!!!!
Don't get me wrong - even if my Dell's do get revived I still will never buy another dell - never, neVER, nEVER, NEVER!!!!!
Jeff-
You might never get the chance. Rumors aside, hard to tell if Dell is going to make any more. I'd buy another one. Had 2 X5s an X30, and two X50s. Had decent luck or decent support with all. The X30s sync port went bad, and one X50's touch screen got flaky. Both had replacements overnighted by Dell, and the broken one went back in the box at their expense. Can't ask for much more than that. The X5s got upgrades, but they also sold X5s with the later OS directly. Not the same with the X50/X51. Dell never sold X50s with WM5, they developed a new box for the new OS. Folks demanded an upgrade though, and Dell capitulated. Sometimes you have to be careful what you ask for. I don't think the HP4700 upgrade went much better.
In any case, I have had no more complaints about Dell than any other brand.
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I took the plunge a couple of days ago and so-far-so-good. I do have the impression that my battery is losing power faster than it did with WM2003SE though. Anyone else seeing this?
I took the plunge a couple of days ago and so-far-so-good. I do have the impression that my battery is losing power faster than it did with WM2003SE though. Anyone else seeing this?
I'd concur with that. Doesn't really make sense though if the RAM isn't needing to be refreshed. Not really sure how they arranged all that unless the OS Image and the persistent memory stuff went into the old ROM and User Storage area, and the old RAM is now just that...execution space.
I personally am not sure if it is an impression on my part, because of the older battery, not a lot of recent use, and more use now that it is fun to play with again. Sort of a new toy.
I did let it run all the way down though and once power was reapplied and I gave it a little bit to come back to life, all is as it was. No drained battery hard reset.
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