[bdavidson9554]

My $42.39 WM5 refund posted to my credit card from HP today. I'll ride out using the hx4700 with WM2003SE until I can get my hands on a hw6940.

Brian

[bdavidson9554]

My $42.39 WM5 refund posted to my credit card from HP today. I'll ride out using the hx4700 with WM2003SE until I can get my hands on a hw6940.

Brian

[buzzard]

Originally Posted by juni

I'm planning on upgrading this evening.

And the outcome is........

[klanum]

Well, I've been at it a week and initially had problems first with speed and then activesyncing. I decided to go back to square one a couple days ago and reset the hx4705 and then formatted the SD/CF cards clean. I've been able now to make it acceptable and in some cases faster than thought possible.

I've done all the things mentioned:

1. Tweaks2k2 - to modify the I/O settings and moved the temp files to the CF (I hate messing with the registry 8O )
2. Turned off the IR and the error reporting function (that latter part helped alot)
3. Installed a sizeable chunk of software to the CF card
4. I have modified the activesync server connection to do it every hour in prime and manual in off-peak hours.

It's all help to make it tolerable and in some cases really good but...

In loading SuperTasks, I still have the filesys.exe issue with the file compacting by the WM5 OS on the system ROM. Some other sites have suggested deleting these registry keys:

HKLM\drivers\Builtin\StrataFMD\CompactionPrio256
HKLM\drivers\Builtin\StrataFMD\CompactionCritPrio2 56

I do not like deleting registry keys (a big phobia of mine) and just renamed it hoping it would do some good but the IPAQ still runs in the 60-70% range on CPU for a large portion of the time for the last several hours I have read per the MS Dev blog on this issue that it does no good doing anything to the keys and is not editable by the end-user. I have also read on the Axim site that they have a user-made patch for this very issue.

Has anyone had luck in shutting or scaling this monster back or is it just something to live with because we have older devices with slower ROM memory that can't handle the read/writes associated with this process? Also would moving "everything" possible to the cards really speed it up and lessen the filesys.exe effect?

Been a great thread to watch and hope some of you "brains" out there have had luck on this issue.

[waterboy]

I've given up and gone back to WM2K3SE!

I could live with the loss of WiFi syncing, but I was totally unaware that WM5 does not support Pocket Access syncing. I tried to get around that by exporting, each day, the info I needed from Access 2002 databases to Excel files, so I would have the information on my iPAQ, but after syncing the Excel files, I find that Excel Mobile will not open Excel files created by Access 2002. Of course, I can manually open the Excel files on my PC, and then resave them, resync, and Excel Mobile does fine. But that defeats the whole purpose of automation in syncing files.

Perhaps, and I'm not holding my breath, there will be workarounds, probably 3rd party, developed for these issues, if enough people need the same kind of functionality that I do. Here's hoping!

[Edgar_]

Waterboy

Have you tried PLanmaker by Softmaker?

http://www.softmaker.com/english/pmp_en.htm

Download the trial, I think it supports opening access files.

-Edgar

[juni]

I did it. And you were right, the device was sluggish - a complete opposite of the speedy wm2003SE. But, I used it for an hour or so and then it amazingly suddenly picked up speed. I don't really know what happened .

Some observations:

- Softkeys? Why can't they be reassigned to what you want? I already have a calendar and a contacts button on the device. (at least they can be skinned)

- Where did the file storage go?

- Themes. WM5 uses colors differently. I think I know how to get them how I want already though, just never could experiment before .

[Dave Beauvais]

Originally Posted by juni

[...] But, I used it for an hour or so and then it amazingly suddenly picked up speed. I don't really know what happened .

That was my experience, as well, though it took a couple days for me. Maybe I just let the ROM compaction process have enough time to finally finish what it needed to do. <shrug>

Originally Posted by juni

Where did the file storage go?

In WM5, basically all of the flash ROM space (that isn't used for the OS itself) is available to you to use for program installation & storage and RAM is used as it is on a regular computer: for executing programs. There is no longer any need for a separate "File Store."

[pwsabm]

I spent the last few days working on making the upgrade work. I found the following:

1) Certain applications will not work properly or at all when installed to a storage card.
2) Certain programs, an older version of SPB Plus 3.0, caused the device to not start after a soft reboot, starting only after a hard reset.
3) Going through all the tricks people have mentioned does help a lot.

I had to install my applications one at a time, back up after every install until I found the one that was causing the crashes, I downloaded the latest version of SPB Plus 3.0 and installed, so far no crash.

The only thing I am experiencing is an error "Storage memory very low" after the unit had been sitting in the cradle overnight. I don't know if it will happen again tonight.

What happened the the slider bar in the memory setting screen? I do not have that on my device.

[Gerard]

RAM is used differently with WM5. All available RAM, that is all the hardware RAM installed on the device, is used to run applications and services. None of it is for storage. Therefore there is no need, and no way, to use any portion of it for storage... so no slider.

[Edgar_]

Interesting. So, for those of us that bought the 128M PPCTechs upgrade providing 128/128M for our systems; we now have 128M for programs and a 128M internal store? How does this affect the performance? I would think this scenario would provide a large boost to background applications like this forboding filesys.exe ROM compaction schema.

Are any of you running on a PPCTechs modded 4700? If so, can you relate if this seems to make a difference

-Edgar