11-16-2005, 05:45 PM
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Pocket PC Techs' 128MB RAM Upgrade for the Axim X51v
"We are pleased to announce that we have developed and released a 64MB to 128MB upgrade for the Dell Axim X51v Series Pocket PC. This unit uses low voltage hi-speed BGA memory, so stacking is not available and 128MB will be the maximum capacity. During the upgrade process we remove the existing 64MB and install 128MB. This memory upgrade does NOT require our proprietary driver and is fully recognized by the WM5 OS."
Pocket PC Techs has just announced a 64MB to 128MB RAM upgrade for the Axim X51v. For $169, you can increase the user-available RAM from 49.47MB to 113.45MB. 
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11-16-2005, 06:09 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2004
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y just upgrade the rams only?? i'm willing to pay a resonable price to upgrade my verizon vx6600 pocketPhone to VGA screen!
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11-16-2005, 06:26 PM
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Considering how much it costs to replace a VGA screen (and this only the screen mind), you're probably better off buying a new PDA with a VGA screen. PPCTechs is quoting $229 for a screen replacement for the Loox720, and that's for a screen replacement rather than a retrofit. Fujitsu-Siemens support in UK (IIRC) was quoting something like GBP300 for the same thing.
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11-16-2005, 07:38 PM
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Magi
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I'm confused as to why anyone would want this. Now my info may be outdated, but last I checked a PPCT RAM upgrade could be used for storage but couldn't be accessed as program memory. So now with WM5 RAM can't be used for storage either. So what good will the extra RAM do anyone? Especially considering it takes twice as much battery power to keep that much RAM powered....
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11-16-2005, 08:53 PM
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Mystic
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This is hilarious. I thought WM5 was supposed to sort out all our RAM problems. I know of one device (HTC Universal with only 30 MB RAM free after soft reset) which much more desperately needs this service.
I'm not going to consider a WM5 device as my main PDA until it comes with 128 MB RAM right out of the box.
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11-16-2005, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by PetiteFlower
I'm confused as to why anyone would want this. Now my info may be outdated, but last I checked a PPCT RAM upgrade could be used for storage but couldn't be accessed as program memory. So now with WM5 RAM can't be used for storage either. So what good will the extra RAM do anyone? Especially considering it takes twice as much battery power to keep that much RAM powered....
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It's dependent on the type of RAM and the ability of the OS to recognize it. My 4155 upgrade was indeed only an internal 'storage' increase but allowed me to load a significant number of apps that normally would have taken system RAM but couldn't be loaded on an SD for various reasons. It amounted to a very fast RAM Disk, if you recall those things.
Other PPCs like the X51v will accept the RAM as native and will see it as actual RAM increase. My X50v is that way. When I open the memory applet I see 128M RAM divided into Program and Storage. On the X51 I would expect to see something close to 128M of RAM with some of it used by the OS on reset. My upgrade on the X50 was certainly worth it, I expect the X51 would be as well in increased performance and multitasking ability.
As far as battery power, I didn't really see any appreciable difference in battery life.
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11-16-2005, 10:13 PM
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I just sent my X50v with WM5 to get upgraded. There are plenty of apps that require more the 24MB of RAM but WM5 on the X50v only gives you 24MB accessable RAM? where is the rest of the 64MB? This upgrade will sure come in handy. Things like game ports and GPS software will run much smoother (OCN5 and Quake III Arean for example).
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11-16-2005, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by PetiteFlower
I'm confused as to why anyone would want this. Now my info may be outdated, but last I checked a PPCT RAM upgrade could be used for storage but couldn't be accessed as program memory.
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I'm trying to get more information about this, because I don't want to pass on false information, but on my Jasjar I have 64 MB of RAM. In the memory control panel, it says I have 50 MB. After a soft reset with nothing running, I have about 29 MB free. Presumably, just like how on Windows XP you have 512 MB of RAM and the OS uses up 256 MB of it upon boot, the 64 MB of RAM that comes on the device is about 50% used up. This was quite a shock to me the first time I saw it, because I wasn't expecting it. I somehow thought there would be the full 64 MB of RAM available, but that doesn't make much sense now that I think about it. The sheer amount of RAM used up after a soft reset is very dismaying though... :? I'll front page this once I find out more - I really want to know why the Jasjar shows 50 MB for RAM when I know it has 64 MB.
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11-16-2005, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I'll front page this once I find out more - I really want to know why the Jasjar shows 50 MB for RAM when I know it has 64 MB.
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You're not the only one. The Dell X50v with WM5 shows 49MB and 24MB available after reset. It was 64 with almost 40 available in 2003SE. I would like to know aswell.
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11-17-2005, 12:09 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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One thing I've personally found to be very useful to free up more RAM - look at the \WINDOWS\Startup folder and create a \WINDOWS\Startup Disabled folder. Move all the shortcuts from the first to the second and reboot. See what's really necessary. A lot of memory can be freed that way.
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