12-13-2005, 03:00 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 103
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I ditched most of my Today plugins and man oh MAN I am FREE!!!
It had been about 6 months since my last hard reset. Predictably, my X50v had been showing the telltale signs of needing a reload- sluggish performance, very slow activesyncs, etc.
"What a great time to do a ROM upgrade" I thought! After all, I was running A03 and A05 is out now. So I make a full backup and re-download all my purchased apps from Handango and PocketGear. Then I run the ROM update utility, first backing up A03 and then installing A05.
After a few hiccups with the ROM upgrade (my Dell desktop at work kept spontaneously rebooting when the upgrade progress bar was at about 50%, a heart-sinking experience at first) I establish a new partnership, do an activesync ("Wow this is so much FASTER now!"), and reload my applications, installing everything to built-in storage.
I had had a really nice today screen setup that served me well and that had been running great: Weatherpanel, pocketbreeze, and pocketplus. I had been using the Odessey client for wifi but decided to forego that to save the memory hit this time around.
Almost right away I had problems. White screen of deaths (screens of death?) . After a soft reset WiFi wouldn't find my WAP, and the radio didn't respond to my pressing the side button or manually turning the radio off/on in settings. It just stayed on or off until I soft reset again. Many times, when I either turned off the X50v or it auto-shutoff while connected to my AP, the device would start doing this when I turned it back on again and I could not get it to respond without a soft-reset. Soft-resets took for-EV-er. And I was doing a lot of them.
I tried disabling WeatherPanel, thinking that maybe it's agressiveness in trying to grab weather updates as soon as the device was turned on may have been causing the wifi issues. I think to a certain extent that may have been true. The device was still really slow booting after a soft reset though, so I tried disabling pocketbreeze.
WOW was that last soft-reset QUICK! I couldn't be stopped now. I was hungry for even more speed. I disabled the pocketplus plugin and then enabled the built-in calendar, task, and messaging today screen selections. Soft reset. BOOM! My device was available to me in mere seconds (or that's what it felt like, at least). Turn the device off. Turn it back on. BOOM! There was my device, waiting for me to do something. I'm really on to something here!
Missing my today screen launcher, I go to re-download my copies of handy launcher, switcher, and menu, but then I remember I have Resco installed. I enable the today screen plugin which I had never really used, add a few shortcuts to my most-used apps, switch it to compact mode- niiiiiiice. No wifi issues. No white screen of death so far (it hasn't been very long tho). Soft resets and plain old power-off and power-ons are super-quick. I can see as much info about my upcoming appointments and tasks as I need to see on my today screen. I'm not constantly fretting about what groups my icons are in in and so forth. I am FREE!
I realize that I don't need to have every app I have installed be able to be launched from the today screen. I don't have to have up-to-the-minute weather information available at any time. I don't need 4 ways of telling how much battery or memory is available. I want my device to turn ON when I whip it out at work and want to quickly jot down something in phatpad. By greatly simplifying my today screen I have freed myself from all the constant tweaking I'd find my self doing, greatly improved the speed at which I can use my device, and just plain quit worrying about this stuff so much.
I am FREE! :clap:
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