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Hi,
now this may sound really stupid to most of you since you are all very eager to have the newest ROM on your XDA's, but I don't really get it. My O2-XDA was always working fine, and when I read some topics here, I got the idea that I was missing something.
So I upgraded my device to radio 4.21 and ROM 3.17.03 but I don't notice any difference. Also, no programs have been added (except for the wireless modem application), and the ROM still comes with useless stuff like the Action Engine, which is useless since O2 Netherland is taken over by Telfort and it doesn't support it anymore. O2 England has a newer ROM version to offer, I might try that, but...
Why would I?
I have read countless topics on upgrading, also on upgrading the XDA to WM2003, but why? It's always "it works great!!!" or "I can't get it to work!!!" but the real difference (except the feeling of having the newest ROM in your device) is never explained.
So, someone, tell me what I'm missing here?
programs made for wm2003 dont always work on ppc2002
like voicecommand from ms
this is likely to become a bigger and bigger problem as time goes by
I agree with you on there is no BIG motive for upgrade. The only noticed differences are:
1. SMS better handling
2. GPRS "Always on" feature, but it's not that fancy except if you keep MSN messenger on (who does this ??!! :shock: ).
3. MIDI files for ring tones (never worked for me tho :evil: )
Rudegar said:
programs made for wm2003 dont always work on ppc2002
like voicecommand from ms
this is likely to become a bigger and bigger problem as time goes by
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That's true, but if you don't need these s/w you shouldn't sacrifice the stability. However, will this amount of experience in this forum it's not that complex any more.
1. SMS better handling
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Can you explain this to me?
Because my XDA already has GPRS always on (and you're right, who does that ).
Chances are I already have the better SMS handling, but didn't notice it? What is the exact difference?
Capt. PV.
I'd probably apply the 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' rule if I were you.
I upgraded my XDA (and recently did a full hardware upgrade to an i-Mate / XDA II) because there were features I wanted (such as wireless modem) for a particular purpose, but I doubt I'd have upgraded if that weren't so.
If you're comfortable with your baby as it is, (and aren't slave to a constant compulsion to pull things apart to figure out why they work) don't mess with it. :roll: .
SMS has character count. GPRS always on is very useful when you are actually trying to do something with it. If you want to continue using old software that's fine. Same reason not to upgrade from DOS 6.1. But personally I like getting software and installing it without worrying about whether my O/S is new enough. Some of us just like to experiment too.
We also live in the hope that bugs and nuances will be fixed with each O/S release and service release. If you believe the XDA is without nuances in its original form then you don't use it enough.
If you cannot think of any single reason to upgrade - then don't.
SMS better handling also includes the 4 buttons in the dialog upon recveiving the SMS so you can call/delete/reply immediately instead of opening the Inbox item. This is plus the character count and the auto-name-insert feature after the first 3 letters.
The GPRS always on feature saves the time to get attached, but if this time is less than 3 seconds and usually the s/w is connecting automatically then it's not that issue (at least for me) as I noticed that making/receiving phone calls is faster when GPRS is off (I might be wrong tho ).
I notice you are running the standard O2 setup with the latest rom and radio stack 4.21, if you go to the rom kitchen you can still cook the same rom but you can add a whole bunch of programs to the unused space in your rom area, if you dont mind losing the bloated O2 auto setup and use the developers setup you will have even more free space. These programs are instantly available, use no ram unless running and make the xda a much better pda/phone.
Captain Pervert said:
So, someone, tell me what I'm missing here?
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Hi,
Pocket Quake II doesn't run on PPC2002 :twisted: "due to a bug in the Operating System" so other software may also not work. The second important thing is Media Player 9 installed (with codecs).
do people really play quake 1 and 2 and other fps on their pda's ?
or is it just to impress people ?
because i've messed around a bit with quake1 and feel like a handicap'd zombie trying to gain any kind of control over the game
compared to how i can do it on a normal pc
imho then the controls of pda's dont mix with fps that well
the whole aiming thing require one to use the pen and i just cant do that fast or precise enough for gaming
Hi guys,
I got my wizard a couple of days ago, and was initially pleased by how snappy it was compared to my magician.
Since then, I've noticed that my wizard progressively slows down through the day. Initially I thought, no big deal, I'll just stop all running programs and it should speed up again. When I do this though, the amount of Free Program space does not increase by much. After a reset, I usually have 30-35MB free. and after a day's use, I'm down to 3MB. When I stop all programs it only goes back up to 5-6MB! It's like there is a memory leak or something.
I also got a "low memory" pop-up at one time, which gave me a list of applications I could close. That list had a lot more items than the list of running programs in the Setting Menu! There were also multiple instances of some processes, such as 'Phone'.
Anyone know what is going on?
Thanks
Get Clearnotify and Check Notifications from Scarybearsoftware. make sure to check remove duplicates in advanced settings
Cheers
Aren't these applications only for WM 2003? it says on their website that these applications are not needed in WM 2003 SE.
Those programs fix a problem in WM 2003. They are not anymore necessary in WM2003 SE and of course on WM2005, as the problem has been fixed by Microsoft.
The slowdown problem is elsewhere...
sirox said:
Those programs fix a problem in WM 2003. They are not anymore necessary in WM2003 SE and of course on WM2005, as the problem has been fixed by Microsoft.
The slowdown problem is elsewhere...
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Problem is not fixed by Microsoft. Just run this programm and see it yourself
Memory leak?
It may be that one of your programs is leaking memory (due to poor design or to incompetability to WM5).
I suggest to run a binary search elimenation:
First run the Wizard for a full day without any 3rd party programs.
The next day add several program and run full day again.
And so on, until you may find a program that causes the leakage.
If one of these program resposable, you'll find it that way.
Good luck :-((((
And report back since this is interesting for the rest of the Wizard-to-be users.
ID64 said:
sirox said:
Those programs fix a problem in WM 2003. They are not anymore necessary in WM2003 SE and of course on WM2005, as the problem has been fixed by Microsoft.
The slowdown problem is elsewhere...
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Problem is not fixed by Microsoft. Just run this programm and see it yourself
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I had this program from Scarybear running on my previous HP4150, so I know what you are talking about.
When I moved to the Jam (with WM2003SE) it became useless, as there were no duplicate notifications anymore. This is confirmed also by the excellent SKTools.
I do not have a K-Jam yet, but your theory that this bug has come back in WM2005 after it was fixed on 2003SE, sounds a bit difficult to believe...
I confirm.
This is the come back of the famous bug.
For me I get multiple lines of
\windows\sddaemon.exe
I am not sure what it does exactly but I know that if I don't clean it regularly I have many problems (like the phone soft reseting alone!!!).
If I keep it clean with scarybear soft then no more trouble.
They probably didn't take the latest windows mobile 2003 version to start building windows mobile 5.
I didn't see many posts on this.
We should give it some ups so that it will be fixed in a future rom upgrade.
Come on all the people complaining about this phone check if you do not have duplicates. Just in case...
verified. I have multiple run instances for various apps after a day of use. according to this there's more than 4 instances of clock, calendar, ssdaemon, replog etc etc. pretty much just the apps that I've launched multiple times then later shut down.
I had 28 ssdaemon duplicates on my kjam
did you have stability problems or slowdowns with 28 sddaemons?
how i can discovered its?¿?
regards
I guess the other question I have is that why there's zero notification showing from MemMaid?
with Check Notifications i detect 256 events, and many repeat, but i can´t deleted
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I guess the other question I have is that why there's zero notification showing from MemMaid?
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Or zero duplicate notifications from SKTools??? I had 114 events with about 78 of them repeated sddaemons with Clear Notifications.
Thanks for the hint about this.
Frank
imposible sincronize after install check notifications and clear all the notifications... it´s imposible
anyone more...
sddaemon is in the start up folder in windows . I believe it is linked to the Voice software on the device.
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sddaemon is in the start up folder in windows . I believe it is linked to the Voice software on the device.
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That's correct.
I ended up deleting sddaemon.exe out completely with clear notifications and it doesn't return. Or pull it from the rom before you hard reset. I use voicecommand anyway.
...however, I have some good news. I just saved a bunch of cpu cycles by running clear notifications...
-mix
I removed sddaemon from startup as well. Voicedialing still works though, so what does sddaemon really do?
Apart from all the nightmares about making AS 4.2 work with the Wizard at all and then making it RLAD when it does work, there seem to several backwards steps.
Like, the fact that there's no backup facility.
Like the fact that conflicts between PC and PDA only have an option to overwrite one or the other as a default not highlight the issue like previous versions.
:roll:
Any others people can think of ?
DBo.
Yes - assuming you are comparing it to a 3.x version running with a wm2003 pocket pc:
- you can't sync over wifi (I find this REALLY annoying)
- it doesn't sync properly with avantgo (though you can use the avantgo program to sync when the device is cradled)
Chris
it's a complete back'o'****e as far as I'm concerned.
Please email Microsoft support and tell them what you think......Surely can't hurt.
I relented and purchased Sunnysoft's backup manager to replace that bit of the functionality, just something too importantant not to have. It's only $14.95, damn good little app.
Sunnysoft
Yes, much as it offends my cheapskate nature to pay for software. Since it does it's job (unlike most Microsnot sw) and it is cheap (unlike most Microsnot sw) I may actually have to pay for it now the trial has expired.
Ho hum
:wink:
I have never used the old 3.* activesync version since I started with a WM5 phone (HTC Wizard) but in my opinion the 4.* versions have hardly ANY use at all. I had a SonyEricsson P900 before this and the software for that had nearly everything one could need. The reason to disable all the features they had in the 3.* ActiveSync versions is one I will never understand. Does anyone have the Support-Email from Microsoft? We should start a petition and send them the link
1. Wifi + Bluetooth Sync
2. Backup possibility
3. Fix the problems with activesync disconnecting
4. Fix Avantgo and Worldmate sync issues
5. ...
5. Lack of support for .mdb - .cdb conversion
AS 4.1 is, as you say, a bag of ****e.
As for the "security issues" associated with sync over wi-fi - then write some code to allow admins to bloody well disable it not just remove the facility.
Another bag of ****e - the MS BT stack, why do we pay for this junk :x
There's really no excuse for a company as big as Micro$oft churning out software as flaky as this. It's not their first attempt at this, it's not even a beta. When you consider some of the great (and stable) bits of software out there for the pocket PC that have been written by enthusiastic amatuers in their bedrooms. I never had these sort of problems 15 years ago with my Psion Organiser. So much for progress :x
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I never had these sort of problems 15 years ago with my Psion Organiser. So much for progress :x
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Amen m8! AMEN!!
Let's not forget the broken uninstall feature...
I might be just just really unlucky, but I seem to loosing the uninstall lottery more time than I win it. As a matter of fact of the last 8 programs I have tried and decided to uninstall from my 8125, none have uninstalled properly - most not at all.
I'm sure this has been a boon for the 3rd party backup program vendors like spb (which is a great product actually) but it really limits ones ability to try before you buy on a production device. Almost makes it so you need a seperate test machine. Is this the method behind the madness?
AS 4.x is truely a step backwards. I'm AMAZED no one has come out with an alternative. But then again I'm not a programmer and so don't know the full extent of what that would involve. I put $50 down. Shall we create a kitty and see who takes the project on? Is it even possible?
Signed,
Unbelievably Frustrated with AS 4.x
Let's not forget the broken uninstall feature...
I might be just just really unlucky, but I seem to loosing the uninstall lottery more time than I win it. As a matter of fact of the last 8 programs I have tried and decided to uninstall from my 8125, none have uninstalled properly - most not at all.
I'm sure this has been a boon for the 3rd party backup program vendors like spb (which is a great product actually) but it really limits ones ability to try before you buy on a production device. Almost makes it so you need a seperate test machine. Is this the method behind the madness?
AS 4.x is truely a step backwards. I'm AMAZED no one has come out with an alternative. But then again I'm not a programmer and so don't know the full extent of what that would involve. I put $50 down. Shall we create a kitty and see who takes the project on? Is it even possible?
Signed,
Unbelievably Frustrated with AS 4.x
Tbh I am starting to feel that this wm5 is more a downgrade to the previous version!
On my sd card I have some word documents that I transferd from the pc some are about 3k and others about 5k..... all of them opened (and still do) fine on my ipaq with wm2003se... when I try to open the same docs on my exec wm5 some of them Word gives an error that found something wrong with the document and just refuses to open it!!!
I find this to be very frustrating and a major flaw....
Has anyone experienced something like this or know of any cure to the problem?...
BR
I have the same problem hopefully it will be fixed in a future relase of WM5 of Activsync.
You could try Texmaker from softmaker.com, its not cheap but it will open every word document without needing any conversion & you can edit it without risking loss of formatting.
Mike
thank you very much for your reply.
I am happy and also sad to know that I'm not the only one with this issue.... I suppose many people haven't reported this since a lot of these execs wherent purchased for its itended functions but more so as a toy or trend (no offence intended).
Also I noticed you mentioned activesync...thing is these documents where put on the card straight on the card reader (i did not use activesync) and they work and open fine with the ipaq on wm2003se..... I'm just a bit disgusted that with this wm5 things (or at least some) seem to have gone back instead of forward.... I thought this device would be a major improvement in running business more efficiently but flaws like this on essential things that are needed by the professional is just poor...very poor indeed... I think if I could load wm2003se on this tomorrow I probably would just for stability!
BR
I had the same problem when moving from my iPAQ to my QTEK. W2003 word docs are a special format, whereas WM5 are real .doc files. So copy your old docs via active sync to a PC then back to the WM5 device. AS will convert them from a pwi to doc and then just copy them to the WM5 device without convertion.
Cheers cjb
I'd been experiencing memory leak problem for months. Atleast 1-3 soft-resets were a must within each day. I'd tried out many way to resolve and now I think I've found a way to get over it.
But first, the memory leak in my sense is the decreasing of program's free RAM after each soft reset. Even you are not touching your ppc, your free RAM still going down and hang up at the end.
In my case I primaryly noticed the service.exe size was becoming bigger and bigger from 200KB to 16+MB within few hours (possibly). The problem caused by windows live service. I still do not know any technical reasons behind but after I deleted some Windows Live registry keys, the problem has gone. Now is after my 2 days test, the services.exe has never gone beyond 1.6 MB. System is now very stable no reset required for days.
This might help some system having same problem, so I come here and share this. BUT USE IT AS YOUR OWN RISK.
Go into registry,
HKLM\Services\Windows Live
Delete the keys inside EXCEPT following,
Platform
Plugins
Sync
Version
Also, delete keys inside 'Plugins' EXCEPT following,
Contracts
Messaging
Profile
GOOD LUCK !
nice I will test!
Ill try it out... Hope it doesn't create any issues... Those changes seem ok :\
I don't think many other people are experiencing memory leaks like you, perhaps you should look at your ROM version and what software you have on your device.
LowDef said:
I'd been experiencing memory leak problem for months. Atleast 1-3 soft-resets were a must within each day. I'd tried out many way to resolve and now I think I've found a way to get over it.
But first, the memory leak in my sense is the decreasing of program's free RAM after each soft reset. Even you are not touching your ppc, your free RAM still going down and hang up at the end.
In my case I primaryly noticed the service.exe size was becoming bigger and bigger from 200KB to 16+MB within few hours (possibly). The problem caused by windows live service. I still do not know any technical reasons behind but after I deleted some Windows Live registry keys, the problem has gone. Now is after my 2 days test, the services.exe has never gone beyond 1.6 MB. System is now very stable no reset required for days.
This might help some system having same problem, so I come here and share this. BUT USE IT AS YOUR OWN RISK.
Go into registry,
HKLM\Services\Windows Live
Delete the keys inside EXCEPT following,
Platform
Plugins
Sync
Version
Also, delete keys inside 'Plugins' EXCEPT following,
Contracts
Messaging
Profile
GOOD LUCK !
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16MB+ for your services.exe?!?!? Jeez...
Which build are you using and on which device? I have refrained from cooking WL applications in my Vogue and if what you are saying is true, then I might just start cooking it in (or not at all, depending on your answer )
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16MB+ for your services.exe?!?!? Jeez...
Which build are you using and on which device? I have refrained from cooking WL applications in my Vogue and if what you are saying is true, then I might just start cooking it in (or not at all, depending on your answer )
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A way to completely restore the Windows Live registry tree is uninstall and then re-install WLM cab file.
I used WLM versions Windows Live 10.6.0034.0800 (Fixed).cab and WindowsLive_0409.PPC2005_arm.cab. Both versions generated memory leak on my Mitac mio A-702.
There's no new ROM available from the manufacturer nor any cooked ROM available so far.
And most important is I'm just a cute end-user lol.
Anyway hope this post might help somebody.
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I wish I could find a way to get Pocket CM Contacts v.29 to run without memory leak. It's unusable for me. My Kaiser will be running at 55%, I get a few text messages with PCM running, and suddenly it climbs up to 80% till I close it out completely.
Damn shame.