yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Neo_Reloaded:
That's so GREAT!!!! Downloaded and installing it right now!!!!

Thank you very much MagLite!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] 3dot:
MagLite!

King of x50v!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] manfredi90:
Fantastic! but I wont the x51v version!!!:( :)

Is there any news about the x51v WM6??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] leegoon84:
OMG It's way faster than WM5.0 and it supports SDHC card!!!

(Sandisk 4gb SDHC)

Thank you MagLite!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] blazingwolf:
Great job. I'm downloading now and will post if I find any bugs.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] frelnik:
Thanks MagLite! You are amazing. I've been telling everyone I know about all the great work you've done.

One problem I've been having is with Windows Live. Whenever I try to sign in, I'm always told that it's unable to establish an internet connection. I'm able to connect fine over wifi with everything but Windows Live. It worked fine on WM5 A03 ROM, so it's something about WM6.

Thanks!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] nl1rsd:
Excellent!

Wow nice work MagLite. I thought that Football was leading the WM6 development but it looks you have beaten him! :D

Excellent work!

Still waiting for WM6 on X51v.... :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] wooikok:
great work...!!!

MagLite_RUS, i'm running wm5 AO3(your version)..so to upgrade just load your boot loader and upgrade from WM5 A03 to WM6 A01?:confused:

anyway great work..will post any bugs if found...but i think won't be having any as u guys have put in much effort to iron out the problems....:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Empel1960:
Hi Maglite, same issue here, windows live cannot establish an internet connection, I tried via wifi and bluetooth, and no luck, otherwise is working fine, I'll post which programs I've installed
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MagLite_RUS:
Please try this Windows Live .cab (Download)

//MagLite
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] frelnik:
Unfortunately the same problem occurs with that one as well. I've also tried Windows Live version 10.6.0026.1400, which is the one I was using fine on WM5 A03, and it can't connect either. I've hard reset and tried both versions with no other software installed and it's the same problem.

I've googled the message and it seems to happen on some WM6 phones, something about it trying to connect via GPRS instead of Wifi...but that's just what one person said about their particular phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] 3dot:
Testing,speed likes wm2003,much faster than wm5.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] JD8052:
Question

Is it possible to downgrade WM6 back to 2003?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MagLite_RUS:
JD8052, yes it's possible :)

I'm working on windows live bug...

//MagLite
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] hendrixus:
Then I'll wait until this is solved:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ed5150:
can I??

Hello

I have a Axim 50v running ppc2003 and have never been able to install the mobile 2005 (I have ended up with bricks, but thankfully dell replaced them since it was still under warranty). can I upgrade from 2003 to mobile 6 without going thru mobile 5? can I switch back if I have problems? Anything I should know when upgrading? Thank you. -ed
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] tinycg:
Ed, when you say 'unable to install' and that you bricked it, it would help us know what you had problems with. But ultimately you have to have the WM5 bootloader on you x50v BEFORE you go to WM6 as 2k3 has a different bootloader and will be unable to read the rom image you are trying to install.

Cavy, I'll give that stuff a try and report back. I was thinking the same thing as far as the bootloader but didnt know if that was the cause of the 'memory error' issue, ultimately something isnt happy, hehe.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
You apparently have not read through this thread before posting, have you?

I'm tempted to do my usual, "Read through the thread and you will find your answer as many have asked the same thing before..." reply, but the fact that you've bricked several Axims before makes me want to give you a direct answer.

Here is your answer:

NO, it will not work to upgrade to WM6 straight from WM2003 or WM2003SE.

Now that you will hopefully not rush right into trying it anyway, read through this thread and you will find your answer as many have asked the same thing before. In fact, everything you asked has been asked (or addressed) before in this very thread. Like I tell all other X50v users who are new to flashing ROMs, DO YOUR HOMEWORK. I can't stress that enough. Don't ever start into this unless you have an "escape plan" if something goes wrong. There are lots of posts out there that are good guides to how to flash and what to do if a flash goes bad.

I'm sorry to sound so annoyed, but it seems that every newbie out there who has seen this thread's title has gotten on here and immedietly posted a new post asking the same thing as this post. Chances are, if you have a question, someone else has probably already asked it. Take a little time and do some research.

And this goes for ANYONE out there....if you're too lazy to read the directions and follow them, DON'T FLASH ROMs! It's too risky to do if you have no clue what you're supposed to be doing.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] 3dot:
Any one can use wififofum 2.2.11?

It can't find any ap,but built in Dell wifi utility show there are severals access point and all signal strength show "BEST"!!!

It is abnormal that all ap is "best".

Seems wm6 wifi driver was broken.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
Yes, it appears that the WM6 wifi driver is broken. Wififofum should work fine again once the wifi driver is fixed.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] 3dot:
Thanks for your reply.

wifi companion can still work properly.Maybe i need to stick with wifi companion for a while:(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ed5150:
When I installed mobile 5 from the upgrade cd from Dell, it would run either sluggish for a few days, and then would not work. Doing a hard reset would only allow me to align the screen, but when I would click to continue, the handheld would reset and it would start over to realign the screen again. When trying to install ppc2003 with assistance from Dell tech support, the handheld would lock up and not respond to anything.

If worse came to worse, I am still under warranty for another year so I could still replace if necessary (although it is a pain to contact tech support and go thru the hassle).

Thanks for the assistance (sorry about repeating known issues).

ed
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
Good luck getting Dell to replace a unit that you installed (or attempted to install) a hacked ROM onto. They have their butts covered on that one and your warranty will not cover your unit if you use a hacked ROM.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Publius:
Thanks, I got that now. It works great. Love you all.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DrBios:
cavyman

do you have this issue about the soft reset stop loading at 80% some times?

i starting to think that could be the bootloader ...

in my case i have first wm5 a01 then i install maglite a03 then maglite a01 wm6

so i think than i have bootloader form wm5 a01... m i wrong?

how is your log on installation of this rom?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] makuu:
Here is what I can say, I guess that MagLite used a WM5 A02 nb0 to build the 352 and WM6 nb0. To do so he used grab_it to extract the nb0 from the x50v device, it means that he has an A02 bootLoader on its device.

Here is what I did I used regular Dell upgrade process to upgrade from WM2003SE to WM5 A01 and then WM5 A02. When I reach the A01 step I did the grab_it dump and extracted the bootLoader and nb0, I did the same at WM5 A02. When I compare both A01 and the A02 bootloader, I get differences using a diff tool on the binary files. That's why it looks more natural to me to use an A02 bootloader rather than the A01.

Also you can change the bootloader by using the SD flash method, I would not recommand it as it's very risky and you might brick it for good.

So better user the regular usb process, with the Dell uitilities you can upgrade the bootloader from 2003SE to WM5 A01 and finally WM5 A02. You can also downgrade from WM5 A01 or A02 to WM2003 SE, but you cannot directly downgrade from WM5 A02 to A01.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] badbob001:
Could the removal of this be causing the wifi WPA problems? Lets try leaving it in and see what happens. I would guess it should be fine as long as we don't select WPA2 or WPA2-PSK.

I haven't upgraded to wm6 yet, but the reports of losing wifi at regular intervals sounds like the device is trying to re-authenticate... perhaps there is a bug and it thinks it's in WPA-Enterprise mode (can periodically re-authenticate to a radius server).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
DrBios, I do have the soft-reset hang problem. I did not notice it in the beta ROM, but I have run into the problem several times in the A01 release. I suppose it could be the bootloader, though I'm not really too sure what to think at this point. I know I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with several quirks with the WPA issue at the top of my "frustration list".

Just to kill some time, I'm going to flash the A02 bootloader to my Axim and then re-flash to WM6 just to see if a couple problems disappear. Maybe we'll hear from MagLite soon! :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
That could very well be part of it. Maybe MagLite will be able to let us know something about it soon!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] NeoGodSpeed:
MagLite_RUS X51v Rom?

MagLite_RUS

This only works on X50v right! I can't use this on a X51v? If not will there be a Rom soon for X51v?

Thanks NeoGodSpeed...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] UnicornKaz:
that's what the title at the front said !! :rolleyes:

if you're after the ROM for the X51V ... we got a thread for that too !!

SEARCH !!! :p
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
I have updated from WM5 A02 and have the Hang Reset problem too... The Wifi problem i didnt notice yet, but i dont use WPA...Sorry... I have noticed some screen garbage, just like said in some post. But a soft reset fixes the problem. My battery goes faster with this rom, and i have the 2800mAh battery..Cant understand why...Tried the fake server trick but its the same... And anyone can conect to Windows Live? I cant...None of the Microsoft products included in the rom conects..They all give the same conection problem... I, as many others, would like that Maglite could atleast say something about these situations... I am more than happy to donate something for his hard work, but i would like to see something said... Thanks for this fine piece, and i'll be waiting for you to say if you could resolve those major bugs... Greets from Portugal
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BrettDioson:
Certificate Install Errors

I too am having trouble installing a certificate on the device after updating to WM6. I am trying to install a .cer file from the device by tapping on it, and I get an error "Intermediate or root certificates were not successfully added to the device. Please restart the device and try again. Programs requiring a certificate chain may not work properly." I also cannot enrol a certificate from WinXP using AS4.5.

I really need to get a cert added to sync with my exchange server. any idea on how to get this done or what I am doing wrong? is the WM6 rom application locked or something?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vitorfavila:
I put the WM6 files into SD Card, but the SD Image Update

returns a errror: "Only FAT32 supported".

I have a Kingston SD 1gb, file system is FAT32

Where I can format the SD to try again?

Thanks
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] 1337woody:
well you could get a a sd card reader and right click format to fat 32 or if you dont have one then use this

http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=851&associateid=17

its a 10 day trial but works. i had to use it bc i dont have a card reader.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vitorfavila:
I will try it, thanks
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vitorfavila:
It Works

Thank You
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vitorfavila:
Great Job

Great Job MagLite

thank you
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cocofish:
I am using Activesync 4.5 & find can't pair with the PC thru bluetooth!

Please help
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MagLite_RUS:
Hello my friends!

Sorry for no reply from me... I'm very tired from work on this rom and take little holidays to relax :)

Thanks for bug reports!

When I will reach to my notebook, I will begin work on correction these bugs.

About soft-reset bug: please write program list installed on your PDA's with this bug...

And please - upgrade your bootloaders to A02 version! (Downgrade to WM5 A01 via SD and upgrade, with official Dell updrade, to WM5 A02 via PC and now upgrade to WM6 A01 via SD).

New releases: coming soon... :D

Thanks for all!

//MagLite
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] tinycg:
Thanks for the reply Maglite,

Simply a suggestion but could you update the first post to say to use the WM5 A02 rather than the A01 to make that more clear. Hopefully that will help with others migrating.. I will update tomorrow and report back.

As far as my soft reset, the several times I've had it have been intermittent and twice it was on clean installs of WM6 the last time I had it yesterday I had Spb Mobile Shell installed but that was it at that point I didnt want to load it up without fixing or attempting to locate some of the problems.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] emptyhen:
Possible Fix for WiFi!!

I found this yesterday while mucking around with my X50v. I should probably point out that before this I had never managed to get a WPA-PSK connection working. It would often look like it was trying to connect, but never actually connect.

So far, this has worked every time I've tried without a single soft reset. It has even worked after a soft reset, but only if I activate it like this:

Start off by turning both the BT and WiFi on.

On the top menu bar (by the clock and volume control) you should have the network status icon. Tap it and select "Turn On Flight Mode".

Both the Wifi and BT should have now turned off. (The blue and green lights should have stopped flashing)

Now you can tap the network status icon again and select "Turn off flight mode"

Both the WiFi and the BT should now start and the WiFi should work perfectly.(At least they do for me!)

It always seems to work so long as I enable and disable the wireless thought the "Turn on/off flight mode" from windows. Don't use the button on the side!.

Unfortunately, at least for now you need the BT to come on as well.

Incidentally, through playing with this I have noticed that only the Bluetooth seems to be fully tied into the flight mode functionality. What I mean is, the Axim seems to think it is in flight mode when ever the Bluetooth is off and not in flight mode when the BT is on. The state of the WiFi interface does not affect it. Maybe with will help in tracking down the problem in the firmware. It looks like there is some layer of software that is not being loaded properly when using the wireless button and the Dell control panel?

Hope this helps.

Mark

PS. I'm using the WM5 A02 bootloader with Maglite's WM6 A01 ROM

GREAT work Maglite!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Antineutrino:
Hi Guys...

Please could someone post benchmark comparison between wm2003SE wm05 wm06...

using

SPBBenchmark

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/benchmark/download.php?en

gxmark

http://int13.net/gxmark.htm

BenchGLES

http://pocketmatrix.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=246425#246425

and others...

:D :D :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] tripper_91:
Axim X30 please

can someone please provide wm6 for Axim x30, i kno many others beside myself will appreciate it greatly. I tried to load the one for X50 through the bootloader and it came back with an error

thanx in advance:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satnile:
As I said earlier on this thread, my WPA-PSK wifi has worked fine without imterruption for me as long as no soft reset is made. Once I do a soft reset, I can only regain the wifi signal by enabling and then disabling the odyssey client in the connection tab, then the wlan seems somehow to work solidly until the next soft reset.

However, I tried your method after the soft reset and it didn't work for me at all. Try it yourself after you do a soft reset first and report back to us if it still works for you.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satnile:
There isn't even a WM5 upgrade for this device, how on earth you would expect somebody to provide a WM6 for it. And what were you thinking when you flashed the X30 with an X50v WM6 rom, you were lucky that your device was not bricked.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] 3dot:
I posted before.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=322498&page=4
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mindfield:
I don't know enough about it to say where the problem might have been -- it was impossible to diagnose because of the apparent randomness of the occurrences. So far it has not happened under WM6 though -- and by now, under WM5, the chances are good that it would have happened at least once already, so I'm crossing my fingers. If it lasts the week without freezing, I'll call the upgrade a success -- so long as no other serious problems arise. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mindfield:
Consider me impressed then. Was that the first SDHC card you tried? Patriot isn't exactly a big-name brand in memory, so I am heartened by the idea that there may be a good chance any SDHC card will work.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cocofish:
The driver of wifi was missing!

Please check as well.

Thx!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vitorfavila:
wifi

My wifi is working great.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
What? What driver did you look for?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
I don't think the x30 has enough flash memory to hold a WM5 or WM6 ROM. I highly doubt that anyone is going to try to create a WM6 ROM for X30. I'm not discouraging anyone from trying it, but I just think the most Axims pre-X50 are not going to see a lot of support still.

I know the lack of VGA on the X30 is a big reason most people would not try to make a WM5/WM6 ROM for it. Trust me, at this point, if WM2003 works for you on your X30, I would just stick with it. ;) After all, look at all the issues we're dealing with in WM6 right now! :p
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Ok...Today appeared my biggest problem with wm6...

But first,thanks for replying Maglite...

Today, after a normsl soft reset something happened. First,it stopped booting at 80%, that was normal, but when the boot loaded full, my x50v got stuck at the green windows mobile screen...

I tried several things for hours..Then i noticed that when it freezes at the green windows screen, the wifi led kept on blinking...i left the ppc for a few minutes and then begin to blink the wifi and bluetooth..

Did several sot resets and nothing happened..the same stuff..

Then i tried something...

The self diagnostic of the bootloader...and it worked..it just tested everything in ram, without deleting anything, and after that, it booted perfectly...

For those who dont know how:

Press Record + Power for 2/3 secs and then reset....

It should appear a message saying about the test...

And the funny is that after the completion of the test and after the soft reset, my x50v was faster...

Hope that can be of any help to anyone...

Greets from Portugal

Zeus_Alex
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satnile:
filesys.exe problem

This problem seems to still happen with WM6. I have installed SPB pocket plus in the internal memory and since then filesys.exe seems to have kicked in with vengeance occupying 72% of CPU, greatly slowing down the device. Even removing the SPB pocket plus didn't remedy the problem immediately, as i took a little while for filesys.exe to stop hogging the CPU.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] badbob001:
I remember that the axim has an .exe that runs at startup (ie: after a reset) that is suppose to turn off the wifi. I think it's called wifioff.exe. Could this be the cause of the problem after a reset? Has anyone tested by only turning on/off wifi through the control panel wifi applet and NOT using the side-button or flight-mode? It would help to narrow down the variables. I think the side button is linked to wirelessonoff.exe. It's possible those .exe's are not wm6 compatible.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] anomy:
I'mma moron..

I know this may seem stupid, and I now know I need to read better.

I tried this on an X50, and it made it's way through all of the setup, but now it won't boot. I've tried getting back into the Boot-Disk Loader, but can't.

Please, please help.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] tinycg:
Anomy this is ONLY FOR X50V.. not X50. I'm not sure I can offer any advice beyond making sure you do your research, and read through everything before attempting something like this. We continue to see these 'lessons' being learned in this thread the hard way.

I'd try loading back to WM5 A01 but if you cant get to the SD Bootloader I'm not sure what support we can give.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satnile:
You have essentially corrupted your device bootloader, therefore you can no longer use the sd image flash procedure. Also you can't use the usb connection any more if the device is not booting to any OS. Sorry, but your device is in an irrecoverable state.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] turtlgal:
Great Job, Bluetooth questions though

Thank you thank you for this upgrade. I love it

The only buggy thing I have seen so far is in bluetooth.

I was able to pair my axim to my windows vista laptop via bluetooth, but when it showed the screen for services, it showed 2 checkboxes, with no info next to them. So I don't know what services they were. Also I was able to pair my bluetooth headset with the axim, however it does not show any services (and there were with 2003)

Although I can get to the bluetooth screen to add a device, I don't really see a way to manually connect to the device such as my headset. I used to be able to go to the bluetooth manager, and choose connect. Anyone have any ideas?

:p
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
Yeah, I had the same thing happen for me both in this release and in the beta release. Someone else may know exactly what they are, but I'm pretty sure the three services (if they were all visible) are: Dial-up Networking, A2DP, and ActiveSync.

I don't have a BT headset myself, so my help on that matter is very limited. When you had your BT headset set up with WM2003, did it use any COM ports to work?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] turtlgal:
BT futher

No it didnt use com ports, and I can pair just fine, it's just that once it's paired there seems to be no way to tell it to connect.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zuckstone:
Had the same problem.

Installed Broadcom Bluetooth hack found on aximsite. Now it is the same functionality found in pc2003.

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x50-x51-forums/122247-widcomm-axim-x50v-x51v-state-development.html
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zuckstone:
Any way to check for Boot loader A01 or A02

Is there any way to check to see which Bootloader version is installed?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Swigbert:
Unable to find image

After reading through the thread and thinking I've followed all the instructions, including using different SD cards, I still can't seem to update from WMSE to WM5. Any suggestions please, I'm pleading at this point.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] manoloalvarez:
FileSys.exe Battery Issue

Great Work! Simply amazing. Recently I had updated to WM5 A02. Battery life affected beacuse of filesys.exe. I don't know but my battery life seems affected once again under WM6 A01. Anyone else seeing battery life issues? Thanks and keep up the great work!