yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mindfield:
I wish I knew what was causing it, too. Filesys is now going again, but I think that has to do with me downloading E-Mail and loading PIE, both of which presumably write everything to internal storage, which naturally causes filesys to kick in. (I think I need a program to move the PIE cache to SD, but I can't for the life of me recall which one.) I'd rather not go through yet another hard reset unless and until Mag does an A03 beta, but I may have to if this problem persists, and then load absolutely everything on SD.

An interesting thing I noticed when searching AximSite for angles on the compaction bug was that WM5 A02 came stock with a 12 meg page pool, which sounded a bit large to me, but sounds like Dell was trying to mitigate the compaction bug by making filesys kick in less frequently.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] drakic:
i have winxp and cradle, i downloaded from dell web page official update, and it also says there is an error. i dont know now what error but it was without success...

i thnik i will give up...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MagLite_RUS:
Easy Page Pool Editor by paveld with WM6 A01 & A02 RTM support -> download
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mindfield:
Nice. I was half thinking of doing something like this in VB, but I don't know how to calculate the CRC. This should make things easy for folks. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MagLite_RUS:
This program calculate CRC too ;) paveld rulez (z) :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MagLite_RUS:
Or use CRC Calculator by paveld (see first post in this thread) ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] larigo:
Thank you for the Pagepool editor Maglite.

But to change the pagepool with this program , do I have to select the line with CRC or not?

What will be the difference ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
The difference is that if you select it, the new .CRC file will be generated along with updating the ROM. Probably a good idea unless you want to calculate the CRC via alternate methods.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] caraguia:
Hello, when i am installed the bluetooth freedon keyboard driver, appear a text that say:

The file ´BTkeybd´cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file.

that means it?

Thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jorgecapanna:
Big Problems to Update

Hi, i have a problem to upgrate with the SD Upgrade Method, because my Dell Axim dont have any the center or directional buttons!!, there´s another way to do this? trought usb? please someone help me!!!!!!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] blazingwolf:
Your Dell doesn't have the D-Pad or the action key? What happened to them?

There is no other way to put this ROM on your device.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zuckstone:
Memmaid by Dinarsoft is one such program.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
If you don't have those, then you more than likely don't have an X50v (since those buttons are pretty much standard on that model ;)). What model do you have?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Great news guys...

Tried the 0Mb Pagepool and its amazing..

Working for 2 days and no slowdowns at all...Strange,but true..

And the best part? Even stranger..eheh... With Wisbar Advance and Wisbar Advance Desktop loaded, i still get some wonderfull 38Mb Ram free...Without Wisbar, i get almost 40Mb's of free Ram.. Great, great...

Its fast as WM2003SE, Has all the memory i can get, very stable and can get various apps open at the same time...

Now i'll try to do some tweaking with the rom and maybe...maybe...rebuild one based on WM6 A02 RTM with a few improvements...That is, if Maglite wont mind....Eheh....

Going to test 2 more days and then begin the work in my available time...

Greets from Portugal

P.S. - Forgot to say one thing...Wisbar Advance 3.0.0.2 and Desktop 1.3.0.7, Resco Explorer 6.15, Weatherpanel, SPB Backup, Netfront 3.4 RP, SKTools, MortPlayer, TCPMP 0.71, Agile Messenger, Pocket Hack Master, Memaid 2.0, XNView, Tweaks2k.Net, Pocket Mechanic, and a few more others, running in Main Storage and still, not much of a hassle with Filesys....Great, eh? Please, no PM's asking how, where or what until i give you some more news on stability ok? I promisse to stay in touch...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mindfield:
Interesting. 0 meg page pool and everything is working fine? Alarms, too? How's the speed overall? Is it comparable to working with a page pool (filesys bug notwithstanding)? Switching between apps works okay? When you say "not much" hassle with filesys, does that mean it pops up but only briefly?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
I've never had the alarm problem, so, no help for now. As for speed, well, i think its now comparable to WM2003SE.

Switching apps is great, at least i dont notice slowness at all.

Filesys has atacked once or twice only, but was like, for 10 seconds or so. Thats why i think its much better../

Greets
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satani:
well, now i'm thinking of upgrading my PDA to WM6 - but: can i go back to WM5?

in easiest way? - so can i just restore a WM5-backup over WM5, or do i have to go completely back to WM2003SE using the DELL downgrade? (and can i use a german downgrade on english WM6, as i'm´currently using german WM5 A02.

Well, i just tried flashing, but when pressing wireless+power and pinning reset, i receive the hard-reset-message. (pres calender to clear all prog's or notes to cancel, but not the bootloader. did release any of the buttons? or is this the screen, where i have to press action twice? - ok, just tried again, and now it's updating!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
READ THE FIRST PAGE OF THIS THREAD. I posted detailed instructions about this.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satani:
well, i think i was not properly pressing power and wireless button. (ie pressing for too short amount of time), now my x50v is now running at Windows Mobile 6! Thanks MagLite for this great work!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Uploading WM6 with 0Mb Pagepool to rapidshare... It will be up in a few moments for who wants to try it...

It has no changes yet, but its very good...

In my spare time, will change some stuff, adding some more, removing a few stuff and then ill tell you guys whats new or not...

Greets from Portugal..

Edited: Now its the right link, the 0Mb PP rom..Ehehe...

http://rapidshare.com/files/57962070/WM6_A02_RTM_By_Maglite_-_Zeus_Alex_Change_of_PP_to_0Mb.rar.html

Its the same procedure to flash.

Copy both files to root of SD Card with Fat32, press Wireless + Power + Soft reset to start...etc, etc...

Test it and tell something...

I tested in 2 different X50v's and had diferent results in both..Mine has near 40Mb of free RAM and its quite fast, with no problems changing from one app to another.

The other one i flashed, had only 36Mb of Free Ram and it was as fast as mine...I dont understand why the Free RAM is diferent from one to another and with the same rom...Strange..lol...

P.S.1. - Try it at your own risk.. dont want to be blamed or flamed if anything goes wrong...

Greets again from Portugal...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Minstadave:
Whats the advantage of setting the page pool to 0MB?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
For me, it's the free RAM i have..Eheh...And for now i find it very usefull and very responsive...The few times that Filesys started, only lasted for a few seconds...I think its more fast, but as i said, i'm still trying it extensively...

I am going to try and install all my apps to Main Storage until it gets full and see whats going to happen....

Greets
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DrBios:
can you check the Hardware revision ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
Sounds excellent! Thanks so much for trying this out for us! You've about gotten me convinced to try it out for myself!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
@Dr.Bios

Will check as soon as i get home...

@cavyman

Sure..try it and then tell me whats your result...Now i want to see how much free RAM everyone is going to get, because, as i said, the result was diferent for 2 X50v's, but both of them were extremely fast and Filesys kicks less frequently and in less time...

See ya...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] The Don UK:
WIFI wont connect

Hi, I mentioned this in the A01 thread. I thought that the upgrade to A02 ROM might solve my problem. I cannot get a WIFI connection to my access point with the PDA using WM6, I could do with WM2003. I have tried everything I can think of. The network shows up and I can enter settings, it then says connecting but will will not connect. Anyone else experiencing this?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] badbob001:
Just curious, how do you all know if a slowdown with your axim is caused by filesys and not it just being slow for some other reason like a user application? Do you immediately run a process viewer to spot if filesys is at 100% cpu usage? Would be nice if there is a homescreen plug-in that shows an indicator icon when filesys is busy compacting...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DrBios:
i use SuperTask 2.0 is a little app that shows cpu usage of every porgram and service runnig in the system
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Fullpoweradonf:
Hi !

I'm trying the last ROM RC2 patched with 0 Mo pagepool ...

I give you feed back later after use pocket pc ....

But someone could explain me why increase or decrease pagepool ??

I know that increase ram but what else ?

Bye !

Just see memory free after flash and reboot X50v (ROM Maglite RC2 patched 0 Mo pagepool)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ziele:
I have only 32MB free ram with 0MB pp...LOL. With 4MB pp I have 36MB free ram!:eek:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satani:
well, i actually noticed a bug (i think so). (using the A02/RTM from first post) The upper/lower Bars of the Screen become randomly immune to Screen-Tabs. (ie i can't tap start/close/keyboard whatever) but only the bars are affected - everything in the screen works fine. And sometimes my PDA doesn't react anymore so i have to reset. maybe this has something to do with the cache-size-optimatios/tweaks i did in sktools. (as to be done in wm5)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Hi again.

To those who flashed with the 0Mb PP:

Its strange how free ram varies between everyones X50v's...Mine has near 40Mb free, and the other one has just 34/36Mb...

But please, to who flashed with this one, test if filesys "atacks" very often or less than the original rom...

With mine, filesys kicks much less, as ive said early..And now i have Main Storage full with apps and it seems and feels like WM2003SE, very smooth...

Thank you.

Greets
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DrBios:
i don't want to believe that this behavior is ramdomly ... i hope not .

BTW my x50v got 32MB free ... filesys atacks but very smooth very usable ..more than PP 4 mb
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Just in case, im going to reflash again and see whats up...

I dont think its random, but is weird, indeed.

But in all this, my point is that my system is very smooth with 0Mb PP...Dont know why, but both X50v's are smooth and stable...And yes, they were bought the same day and are both in my hands right now...

Ill post in a few moments to tell how much free ram is after another flash. Ill do it in both, at the same time, just in case...

See you guys in a few moments.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] rabdo:
I had same problem -

1.rename

WM50_B_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG_nb0.crc

to

DiMa_B_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG.nb0

2.rename

WM50_B_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG_nb0.crc

to

DiMa_B_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG.nb0.crc

3.Insert the SD-Card into your Axim and start the SD Image Loader by Pressing Wireless + Power + Reset

4. The Image Loader will search for flash images on your SD-Card, as there is still the Windows Mobile 2003 Bootloader on your device it will only look for files beginning with "DiMa" and therefore will only display the bootloader image.

5. Press the action key twice, this starts the update process. DANGER: If this process fails your device will be a 300$ paperweight...

6. After the process is finished (takes only a few seconds) you will be asked to hard reset your system. Ignore this message and press Wireless + Power + Reset again.

7. The Image Loader will search for flash images on your SD-Card, as there is now the Windows Mobile 5 Bootloader on your device it will only look for files beginning with "WM50" and therefore will only display the OS image.

8. Press the action key twice, this starts the update process.

9. After the process is finished you will be asked to hard reset your device. Follow this instruction and wait for the OS to load. That's all.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Ok, now this is strange...

After a reflash, both Axims have 32/33Mb free ram on startup...

But in the end, they are both very good in speed...

Going to stuff apps and games in both, in main storage, and see hows filesys doing...

lol..this is the 8th time i reflash my axim today...

Be right back...

P.S.- From all the PP i tested, this (0Mb) is the most enjoyable one. I tried with 1Mb,4Mb,6Mb,8Mb,12Mb and even 16Mb, and with 0Mb Filesys is the most stable one...

But this is me.I would like to know your feedback..Stufff all in main storage and test please...After the feedback, if its good, ill go ahead and change some stuff in the rom. Thank you.

P.S.1. - Hey Maglite, i hope you dont mind. All the credits go to you, of course. After all, this is your hard work. Maybe some day ill buil one rom from zero, but for now this will do..Cheers!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mindfield:
Cool. Report back when you've bulked up your internal storage with apps though and see if it gets any worse. I still have filesys attacks with a 4mb PP, though they seem to be less severe and frequent since doing the fake server trick, and my alarms have so far (at least in the past 3 days) have triggered every single time, which is a very good sign -- and no memory errors when turning on from standby, which is also good. If the results of your 0mb PP pan out I might consider creating a 0mb PP ROM and flashing that to try it out. The fewer (and less severe) filesys attacks the better. :)

The free memory thing is weird, though. I had 29 megs free after flashing using the old 8mb PP. With the 4mb PP, I have ... 29 megs free. There must be something in ROM reserving a percentage of free memory or something like that.

This sounds like a filesys attack. When it is executed to compact memory, it can often consume up to 100% of your processor time, making your unit extremely slow or even completely unresponsive. When the attacks on my Axim were at their worst there were a couple of times (while monitoring CPU time in acbTaskMan) where the whole system just seized up, forcing me to reset. The fake server trick in ActiveSync helped mitigate the filesys problems; it still executes but it isn't as severe now, and when undocked I can kill the AS task and it won't execute.

A third party app can allow you to view processes and the resources they are consuming. I use acbTaskMan, which lets me view how much memory and CPU time each process is currently using, and will even graph it out, a bit like Windows XP's task manager. I can't kill tasks from there, though, but Wisbar Advance 3 does feature a task viewer that allows me to kill processes. (I don't think you can't kill filesys when it's running though. I seized the system when I tried. It was probably a bad idea to try anyway -- that's a good way to screw up memory, but I wanted to see if I could.)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
Read this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1517522&postcount=1118
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Just to let you know...Storage almost full..lol...

Wisbar Advance 3 has, indeed, a process viewer,as you can see in the pic below, but doesn't inform the user of the percentage wich app uses, it only shows the memory that every app uses..

Ok, now to the subject. Filesys is "calm"..smooth...

Feedback, anyone?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
Watch the pic...eheh...Nice..lol...

And for now, no filesys kicking in hard.I am saving gamestates of games, browsing the net, opening pdf's, etc, etc.,and still, when filesys kicks, its for a few seconds only, but i have no lockups or slow Axim.

Even with Wisbar 3, that used to slow down my X50v, its damn fast and responsive.

As i have said before, it's your turn to test and give some feedback.

Greets from Portugal

Edit: Sorry for the pic being so small..used another prog to take screenshot, but it only takes on 320x240px..sorry.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mindfield:
I don't have time tonight to flash and reinstall the basics, so I'll have to save trying the 0mb PP for tomorrow -- but I'm convinced that it's worth a shot.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Xdenwarrior:
I'm kinda busy lately, so i didn't had time to answer back. But yes, cavyman, i found a few minutes after i posted those questions on page 7, where that 0000 4000 line was, and succesfully changed it to 8000 for 8mB PP, and just simply used Mindfiled's CRC for 8mB. So yeah, it actually was pretty easy.

Anyways, my device now functions alot better with 8MB PP, than with 4MB PP. Compaction thread doesn't seem to hit that hard anymore after i even finnally installed all of my programs and put most of them into the main memory. My device seems to be more stable now - no more bumps like really fast, and than really slow due to filesys, but i quess it's different for everyone. (i found Wm6 A01 through very buggy, still more stable than other betas.) Ofcourse, I lost 4mb in RAM, so now i have just over 30MB free after soft reset, but i can still easily play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, which i couldn't play before with Dell's 12MB PP. The weird thing is that after changing my PP to 8MB, my registry settings went back to the default, or at least i noticed that the font cach size was back to 400 vs 8195 or something like that Maglite changed it too. I actually changed the font cach size to 2000, and the TCP Window Size to about 92193 after, where the original was 32768(according to SKtools this brings maximum stability), and now for a day or two, i didn't experience any more compaction thread.:D

Zeus_Alex it sounds very interesting the way you are using 0MB PP, but i did read somewhere here at xda-developers that this could make your device unstable. Most of the ROMs don't have 0MB PP, but usually between 4MB-8MB. Anyways, i'll see what your results are with it, and maybe i'll try it myself later. Right now i'm really happy with my 8mb PP, and for once it seems like my device is finally in good condition for school after all of this testing that i've done with Maglite's Beta Roms. I'll definately upgrade thou when some major AKU will come out.

I wrote this somewhat in a rush, so you are welcome to comment.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cavyman:
Now I'm curious...how do you have Tony Hawk's PS 2 on your Axim? Emulator of some sort? I wouldn't mind giving that a try myself. Fill me in, please... ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zeus_Alex:
@cavyman

lol..not an emulator, its a game from Aspyr.. http://www.aspyr.com/product/info/61 Check it out..And see Call of Duty 2 too...

But you can always take advantage of your Axim and his 2700g onboard, and play Playstation and GameBoy Advance games...eheh...

I play Gran Turismo all the time..PM me if you need some lights over the subject.

C ya..
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Fullpoweradonf:
Zeux Alex...

I try your ROM with 0 pagepool...

My pocket pc is stable and work quickly ...

Today my wife test it with tomtom6 and other applications ...

I'll see her this afternoon....angry or not ... ;)

What is filesys attack ????

:confused:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satani:
well, now tested some games on my WM6 RTM, and : Tony Hawks 2 works (didn't with WM5 due to Memory, but also worked in WM2003SE.

My PDA randomly hangs. /mostly when syncing. Alarms and Wlan is working, gonna try the battery-lifetime today. (As well as other games,like quake 2, quake 3 and doom gles. Pocket Hexen II still brings whitescreen (based on PocketQuake-Engine, but different exe), Duke Nukem 3d still quits due to low memory.

And btw, i installed the wmp-skin, which i downloaded from first post, but i don't have that skin (shown in first post), i have a different black one, which looks móre like a black wmp9-skin instead of the vista-wmp11-skin.

btw @ Mindfield : i'm gonna think about this, and gonna try this acbTaskMan.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] drakic:
well, i thnik that you have little confused, first file probbably don have extension .crc, but just .nb0, because i dont have two of files same name...

what did you mean by this

"5.DANGER: If this process fails your device will be a 300$ paperweight..."

is it possible to do that, how can process fail, did you make it with success?

after 6 point i just have to reload process again with these same file (DiMa_B_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG.nb0,DiMa_B_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG.nb0.crc,WM50_K_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG.nb0,WM50_K_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG.nb0.crc), don have to rename DiMa_... files to orginal name? should i do what you have written just press Wireless + Power + Reset again?

and btw. what to with other files in dir (WM50_K_A01_X50v_WM5_ENG.nb0)? should i change them also to DiMa_K_... ?

thnx

danijel
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] StephenZ:
I had the same questions as you have after unsucessfully trying to flash my ROM to WM5, but found answers here: http://http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x50-x51-forums/112012-tutorial-long-awaited-solution-how-use-sd-image-loader-flashing-2.html
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] satani:
yeah, all you have to know, is what is the action-key (described on first page, post 2 or 3) - put your image on fat32-formatted sd, press 'power+wireless' (wireless is the toggle-button at the side of the pda over record-key) while pressing these 2 buttons, 'pin' yur reset-hole (on the back of the PDA ONCE, (KEEP the other 2 buttons Pressed untill you PDA-Screen turns from black to white with blue bar (called 'SD image loader'. It will search and list the FlashRom-Image on SD-Card. Press the action-key twice (within 3 SECONDS), but a dialog will remember you to do this. (the Action key is the middle-button of your 4-way-navigator/directional-keys. wait for the image to flash (may take time) and after this, do another hard-reset. btw. DiMa_XXX is the file-name for the WM2003-bootloader (needed for flashing from WM2003/SE to WM5, but not here, because the official english Upgrade-Utility (exe) is on page 1/the WM6 A01-thread. any other WM5-language-upgrade-version for A01 is on the seperately Sold WM5-Upgrade-CD from Dell.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] drakic:
Now he see DiMa image (two files, CRC and nb0) but when I press twice action button he says "Image cheksum file not found". I have copyed these files on a empty fresh formated sd card, card is FAT32 formated.

I am a rookie and why does it have to be that problematic...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] rspadar:
Hi,

i upgrade my Axim and work good.

Now I've problem qith wifi, no have auto connect.

I find same post but i no have access to registry.

How can solve my problem? Which software i need?

Many Tnk's

Raf
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] olddog7:
Title bar disappears on microphone applet

AWESOME WORK!

Good job, maglite, and everybody else who helped him.

Odd little problem I've come across--when I go to the microphone applet (Start --> Settings --> System--> Microphone) my title bar disappears, and stays disappeared until I soft reset.

Anybody else get this?

Also, in the Dell wlan program, when it scans for wireless sites, they all show "best" under signal, even when the signal is poor (I don't know if this is specific to WM6 though, or what it's even supposed to show). Anybody have any insight on this?

Thanks.