[iPAQ rw6828, XDA Atom Software Upgrading] GerardSamija:
Gee, been a very long time since I've been called a PPC newbie... ;-) I'm one of the grand-daddies among PPC users, having jumped onboard with a Casio E-115 back in the spring of 2000, and joined several forums by that fall. Got right into registry hacking by late fall, thanks to Tascal's tools for CE, then started beta testing for Gene Knight with GigaBar and later MOE (Macros and Objects Everywhere), then for Snoopsoft, Sprite Software, Fieldsoftware, BitBank, Conduits, and eventually dozens of other developers. I still test for the open source (and great) email client nPOPuk and submit the odd report to other developers, do a bit of non-PPC stuff for Neuros.... but work is too demanding, and time never enough, so my hobby has reverted mostly to actual business uses for the PPC. Newbie at trying hacked ROM images though, though I've installed a couple of non-legit images to an old iPAQ 3835 and got away with it.

I'm getting the hang of WM6 as the mighty Jiggs has rendered it for this great device. Still the odd bug to iron out. Like the way programs seem to auto-close even though there is abundant memory (Magic Button's 'keep alive' function doesn't seem to help much, and is tedious to have to remember anyway). I've never appreciated Microsoft's automated memory handling, and now with no memory slider it's apparently become even worse. Even with just nPOPuk and two or three Pocket IE windows running, and about 20MB of free Program Memory, suddenly I'll find each shutting down silently, no errors, nothing, just gone. I use SPB Pocket Plus for the multiple IE windows (MultiIE has too many bugs, and he's not responded to my bug reports for years). And I have PIE set not to keep a cache at all, besides putting the folders on the mini-SD card (in case I decide to re-activate the cache). So memory shouldn't be a problem, but it is. Any ideas?

Another issue is with audio; I'd like the system sound to stay where I set it. Instead, it reverts to maximum volume on every soft reset. I've tried with both the native registry, and with the hive converted to file type registry storage, to no avail. It always reverts. That means sometimes I'm in bed checking mail or something, and suddenly my wife gets startled by a loud system noise, like when the connections manager (you so kindly included in the extended ROM - which by the way, seems to have a bit of an issue too... where the skin completely vanishes sometimes, needing a soft reset to restore it) connects to Wi-Fi. It's really LOUD at max volume. 60% is plenty for anything I need except maybe watching a movie. Any suggestions?

Another possible bug; why does the device battery sometimes seem to drop really fast, other times lasting a long time? Is there possibly a battery reading bug in this ROM? Otherwise I guess it could be a glitchy unit, or battery (a third-party unit the previous owner picked up in Hong Kong, as he said the native battery really stank). I generally get hours of use without Wi-Fi on, about 90minutes with it on. Of course I try not to run it 90minutes, as the unit gets rather hot with the wireless on, where it stays very cool otherwise.

There's other stuff. I'll get back here and post that as things come further into focus, if they seem relevant. It's completely likely that any troubles I'm having are either WM6 stuff everyone experiences or particular to this individual unit, so don't take me as demanding anything with the above. And I'm a bit broke at the moment, but will certainly be PayPal-ing you guys a bit once the cash flow allows, a token in thanks for this great work you do.