Windows Mobile 5 - I Love It!!

[Ardvaark]

I would like to thank all contributors to the fine work being done on the Windows Mobile 5 Project. Great people like yourselves continue to improve and enhance our experience with your contributions.
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I very much appreciate it!!
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Thank you!!!
Pete
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[_TB_TB_]

Wait until it start doing strange things :|

[imatrix]

Wait until it start doing strange things :|

blame the phone operators which never gonna rls wm5 on BA :)

[Mantiwhore]

amen =)
gah it said atleast 10 characters, i wanted this to be short n sweet xD
o well.

[starik]

couldn't agree more.



Wait until it start doing strange things :|

[kdskamal]

Wait until it start doing strange things :|

Can you enlist the 'strange' things?
I gave up after tuma release :(

[xplode]

Yes what do you mean by strange things, current WM5 versions are pretty stable and fast, so could you be more specific?

[PPCNUT]

Where to start. Freezing, hardware buttons not working, it dieing in the middle of something even though the battery is fine, the battery meter saying that your brand new genuine 02 battery is ticking down at 3% min but then turn it off and on and it is fine, turning itself on when it is in your pocket even though all the buttons are locked the list just keeps going.

[PPCNUT]

It still works well as long as you keep fixing it. I have 60+ programs on it and when I try and back it up and then when I have to hard reset it and you try and restore it the thing won't do it. Then I spend the next 4 evenings getting it back the way I like it. I even had to reset 20 times once because it wouldn't start properly. I stopped using it for 2 weeks and they were so relaxing not having to keep fixing it I then went back to it and now I am about to get a Jasjam (Tytn) because I would like to get my life back. OK I have had my whinge now.

[starik]

1. WMP10 is a disaster: crashes phone, shuffles around library items, etc
2. With Power off, keys/LCD become active despite Button Lock ON.
3. sometimes refuses to charge
4. Poor memory management (OOM errors, keeps too many apps open, etc)
5. Occasional hang

and i havent even used bluetooth and Wifi yet - a whole other can of worms, i'm sure. My phone has only 5 apps installed.

solutions:
1. TCMP -- seems ok so far
2. living with it
3. soft reset
4. i think related to WMP10 -- good so far

[PPCNUT]

Well I know that even my Dad's IIs which has the same ROM as mine none of the hard ware buttons work and bluetooth won't turn on and off then to top all that off it won't do a hard reset!!!

[xplode]

Ok you guys stated a lot of issues, you wont believe me that they do not occur in my device(exclude WMP 10 it sucks), i haven't perform hard reset from more than a month and my device works smooth. Of course i had problems with previous releases of WM5, but now it is fine, and a lot more good than 2003se.

@PPCNUT, maybe you have hardware problems with your device

[PPCNUT]

Well both devices have bad problems but it could be possible. It is just it seems ironic that my 6 year old HP Jornada 720 Handheld PC still works fine and never needs a reset and even runs faster and is more reliable than the IIS!! I have had a lot of PPCs and other mobile devices and I find the IIs the worst and it needs the most work just to keep it working. All this is just my observations and I am sure lots of Blueangels run WM5 fine.