I'm just about to come into possession of one.

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...Details are best left private, but the unit was one of the first Atoms to be released. it has been upgraded to the Jan rom, and then left alone because its owner was, uh, more chicken than I am. The Mini I used to own will be going to someone else. >_>

I will miss Bigstorage, a small price to pay for (somewhat) limited Wifi and no longer having to fear losing all my data to a power out.

Few questions here:
1. Is it safe to use the Xda-Atom-Exec-ENG-20060721-MOT0822.exe from the FTP yet?

2. Should I use that or the Xda-Atom-ENG-20060426-MOT0822.exe ?

3. Is there a way to disable the message that refuses to run unsigned exes, or is there an exe signer anywhere? I remember it having problems with programs that don't need installation.

Thanks in advance.

...Just got it today.

Apparently it's been through the service centre once, so it's ROM turned out to be the 20060426 one - radio still at RS*49. Still wondering if I should flash for the new radio driver.

I've read through the forums and I think I won't be messing around with the Exec rom for now.

Thanks, all.

i currently using the Atom with Atom Exec ROM version Xda-Atom-Exec-ENG-20060721-MOT0822
and so far until now, no prob at all..

anyone know how to cook WM5 ROM in atom,
cause, i see to other forum, they have the ROM WM5 AKU3.5 into their device,,

why can we (atom) have that to?? >

Ehehehehehe. Finally took the risk, nearly lost my phone - tho it was easily fixed by flashing over with the same Exec rom again. The ROM I grabbed from the FTP right here on xdadev. <_<

See, a funny thing happened.

I installed the Extrom revealer hack for extra space.

Then I installed SKTools Trial 3.0.75 - and thereafter the Extrom revealer hack stopped working.

So my device asked me this question - "Do you want to format your Storage Card so it's easily readable?"

not wanting to get my 2gig eaten, I removed it, and tried to click NO... only I accidentially touched "Yes".

Whoops.

Everything just stopped working - well, except the phone and basic winDOS mobile 5 apps.

Soft reset - device took ages to boot. Nothing that isn't WM5 native runs.
Hard reset - device went wonky, still booted, but screen got out of alignment. Still usable, but autoconfig not working (detected Sim as jumble of numbers, but phone still works).

Went into device settings -> system info.
Guess what I saw:
CMOS: NULL (WTF)
ExtROM: NULL (WTF)
...correct
...correct
...correct

And upon looking at the Flash Size, I saw 192MB (?!). Fake number?

(No screenshots will be made avaliable. I will NOT do this again.)

Anyways, a reflash put the unit back in full working condition, problem, but I'm still seeing it report that I have 192MB of Flash RAM avaliable. Oy.

Still workink for now, but I hope this won't mess up the system any. -.-