Unstable
Hardware, posted: 5-Jul-2006 08:02
About 2 days ago I awoke to find that I had great difficulty in getting my Jasjar to reboot at all. It would hardly respond.
I tried a few soft resets 1st, often it would get to the blue Imate screen then die.
I resorted to the hard Reset but even then it would not respond well, sometimes it would stoip after the blue imate screen, sometimes there would be wierd colour configurations on the screen.
I was very worried and I thought I might have a fatal problem-I remembered reading stories in Club Imate of this sort of thing to other people who had recently done a ROM upgrade.
lIt does appear that the Jasjar has become extremely unstable after the ROM upgrade.
Anyway to cut a long story short after about 2-3 attempts doing the hard reset I finally managed to get going and got it booted uo.
Luckily also I had a recent back up on the SD card by SPB Backup and so I was able to get all the software back in without to much effort.
I would have to say trhat since then everything has been running very smoothly with no hickups whatsoever.
Ive been having fun with PocketIRC as well.
So heres hoping-im still wondering if the temperature has something to do with it-cause It was a reasonably cold morning that day and its been not so cold since.
The verdict is still out on that one
I tried a few soft resets 1st, often it would get to the blue Imate screen then die.
I resorted to the hard Reset but even then it would not respond well, sometimes it would stoip after the blue imate screen, sometimes there would be wierd colour configurations on the screen.
I was very worried and I thought I might have a fatal problem-I remembered reading stories in Club Imate of this sort of thing to other people who had recently done a ROM upgrade.
lIt does appear that the Jasjar has become extremely unstable after the ROM upgrade.
Anyway to cut a long story short after about 2-3 attempts doing the hard reset I finally managed to get going and got it booted uo.
Luckily also I had a recent back up on the SD card by SPB Backup and so I was able to get all the software back in without to much effort.
I would have to say trhat since then everything has been running very smoothly with no hickups whatsoever.
Ive been having fun with PocketIRC as well.
So heres hoping-im still wondering if the temperature has something to do with it-cause It was a reasonably cold morning that day and its been not so cold since.
The verdict is still out on that one
PocketPC Magazine
Links, posted: 30-Jun-2006 07:22
I used to subscribe to this Magazine when I 1st got my HP Jornada 540-which I still have, and see the magazine is still around.
Quite a good magazine and I note they have included the smartphone revolution.
Looks like a good magazine still-albeit a bit pricey.
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/jun06/
Quite a good magazine and I note they have included the smartphone revolution.
Looks like a good magazine still-albeit a bit pricey.
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/jun06/
Scare
Hardware, posted: 28-Jun-2006 10:56
I woke this am to find my Jasjar wouldnt boot up at all.
I went to bed last night and Battery Level was around 60%.
I had a thought and yes I plugged the power cable and things came to life again. Battery level indicated 0%.
What I suspect had happened was the Temperature has affected the battery operation, cause the room was very cold overnight.
So panic over.
Now to find a Jasjar warmer for overnight use!!
I went to bed last night and Battery Level was around 60%.
I had a thought and yes I plugged the power cable and things came to life again. Battery level indicated 0%.
What I suspect had happened was the Temperature has affected the battery operation, cause the room was very cold overnight.
So panic over.
Now to find a Jasjar warmer for overnight use!!
Since Last ROM Upgrade
Software, posted: 23-Jun-2006 08:57
Ive fine tuned the software on the Jasjar.
Took a while to reload what I wanted but have left off a few of the games-as in Tomb Raider, Flux Challenge and backgammon.
I have added however Encyclopaedia Britanica Concise Edition-obviously on to the SD card as its about 30 mb in size. I have found it a very useful resource so far.
Mobile Contacts-Phone Edition-enables singlew handed scrolling
Otherwise everything else is the same as before now.
So far no major problems since the upgrade
Took a while to reload what I wanted but have left off a few of the games-as in Tomb Raider, Flux Challenge and backgammon.
I have added however Encyclopaedia Britanica Concise Edition-obviously on to the SD card as its about 30 mb in size. I have found it a very useful resource so far.
Mobile Contacts-Phone Edition-enables singlew handed scrolling
Otherwise everything else is the same as before now.
So far no major problems since the upgrade
Upgraded ROM
Hardware, posted: 20-Jun-2006 08:37
Well I finally took the plunge yesterday and upgraded my ROM on the Jasjar to the latest version, after some encouraging posts from Mauricio. I had been reading some of the posts on http://www.clubimate.com and some of the stories weree a bit horrifying.
Needless to say my upgrade went smoothly and ive spent the past 12 hrs or so reloading all my software and tweaking it how I like it.
The email problem ive been having has been now been solved as well.
I note a difference in the radio Manager and I think there is also less problems with programms hogging storage memory after they have closed down.
Needless to say my upgrade went smoothly and ive spent the past 12 hrs or so reloading all my software and tweaking it how I like it.
The email problem ive been having has been now been solved as well.
I note a difference in the radio Manager and I think there is also less problems with programms hogging storage memory after they have closed down.
This is an excellent Web Site for folk with WM5 devices
Links, posted: 16-Jun-2006 12:08
http://www.buzzdev.net
Embeded Development and Research
Excellent FAQ and how to do some tweaking on your WM5 device.
But be very careful!!!!!
Embeded Development and Research
Excellent FAQ and how to do some tweaking on your WM5 device.
But be very careful!!!!!
Ive removed Microsoft Voice Command
Software, posted: 16-Jun-2006 11:51
I had recently installed Microsoft Voice command V 1.5, but I kept getting file errors which stopped me from using it.
Ill do some back ground reading and research and see what I come up with.
Ill do some back ground reading and research and see what I come up with.
Some of my Fav links
Links, posted: 13-Jun-2006 13:20
http://www.geocaching.com
http://www.gsak.com
http://www.gps.org.nz
Im webmaster for: http://www.nzcmhn.org.nz
http://www.gsak.com
http://www.gps.org.nz
Im webmaster for: http://www.nzcmhn.org.nz
What im currently running on my Imate Jasjar
Software, posted: 13-Jun-2006 13:05
Spb Plus
Spb back up
SBSH Weather
Spb diary
Monopoly
Scrabble
Avantgo
GPX Sonar- Views geocaching files in html format
Mem-maid
Phatpad
Pocket Informant
Listpro
Automobile manager
Adobe Reader 2
MIMS-Drug Manual
Spb Time
Tomb Raider
Pocket Soduku- by dmcnamara@nzbydesign.com
Bubble breaker
Flux Challenge
Links
Majong Academy
MC Poker
Simcity 2000
Imate Backgammon
Mobirate BrainGym V 1.1
Gsoft My Biorythym V 1.32
Novi remote Delux V3.2
Microsoft Voice Command V 1.5
Skype
Plus the usual software that comes with the device.
Ive done 2 hard resets for various reasons, after the last one about a week ago Im having trouble with getting email from my isp while im either using Wifi or GPRS-works occassionally.
On the whole most of the above is installed on an SD card (1GB)
Spb back up
SBSH Weather
Spb diary
Monopoly
Scrabble
Avantgo
GPX Sonar- Views geocaching files in html format
Mem-maid
Phatpad
Pocket Informant
Listpro
Automobile manager
Adobe Reader 2
MIMS-Drug Manual
Spb Time
Tomb Raider
Pocket Soduku- by dmcnamara@nzbydesign.com
Bubble breaker
Flux Challenge
Links
Majong Academy
MC Poker
Simcity 2000
Imate Backgammon
Mobirate BrainGym V 1.1
Gsoft My Biorythym V 1.32
Novi remote Delux V3.2
Microsoft Voice Command V 1.5
Skype
Plus the usual software that comes with the device.
Ive done 2 hard resets for various reasons, after the last one about a week ago Im having trouble with getting email from my isp while im either using Wifi or GPRS-works occassionally.
On the whole most of the above is installed on an SD card (1GB)
