Apache WM6 Kitchen CE OS 5.2.1908 (Build 18508.0.7.0) - UPDATED 20071217

[lennysh]

Originally Posted by mastersm

Hi, I recently had my laptop stolen. I have managed to sync everything except the email that were on my Apache. For some reason activsync and Vista's version won't recognise and sync them across to Outlook? Anyone have any other ideas? Is there a program that I can export my emails from my Apache and then import them into Outlook?

Thanks

Yes, just forward them all to either the same account, or another one. Best way I can tell ya right off....

[gguruusa]

The first place to start is to load a unmodified kitchen ROM, and see what that does. If it works, slowly add in your changes until you recreate your problem. If it doesn't work, try a stock carrier rom.

I answered someone's pagepool question in the post right after it. There isn't any good place to go for advice on where to set it - it all depends on what you're trying to do with your PPC.

[jsavin]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

The first place to start is to load a unmodified kitchen ROM, and see what that does. If it works, slowly add in your changes until you recreate your problem. If it doesn't work, try a stock carrier rom.

Thanks. I was afraid that would be the answer, but that's what I get for life on the edge. At least it's the weekend and I'll have time to work on it.

Originally Posted by gguruusa

I answered someone's pagepool question in the post right after it. There isn't any good place to go for advice on where to set it - it all depends on what you're trying to do with your PPC.

Sorry -- must have missed your reply. I did find a post on the Microsoft Windows Mobile blog that talked about PagePool a bit in the comments, but the Microsoft guy repeatedly fell back on "it doesn't matter because it's not user-configurable".

What I've found over the last week is that generally bigger is better for running more or larger (executable) programs. This might seem odd since there's less memory available, but the PagePool which is used for loading program bits, isn't reported in the Memory applet. It's there, and being used for program runtime, but isn't available for program runtime storage (malloc).

Anyway, there's obviously going to be a point of diminishing returns. I find that I typically have about 2 or 3 MB free when using a PagePool of 14, and I tend to run a lot of stuff: two or three big today plugins, QuickMenu, POutlook and Egress all the time, and then while driving MortPlayer (for listening to audiobooks, podcasts and sometimes music), and sometimes a mapping app, which will be one of Google Maps, Live Search, or TomTom, depending on what I'm doing.

Occasionally I'll even run one or two more apps, but usually the above is about my limit.

With the stock WM5 ROM, I was able to do all of the above, but when I switched to Helmi_c's, I started having trouble. As I said, initially I used a smalmler PagePool, and when I flashed the last time, I decided to tryt a higher value (mostly because of reading between the lines in that MSFT blog post).

Hope this helps someone else.

Now to the phone ring debug loop. I'll post back with results if I get it figured out.

Thanks again, gguruusa! You've been *super* helpful!

Edit: I was actually using a PagePool of 14, not 16. And still no fix for the no-ring problem... Working on it...

[jsavin]

So after about three hours of messing around with it last night, and maybe 6 or 8 reflashes, my phone is ringing again. Unfortunately I have no idea why it's working now, in spite of the fact that I tried to be really systematic about figuring out what the problem was.

I started off with my original OEM selections, removing them one-by-one, reflashing, and testing the ringer.

At some point, I think after removing the big-button dialer, it rang but only after a long delay. But as it turned out, that was probably a fluke.

In the end, I ended up flashing with almost exactly the same thing I had before, but with MS Voice Command instead of Voice commander (which was smaller storage-wise, but I didn't like much). I removed a couple of games, and the extra sounds and themes, in order to make the space up.

All through the process, I was doing the *228 trick to program the phone (Verizon's provisioning tool), so it's probably possible that this is what fixed the problem.

Even after the phone started ringing, I found it took a long time, so I applied the slot-cycle hack (set it to 1) so it would be more responsive.

And now I have a phone that rings in responsive fashion, but I still don't know why it didn't ring in the first place.

I do have the two selections.txt files, and saved all my custom OEMs that were used on the original one that wasn't working. I'd be happy to share these if anyone working on the kitcken, on the OEMizer, or on BuildOS wants to have a look.

[gguruusa]

Read the first 3 pages of GA. Medics "Tutorial on Upgrading your ROM to WM6" thread, stickied at the top of this forum, for answers to most of your questions.

You don't have to select your carrier splash screens - you can set them to whatever you want (including your carrier's, if you like them)

As to how many things to check, that all depends on what you are checking. It's pretty much trial and error right now. There's a new version of BuildOS in the works that goes a long way towards resolving this issue, but it's not available for general use yet.

[bullocks]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

Read the first 3 pages of GA. Medics "Tutorial on Upgrading your ROM to WM6" thread, stickied at the top of this forum, for answers to most of your questions.

You don't have to select your carrier splash screens - you can set them to whatever you want (including your carrier's, if you like them)

eh i seen that RIGHT after i posted this. reading now!

quick question, when u bootload or w.e and u have to press the reset button u gotta get a pen or something to push it?

[gguruusa]

use the stylus tip.

[bullocks]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

use the stylus tip.

ye i didn't think of that

thanks.

[uhaulkid]

my 67600 froze up today, i did a few soft resets, nothing. i took out the battery and nothign, still locks up after a reset at the windows screen and site there. i came home and reloaded a much smaller rom with less on it thinking maybe that was it, still nothing. after suscesfull flash i did a sof reset and it still boots up to the windoes screen and hanges there. any idesa, is it the rom, to much in there maybe?

[gguruusa]

It's the rom. Hard to say what the cause is with the info you've provided. More than likely, it's something you've baked into the ROM - probably a today screen program.