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Well, the random crashes just keep on happening and then this afternoon I picked up the rx3715 from my desk and walked into another room. I turned it on to check something and low and behold the ultimate mother of a crash! The whole system shutdown and rebooted.

Now, I should have known something was wrong when the starting screen looked different as it didn’t have the vertical blue bar on the left. Hmmm. Then… ‘DING’ “Welcome to your HP…”. AAARRRGGGHHH! The damn thing had hard-reset losing *everything*! FFS!

So, back to my desk, restore from backup…everything was good again.

BUT, got home, turn on, ‘DING’ “Welcome to your HP…”. AGAIN!  and I’d left my USB connector at work so I can’t restore at home.

Crap!

My rx3715 is still randomly refusing to startup as per my recent post . This seems to have extended to not responding at all when the PIN screen appears at a bootup.

The device does respond to a screen press by putting on the backlight but it doesn’t actually accept any input. This results in my removing the battery, waiting, power on, try again, soft reset, remove battery, try again, etc. etc.

Seems like WP1.5 is out and it’s incredibly tempting to move over. Down side is that I’d have to take all of the mods/hacks I did to 1.2.1 and re-apply them to 1.5 so I think I’d better set aside a weekend or so.

Installed on my ipaq rx3715 so far:

Killer Apps

• Pocket Informant 5 - top stuff, works like a charm. Makes managing hectic schedules and the massive to-do lists generated by GTD simple.
• PocketBreeze - puts all my important stuff from PI on the Today screen
• MemMaid - a memory cleaning util for PPC. Flushes out all the crap like temp files. Great review here.
• Calligrapher - necessary for PhatPad
• PhatPad - promising as it offers support for writing notes up in a meeting and then converting them to text with Calligrapher afterwards. I’ve only just started with this and I’m hoping this is going to mean I can ditch paper notes on my up-coming trip to GDCONF.

Handy

• WiFiFoFum - a good wifi network discovery program. Good for war-walking/driving. Neither Airsniffer/MiniStumbler work on the RX3715.
• Pocket Streets - so I can have local maps to hand for the places I visit.
• Bejeweled 2 - ’nuff said
• WebIS Mail - a ‘better’ mail program

Visuals

• Wisbar Advance 2 - makes the Today screen look nice.
• SWDeluxe skin - makes everything look the same and good

Activesync
A contributing factor to it’s demise is going to be that Activesync doesn’t allow 2 devices to be synced to the same PC so the E200 has lost out to the rx3715. This is a real shame as I used this to keep my contacts up-to-date and more importantly to actually charge the device while at work. The process now is to connect my ipaq and make an activesync connection, connect the e200 and then activesync ignores it. If I connect the e200 firstly then activesync gets confused and all hell breaks loose! Something to be avoided so the e200 is demoted to regular phone usage, which is a shame.
More woes
Plus, the ‘8′ key occasionally misses which is a bit of a bugger when typing SMS or phone numbers. This coupled with the fact that the delete/back key keeps sticking (deleting all of a message) makes for fun times when typing in anything.

I did think that now I’ve got myself a nice new ipaq rx3715 windows mobile device with wifi, bluetooth, etc. I could use my e200 indirectly but only to find that my damned E200 doesn’t have a bluetooth profile where I can connect to it and sync contacts, SMSs, etc. The E200 support for bluetooth seems to be truly awful to the point of being unusable. In fact, I’ve tried numerous times and never managed to get any ‘useful’ connection at all.

BTW - Yes, I have all the latest patches/updates/bioses, etc and it’s still pants.

Installed Spaminator in an attempt to rid myself of comment spam! This post should act as a honey pot to see if it works!

Well, I’m stumped. For the last few weeks I’ve been unable to access a few sites around the ‘net from home as the site fails to respond. A quick check via tracert reveals some kinda routing issue beyond my domain but apparently my home machine is the only one on the planet that is having this problem.

More of a note to self about the continuation of the problem where my rx3715 will just fail to come back on after it goes into standby either by pressing the ‘off’ button at the top or it timing out.

The unit fails to restart despite me pressing any of the keys or pressing the soft reset button. It only responds when I physically remove the battery, wait a while, replace it and then turn on. Obviously less than ideal.

Much googling hasn’t turned anything up, and I’m on the latest bios install with minimal software running.