Axim x50v should I smash it into little pieces?

[rockijon]

Hi guys
I bought a Dell Axim x50v on Ebay and its driving me mad.
After a lot of research I thought this PDA is the one for me.
Its really sluggish and often crashes. I have switched to maximum processor speed, switched off error reporting, done many hard and soft resets and still it seems useless.
It does however get rather hot on the battery mabe that’s a clue?
Its running Windows mobile 6 Classic (came installed when I bought it from Ebay) and I’m wondering that it’s because of this operating system? Should I reinstall the original OS? If so after some research it seems very complicated and scary?
Maybe the Axim should run as it does but for me after using a Palm PDA for years I’m considering to go back to Palm.
Please help as I love the axim and would be so happy if I could get it up and running.
Thanks Guys
Jon

[Mahstah]

The X50v was designed to run WM2003SE, but many users have reported success with WM6. What ROM version of WM6 are you using? They have an A03 available for the X50v. You can read about the various releases over at XDA Developers here.

However, if you're determined to smash it into little pieces I can send you postage so I can, uh, smash it...

[KimChee]

I'm running A02, it is running nice on my x50v, I had the beta a03, and it ran amazing with the sys patch, but it ran hot and battery life seemed to be a lot worse, so I downgraded to a02..a02 is a tick slower perhaps, but more stable imho.

It's easy to flash the roms, if youre not comfortable theres a utube video of some guy flashing his x51v, Ive flashed my x50v twice now, it is kind of scary but I try to go do something else while its flashing to take my mind off of it lol