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Alexander Turcic · 04-29-2005, 08:03 PM

I cannot believe my luck. Yesterday I performed a firmware upgrade on my Axim X50v (upgraded to A03), and it worked all fine. I could even restore a previous backup. Then today, while I was running a program (I think it was Resco Explorer, but I could be wrong), I switched off my PDA. And since then I wasn't able to turn it on again! At Aximsite I found a thread discussing a similar problem. It was recommended to push the hardreset button sequence (hold the power button while pressing the reset button) and then to press cancel. Well, indeed my device turned on again when I pressed the hardreset sequence, but when I pressed on cancel (Mail hardware button), my device was nevertheless hardresetted! Worst of all, I didn't keep the backup I had done last night before performing the firmware upgrade!

Oh well... it is weekend so I have some time to reinstall everything. But all my contacts and datebook items are gone forever. And I don't think I will use my PDA for these information again, but instead use my Nokia Communicator 9500. In other words, from now on my PDA won't be my organizer anymore, but only a e-book reader, movie player, mp3 player and so on.

04-29-2005, 08:03 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Just hard-resetted my PDA. And no backup. I cannot believe my luck. Yesterday I performed a firmware upgrade on my Axim X50v (upgraded to A03), and it worked all fine. I could even restore a previous backup. Then today, while I was running a program (I think it was Resco Explorer, but I could be wrong), I switched off my PDA. And since then I wasn't able to turn it on again! At Aximsite I found a thread discussing a similar problem. It was recommended to push the hardreset button sequence (hold the power button while pressing the reset button) and then to press cancel. Well, indeed my device turned on again when I pressed the hardreset sequence, but when I pressed on cancel (Mail hardware button), my device was nevertheless hardresetted! Worst of all, I didn't keep the backup I had done last night before performing the firmware upgrade! Oh well... it is weekend so I have some time to reinstall everything. But all my contacts and datebook items are gone forever. And I don't think I will use my PDA for these information again, but instead use my Nokia Communicator 9500. In other words, from now on my PDA won't be my organizer anymore, but only a e-book reader, movie player, mp3 player and so on.