Saturday, June 11, 2005

Pocket PC - Hard Reset

My PDA (Dell Axim A5) has been playing up a bit recently, it keeps locking up when in the docking station, and has needed a soft reset almost every day for the last three weeks! I have been reluctant to perform a hard reset as it is running TomTom and I didn't want to have to set it back up again - addition POI loaded, full PostCode location add on etc etc etc...

But this week Tomtom have announced the availability of TomTom 5, so I ordered the upgrade (about £40), and as I need to wipe and reload that application, I decided I may aswell perform a Hard Reset on the PDA.. I moved all the data files onto the 1GB SD Card, and then removed it (Just to be safe)

All went fine, till I tried to reinstall BatteryBar Pro & Journal Bar, and they would not install!! Eventually I found that Zone Alarm was blocking them! Unable to quickly see why, I disabled ZAP, and installed both apps. The benefit is that they are both much later versions than the ones I had on before... After a quick sync, and re-inserting the SD Card - the only thing now missing is TomTom.... Just waiting for the CD to arrive now!

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