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> Your Comments on WM5 on SMT5600, Should I Upgrade???

stejimenez
post Oct 13 2005, 02:48 AM
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Ok, thing is like this:

I have just bought my SMT5600 Its Brand new and its a big leap fordward from my old SE T630 (Great Phone Also... But Just a Phone). Im not decided about updating My Phone To WM5 since I think it works just about fine with 2003SE. I have seen a lot of reviews about the WM5 and I know it has a lot of Small "improvements" from 2003SE, along with its "Better" and More "Beautiful" interface. But beasides that and the fact that I could void my warranty (Does not matter to me due to the fact that Im in the caribbean and bought the phone in US); I need to ask a couple of questions so everybody answer me:

1- What problems I might find After Updating my phone to WM5? I have seen some repots about booting problems, camera drivers... but what else ???
2- Is the fuctionality of the overal experience affected in a god or a bad way???
3- Do you personally think its worth the risk ???

Thanks everyone for your help ...

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muchomorek
post Oct 13 2005, 03:31 AM
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https://mobilegadgetnews.com/index.php?showtopic=8363

and the http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23368 for more information regarding the wm5 upgrade.
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stejimenez
post Oct 13 2005, 03:37 AM
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QUOTE(muchomorek @ Oct 12 2005, 11:31 PM)
https://mobilegadgetnews.com/index.php?showtopic=8363

and the http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23368 for more information regarding the wm5 upgrade.
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Thanks.. I Saw those post... Most of this is problem UPDATING... But I want YOUR OPINION (after a succesful Update).

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Sterling

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post Oct 14 2005, 01:04 PM
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I would recommend probably not doing it... Since flashing mine for WM5, I have had to re-flash and re-setup the whole thing 5 times. It's not a huge deal once you know the drill, it's just a pain especially if you don;t have a backup phone to use when your 5600 bites it and need a good flashing. (I have never been able to "hard reset" since the WM5.0 update, re-flash is the only option).




QUOTE(stejimenez @ Oct 12 2005, 11:37 PM)
Thanks.. I Saw those post... Most of this is problem UPDATING... But I want YOUR OPINION (after a succesful Update).

Best Regards,

Sterling
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post Oct 22 2005, 12:04 AM
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After everything I've read about getting an SMT 5600 to run Windows Mobile 5.0, it seems like the potential benefits are not great enough to outway the very likely potential pitfalls.

What's nice 'bout the SMT 5600, is that it's been very well tested and very stable with 2003 Second Edition. I've never run into a problem. I like that. :D
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post Nov 3 2005, 01:27 AM
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I did it, and I don't regret it at all.

I wouldn't recommend it if you're a big camera user, or you need MMS.. but I'm not real big on either one, and I'd rather have the better interface. And as to the bugs I hear people having, I can't say I've experienced a single one.

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