Re: evb Apps broken on WM2003 SE, Watch Out

From: Marc (marc_at_work.com)
Date: 11/04/04

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    To whoever stumbles across this thread, I thought I'd post the resolution to
    this issue of evb code not running on Dell Axim X30.

    The problem was the Dell A03 ROM update, apparently there is a serious logic
    problem or corruption issue. Dell released ROM A05, which fixed the
    problem.

    Hope this helps someone out there, I racked my brain for a week in order to
    narrow down the problem and find a resolution.

    Also, it appears the 2003 evb runtimes work fine on WM 2003 SE.

    Marc

    "Marc" <marc@work.com> wrote in message
    news:eCmqwiCwEHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
    > This problem only gets more confusing. I can't figure out if the problems
    > is w/ the Dell X30 hardware, firmware of evb runtimes. I created a simple
    > evb program for the user to run that turns text into upper case, lower
    > case, etc. See the results below for confusion. BTW, this program works
    > fine on PPC 2000, 2002, 2003 w/ runtimes, just not 2003 SE / Dell X30.
    > This is what the user e-mailed back with:
    >
    > "
    > This just keeps getting weirder.
    > Using the demo you sent, and leaving the "This is A TEST" text... here is
    > what I got for each value.
    >
    > Left 2 characters: Th
    > Right 2 characters: ST
    > Upper case: This is A TEST
    > Lower case: this one came out as 15 squares, no readable text.
    > Left 2 characters Upper case: Th
    > Right 2 characters Lower case: This came out as three squares.
    > 3rd character Upper case: i
    > 3rd character Lower case: again, came out as three squares.
    >
    >
    > I tried this again using the following text: Dell Axim x30 TEST No.2
    >
    > Left 2 characters: De
    > Right 2 characters: .2
    > Upper case: Dell Axim x30 TEST No.2
    > Lower case: this came out as a series of 24 squares.
    > Left 2 characters Upper case: De
    > Left 2 characters Lower case: three squares
    > 3rd character Upper case: l
    > 3rc character Lower case: again, three squares "
    >
    > Note: This program uses nothing but UCase(text1.text), LCase(text1.text),
    > Right(text1.text), Mid(text1.text,3,1), etc. Upper case should have
    > turned all the text to uppercase as with lower case, etc.
    >
    > This is a pretty serious issue.
    >
    > Any comments?
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > "Marc" <marc@home.com> wrote in message
    > news:OSal4Y5vEHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
    >> I've been getting calls about customers using WM2003 SE installing and
    >> trying to use a known working evb app (which works in ppc 2000, 2002 and
    >> 2003) and it will not function correclty.
    >>
    >> Since I don't have a 2003 SE device I've been trying to debug over
    >> e-mail. It appears that one particular machine, Dell X30 2003 SE, ROM
    >> A03, is having problems with these statements in evb:
    >>
    >> ...
    >> Given: Dim Mystring
    >> Given: APP = "Testing"...
    >> ...
    >> If LCase(Mid(APP, 4, 1)) = "t" then Mystring = "T" ...
    >>
    >> - This statment never fires, Mystring still equals ""
    >>
    >> AND
    >>
    >> 1. APP = "test"
    >> 2. UCase(Right(APP, 2))
    >>
    >> - this gives the user "st", NOT "ST"
    >>
    >> Is this a hardware, firmware or software issue? This should be simple
    >> logic, but it fails. This particular user is using the standard 2003 evb
    >> runtimes on the device.
    >>
    >> This is not good. I've done some searching on the net and have found a
    >> couple other people complaining of broken evb apps on 2003 SE.
    >>
    >> Can anyone or someone from Micrsoft please comment?
    >>
    >> Marc
    >>
    >
    >

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