First reports on the new, 2.01 HP iPAQ hx4700 WM5 upgrade

It seems it’s indeed worth upgrading. The upgrade went smooth on all devices so far (unlike with, say, the A12 ROM upgrade on the Dell Axim x51v for many) and the entire device has become much speedier than before - even without hacks.

I’m testing the upgrade with my standard DockWare test to find out how filesys.exe behaves and to have some real, objective test results to present.

The problems / unresolved stuff I’ve come across so far:

1. It still has incompatibility issues with a lot of games (I’ve tested Realms and DragonBall - the recently tested titles that didn't work. DragonBall, unlike with the previous WM5 version, has even crashed the entire device after crashing. In this respect, the upgrade may be even more incompatible than the previous one). This is strictly an hx4700 issue – these games run on my other WM5 (and/or VGA) devices just fine.
2. Services.exe still consumes CPU: 1.2% by default, 0.8% with empty \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games, between 6.3 and 7.8% after copying every single factory-defult .lnk file from \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games.

   Note that these figures are much better than with the original WM5 upgrade where, by default, the CPU usage of Services.exe was around 5% by default, 1% with a completely clean \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games and 15-20% with all the default links copied to the Games subdirectory.

   This means the Navi service must be disabled by hand in the new version too in the way I've explained in my previous tutorials.

I'll keep you posted on further results / remarks. You don't need to wait for them to upgrade, however - it seems it's really worth upgrading. Also, again, make sure you check out the MobilitySite forum comments here.