MDA Vario tweaks

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By Dan ⋅ February 9, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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I'd been somewhat plagued by slow performance on my Vario over the last few days. The thing started taking forever to respond to key presses, which got very tedious, very quickly. Launching the inbox to send a message locked the device for a few seconds while it caught up with itself.

I'd read a while back that there was a way of stopping Activesync from randomly launching itself, but hadn't really paid it much attention; Activesync wasn't hurting me, so why should I get all medieval on it? With this in mind, when my Vario started to come over all sluggish, I'd try killing Activesync and see if that helped performance. Funnily enough, it did.

Next step, find the solution I'd come across before, and make it so. The process is basically: Go into Activesync on the Vario, create an exchange sync with a dummy server (so 127.0.0.1 then) and once that's done set both options to "manual" in the schedule dialog. In order to be able to access schedule, you need to have an exchange server configured - once you've set the two options to manual, you can remove the exchange server again. I did this about a week ago and so far haven't had anything like the slowdown I had before. Which, in my book, is a good thing.

Activesync still launches when I connect the phone to my PC, although it does hang around again afterwards, which is quite annoying. I've installed the very handy vBar so I can kill it swiftly and with minimum effort, which I highly recommend (vBar, not killing things swiftly and with minimum effort).

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Santos 2 years ago 1 point
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I'm finding my Vario unbearably slow. Only been using it a week or so but just launching Tasks can take several seconds. I used to have the MDA III which launched programs instantly.

Tried your ActiveSync thing but doesn't seem to be my problem. How fast is launching apps on yours? And do you Sync with Outlook on a PC?

Cheers for the article.
Santos

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Dan 2 years ago 1 point
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Have you updated the rom to the latest AKU2 version? Do a search on my site (or have a look at the related entries section over to the right) to find my write up on it. The AKU2 update provides a massive speed boost over the out-of-the-box rom.

If you don't fancy flashing your rom, there's a registry tweak you can do to enable a small cache; this should speed things up a bit too. The rom update is your best bet though.

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