...... I think SKTools is probably the superior program.

Shurely !
But P. M. has some unique features in Flash Card Memory managment ( Scan, Recover, Defrag etc. )
Unluckly, this is the point of power of this app.
Plus, it's the one that quickly get rid about notification queue duplicate.
The other app, often fail telling that no duplicate were found ....

[Lord Yuz]

Let's just wait till the load is stable. Obviously there were a lot of serious bugs in the recent loads and I think it starts 2.4x.x

I would not trust his scandisk and safe mode from those loads to begin with.

I agree bro, its no use to get working serial only to find that your PPC gets hard-reset because the app is so lame.

Maybe someone can be our appointed tester (maybe one of the release tester guys) and see if and when this finally becomes stable (i.e, safely go into "safe" mode and does it's job properly) and then I will happily go into the code and spin the registration formula another fifty times to get a working serial

Anton if you're reading this I noticed in a test I did that the "Safe Mode" is done to get exclusive access to the storage cards and that it does work on a fresh hard-reset, but once I tweaked the system settings to "Increase block SD/MMC transfer speed" and increased the "PNP unload delay" Pocket Mechanic appears to be fighting with the OS kernel to get exclusive access to the cards and thus it never gets into Safe Mode successfully. I'll bet that this would happen even if I enabled "Card battery warning", and you can be sure most of the users out there will undoubtedly tweak these system settings for better performance.

Furthermore, there isn't an option to abort or cancel Safe Mode when it's already initiated so I think this is absolutely lame if you want to write something without a possibility of cancelling it, especially when it doesn't work properly and you obviously haven't tested it enough

Yup.. lets wait until the stable version is out... I heard that Anton is busy in fixing P.M (and keep watching this thread too). Lots customers complain 'bout the safe mode. I'm sure he read your message Lord Yuz. And.. he has planned new protection method to kill down the piracy. I've got this from a trusted source i can't tell. He sent you also a big greeting Yuz... haha...

[Lord Yuz]

let's hope he doesn't go malware again

Hi Friends:

I have Pocket_Mechanic_Setup_WM5 v2.45.191 in my HTC TyTN and I would like to have the new Pocket_Mechanic_Setup_WM5 v2.50.199 6-17-07...Can you pm me the new key?

Thanks

TecMan
HTC TyTN
SLP-2.10.Olipro
Radio version: 1.43.00.00
ROM version: 3.30.2.1 (LegolasTheElf Elf_Edition_v2.1)

...... I think SKTools is probably the superior program.

Shurely !
But P. M. has some unique features in Flash Card Memory managment ( Scan, Recover, Defrag etc. )
Unluckly, this is the point of power of this app.
Plus, it's the one that quickly get rid about notification queue duplicate.
The other app, often fail telling that no duplicate were found ....

Sk tools has all the features you quoted under Storage Cards menu and for all those who just love to defrag their sd cards just for the heck of it sktools has a very informative warning about it, to quote it:

"...Defragmentation is useless for Storage Cards (CF/SD), because no any mechanical parts like read/write head for hard disk exist. The defragmentation can decrease the life of your storage card."

And lastly, recover you say? Anton's crapware has trashed my ppc and swiped my data too many times already, so for me sktools all the way...

Sorry not agree about defrag ...
Personally experieced in WE Map and TT 6 a big slowlyness in analyzing the route and calculating it if the Map appear highly fragmented in the SD Card !!!
For this reason, I copied the map files as first thing and just after, performed a defrag.
CLINE.DAT works faster if is located on contigues blocks and acts as an index file

if some one have the code for v.250.199 please send a pm with the code or were to found,see you guys

Eikichi said: "And lastly, recover you say? Anton's crapware has trashed my ppc and swiped my data too many times already, so for me sktools all the way..."

Same experience here with PM -- trashed my storage card, good thing I had a backup of my storage card...

Sorry not agree about defrag ...
Personally experieced in WE Map and TT 6 a big slowlyness in analyzing the route and calculating it if the Map appear highly fragmented in the SD Card !!!
For this reason, I copied the map files as first thing and just after, performed a defrag.
CLINE.DAT works faster if is located on contigues blocks and acts as an index file

zugu,

Defrag on SD via PPC program is not really useful and the quicker and safer way to clean up is doing this way:

1. Copy all content to PC via a good SD card reader.
2. Reformat the SD card from the PC
3. Copy everything saved to PC back to SD card.

It is a lot safer to do this way then trying defrag the SD card.

zugu,
Defrag on SD via PPC program is not really useful and the quicker and safer way to clean up is doing this way:

1. Copy all content to PC via a good SD card reader.
2. Reformat the SD card from the PC
3. Copy everything saved to PC back to SD card.

It is a lot safer to do this way then trying defrag the SD card.

Man, shurely it's safer but in some cases penalize the performace !
The writing process randomly write fragmentend .. and you never predict before the file/s affected.
Now, the most part of times this is not vital, but sometimes you notice a big performace degrade. It's depends, in part, by vital, important and/or more usued files fragmentation !

After doing what you wrote, you'll notice that th card is fragmentend, expecially if you almost fill it and there's a condition to copy big files at the end of the process where the empty free space on card is little and spread in several little blocks !
Believe man, It's a tricky but usefull feature !

What you say will be true if repeated write and delete are already present. However, a fresh reformat then follow up with a single copy will not fragment the card much at all. I actually trust more with Bill Gates than Anton on defrag my SD card. :)

What you say will be true if repeated write and delete are already present. However, a fresh reformat then follow up with a single copy will not fragment the card much at all. I actually trust more with Bill Gates than Anton on defrag my SD card.

Indeed, man, I found that By Win XP it didn't take care so much in defrag and performace results overall !
For istance, I learned to avoid to reformat SD by Win XP due it makes for standard security a mirror FAT ...
This, if from one side offers a better security in the ability to makes the storage readable even if some serious problems occurs, by the other side slow down every write attempt due any change must be write twice to the 2 Fats ...
I always let my Qtek 9000 to reformat my Card cause, without notice, prepare it in the best and fastest performace way

Last, try to compare the defrag results of the 2 apps making a comparison of the unmoved blocks and clusters and the efficency of the continuous moved ones in the Analyze and Report Screens !

Try to believe !

[Lord Yuz]

Actually even solid-state storage does fall prey to defragmentation problems, try copying, deleting and moving some stuff around the card a lot and I'll bet you will hang some time trying to play your favorite MP3's off the card. I think SKTools author is just giving an excuse of "potential damage" when he can't do a better job at it than presently available in his program. I've been using SD/CF Cards that I defrag at least once every couple of days or so for 3+ years and so far so good

Other than having a faster card (which also has its performance limits on WinCE), defragmentation is the only way to prevent this.

P/S: SKTool's RAM freeing is crap when compared to Pocket Mechanic. Doesn't free as much RAM and often hangs even when set to the most "stable" setting in options.

Hi,

Is there a safe version?

I'm using 2.45.191 and I do not know if this version is safe


Regards