Windows Mobile 5 on Asus A636

Odpad Avast 4 for PDA
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Hallo,

I installed Avast PDA for PocketPC on my A636 to enjoy Avast reliabilty (I’m a proud pc version user). Afaik, actual Avast for PDA PocketPC2002+ version makes Windows Mobile 5 a little unstable. Sometimes Windows Mobile freeze itself at PDA power on (a soft reset is needed). Uninstalling AVAST solves freeze problem.

I hope to see a new version supporting Windows Mobile 5 soon. Meanwhile please let me know if I can help Avast team doing some beta test on Windows Mobile.

Best regards
Simon :wink:

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Hello Simon,
thanks for your offer - resident protection is starting when your PDA turns on, so I’ll send you a debug version - hope it’ll help although as you said: “sometimes it freezes itself, sometimes it doesnt happen at all” makes me little nervous :-.

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Don’t worry. I will test it more and more! We’ll catch the bug, I’m sure! :wink: I’m glad to help you. Let me know when debug version is ready.

Bye
Simon

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Hi again, please install avast on your PDA device: PocketPC 2002+ version (http://www.iavs.cz/files/pda/ppc_arm/avast4ppc_2002_setup.exe) then replace avMonitor.exe in avast directory from: http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~kurtip1/avMonitor.new (rename it to: avMonitor.exe please).

When Auto-Update is enabled (in settings), avMonitor.exe is executed when your device turns on - then avmonitor.log will be created (in the default directory). After 1minute it’s going to connect to internet to check if there’s a new version available. When it’ll lead to device freeze, please send me avMonitor.log to my email: kurtin@asw.cz - thanks…

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Ok; program installed and patch installed. I read that Asus will release in a few days a firmware upgrade that fixes several problem (just to make an example, sometimes SD card is not read at bootup). I hope to send you two log files (one before the update and one after the update).

Let’s wait and see.

Bye
Simon

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Bug does not happen anymore after firmware upgrade. I suspect that freeze was caused by SD Card bug; old firmware sometimes does not recognize sd card. Avast is installed on sd card.
I tested for days standard version and debug version without having any problem.

Thanks a lot for time you spent helping me. Feel free to contact me to do other tests.

Best regards

Simon