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Alright, I can understand the request to exchange your Clie with someone else because you want the Flash ROM and somebody else doesn't, but this isn't exactly the right way to go about it. Telling people masked ROM is more useful because it is faster doesn't have much merit. Any chance you have a benchmark or proof? I've never heard of such a thing, ever. ROM is ROM. Masked is much cheaper, and if anything, the Flash ROM would be faster.

Here is my opinion:

>>1. A huge part of PalmOS5 is located in ROM. Mask rom is much faster than flash rom, so newer mask-rom TG50-s may be even slightly faster that old flash-rom devices.

I've never heard anything that says this is true. If you know this for a fact, please provide any proof. Otherwise, you're just scamming someone.

>>2. There is no way to write in mask-rom. This means that whatever you run on your PDA, there is NO chance to mess it up, a hard reset will always fix it. As for the flash-ROM PDAs, there is a chance that a malfunctioning application destroys the flash, and the device becomes absolutely non-functional. THIS WAS ONE OF THE REASONS for Sony to replace flash rom with mask rom in newer TG50 devices.

If you're dumb enough not to know what to put in ROM and what not to, you don't deserve a PDA. I'd like to say I'm joking, but if you're that careless as to put important application databases and orphaned files in ROM, you're getting what's coming to you. And you need JackFlash to even touch your ROM. If you're afraid of screwing it up, then don't mess with it. Now that's not so hard, huh?

>>3. I received a statement from sony that says that ALTERING OR MODIFYING ROM CONTENT on TG50 device VOIDS YOUR warranty.

Altering or modifying ROM content. You can't do that on OS 5 Clies, sorry. Everything that was originally there stays intact. JackFlash shouldn't void your warranty, but JackSprat would. But JackSprat doesn't work on OS 5 Clies, like I said.

>>4. You may say that it is possible to upgrade the OS in flash rom devices. Well, Sony confirmed that they will not provide any major OS updates for TG50.

I never heard any official word on this, even though I believe myself they won't issue an upgrade. Still, you never know.



Again, sorry, JackSprat does not work on OS 5 Clies. Sony made sure of this.



The main thing is that ROM application execution speeds will be faster than from the card. You are not withheld by the bottleneck of the slot. With JackFlash, you can put NetFront in ROM. You can use PowerRun to put NetFront on the card, but when you execute the application, it copies it into RAM. If it's in ROM to begin with, it executes from there. So for this, you don't need 4 MB free before you execute the app from PowerRun.



Hard reset and clean up your backup folder on the desktop. Done.



Whoa, wait a second. I think your entire idea of this Flash ROM is off balance. JackSprat does not work on OS 5 Clies. About Index.swf, do you know how large the file is? Take a guess, come on. 64k. It's not like you're going to free up God knows how much ROM space. You're going to only have 3.5 MB for applicaton storage no matter how much you cut it. You can't touch the other contents in ROM. Don't think you can stuff Linux in this thing without cracking Sony's code.

Above all this, I think your idea is a fair trade. A new Clie without Flash for an older Clie with Flash. Both parties get what they want. But I think the way you are going about this by bringing up uncertain statements is the wrong way.