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Although the LifeDrive uses a hard disk which was selected for fast spinup speed, some have noticed delays in application launching which were greater than those in previous non-hard disk based handhelds.

Not NPOV. Not sourced. Please cleanup! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jmacns (talk • contribs) 22:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Linux on LifeDrive

Just some links, should you guys think the page needs this --2mcmGespräch 09:20, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] LifeDrive MicroDrive to Compact-Flash Replacement

We were numerous to successfully replace the MD by a CF:

It results in massive soft|hard reset speedup, casual use general speed improvement, and much less fear to break the internal md, which appears to be rather fragile.

two methods exist:

  • extract rom from update and build a new rom image yourself. this is tricky, and failed for me, but seemed to work for others
  • copy raw image from md, with a tool like dd

what I did, under linux, with a sandisk usb cf reader and a sandisk 4GB cf card:

  • power off, lock keys, open, unplug md
  • plug md in cf reader
  • backup: $ dd if=/dev/sda of=./ldmd.img
  • plug cf in cf reader
  • restore: $ dd if=./ldmd.img of=/dev/sda
  • plug cf in ld
  • power on
  • much happiness occurs

you can compress on the fly too:

  • backup: $ dd if=/dev/sda | bzip2 > ./ldbak.img.bz2
  • restore: $ bzcat ./ldbak.img.bz2 | dd of=/dev/sda

which gives a space occupation improvement of 4GB->20MB if you did a secure hardreset (fills hd with zeroes, thus more compression), allowing for the image to easily be stored for future reuse/restoration or to operate from a linux livecd, as it would then easily fit in a ramdisk.

--Lloeki 08:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC) (lloeki_ld on 1src link above)

[edit] ROM update

I have to give my thanks to whoever added that ROM update link! I've been looking for update for my LifeDrive for a couple of months and never stumbled on it until I saw it here! Now more of my applications work! --Stalfur 10:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

It's also a good idea to keep a periodic eye on websites like palminfocenter.com, which regularly keep track of things like this. Dysprosia 11:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battery capacity

I've changed the battery capacity from 1800 to 1660 mah. Three out of the top three Palm LifeDrive reviews found by Google states "1660 mah", and several users who have disassembled their units have reported finding 1660 mah batteries. -- Tomlouie | talk 20:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)