trying to back up the hdd on this ancient little UMPC. working on these things feels like trying to cajole a small, injured animal into eating
"honey. hey darling. come on, eat the usb drive. i know you know this is Software. you like Software. come on. please christ you dumbass eat the Software i am trying to save your life you are The Last Of Your Kind please act in self preservation"
the device, by the way. little bastard computer
htc shift x9500. hugely popular in eastern europe for some reason; tons of people over there made custom roms for it and shit.
roms, because: yes, it came with window vist, but it also has a button that makes it switch to a horrifically limited copy of windows mobile that really, really does not want to be displayed on an 8" screen. what kind of monster would do this? answer: HTC
so anyway, the primary chip is an intel mobile processor based on the pentium-m that's so decrepit that it just identifies itself as "genuine intel processor 800mhz". like, that's literally the CPU identifier string. the winmo env runs on a second computer inside with an ARM11 SoC, and the button just KVMs between the two, so theoretically (unlike winmo-on-x86, which is a real thing that CAN hurt you, but has almost no viable software available) it can run arbitrary apps.
thus, there's a bunch of aftermarket shit to jailbreak the winmo env and do just that. people report... varied success. it's not a good idea anyway but i still absolutely had to have the Object, and i was lucky enough to find one in ukraine in perfect condition for a cold hundo. bad battery (owo inflates your cells big and round) but wcyd
i did not realize until after i received it that you can flip the screen up into Posting Angle and the first time i did it, i thought i was breaking the mechanism
