I was lucky enough to just spend 10 full days in Puerto Vallarta. Sorry I didn’t write… However, now that I’m back and well rested, I thought I’d share some travel tips…
Brad Franklin, who used to be the store manager of Cyber Exchange and MPH Computing in Portland is now living in Boise Idaho. He helps people get their PDA/s Palm Treos, Blackberry devices etc. to call, synch with Outlook, stream internet, check email etc. Save yourself the frustration. If you need help in Boise with a PDA or cell phone, Brad can figure out your problem, and let you get back to work. Visit his site now
Today, I synched my Palm treo 650 phone and left home. On the road, I tried to make a call, and all of my contacts were blank, gone, missing, etc. The appointments were there, but all the contacts were gone. To further frustrate and confuse me, the categories for the contacts were all still there! WTF is that all about?
Here’s how I fixed it, after being quite relieved to find my contacts still in Outlook. First I backed up Outlook with the Free Microsoft Outlook backup program. Then I went to my palm icon in the tray and right clicked, choosing custom. I told it that “desktop overwrites handheld” (but did not make that the default). One long synch later, all was well. Yikes! What a frustrating day w/ no contacts. Nice phone though. It’s sure durable too!
Complete step by step instructions to hard reset, soft reset, or warm reset your Palm Treo 650 are here on the Palm website .
After being unable to find directions on Google, I searched at the Palm site, which is quite good. This is the best forum I’ve found for specific Treo questions, Treo Central.
I’ve had this phone a month or so, and it’s okay. It’s no faster than my Samsung I730 was, but at least it’s usable. I hear they’re updated the software for that phone now. I should have followed my own advice, and never ever bought something with brand new version 1.0 software!
I’m about to get ANOTHER replacement treo. This one reboots every time I press a letter key to forward an e-mail or address a new one. what a weird pain in the neck. I can reply just fine, but if I try to forward, and manually enter the address, forget it – reboot. I can use my contacts list to forward or send new mail just fine, but it’s the act of pressing the letter button that causes a reboot!
***resolution***
Hard reset, losing all data. But it was backed up.
How to reboot or reset Palm Treo
Well, three days with the Palm Treo 650, and this morning on the road, 20 minutes from home on a 2 hour drive, the phone started rebooting randomly.
I might have lived with it for the day, but with this phone, every time it powers on, the phone is turned off by default, (How dumb is that?) So, therefore my phone was always off. Soft reboot didn’t fix, so I went to a Verizion store, where I had to return/exchange it.
15 days came yesterday, and I just couldn’t stand it anymore and returned it.
I got the newest Treo 650 (with camera and movie function) and have returned the buggy, non-cooperative monster. There are just too many little things wrong that all add up to a frustrating experience.
I was having a lot of trouble placing the phone in the cradle. It just didn’t seem to want to go, and I was afraid of bending pins etc. I thought this was going to be a dealbreaker, but now I’ve figured out that it’s not actually a difficult procedure after all.
Well after narrowing my search down to two “close to perfect” phones I had settled on the Palm Treo 650. The other choice was the Audiovox 6600. I’ve had two months to look, since my contract was coming up with Verizon, so I’d done my research.
I have Verizon and any reception feedback or phone issues I ever mention may vary with your service.
