. Synchronizing the Treo 650 through iSync: Method 1:. Despite what various sources will tell you, you might consider getting rid of and/or back-up any previous Palm-related software, library files in /Library and /Library, and other data and configuration in and /Documents. Try performing the entire installation process as an admin user, with your Treo 650 plugged into the USB port.
I believe this is most helpful for the “ Enable Palm OS Syncing” step in iSync. The first time selecting this option appears to trigger Tiger to try to install some components, and it would appear Apple forgot to check and ask for Administrator privileges. setup iSync: If you’re using Tiger, you’ll need to download the latest Palm Desktop from Palm (the one on the CD-ROM is not compatible with Tiger). Install that, then in isync find the “Enable Palm” menu option under devices, and select that. using the usb cable, sync once from isync (click sync in isync, then click hotsync on the treo). follow.
The Bluetooth aspect of Method 1 did not quite work for me. It’s worked fine for other people. So your mileage may vary. To make a long story short, HotSync Manager was unable to show me a Bluetooth-PDA-Sync- port connectivity option. I did have a Bluetooth-PDA-Sync connectivity option. Despite my monkeying in Bluetooth preferences, I couldn’t get the Treo to Sync over Bluetooth.
Method 2 saved me. Synchronizing the Treo 650 through iSync: Method 2:. It fixed all my issues, is far simpler and more elegant.
After pulling my hair like a mad man throughout tribulations of Method 1, Missing Sync was a most welcome breath of fresh air. Check out their. Note: when they mention “Internet Sharing”, they’re talking about enabling your Treo to leverage your computer’s Internet connection. I’d love to find a way to somehow pipe the Treo’s Wireless 3G data connectivity over bluetooth, to the laptop, thereby giving me “in-a-pinch” Internet access just about anywhere. Has this been done?
Either way, my Treo 650 doesn’t allow me to create a “New Connection”. I believe it is locked. I’ve started to explore the following Palm applications:.
– Free, Open-Source ssh client. Supports SSH2.
To import an RSA private key, open-up the Palm Desktop application, create a Memo entry, paste your key into it, sync the Palm. Open PSSH on the Palm, click the Menu button, select Public Keys, Click Import. Select your key from the listed Memo Pad entries. IRC client. Which other Palm apps should I be using?
Finally, I have to mention that is quite cool. EarthLink also ships a more stable mail program with the Treo 650, called “MailBox”. All Treo650s otherwise ship with a program called “VersaMail”. While toying around with it, I’ve noticed it has a nasty habit of adding a semi-colon; after each e-mail address, which is thoroughly non-compliant with the, and causes many SMTP servers to choke over emails it sends. VersaMail does have a couple of interesting advanced filtering features, which I personally find don’t make-up for its shortcoming. I would expect most companies who carry the Treo 650 offer their own mail application, be sure to ask ahead. Problems with Treo 650 2.5 mm port I am very frustrated.
I have my 3rd defective Palm Treo in 3 months. They all develop the same problem. After about a month the 2.5 mm port of the speaker phone and mp3 player become defective in a STRANGE way. It becomes the ONLY way the phone will work.
In short the phone always thinks that something is plugged into this port even when it is NOT. This mean the phone ONLY works with a head set after about a month.
If you pull the plug out the regular speaker and microphone on the phone never turn on nor can you turn on the speakerphone. I’m having my 4th Palm Treo shipped to me now but — I’m afraid it will just happen again. I DO use the plug frequently as I use the device to play music AND I plug in the headset for most calls. BUT I am not doing anything I shouldn’t do NOR am I abusing the device in any way. This is all, standard, advertised usage. Does anybody have any experience around this issue? No one at Palm claims they have ever heard of this problem before and I’ve talked to a lot of people there.
Mark I used my Treo 650’s connection to tether my Powerbook while performing relief work in New Orleans. I amazingly got Edge class speed. I use T-Mobile and have the $20/month unlimited plan. Great price point! The “phone number” in setting things up is internet2.voicestream.com. Different number if you have the lower plans.
Barkman’s home page is the place to get the modem scripts for 3G. For Treo 650’s get the Generic 3G script file.
It is a.sit file. In it will be two scripts that you copy over to /Library/Modem Scripts/. I just updated my Powerbook to Tiger this weekend and installed the scripts. On the initial pairing of my Treo650, it only paired. I went into bluetooth settings and selected my phone and clicked configure which then brought up the option of using the phone as a modem. I’m going to play with the modem port setting and see if that helps speed issues, as it doesn’t feel as speedy as when I had Panther on this laptop.
Brenda Golden I just bought a palm 650 however it upsets me that the reps who sell these phones don’t know anything about them at all. The book that comes with the package is not informative at all. I am thoroughly thankful for what you have listed on the website. It’s great information.
Perhaps you can help me with this: Versamail: i can read my mail but I cannot reply or send. I use aol and we have entered the correct service information but it still will not let me reply or send.
The second problem is how do I put my versamail in one of my favorite buttons. The reps in the stores don’t know anything! Thank you so much. Neo I know Sprint has disabled dial up networking in the Treo 650, which I’ve had about 6 months(?) made a tiny 4KB patch which revealed the “DUN Networking” in the Bluetooth menu ( it was still there but invisible). He has instructions, and lots of ways to delete ad’s & such from ROM. Anyway, we dial using the modem in OS X called SprintPCS (cool huh?) dial #777 and we get about 80 – 130 Kb/sec – which isn’t heaven, but I’m on it now.
Term for “Dial up networking” is “DUN” so, google it & find all you can imagine, Shadowmite should be in the top 10 like so: You’ll love it! Joel: Yes, I’d really love to get those links!!! I remember trying to do something similar with my sony ericsson t610, i’m also a tmobile subscriber with T-Zones Pro, and i remember OS X Panther Bluetooth assistant offering me an option to do that, but it was asking me for information I didn’t know or have, and concluded at the time that to obtain that information I’d need to actually buy T-Mobile’s GPRS computer data plan. But i’ve always had a hunch that if the t610 can do GPRS on its own, there ought to be a way to pipe this connectivity over to the powerbook. I’m wondering whether these things are easier on the Treo.
Just got a Treo 600 3 days ago. It seems to have everything you want: working phone and the pda essentials.
It ain't as pretty as my old Axim, but it's a lot more efficient with the built in keyboard, got a crappy little camera which is good for taking pictures of stuff you need to rememember (I'm a reporter with a terrible memory), and it's got an EXCELLENT navigation system that basically makes the touchscreen pointless (trust me, that's a good thing). QWERTY takes about 4 seconds to get warmed up to, the.
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I've had a Treo 650 for about 3 months now. I agree, it's a great little PDA/phone combo. The keyboard is great, in fact on a recent business trip I did all of my e-mail from the Treo and never bothered firing up the laptop. I wouldn't want to type long documents on it, but I was truly amazed at how quickly that little keyboard becomes second nature.
It's light years ahead of any handwriting recognition scheme I've ever used on a PDA. The camera is only 640x480, but the pics are good enough that I very r. I have it from sprint. It's like any other palm device, not perfect - but you learn how to work around it.
If you find the phone resetting, just remove the last stuff you installed. I sync everyday at home, and at work - so it's not a big deal for me. What I love about my treo 650 camera phone & video phone (good for caller ID, and great shots of friends boobs - I don't argue, I just enjoy) NES, GG, PCE, etc. EMULATORS mp3, avi, mpeg, divx, etc playback converter - if you have a palm, you need this app mR.
I've had mine for a couple of weeks, and I like it. I had a lot of trouble with it the first couple of days, until I weeded out all the incompatible cruft that had accumulated from all the software I had on my old Palm Tungsten T (which in turn had everything from prior Palms I've owned over the years). A few warm reboots and removed apps/patches later, it's very solid, only requiring one reset over the last week (an AvantGo sync locked it up). That, to me, is about average for a Palm nowadays, so the Treo is typical. Nytt apple wireless keyboard,norsk. Yes, it's bigger than my Sony Ericsson T637 was, but not ridiculously so.
And it's smaller than any other phone I've seen with a QWERTY keyboard. In its current version (I have the Cingular model, with the current non-updated firmware from them), there's some Bluetooth weirdness when using multiple devices with it. I mainly just use it wirelessly with my headset, so it's not a big deal right now. Battery life has been very good - a full day of use with no charging (an hour or two of phone time, and about an hour's worth of PDA use) will only take the charge down to about 80%. That's almost as good as my old phone. The speakerphone is pretty good, and even acceptable in the car.
I do wish I still had Graffiti readily available, and I'm looking forward to getting more free space after the update finally comes out from Cingular, but overall I'm very pleased. Note to Cingular users: if you buy the phone directly from Palm or a third-party without a service plan as an upgrade, you can save some money. With your old phone, add their $20/month Media Net unlimited plan, and then just move your SIM into the Treo when it arrives. You now have the exact same plan that would cost you $40 if you signed the Treo up directly.
I think it depends on what variation on the Media Works/Media Net package you have. I just have Media Net Unlimited, which includes unlimited data but caps on text and MMS (neither of which I use).
According to my plan and bill summaries, it's not an issue. But it is pretty easy to confuse the various plans when you sign up. Media Works originally had an unlimited option that had no cap on regular data usage - that was how I used my old T637 as a wireless modem on occasion (before I switched to Verizon f. The hardware.
Well, I am in awe. The software? Well, I am also in awe, but in the sense that it is the most disgusting abuse of good hardware I've ever seen in my life. Usability was not a feature the software guys cared about, it would seem. One example: Say you get a call while you are already on the line, and you take said call: There is no way to end only one of the calls. You can FLASH over, from one to the other, but you cannot 'end current call'.
Even the $%&&.$#^. POS manual says 'for your. Options - Preferences - x Remember Last Category.
Thanks - read through the manual a couple of times, didn't see it. WOuldn't swear that it isn't there, the manual is 200 some pages of mostly worthless pratter.
Also, for reference, unlike the majority of the screens, touching the top of the screen with the stylus doesn't bring down the File menu - I didn't figure anyone would make up the options - prefs thing so I took the time and managed to discover that pushing the menu button DOES bring. Besides the fact this news is 'quite' old, Palm has always sold 'unlocked' GSM T650s. This has nothing to do with Palm, and everything to do with the providers. Cingular and Sprint offered CDMA Treos at a nice discount, but intentionally crippled the DUN.
Tis why a hack was made almost a year ago. Sprint's latest firmware update also unlocks DUN. Now it's just Cingular and Verizon. MS didn't beat Palm to this, and if you had years of experience with both platforms like me, you probably wouldn't be using yo.
What they don't tell you, is that when your phone is on the data network, you can't take calls. At least, that's the case with Sprint, but I believe it's a limitation of CDMA (and possibly other) networks. It's not a huge deal, mind you, but when you're on call and your NOC expects to get ahold of you, they get pretty worried when their calls go straight to voicemail because you're at the pool using your Treo to talk on IRC. You can get voicemail notifications and text messages though, so that's good. Regarding the issue with no incoming calls while on the data network: I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that this is indeed a CDMA limitation. Could someone with a GSM 650 verify that incoming calls come through on that platform during a data connection?
Personally, I don't find it to be much of an issue since the voicemail notification still works, so if I do miss a call I can check my voicemail and call them back within a minute or two. I agree that the 650 is great. I had some severe do. I'm upgrading from a broken-down kyocera-wireless.comKyocera Smartphone to a Treo 650. For more than a year, I was in complete heaven.
I did not pay for a data plan, and got info for logging into a 3G data connection from PDA Phone Home. A net connection was billed as regular voice minutes. Couple that with unlimited nights and weekends, and I could use the Internet at will. I could hook the phone up to my laptop using the USB cable and connect at 28.8-36.6 anywhere with cell service and surf at will after 9pm. It is possible to keep your old data plan - you might want to fight to get to higher-level wireless tech support.
Treo 650 Dial-up Networking Over Bluetooth For Macbook Pro
The basic deal is they had lots of billing complaints, because it is easy to leave the network connection on with the Treo650. Therefore, it is Verizon policy to not sell any treo without a data plan. However, if you sign up for the Pay-As-You-Go data plan, you can immediately call customer service to take off that plan and add a '1xPP1' feature, which takes data out of minutes. They'll rant. I splurged on a Motorola V710 cell phone; blue tooth, MP3 player, camera, ringtones, etc. However, Telus followed Verizon's lead, and offered a crippled version of the phone. Even something as simple as sending an sound file or contacts via bluetooth wasn't possible.
Treo 650 Dial-up Networking Over Bluetooth For Macbook Pro
The cell phone providers want you to send data to the phone over.their. charging network, not over a free network (bluetooth). It is really hampering convergence, in my opinion. There are hacks for a lot of crippled platforms, but having to.
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