My Treo 650 came in while I was away, and is now in my hot little hands.
Now, if only I had time to actually get it set up and operating …
(In particular, getting my Palm stuff transferred over to it — getting the phone part operating is going to be just a sim card swap from my old phone.)
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Keep us informed about how it works out for you please! I’ve been thinking about switching to a TREO for a while, and I’d like to hear your comments.
Well, Problem #1 was incompatible applications — beyond what the Palm installer blocked. At least that was my interpretation, as the phone went into an endless reboot cycle. I had to do a hard reset, and then install it as a different userid/Palm name. Which means I have to reinstall all my apps from scratch.
Rrg.
Hi Dave,
I’ve been reading your Blog for about a year or so and finally came out of hiding.
I’ve had a Treo 650 for a little over a month now and completely love it.
BUT
The lack of keyboard light control and the flashing LED really bug me.
I finally found solutions.
LEDoff at http://mytreo.net/downloads/details-241.html?LEDOff
and
Twilight at http://mytreo.net/downloads/details-739.html?Twilight
These two programs worked great for me and they’re freeware.
Anyway, good luck with your Treo and thanks for the great blog!
– Dan
Thanks for the pointers. I’ll give those a look.
So far, so good. Seems to be working well. Have the Palm functionality built back up, more or less (enforced housecleaning), and the phone seems to work well.
Haven’t delved into e-mail yet. Eek.
Biggest “problem” is that I wanted to download the same ringtone (“Kronos Revealed” from the Incredibles) onto the new phone. Surprise — I cannot seem to download any ringtones — not through inherent lack of ability to do so with the phone, but because Cingular doesn’t seem to recognize the Treo as one of its brands (aside from big ads on the front page) to that end, and none of the ringtone sites do likewise. Cingular sees me as a former AT&T customer, too, which means that they shunt me away from their “regular” site into what remains of the mMode site — which doesn’t access any of the Cingular ringtones anyway, only a pair of third-party locations — which, again, don’t see either mMode or Cingular users as having the Treo 650.
Rrg.
After spending an inordinate amount of time today with an earbud and cable, I am *so* getting a Bluetooth headset to go with this (so that I, too, can look like Lobot).
Spent an inordinate amount of time yesterday trying to come to a solution on ringtones (staying just frustrated enought to stick with it when I should have been doing something productive). No great answers — the Treo uses polyphonic MIDI files (which usually sound goofy) or WAV files (which either sound awful or else chew up massive RAM space on the main memory of the Treo). I’m playing with an evaluation of Ringo, which will let me use MP3 files as ringtones — which can be on the SD card memory, much more conveniently.
That’s actually one of my few other bitches with the Treo thus far: the main memory is only 32Mb, effectively 20-odd Mb for stuff to be installed. Put in some decent-sized apps, and it fills up almost instantly. While you can put in an SD card for relatively cheap, some of the largest aps don’t run on it properly. Rrg. Still working that one.
Better Lobot info.
There’s a freeware application manager called LinkStart that might help. It basically sets up shortcuts to load programs from the SD card and then unloads them afterwards.
http://www.hexview.com/linkstart/
I use it to load TCPMP (an open source video player) which I keep on a separate SD card with TV shows or videos.
http://mytreo.net/downloads/details-651.html?The_Core_Pocket_Media_Player
– Dan
Timing is everything
So the Phone Gods have heard about the Crackberry plan and are obviously pleased by it. And so are pushing me to get rid of my Treo 650 sooner…