Cranial Dump

Wow, time truly does fly… I can’t believe my last entry was two weeks ago. Since then, I’ve been trying to revive my TX while relying on Outlook and paper for time management. I really only miss two things: having a shopping list on my PDA and having alarms remind me about appointments and some tasks.

I did four hard resets, multiple soft resets and a few warm resets since the battery was only lasting an hour and the charge never showed that it was at less than 100% power.  Warm resets address power meter/battery screw-ups, but I didn’t realize that I had to do a soft reset after a warm reset or my TX would not communicate with my laptop.  I would plug the USB cable into my TX after a warm reset and XP would only acknowledge the device with an annoying two-tone sound every 30 seconds or so.  And, the Hotsync Mangler…I mean, Manager would not open on my laptop.

Fun, fun, fun.

Some how, the stars finally went into the proper alignment for me to get the TX battery to behave again.  One of my third party apps was conflicting with the OS on my device, or so it seems, so I renamed my Palm backup folder (you can find yours under C:\program files\palm\your_hotsync_name\Backup) so that I would not be reinstalling any apps or preferences.  Then I uninstalled Palm desktop, restarted the laptop and reinstalled Palm desktop.  I installed the DST update and security patch for the TX, synced and restarted the laptop again.  I synced with the old data in the Palm Desktop software and after two days of using it enough to see that the battery was behaving, installed the Outlook 2007 conduits and synced with my Outlook data.  So far, the TX is behaving well.

The next step will be to install Chapura KeySuite, the priciest Palm software I own - but it syncs flawlessly with Outlook and provides functionality missing in Palm’s calendar and task apps, like having multiple calendars and task folders, and multiple categories from Outlook.  My TX was crashing after KeySuite alarms before I started on my Journey of Multiple Resets two weeks ago, but it’s unlikely that KeySuite was the problem.   Agendus did the same thing on my TX, and it all started after installing Agendus for Outlook.

Will I mess with installing KeySuite today?  Nope.   I am up to my eyebrows in work so I’ll save that potential distraction for another day.

Tags: agendus, keysuite, outlook, palm, palm pda

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