troubleshooting Palm Desktop

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Craigwd_2000 Author

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troubleshooting Palm Desktop

I have a '12 PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz with Super Drive running 10.5.5. I have a Palm Tungsten E which I use for its PIM functionality & to play games on. I also have a 20 GB Third Generation iPod & 4 GB Second Generation iPod Nano (my dad upgraded my Third Generation iPod from 10 GBs to 20 GBs so it's not a factory configuration but the warranty is already void anyways). I also have a Motorola e815 that has built-in Bluetooth.

My problem comes when I try to sync my cell phone, '12 PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz & Palm Tungsten E all at the same time: it seems that my install of Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Revision D keeps getting corrupted & I'm getting sick & tired of having to constantly re-install Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Revision D. I tried the version of Palm Desktop that shipped with my Palm Tungsten E on its software CD-ROM but it seems that all versions of Palm Desktop I've tried including the Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Revision A which is linked to on Palm's Tungsten E support page all have Leopard compatibility issues. I would just put 10.4.11 back on my '12 PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz since it shipped with a bundled copy of 10.4 but if I do that I'll lose access to my 320 GB OWC Neptune FireWire Time Machine backup volume.

Refurbished PowerBook G4 "12 1.5 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 1.25 GBs of RAM

Posted on Dec 10, 2008 4:55 AM

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Craigwd_2000 Author

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Jan 2, 2009 1:23 PM in response to Craigwd_2000

I would like to ask a moderator to please move this post to the Bluetooth, USB, FireWire, RAM (PowerBook G4 12-inch)forum please. I think my topic may get more replies there too.

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eww

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Jan 2, 2009 6:24 PM in response to Craigwd_2000

Hi, Craig. I suspect your post hasn't drawn any responses because of its complexity. I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be possible to sync three devices at once, but it certainly isn't something I'd try. I can't imagine how it would work, in moment-by-moment detail. And if you're right that no version of Palm Desktop interfaces properly with Leopard yet (still, after a full year of Leopard?), all the more reason not to try to sync the Palm at the same time as anything else, if at all.

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Craigwd_2000 Author

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Jan 3, 2009 6:37 AM in response to eww

Yes: I think I'll try just syncing the Palm Tungsten E separately: actually in 10.4 & 10.5 iPods now sync calendars & to-do items via iTunes 8.0.2. In 10.3 & earlier versions of Mac OS X you could add a Third Generation iPod to iSync 1.5 & sync it that way instead.

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Craigwd_2000 Author

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Jan 3, 2009 12:05 PM in response to Craigwd_2000

Update: I have just tried syncing only my Palm Tungsten E & not my Motorola e815 Bluetooth phone with my Mac. Anyways it would have worked except iSync issued an error message stating that it prefers to sync my Palm Tungsten E & Bluetooth Motorola e815 at the same time (technically it worked anyways but the error message must be a bad sign too).

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eww

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Jan 3, 2009 1:54 PM in response to Craigwd_2000

I'm not an iSync user so I don't know, but is it possible that that message appeared only because iSync "remembered" having tried to sync everything at once in the past?

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Craigwd_2000 Author

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Jan 3, 2009 4:08 PM in response to eww

I agree that Palm transistioning from Palm OS 4.1 to Palm OS 5 has been quite problematic for me. For starters not all of my games were compatible with Palm OS 5 mainly because Palm OS 4.1 & earlier versions of the OS ran on m68k hardware like Apple's older 68k Mac whereas Palm OS 5 has a m68k emulator built into it since it runs off or ARM hardware. The main issue is that the emulation isn't perfect & some software designed for Palm OS 4.1 & earlier is completely incompatible with Palm OS 5.

On top of all that Xerox won their patent lawsuit against Palm claiming that the Graffiti hand-writing recognition technology present in Palm OS 4.1 & earlier infringed upon Xerox patents for their own hand-writing recognition technology. As such I've been forced to re-learn Graffiti since Palm was forced to use Graffiti 2 in Palm OS 5 due to losing their lawsuit against Xerox. Yes: Palm Desktop is still stagnantly stuck at v. 4.2.1 Revision D which was released back in the Tiger days.

That's why people have been forced to constantly uninstall and re-install the old Tiger compatible but yet Leopoard incompatible version of Palm Desktop.

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