Comments | szasz: Grrr

szasz

Grrr

Jun 22, 2005 17:58

As of this afternoon any attempt to transmit a file from my Treo 650 to another device via Bluetooth causes the Treo to instantly perform a soft reset. I can't figure out what the hell is wrong and I have few things to try to fix it. I haven't installed anything recently, either. Grrr.

BUT, the thing has to be exchanged anyway, because even though ( Read more... )

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layer June 23 2005, 00:13:00 UTC

:(

sorry... at least they have a good return policy...

pilotgoddess June 23 2005, 05:57:44 UTC

I am glad to hear your treo is working out sooo much better than my experience with my Ipaq (piece of shit)

zarfmouse June 23 2005, 07:47:28 UTC

Do all the cool kids have Treo 650s but me these days? Ugh and Treo even has Verizon service now!

Tell me, can you use your Treo as a modem (e.g. to connect to your computer and dial #777 and get a high speed PPP connection from your cellular provider)?

aethyric June 23 2005, 12:57:46 UTC

i haven't played with this kind of stuff yet, but does this help?

http://discuss.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=88146&highlight=DUN

zarfmouse June 23 2005, 17:10:53 UTC

I did some web searching and learned stuff similar to what szasz says in his response below. Basically the treo itself has a modem interface but different cellular providers have different levels of support for it ( ... )

szasz June 23 2005, 21:45:23 UTC

If I had to guess, I would say no. The Sprint network that's used for Vision (how the Treo gets data access) is 1XRTT, and you don't pay minutes, since it's always online (once the PPP connection has been established). Some providers make you pay by the kilobyte, others have a flat monthly fee. But because there's no such thing as "just pay minutes for data" I bet the plan would not translate. But I suppose it's worth asking.

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aethyric June 23 2005, 12:54:14 UTC

odd! i read fairly frequently of that P key problem with the sprint treos, but i thought they'd fixed it on newer production runs. wonder if you got an older stock 650 somehow? *boggle*

can you transmit files through IR, or is it too slow? i'm curious now about the parts of this toy i haven't yet played with!

szasz June 23 2005, 14:51:29 UTC

Interesting, I didn't know that that was a well-known problem. Coolio, I'm not unique.

And I don't have anything to transmit via IR to... my laptop has bluetooth but no IR port. The point that annoys me is that it was fucking working FINE until, by magic, it quit yesterday.