Treo 650 to 700p Problems
The move from the Treo 650 to Treo 700p has been fairly painless but has not come without problems. Here’s a list of the top three:
- Calendar sync errors.
- No Freedom Keyboard support for the 700p.
- Bible Reader crash.
It was calendar synchronization errors that were the most prominent, but were the easiest to correct. The problem looks something like this:
“The application cannot be launched because it is missing localization information.”
I did a quick Google on some key words from this error message and found out that I only needed to do the following:
- Perform a reset of the Treo 700p by pressing the power button while using the stylus to push the reset button found under the battery cover.
- Delete or move C:\Program Files\palmone\Username\backup\calendar*.*
NOTE: That means you would delete all the files beginning with word calendar from the backup files related to your user profile. - Synchronize the Treo 700p with my Palm Desktop.
The Freedom Keyboard issues were a surprise, but I am not really that heart broken. I would really like to try a different keyboard with my Treo anyway. I do love being able to blog with my Treo, but I found myself using the built in QWERTY keyboard just as much as the Freedom Keyboard. I found that my Freedom Keyboard normally stayed tucked away in my laptop bag. When remote web access was needed, I would more often use the Treo as a modem for my laptop as opposed to using the Treo with a wireless keyboard.
The Bible Reader problem still has me stumped, but it is not a show stopper for me. Admittedly, I have not spent much time on this problem. The folks over at Olive Tree software offer a Desktop Assistant program for the Bible Reader. I had problems with the Treo 650 when trying to get my custom DailyBible.pdb file to work. I have been writing a custom Daily reading Schedule based on the reading plan posted on my personal blog. I hoped that maybe my problems were related to the Treo 650. I hoped that the Treo 700p would be the answers to my custom reading schedule efforts. I was wrong. The Treo 700p actually crashed when trying to access the Daily Reading Schedule when the Extended memory was not configured. I don’t use the Bible Reader’s built in Daily Reading Schedule. I plan to email Olive Tree to see I am missing something with my test reading schedule.
