Cloudy Thinking

My Palm Treo 700p requires a hard reset a few times a week. I’ve become expert at slipping off the back cover, then removing and reinserting the battery.

Mostly I like by Treo 700p (although I still need to convince Palm to send me a replacement cover for the antenna). It’s an OK phone, with a decent contact database, currently holding 1,442 records.

ChatterEmail is a great IMAP-based mail client that syncs effortlessly with my corporate email account.

I’d like to find a stronger instant message application, but I get by with IM+.

Using the web is semi-painful, mainly because my Verizon 1X-RTT service here in Santa Barbara is so-so. We are not yet blessed with faster EV-DO higher speed data service. Even so, I can do quick stock price check, or scan headlines while waiting to be served in a restaurant.

If I can figure out how to run my Palm Treo 700p reliably without needing these fairly frequent hard resets, I’ll be one happy camper.

Before you write to inform me I need to strip my Treo 700p down to bare metal and reinstall everything, let me say this about that. Until it gets a lot worse, that painful cure is far worse than this (hard reset) disease.

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