So today I only removed the battery twice, which means Treo had a "light day". Maybe I should wrap it in a maxi-pad.
Yesterday I dropped it on the way out of the office and it hit the ground pretty hard. Of course, since every Treo 650 already comes pre-broken out of the PalmOne box, this drop had no effect on its already sub-par performance.
My favorite long term problem I've had since 2 months ago: no more RealPlayer. When you select it, the player appears on the screen but is empty and freezes the Treo completely, leaving me to remove the battery, as nothing else works to get it back online. Now we all know that out of all the media players, RealPlayer is not only the most likely to crash or screw up, but it's also the one which uses the most resources and comes with the most spyware embedded in it. (If you must have a Real product on your system, look up RealPlayer Enterprise. It's RealPlayer, but without all the extra consumer crap and spyware garbage which consipates most computers.)
So today's rundown:
-static on at least two calls - one of which I had to hang up and call back
-bluetooth connection issues - didn't want to stay connected about 4-5 different times during the day
-white screen (Treo's favorite stalling manoeuvre) reared its head 3 or 4 times at least
-a total of 4 dropped dials - calls where I selected the number, it showed on the screen as "dialing", but then just dropped before they even started ringing
Well, that's it for today! More soon - that's for sure!
(Note the name of this blog - Another "work" day with Treo. The word "work" is in quotations because I was the one doing most of the work. NOT the freakin Treo.)
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Saturday, February 3, 2007
18 months later - I still hate my Treo 650...
Hello! And welcome to my Blog.
This blog is to serve as a place for me to vent and record just a fraction of the ridiculour problems I continuously suffer as a Cingular customer, trapped in a contract, using a PalmOne Treo 650 - arguably the crappiest, most overpriced and over-rated piece of technology to have been mass-produced since the Sony Ericsson T68i. Actually, for the amount of promises not delivered, this phone beats that one hands-down.
If you have a crappy Treo 650 which has more issues than 3 seasons of Jerry Springer, feel free to comment on my blogs here.
And if you have solutions to some of the problems I have here, I kindly ask you not to waste your time sharing them with me. It's not that I wouldn't appreciate them. It's just that I am no longer willing to soak time into trying to get this phone to work properly. Cingular has been abysmally disappointing in their feeble attempts at assisting me. My last visit to the Cingular store (which I pray to GOD will be my last ever) ended with them basically telling me that I'm screwed and that I was stuck with a phone which wouldn't fully function, despite my being trapped in their crappy contract.
So I feel, after 2.8 miles worth of account notes, I am entitled to vent just a little.
BEGIN TROUBLE LOG:
3. February 2007 - Treo synchronized successfully, but reset after completion. Reset again after I tried to delete a program which seemed to cause some problems.
Treo has decided to completely wipe out hundreds of messages previously downloaded on the VersaMail e-mail client. Not sure if I'll ever recover, since a sync didn't seem to bring any of them back.
A few days ago, VersaMail messages simply disappeared from my device completely. I will attempt to log a few of the more recent problems I've had with Treo. I'd like to give it a name - maybe Damian. It needs to be really negative, though. I've called it MANY, MANY names. But if you have a suggestion, please e-mail it to me, or post to the comments!
MUCH more to come, I'm sure....
This blog is to serve as a place for me to vent and record just a fraction of the ridiculour problems I continuously suffer as a Cingular customer, trapped in a contract, using a PalmOne Treo 650 - arguably the crappiest, most overpriced and over-rated piece of technology to have been mass-produced since the Sony Ericsson T68i. Actually, for the amount of promises not delivered, this phone beats that one hands-down.
If you have a crappy Treo 650 which has more issues than 3 seasons of Jerry Springer, feel free to comment on my blogs here.
And if you have solutions to some of the problems I have here, I kindly ask you not to waste your time sharing them with me. It's not that I wouldn't appreciate them. It's just that I am no longer willing to soak time into trying to get this phone to work properly. Cingular has been abysmally disappointing in their feeble attempts at assisting me. My last visit to the Cingular store (which I pray to GOD will be my last ever) ended with them basically telling me that I'm screwed and that I was stuck with a phone which wouldn't fully function, despite my being trapped in their crappy contract.
So I feel, after 2.8 miles worth of account notes, I am entitled to vent just a little.
BEGIN TROUBLE LOG:
3. February 2007 - Treo synchronized successfully, but reset after completion. Reset again after I tried to delete a program which seemed to cause some problems.
Treo has decided to completely wipe out hundreds of messages previously downloaded on the VersaMail e-mail client. Not sure if I'll ever recover, since a sync didn't seem to bring any of them back.
A few days ago, VersaMail messages simply disappeared from my device completely. I will attempt to log a few of the more recent problems I've had with Treo. I'd like to give it a name - maybe Damian. It needs to be really negative, though. I've called it MANY, MANY names. But if you have a suggestion, please e-mail it to me, or post to the comments!
MUCH more to come, I'm sure....
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