Yep - believe it or not, this little Treo erased my entire address/phone book yesterday. For a few hours I had no way of sending SMS or calling people unless I remembered their phone numbers off the top of my head.
YAY for this phone. So, an hour of work and 4 or 5 resets later, I recovered it. The sync software for this phone was designed either by a 1st grader or by a team of DMV workers. It's as efficient as a Soviet nuclear reactor. The marriage of Cingular and PalmOne is like the marriage of Brittney Spears and Jason Alexander in Vegas - truly meant to last.
Are we getting the point, people?
SIX WEEKS AND COUNTING - until my sentence with Cingular is over and I can move on with my life. I can already hear the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in my head........
Friday, May 25, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
So many resets since the last entry
So on average I reset my phone twice a day - that is, I take the battery cover off, remove the battery, and then replace it to restart the phone, much like you would restart a crappy computer which becomes frozen.
I've failed to mention in my previous blogs that I have not been able to use the "RealOne player*" on the phone in about 4 months. For some reason it suddenly started refusing to work. When I open up RealOne it just freezes the entire phone. There's no playlist, no song, no menu options are selectable. Just a frozen screen. Nothing will get the phone out of this state except for removing the battery. All buttons stop responding. Not even popping out the memory card and putting it back in will bring up anything. Gotta love it.
So I guess the conclusion is that a Treo 650 with RealOne player and Cingular service is about as effective as Ray Charles trying to play tennis with a mop.
*If you use RealPlayer on your computer, here's a valuable piece of advice: REMOVE IT and do a google search for Real Player Enterprise. This is a MUCH safer, less-bloated version of the RealPlayer which will not install extra spyware, malware, or other garbage on your system. It's a basic version of RealPlayer. Another alternative: "RealAlternative" player, which can be downloaded HERE.
I've failed to mention in my previous blogs that I have not been able to use the "RealOne player*" on the phone in about 4 months. For some reason it suddenly started refusing to work. When I open up RealOne it just freezes the entire phone. There's no playlist, no song, no menu options are selectable. Just a frozen screen. Nothing will get the phone out of this state except for removing the battery. All buttons stop responding. Not even popping out the memory card and putting it back in will bring up anything. Gotta love it.
So I guess the conclusion is that a Treo 650 with RealOne player and Cingular service is about as effective as Ray Charles trying to play tennis with a mop.
*If you use RealPlayer on your computer, here's a valuable piece of advice: REMOVE IT and do a google search for Real Player Enterprise. This is a MUCH safer, less-bloated version of the RealPlayer which will not install extra spyware, malware, or other garbage on your system. It's a basic version of RealPlayer. Another alternative: "RealAlternative" player, which can be downloaded HERE.
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