>That piqued my interest. I was wondering how much unused FLASH storage
>exists on the various flash-based Palm devices (all except for
>the IIIe, I surmise?), and whether or not it's prudent to utilize it.
>I read that anywhere from 512K to 2M can be FLASH ROM.
Don't forget the Visor and the m100! You should always do a unit hardware
detection routine before you fool with the flash.
>But who's to say how much space is available, and how much of
>it might be eaten up by PalmOS updates or other Palm stuff? I wonder
>what happens if you decide to put your app in FLASH, and a PalmOS
>update eats into a few hundred bytes of your app. Yuck.
I'd imagine that if the owner of the unit decided to reflash their unit
with the newest update of the OS, you'd have to have a customized .rom
anyway with your app in it if you want it to persist. You'd have to
customize the update .rom, then distribute that to your clients, if they
want to keep their software in the flash.
>Obviously not something to use if you don't fully understand
>it (hm, much like patching traps)
Nope, and too many people fool with it already, and don't understand
how limited the space is, after the PIMs and OS. Doing things like
backing up a database into the flash is great on units dedicated for
one particular task, but backing up someone's high scores from their
favorite Palm game is a bad idea, IMHO.
>Thanks for the bandwidth,
>-Jeff Ishaq
-Rus
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