On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Jeff Ishaq wrote:
[...]
> 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.
Most Palm devices that have flash have 2Megs of it. The OS is around
1.2M, up to 1.5M, so that leaves you with 500-800K of free flash. There
are 3rd party upgrades to bring a device up to 4M, but you really don't
need it. As PalmOS gets bigger and more feature-ful, it will obviously
get bigger, leaving you less free 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.
*You* (developer) don't decide to put your app in flash, a *user* with the
necessary tools (flashpro) decides to do it. PalmOS updates don't eat
into flash. They reside in memory like everything else. An OS upgrade,
however, completely wipes out the flash. Anything you had in there goes
bye-bye. After you reflash your OS, you need to re-install flashpro and
reformat the free flash.
[...]
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Brian Mathis
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