On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:37:11PM -0500, Philip D. Wasson wrote:
> I suppose this seems more of a customer support issue than developer
> support, but as our app is expected to require Palm OS 3.5, it affects
> development too.
> I've read recently that applying the Palm OS 3.5 upgrade can render a Palm
> device unusable;
Only if it is interrupted - charged batteries and a clean windows
system without apps that might crash windows help.
Even if it is, you can likely recover it by resetting and holding the
page down button (which shoudl display a flashing square in the UL
corner), then just use the Advanced section of the wizard (which
explains this technique).
> allegedly writing to the flash ROM more than once will damage it.
The above is FALSE. It is possible to damage it, but not easily, nor
with the upgrade utility.
> Does anyone know any more about this issue? Perhaps it's a
> misunderstanding, or only applies to a small batch of defective Palm
> devices, etc. I hope that's the case.
I've reflashed 20-30 times or more. No problems, but I think I had
one failure that I had to redo as noted above.
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