I've never heard of such a problem from a stock Palm. Chances are you have
another app or hack installed that is doing it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nesselhauf, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: How to close serial port on application startup
> The problem appears to be created when you remove the palm
> from the cradle, and place it back in the cradle when the
> palm is on the Applications screen. It seems that something
> opens the serial port. In my application I check serErrAlreadyOpen
> when I SerOpen. This condition is true and I inform the user
> that the port is open. I can't use the port for anything until
> I reset the device. How do you programatically find the driver that
> has the port open and how do you close the port down?
>
> Thanks.
>
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