There appears to be a bug which is affecting i705s (may be an OS 4.1 bug
but so far the i705 is the only one I've seen it on).

Popup lists will close of their own volition.  This is pretty annoying!
It happens a random amount of time from the list being displayed, so it
can close as you are tapping, on occasion causing the selection of
whatever was behind the list.

This occurs in any application, including the Launcher.  It occurs when
the radio is off as well as on.
It does appear to be somewhat intermittent but I have not been able to
discern a pattern.
I have reports from two other i705 users who are seeing the same thing, so
if it is due to some 3rd party interaction, it's probably a fairly common
one.

I wrote a little event stream recorder and this is what I observed:

Every 15 seconds a keyDown event appears in the event queue.  This
coincides with the popup list closing.

Character is  0x010D
Code is 0x0000
Modifiers are 0x0008

This is a virtual key character that is normally sent before displaying an
alarm (so the header says), so I can see that it would cause popup lists
to be closed.

FYI for the Palm guys if they aren't already aware of this bug.
-- 
Don Meyer
Stormgate Communications

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