How to keep a Treo connected to the Internet?

[Benjamin Bloomfield]

Hello all,

I am wondering if there is any way to keep my Treo 650 from having to reconnect to the Internet if it has been too long since I last used it.  It's just that it's annoying to have to wait everytime our app is loaded for the device to connect to the Internet.

I tried having a timer run every 10 minutes to open the Net Library and then close it.  The problem with this was, it would still do this even if I was in the middle of doing something on the device, and it turned on the screen when it was off.

Another question I have is: why does the Palm need to reconnect if it's been too long?  Would it be bad for battery life if I kept the Internet always on like this?  Blackberrys never seems to need to perform this connection step.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.  Thanks.


-Benjamin Bloomfield
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