A weekly posting informing people of the location of the FAQ/Knowledge Base
might be useful.
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186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
Nesse, Rustin wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
There is no FAQ for this group, like read the FAQ
It won't take 3 months. The memory can get trashed in as little as 2
minutes without batteries. After that, you can kiss anything not in ROM
goodbye.
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A weekly posting informing people of the location of the FAQ/Knowledge Base
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Nesse, Rustin wrote in message 18210@palm-dev-forum...
There is no FAQ for this group, like read the FAQ
"Richard Hartman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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A weekly posting informing people of the location of the FAQ/Knowledge
Base
might be useful.
Posting do go up here letting people know about new knowledge base entries
on a regular basis... rather than a special
What happens if the Palm completely loses power (no batteries at all)?
(Like if it was left on a shelf for 3 monthes without the AAA batteries).
Obviously it will loose the records for the applications but will it lose
third party applications as well?
I think apps will be lost (other than
: Johnson, Aaron B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 10:47 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Question about Palm Apps
What happens if the Palm completely loses power (no batteries
at all)?
(Like if it was left on a shelf for 3 monthes without the AAA
batteries
It won't take 3 months. The memory can get trashed in as little as 2
minutes without batteries. After that, you can kiss anything not in ROM
goodbye.
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Rustin
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 2:23 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: RE: Question about Palm Apps
Yes. Check out www.trgpro.com .
If the Palm's batteries are dead, there's no current to
be able to preserve the state of the Flash RAM, so your apps
get hosed
.
(I think there are some online on either PalmOS.com or Motorola, it's
been awhile since I looked)
-Rus
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From: Richard Sloan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:51 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: RE: Question about Palm Apps
Well I do not know
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
Yes. Check out www.trgpro.com .
If the Palm's batteries are dead, there's no current to
be able to preserve the state of the Flash RAM, so your apps
get hosed. Otherwise, the Flash ROM is preserved and your
preferences are set back to the factory
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From: Brian Mathis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:59 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: RE: Question about Palm Apps
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
Yes. Check out www.trgpro.com .
If the Palm's batteries are dead, there's no current to
be able
Sorry, I got into the habit of calling it Flash...I believe others
had referred to it as such awhile back (which is why I don't know
why some people had called it that, besides getting the Flash RAM and
Dang it Brian, now I'm all befuddled. It became an annoying habit to call
ALL Palm ram
Okay, here's my absolute LAST post on this annoying
and inane subject.
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/hardware/compare.html
ROM comes in two flavors, Flashable ROM and Mask ROM.
Brian is now content. =)
-Rus
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
[..]
The confusion, I think, arises from the capability of computers and some
other electronic devices to have software executable "ROM" updates. People
begin to get these confused with the capability to update Flash memory, and
thus, it becomes
updates" are really updating Flash RAM (or possibly an EEPROM?).
I believe they may be EEPROMs, one of our repair guys and I took apart
an out of warranty Symbol SPT 1500, and I think I saw some EEPROMs
in there.
They just call it ROM so people don't confuse it with real useable RAM on a
I believe they may be EEPROMs, one of our repair guys and I took apart
an out of warranty Symbol SPT 1500, and I think I saw some EEPROMs
in there.
I just checked one, and I didn't see any this time. Must have been drinking
too much coffee last time. =)
-Rus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nesse,
Rustin
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 4:38 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: RE: Question about Palm Apps
updates" are r
There is no FAQ for this group, like read the FAQ first, then ask!
Yeah, there is, but lots of people don't read the list or knowledge base
first. I think some people just impulsively ask...unless their net server
blocks urls, or the Knowledge Base is down. Since the memory structure
and the
Developer Forum
Subject: RE: Question about Palm Apps
There is no FAQ for this group, like read the FAQ first, then ask!
Yeah, there is, but lots of people don't read the list or knowledge base
first. I think some people just impulsively ask...unless their net server
blocks urls, or the Knowledge Base
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