Yup. Which is why so many questions need to be answered - to find the
common point. Are all of who are having the problem using the same
equipment? Same battery/Treo combo? Same cradle? Same software?
What's the odds of you and I having the same tower power problems at
the same time? Slim? I don't remember where you are; I'm in Gettysburg,
Pa. Would AT&T take their power down at the same time everywhere, like
an old time AM radio station?
I don't know, but I'm saving the messages to see where's the pattern.
I'm still leaning toward 4Cast. Why? because among other things,
something's bombing my computer about halfway through a Resco backup. I
come to the desk in the morning and the Treo's warmer than it ought to
be, and it's reset at least once, lost its prefs, and the backup is half
the size it ought to be. I go back to the last good backup and
everything works fine until the next day.
Resco does its thing at 3 a.m. I cut 4Cast from 3-hour refresh to
24-hour at 6 a.m., so the problem probably isn't 4Cast trying to refresh
in the middle of a backup.
I come to the Treo in the morning and it's battery is at 46%. It's
been on the cradle since midnight. I sit at my desk with the Treo
plugging into a USB port on my laptop, and it's darn near to 100% in a
few hours. (The Seidio Inno-Dock cradle also it USB powered, so the
blame does not lie with an AN adapter, and probably not with the cradle.)
Actually, I'm more suspicious of the battery, but I don't know how
many of us with problems are using the Seidio 2400.
It could be AT&T -- why does my Treo more or less regularly wake up
the screen, then go back to sleep, until the next time? I'm not getting
any calls, and no alarms are active. When it awakes, the signal is four
bars.
Oh well. Still collecting data.
Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> If the signal strength goes down, the radio power goes up, that's how
> cellular works. The more power the radio uses, the faster it draws
> down the battery.
--
/"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family
table." /
(News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th
anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
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