Ah, interesting! I may have to try that (in Google Calendars). Thanks.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, shoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig: > > I was having similar problems with the calendar. I use Outlook and sync with > Pocket Mirror. I called the Pocket Mirror people and they told me the > problem was that the Palm looked at all the calendar entries from my whole > calendar in Outlook. I was not willing to delete older entries; they are > records that document work history. So, the other solution was to set up a > new calendar in Outlook to hold all my entries (in my case) before 2009. > This reduced the number of entries in my main calendar and speeded up the > calendar on the Pre significantly. If I need to access one of the old > records, I just go into the archive in Outlook. > I agree that 1.3.5.1 speeded up the calendar on Pre by a good bit, but it's > still not as speedy as other platforms. I'd love it to be even more peppy. > > -shoe- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig > Froehle > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Treo] Pre calendar is S L O W > > I never used DateBk and my Calendar is often very sluggish. Of > course, when I imported my old Palm calendar into Google, I had > ~12,000 events over 13 years, so that may be part of my problem. Palm > is aware of this; one tech said this was his most common source of > calls. As Don pointed out, 1.3.5.1 helped quite a bit, and I think > Palm is still looking to improve performance. > > One thing you have to realize is that the webOS Calendar is programmed > to go out and check your online sources each time you change days just > to make sure it is showing you the latest data. My feedback to Palm > was that's stupid if it causes such delays (some of my days take 8-12 > seconds to display before I can flip to the next day) and that they > should give me the option of syncing every so often (like email) and > me being able to initiate a manual sync in case I want to make sure. > Since I'm the only person managing my calendar, I don't need the Pre > to go fetch new daily details every time...manual + regular syncs in > the background would be perfectly adequate for me. > > As you can tell, this is a beef of mine; without a fast, responsive > Calendar, the Pre is just a toy to me. > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Robert Weiss Jr <[email protected]> wrote: >> I had this problem with very sluggish operations and it was definitely >> DateBk related. I think I did a clean reinstall of DateBk to solve it. >> >> Bob >> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:03 PM, George Kontos > <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> OK, I did this scientifically and took precise measurements. Most of my >>> calendar events open in 1 - 2 seconds. Events that have repeats or alarm >>> take longer to open, 3 - 4 seconds. One specific problematic one (repeats >>> weekdays + alarm) took between 9 - 12 seconds to open. (Note that by > "open" >>> I mean open the dialogu box and fully populate all the fields so you can >>> edit them. All my events *start* to open instantly, but it can take up to >>> 12 seconds for all the data in the fields to appear.) >>> >>> Solution: I had two events that were really slow-to-open. I deleted them >>> and re-created them from scratch on the Pre. Now they open in 1 - 2 >>> seconds. I noticed the problematic ones are all carry-overs from my old >>> Treo 700p running DateBk6. DateBk6 always inserted embedded/hidden codes > in >>> the notes section of calendar events. Maybe that's what was hosing some > of >>> my events. >>> >>> George >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Don Ferguson >>> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:15 PM >>> To: Treo List Yahoo >>> Subject: RE: [Treo] Pre calendar is S L O W >>> >>> Nope, that's not normal. Not even close to that much time. Calendar isn't >>> as fast as it should be, but it's much faster with 1.3.5.1 than > previously. >>> 10 seconds to open a calendar entry is a problem. On mine it takes a > split >>> second. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Don >>> >>> From: George Kontos >>> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:14 AM >>> To: Treo List Yahoo >>> Subject: [Treo] Pre calendar is S L O W >>> >>> Have you guys noticed this? >>> >>> When I open an event from the calendar, it sometimes takes about 10 > seconds >>> or more for the event details to fully load. And sometimes when I go to >>> delete an event, when I hit the delete button, the calendar hangs/freezes >>> right there at the drop down menu, and won't recover. I have to swipe > away >>> the app and start over. Today I realized this was happening when I hit > the >>> delete button too quickly, BEFORE the event details have fully loaded. If > I >>> wait patiently and then hit delete, it doesn't freeze up. >>> >>> George >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Robert L Weiss Jr. >> Director of Music >> 1st United Methodist Carbondale >> Professor Emeritus, SIUC >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
