Re: PALM 5250

[Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

>I recommend getting the leather case with the pouches, and
> putting a paper clip in one of the pouches...

Doesn't the end of the stylus unscrew to expose a reset pin?

Granted, if you need it frequently that is not convienent.  But then,
you shouldn't need to do this frequently either.

>my damn 600 reminds me of windows in the OLD days...

Then you are running buggy applications.  I write Palm OS applications
now too, and fatal alerts / soft resets are what the OS uses when it
detects applications have done something which they aren't supposed
to.  (This OS has little memory protection and real error handling,
and the fatal alerts are just the way to tell the developer during
testing they did something wrong, and the soft reset gets the dynamic
memory back to a known state.  I suppose this is the equivalent of an
escape message, except that it has to reboot to ensure integrity of
the OS structures.)

I very rarely get fatal errors now -- except during development /
testing phases of my apps.  If you get them frequently, complain to
the author / vendor of the app running at the time.  It is always the
culprit, as any program on the device may be (mis-)responding to a
"notification" sent in the background while something else runs in the
foreground.  For example, an error during a Hot Sync operation is
almost always the fault of some other program, not the Hot Sync app
itself.  But in general, if you are consistently getting errors while
running certain programs, that program has bugs.

Doug