Thread: Palm user: is it time to move to the Nxxx?
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BoxOfSnoo is offline BoxOfSnoo
2008-01-28 , 13:32
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#64
Originally Posted by bblackmoor View Post
Yes.

1) It's not stable.

2) Sync does not work. It gets about halfway through and then disconnects. I gave up after a dozen tries over several days to get a hotsync to complete successfully. It never did, not once.

3) It's *tiny*. The Palm T5 screen is roughly the same size as that of the n810. The Garnet VM "screen" is roughly one-third that size, if that.

4) It does not have access to the n810 file system nor to the removable SD card.

5) There is no way to set the Hotsync ID (yes, I have tried the various suggestions in this forum: they do not work), which means there is no way to register 90% of the software that one would use to do real work.

The Garnet VM sounds great in theory. In practice: not so much.
Set your Hotsync ID on your desktop, then sync. I also tried the /usr/bin/gvm/gvm --hotsyncid="username:number" (you need the number) thing and it also works. You probably need to complete a sync before you have a HotSync ID..!

Sync is very picky but it does work. On your desktop HotSync Manager manager, disable everything you can. "Do Not Synchronize". Let it run through. Make sure you DISABLE "System" syncing, this was the biggest problem I had. It appears GVM sees Hotsync trying to overwrite the system and kills the connection abruptly, hence the "Connection lost"

Turn back on the following conduits:
- Date Book
- Address Book
- Memo Pad
- Quick Install

Does it work?

#3 looks like it will be implemented... eventually. Actually I have a theory. I wonder why Palm apps need to look like Palm apps. Aren't many of them dynamic according to the size of the Palm screen? Couldn't Access make them somewhat seamless? Replace the fonts with system fonts? Replace the DIA with the hildon input method?

#4 stinks, yes.

This is a horrible, useless beta program. You need dialogue with your users to make a true beta. This is more of a technology preview. I hope they open up a little.
 

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