A warm reset works fine on my Palm IIIx. Could a hack or system patch alter
the way a warm reset works or is it an OS only thing?
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: RE: HELP! Palm IIIx no longer supports "warm" reset?
>I tried a number of times, holding it down for
>quite a long time and it did not work.
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>Someone else has (independantly) just posted a
>similar msg to the ultraviolet mailing list. And
>I think I recall seeing one or two before I got
>a IIIx.
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>As an expirement I just tried it -- I held the
>button down and counted to 60 ... the "Palm
>Computing Platform" screen stayed there the
>entire time until I released the button. Without
>holding the button down the reset took ~7 seconds.
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>I don't have a mis-behaving app on there anymore,
>so I don't know if holding the button down for
>the count of 60 did anything other than put the
>boot procss "on hold". I'm pretty sure I held
>the up button down for at least 15 seconds yesterday
>when I was trying to do the warm reset for real.
>
>I'm not sure, but didn't the older ones go through
>the reset process -while- you held the button down?
>That way you knew you could release it when the
>prefs screen showed up. The IIIx seems to put the
>boot process "on hold" while you've got the "up"
>button pressed.
>
>--
>-Richard M. Hartman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 11:21 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: HELP! Palm IIIx no longer supports "warm" reset?
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>> It may have changed slightly, but it still works fine.
>> Hold down the 'up' key, THEN reset the device... wait a few
>> seconds, and
>> let the key up.
>> The device will finish booting, without hacks/etc...
>> The difference is that you have to hold the key down longer
>> than you did
>> with the III, I think.
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>> Jesse
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>> Richard Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/14/99 11:18:50 AM
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>> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> To: "'Piloteers'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> cc: (Jesse Donaldson/HQ/3Com)
>> Subject: HELP! Palm IIIx no longer supports "warm" reset?
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>> When you had a problem w/ reset in the Pro (even with the III
>> upgrade) due
>> to a misbehaving hack or app you could bypass it by pressing
>> the "up" key
>> during the reset. This does not seem to work with the IIIx
>> ... is there a
>> new special key to press, or is it just no way to do this anymore?
>> --
>> -Richard M. Hartman
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
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