Re: Palm V failure to issue calls from sleep mode

[James]

>> For what its worth (which is probably not very much until I get a device
>> that exhibits the problem), I have a couple of ideas:
>> 1) The RTC interrupt is disabled when we go to sleep for some reason.
>
>I forget how the '328 handles the real-time-clock. Does it need an
>interrupt to keep it going, or will it continue when the processor is
>asleep? It occurs to me that if some of the RTC stuff is not being
>activated, the unit might show a constantly drifting clock (as it wouldn't
>keep time while it was asleep in this particular mode.)
>
>No guarantees, but it might be useful to keep an eye out for this
>symptom -- and obviously anything that narrows it down will help.

Hmmm.... Indeed, one of our customers did have this to say:

>I also observe another bug with my Palm V.  It
>occasionally comes up on the wrong date, typically a couple days behind.  I
>have had to reload the current date three times in the last couple of
>weeks.

For what it's worth....

- James Einolf
Little Wing Software Development