> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron > Ardiri > Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 12:28 PM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Programmatic hard reset > > > > okay, I thought of a legitimate application for a program > that does a > > hard reset that would be genuinely useful: In a fleet > environment (e.g. > > the company bought 20 of them for field service work or > meter-reading of > > some kind) and something like repair orders are beamed in at the > > beginning of the day, then the results are beamed back to a > server at > > close of business. As each employee leaves the building > he/she runs the > > "Forget" program and leaves the palm device in a charging > dock. The next > > morning the dispatcher beams orders into the devices (as > memos?) before > > the field service people arrive, so all the devices are > interchangeable; > > no history to preserve. > > > > It would be just as good or better to implement a "Forget" > button in the > > application that only wiped the local pdb clean, but I can > just imagine > > losing that argument with a middle manager (sigh. think > I'll go read a > > dilbert cartoon...) > > why not just provide instructions on how to do a hard-reset? :) some > things are best NOT done in software *g* >
Or, build a little pin into the charging cradle (whereever you store the unit), so that when it placed there, the pin pushes in the reset... wah-lah. Probably cheaper to do that, than spend the programming time trying to do it by software. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
