Hello all,
I'm new to this list but not new to Palm, having owned nearly every Palm
device ever made (except the Tungsten C and W).
My latest wonderful Palm device, the very excellent Treo 650 (unlocked GSM,
purchased from palmOne, using a T-Mobile SIM), is giving me fits. I'm
baffled; palmOne is baffled. I'm about to receive my third new Treo 650 in
3 weeks. The problem is that the clock on the first two 650's loses time
for no reason. The first one did this nearly every day. The second one
only did it a few times during the first week, but now is losing a minute or
two an hour, every hour.
palmOne had me hard reset the second one, set the date and time, and then
just let it sit for 48 hours to try to rule out a software cause for the
problem. It lost 6 minutes in 48 hours just sitting there.
The Network time thing isn't the problem - it's been unchecked form the
beginning. Due to limitations of space on the 650 (grrrrrrrr), I only
installed KeySuite, Handyshopper, KeyCaps600 and SmartList To Go on the
original one. While diagnosing the problem I fell back to just HandyShopper
(just can't stand to go to the grocery store without it). I didn't believe
that the problem was software related, and the 48 hour test with 650 #2
seems to bear that out.
I have a vague feeling that the clock slowdown is related to times when the
signal from T-Mobile isn't great. I was up at our place in the mountains
(here in sunny Colorado) which is out of cellular range. I was there for 4
hours and 650 #2 lost 2 hours during that time. Then again, during the time
650 #2 just sat there and lost 6 minutes it didn't even have a SIM card in
it. palmOne doesn't think the problem is carrier related, however. They
really didn't know what to make of this. Neither they nor I have heard of a
single other 650 doing this.
Maybe I'm just lucky? Technology doesn't seem to be my friend right now
(and I'm in that business, for cryin' out loud!), but this has me stumped.
Any thoughts, directions, etc. will be welcome!
Cheers,
Don
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