What Did I Do Wrong?- New set up for 650 - Treo Forums

Kalamity · 12-12-2005, 10:18 PM

Hi,

I am incredibly new to the Treo650 and tried to run the software to do (what I thought/hoped would merge my Sony Clie SJ30) with my Treo. I was intially asked if I wanted how I wanted to do this and I believe I said to do the hotsync. That was weeks ago and then I got really sick so I've forgotten. My problem is... I assumed it would (since Treo & Clie both use Palm OS) pick up my address book and merge it to my Treo. It didn't. Can anyone offer suggestions or do I just have to enter everything into my Outlook contacts and go from there?

Thanks,
Kalamity

chris · 12-13-2005, 10:38 AM

If you're using a Clie, then I assume you're already using Palm Desktop. The first thing would be to sync the Clie to Palm Desktop. You'll want to read these directions for Upgrading a previous handheld to a Treo on Palm's site.

-Chris

Visor · 12-13-2005, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kalamity

My problem is... I assumed it would (since Treo & Clie both use Palm OS) pick up my address book and merge it to my Treo. It didn't. Can anyone offer suggestions or do I just have to enter everything into my Outlook contacts and go from there?

I went from a Clie SJ-33 to a Palm Tungsten C and all I did was a hotsync using the "Desktop replaces handheld" conduit setting and all was well.

Figured I'd do the same thing with the Treo. However, I decided to install the newer Palm desktop software first. After a couple of hotsyncs I thought things were fine but started having crashes (soft resets) like crazy. I looked at the Backup files and discovered that there were quite a few Sony specific apps in there that I installed on the Treo.

So, I did a hard reset to wipe it and, as Chris said, followed Palm instructions on upgrading. Life was good again.

Figured out a neat thing to do to preserve my sanity. I copy the Treo backups folder and name the copy "B4 Testing Backups" so I can freely test stuff, sync over and over, etc.

If I get a software collision, corruption or just a pain to delete app, all I have to do is delete the current backups folder, rename the copy, do a hard reset with the backup conduit set to "Restore from backup." Then it's all back to the way it was, no hassles.