Software Update Experience - Treo Forums

kevinmg · 04-19-2006, 10:05 PM

I'd love to hear other people's experience with the updater....mine is going right now. I'll keep you all posted.

kevinmg · 04-19-2006, 10:46 PM

seems to have worked great so far....it took approximately 23 minutes for the installer to finish...then another few mintues to call *228 (option 1) to reactivate the phone.

push email seems to be working well (using 4smartphone.net)....now let's see if they fixed the memory leak problem - i sure hope so!

treythompson · 04-20-2006, 12:25 AM

Everything seems good to me so far. Used to sync only on email changes, now it's Email/Contact/Calendar/Task changes. And it's definitely instant.

I plan on using the now freely available Sprite Backup to backup my Treo, then test the Remote Wipe capabilities.

Beachbum26 · 04-20-2006, 08:30 AM

What changes need to be made to the ActiveSync options to get the push updates working?

treythompson · 04-20-2006, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Beachbum26

What changes need to be made to the ActiveSync options to get the push updates working?

I made no changes. The first time it synced on the Treo it asked me if I wanted real time updates? I said yes, modified the schedule, and it was done. I think it's controlled through the Exchange Server now as far as what's enabled. I have not tested this, but I'm betting if you disabled HTTPs (Direct Push), and left SMS enabled, it would go back to that. If you however, have HTTPs enabled, I'm guessing it will use that.

Also, I'm wondering if you aren't where HTTPs will work, if it will go to SMS. Interesting thought...

kevinmg · 04-20-2006, 08:40 AM

I'm wondering if there's something in this update that will allow IM programs to actually work consistently. This remains my single biggest gripe about this phone. A simple phone like the sidekick can have a very good IM interface for AIM and Yahoo, but a complex (and expensive) phone like the 700w doesn't handle it well at all (specificially referring to the fact that once your data connection goes dormant, you no longer receive IMs).

treythompson · 04-20-2006, 08:43 AM

Good question! I'm betting that since the data connection is maintained, and it's not listening on port 443 for the server to contact it (HTTPs), that the connection is actually open, and the IM clients should be fine.

Now, here's the kicker. The phone is updating itself with Exchange (heartbeat) to let it know what it's IP address is. I would think that the IM clients would need to be doing the same, or checking in with the servers, etc...

kevinmg · 04-20-2006, 11:47 AM

I'm going to reinstall my copy of IM+ and see if I have any better luck - I did a hard reset before the update so I could have a fresh start. I'll let you know if I have any luck.

Also, not sure if anyone else experienced this, but after the update I had to do a soft-reset in order for my headphones to work. They were working as an earpiece for the phone, but were not playing system sounds or music. Everything seems to be working as it should.

As far as memory goes...WOW! I used to hover around the 3-6MB free range with only Messaging and Active Sync open. Now I'm ranging between 8-12! All in all the phone feels a lot quicker. Cudos on the update so far

treythompson · 04-20-2006, 11:54 AM

Kevin,
Do you have Voice Command running? Since I shut that off, I've been hovering around 8-10 free, which hasn't really changed.

I've been watching the ActiveSync activity, and it does appear better...

Let me know how IM+ works out for you!

Trey

Beachbum26 · 04-20-2006, 12:12 PM

My update went fine. Deleting all those windows\temp files took a long time (4500+ files), but other than that no problems.

Direct Push seems to be working as is the Exchange GAL lookup.

Memory usage seems improved (8.98mb after a fresh reset), but the real test there is over time. My treo used to creep down from about 7mb to about 2-3 after a few days.

Hopefully the random lockups and need to soft reset will dimminish as well.