Palm Releases Official Treo 750 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade

[jfa]

thanks for the followup. How did you get it to finally work? Please let us know.

[BeeJayEff]

Yes, I know I've left it to the last minute, but I have finally got round to downloading the update, which has resulted in a file called Treo750_2_18_VF_UK_DesktopUpdater.zip on my desktop. The download seemed to go smoothly, and the file's size is 60.4 MB, but when I open it, it appears to be empty. Of course, I cannot download it again.

Any ideas as to what's going on ?

[jfa]

When you open it there should be a file I think called results which contains the actual update that either needs to be put on an sd card and transported to the device and then do a hard reset to get the file uploaded. Get the directions on how to do that from fastlerners posting s here in the 750 forum.

[zigzagzen]

Hello everyone. I am new to the smartphone world and was just given a 50 from a freind. It was never used and it has WM5.0 on it. Palm has removed the 6.0 download. Does anyone know of a way I can get 6.0 on my phone?

Thanks,
Rich

[Terrster]

I was in the same boat myself but through alot of forum searching, I found a version for ATT branded phones 2.25 and an unbranded version 2.27. I went for the unbranded one initially as I'm using an unlocked Cingular branded phone on T-Mobile, but it wouldn't work. Kept saying it wasn't supported for some reason. So I went ahead and tried the ATT version since it was an ATT/Cingular phone originally anyway. That did the trick and I'm officially running 6.0 as of today. Here's the link to the ATT version, hopefully that'll work for you.
http://mytreo.net/downloads/treo-750...cial,1189.html

On a side note, what's the deal with 6.1? Was it officially released for the Treo 750? If so, does anyone have a link or a copy?

[zigzagzen]

I didn't get a sync cable but have one on the way. I will give this a shot when it arrives.
I am looking at the phone and it branded "Cingular" Firmware version 1.17.20


software verson
TREO750-1.13-CNG

Will that make any difference?

Thanks
Rich

Is this process pretty easy?

[Terrster]

Hi, yeah it sounds like you have the same phone as me. So this should work for you. It's pretty easy to update it. Just connect the sync cable to the phone and computer, plug in the power to the phone, open the update software and away you go, just follow the prompts and you should be fine. Whole thing took me like 15 minutes. One piece of advice, when the phone resets itself and you see a message on the computer that you need to do some things to the phone, like callibrate the pointer, etc., you have to just sit tight a few minutes while the phone loads, until you see prompts appear on the phone screen to tell you what to do. Other than that it should be a breeze.

[zigzagzen]

have you tried 6.1 ? is there a big difference?

[Terrster]

I haven't tried it yet. I've read that it's faster and has some cool improvements, but can't say for sure if it's all that. I was hoping to find a copy to try out, but unless it falls in my lap, I think I'm just gonna sit tight and see how 6.0 does for now. Anybody else out there make the switch and have any feelings one way or another? Anybody have a copy?

[zigzagzen]

Should I expect a much better experience. I am kind of a geek about this stuff. I get pretty pumped in anticipation of a new feel to the OS

I will upgrade when the cable gets here this week