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To: carranza2 who wrote (18687)	3/10/2002 11:06:09 PM
From: S100	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Uh oh, trouble in paradise? XP not quite compatible with the palm S/W? My 6035 came with a wall wart, a cradle and several CDs (two, I think). The cradle has a cable, which provides a connection to a serial port, a place to charge a spare battery, a connector for the cable from the wall wart for charging the phone or spare battery, a stylus and a button used to start the sync sequence. The instructions for the S/W, which is standard Palm S/W, tell you when to place the phone in the cradle so it can be detected. Also, the serial port can not be shared with any other function. The phone is NEVER detected and I installed it first on my main computer, a rather flaky fast one running Win2000. After some time and some restarts, I gave up since it did not seem to work and tried it on a very stable WinME box, a Win98 and then a second Win2000 box over several days. No luck on any of them so put the cradle back on my main one and left the phone to charge. Several days later it seemed to sync, never could figure out why but the S/W is what I would call "brittle code" with little error checking or ability to adapt to conditions. It is standard Palm S/W. I have decided that XP offers nothing that I need or want and contrary to some, I feel the best OS when new was Win95. I bought my copy at midnight when it first went on sale in hopes that it would be able to handle networking. I had been setting up network cards and Novell TCP/IP stack for Win3.x which was a long and tedious process. Win95 handled all of the networking "out of the box" with no tweaks and was even able to connect to a Shiva modem, which under DOS, took multiple disks of drivers. Yes, I still have one box running 95, quite well, thank you. BTW, a 6035 is on sale at the Sprint display at Best Buy for $95. Just tried to hot sync, it always seemed to work with no problem after the initial setup but this time it would not sync but gave a port busy error on the phone display. After much checking and finding nothing using the serial ports in the computer, I pressed the button on the cradle several times and the phone quit with a "fatal exception" and I had to remove the battery to restart it. Hot synced fine after that but perhaps the S/W in the phone is "brittle" also. I would guess that it is Palm S/W in the phone as well as the program on the computer. The salesman who sold me the 6035 said he and his wife both used Palm computers, his wife would hot sync in the morning and take all of his email with her since it was loaded on her Palm during the hot sync and removed from the computer. BTW, removing the battery deletes all stored data, perhaps a hardcopy of your phone numbers would be a good idea if you travel and plan to swap batteries.