Comments on: Palm Releases Treo 680 ROM Update for Cingular/AT&T

Too early for me to tell about battery life yet, but I did have the hassle of a hard reset as well. Reset loop required it.

The update was relatively painless. It's just the hard reset that makes life painful with Hotsync and Docs2Go. Make SURE that you back up your Palm PC data and use NVbackup or equivalent to backup your Treo data. The hard reset always overwhelms hotsync in my experience. I can't tell you how many times I've lost the categorys in my PIM apps over the years. With 3,500+ contacts, this can be horrific!

This time I was ready and restored everything from the SD backup. This is NOT painless, although it should be.

BTW, this absolutely positively does NOT address the terrible Bluetooth implementation on the 680. Maybe Palm will fix this disaster with the work they apparently did on the 755? Hope springs eternal.

Pat Horne

6 months for an update that appears to address all (probably to varying degrees) of the known issues. Not too shabby.

In the Spirit of Umoja,
Ronin

Pat/Tim et al;

What (in your opinion) are the most pressing outstanding Treo 680 issues? Bluetooth, of course....but what else?

I wonder when (if?) the unlocked 680 will be updated? Remember, the 650 ended its life with a wildly varying degree of ROM versions, app versions, and software updates. Certain 650s (like the Earthlink-branded one) never received a single update and others (the GSM versions especially) got a series of substantial updates.

I'd really like to see Palm stick to a uniform update strategy going forward. It's bizarre that unlocked users get the preferrential treatment one generation but then specific carriers (Cingular/AT&T) get the goods the next time around.

For the sake of my temper, I'm not even going to comment on the fact that the 680 has seen a quick "crucial" patch and now a substantial ROM update and the 700p has *YET* to see anything.

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hkklife wrote:

I wonder when (if?) the unlocked 680 will be updated?

According to the Palm blog *some* of the updates are already available for the unlocked 680 right now: http://blog.palm.com/palm/2007/05/treo_680_softwa.html

It's not clear to me whether this is a new camera/power management update or the same one they released a little while back bundled together with a few other fixes this time.

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com/blog

My post was not well rounded. I love my 680. Barring the anemic battery life, occasional lag/freeze, and the insane BT implementation. Looks like Palm / ATT are addressing everything but the BT. I'm thankful thankful thankful for anything that I get.

Still waiting to not have to toggle my BT radio 3-4 times per day tho.

** The update did stick mine in an endless reset loop, requiring hard reset. This is an absolute joy considering my 30-40 Word & Excel docs that now require "massaging" in order to get D2G out of it's "hard-reset rebellion" funk.

Just make BT work and give me 1800mah, and I'll be a really happy camper.

Pat Horne

Pat:

I haven't been following the 680 world as closely lately. What's the latest ETA on Seidio's higher capacity battery that still fits under the original battery door (ie not a "rumpshaker")?

Also, does today's update do *anything* to address the lag? I've played with a 680 a few times before and it feels much snappier than my 700p does. I'm currently testing a 755p and from what I recall the 680 felt snappier than the 700p but still not as snappy as the 755p.

I still maintain that the 680 is still the best execution of the POS Treo so far. Too bad Palm isn't likely to release something like a 685 with a rubberized coating, EDGE Evolution, a higher capacity battery, and a decent 1.3mp camera.

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