TreoSpot, Location Based Profile App

Just out of curiosity, what CDMA dumbphone did you have tethered to your TX? Were you actually tethering your TX and getting online with it or were you just doing OBEX-type stuff (contact & photo transfer, number dialing etc)?

Historically, *VERY* few CDMA handsets worked with the TX or LifeDrive due to Palm intentionally crippling those final two PDAs to not work with CDMA BT phones (in order to sell more Treos, naturally). And since Palm stopped updating the PhoneLink Update software, none of the newer GSM handsets were officially supported either.

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p

Just out of curiosity, what CDMA dumbphone did you have tethered to your TX? Were you actually tethering your TX and getting online with it or were you just doing OBEX-type stuff (contact & photo transfer, number dialing etc)?

It was a Kyocera K323. I guess I should have been more clear that I tried only the OBEX-type stuff. I simply wanted to dial contacts from my address book, keep tabs on signal & battery strength, etc and did some research as to what was available. I mentioned it only because of this thread about the use of the Tower ID (which I didn't see as useful at the time).

I didn't try tethering because I didn't see the need for getting online with it at the time, since about 90% of the places I'm at have free wi-fi access and one of the places even re-enabled 802.11b just for my TX after their upgrade.

Since I'm trying to be clear, I didn't actually write the code. I researched what was available (a basic sample app) and whether I could actually get the functionality that I was looking for. The sample app showed me that if I had the right AT commands (which I knew very little about before hand), I could retrieve signal strength, tower ID (seemed irrelevant at the time), battery status and a few other things that I do not recall from a couple of years ago. I even downloaded the FrankenGarnet SDK a couple of times, but never got around to installing it.

I was, however, defeated by my contract (that I signed a long time ago) giving my employer ownership of any code that I write even when off-duty. Given that FrankenGarnet is practically dead, I don't forsee myself ever writing it. Also staring at a computer screen all day doesn't help either. I wish I could go back in time and leave programming as a hobby.

Anyway, time for a few cervezas.