Verizon Treo 700p MR Update Now Available

Always someone who shorted the stock trying to spin a negative side to the updates.

I did the update last night after reading about it here at PIC. I had some problems though that I suspect are related to my third party applications I have installed. I did the update with the following steps

0) Backed up via NVBackup and Hotsync
1) Hard Reset my Treo
2) Cleared my memory card
3) Copied the extracted contents of their ZIP onto the memory card
4) Plugged in my Treo to the AC Adapter
5) Inserted Memory Card

The updated went through fine, and everything was ok until I did a Hotsync to restore my data. After it hotsynced, it reset, and went into an endless reset loop. The difference with this loop was that it would pause at the screen that asked me if I wanted to turn the phone on. It would hang there for a couple of seconds, and then reboot again.

I performed a warm reset, and it was fine. I thought it might be ChatterEmail, so I deleted it but it still did the resetting thing. I decided to give NVBackup's restore a try. I hard reset the device and restored it using NVBackup's restore functionality. It worked like a charm and now I have a fully functioning Treo like I had before. As someone mentioned already, the Verizon Wireless label on the upper left hand side of the phone app is gone. Other than that, it seems pretty stable. Opera Mini still hangs occasionally. Haven't tested the bluetooth out with my car yet, which seemed to crash my phone before.

These are the Possible Third Part App Conflicts with the update? Someone would have to confirm.
LauncherX
DialByPhoto
ChatterEmail

I heard that doing a *228 would restore the Verizon logo. I have not done the update yet.

I have launcher X, Chattermail, and Dialbyphoto on mine and they work fine with the update.

I followed the "Verizon Treo 700p Update" for the Mac OS X directions very carefully, and the only step missing is to call *228 after everything is done to re-register the phone to the Verizon network.

For some of us, I recommend making sure your conduit settings are set to make a full back up onto the computer.

Good Luck

Fraumann

DON'T do it DON'T do it DON'T do it DON'T do it, there's a problem going from your phone application then to the web application or email application or anything that uses web access. I have three 700p's from verizon to fix the problem, I spoke to someone at the verizon tech support and stated there is in fact a problem they are working wtih Palm to fix. I wish you can go back the the original ROM, there's no way. Probably why 755p is not avail for Verizon. I am really trying to stick with the TREO Palm OS, but Blackberry is looking better and better. Hurry up and fix the fix or goodbye Palm forever

Did you do the update via SD card or Hotsync?

I did via desktop. Texting has definetly improved as well as switching apps. Blazer seems to be more stable as well.

I guess I should have said Hotsync.

The only issue I'm having with my Alltel 700p is that the applications load slower than my T3, but seem to run fine once they start. Is that issue fixed on the Sprint/Verizon update? Exactly what issues are other folks having on Alltel's 700p?

The usual: It has trouble pairing, it won't stay paired, sometimes the Bluetooth radio won't even stay on. If cellular service is borderline, it causes LONG freezes. It reboots unexpectedly, sometimes in response to incoming phone calls. Palm HAD to know about these issues before releasing this device.

first issue:

connects to my plantronics voyager 510 instantly, but does not release after call is done for 5 minutes. I can see my battery draining to nothing in no time. I have not tried my tomtom yet, im really concerned about that connection after the headset experience.

stay tuned

Network connections seem to be problematic - I get a lot of Network Timeouts and others have reported that 1x connections are real flaky, but EVDO seems to be working.

Alll in all, I'd avoid it until Palm resolves these issues.

What's EAS?

Exchange Active Sync. It's as close as the Verizon 700p's version of VersaMail is going to get to the updated on on the Sprint 700p and 755p.

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

I, too, spent hours on the phone with Palm. It might be nice if they put just a little blurb on the download page. Something subtle, to the effect of "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS UPDATE IF YOU NEED YOUR CALENDAR!"

This isn't a minor glitch. It's not like these are small, isolated complaints. The only thing I can think is that not many people use Exchange ActiveSync. As for me, I'm out of the office for the next two weeks at client sites. I need to be able to edit my calendar from the road. It's the primary way I let my boss know where I'm at. The same goes for everyone in my department.

Arthur

Palm Pilot 1000 > Palm Pilot Professional > Palm III > Palm M100 > Sony Clié PEG-T415 > Palm T|T3 > Samsung SCH-i730 > Palm 700p

Just came across a fix here for all interested:

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=147841

Arthur

Palm Pilot 1000 > Palm Pilot Professional > Palm III > Palm M100 > Sony Clié PEG-T415 > Palm T|T3 > Samsung SCH-i730 > Palm 700p

I thought that I would get ambisious 3 days ago and download the upgrade ver. 1.10 from the Palm website to my Verizon 700p.

I follow the download instructions to the "T". In those instructions it states that the phone will go through a series of resets. About 30 mins into the download the phone did start to reset. One reset after another. 1 hour had passed and still resetting over and over. I had to go to sleep but kept the download process going. I would wake up occasionally to look at the phone and found that it was still resetting...an endless loop. 5 hrs later I woke up and looked at the progress of the download, the phone was still resetting. I have no choice at this point but to disconnect the sync cable...still resetting. I first tried a soft reset, no effect.
I next attempted a hard reset, no effect. Still and endless loop of resets.

Next day I phoned Verizon and explained the problem. The first and only CSR that I spoke to that day said that they are aware of the problem and Verizon is sending many, many replacement phones to its costumers because of the problems with ver 1.10.

She said because my phone was not in warrantee any longer there would be a $50 replacement charge. Initially I balked at that by stating that I should not be held financially responsible due to the fact that the download was at fault. I asked her if I had a brand new 700p and took it home that same day and attempted to download this 1.10 version and the same thing happened what they do. She said they would replace the phone free as it’s under warrantee. I told her that did not make sense to me. But we left it like that and ended the conversation on a friendly basis.

Today I contacted Verizon again (national customer phone number) and spoke to a great supervisor in the Phoenix office. As he looked over the case number and information from my first call, I told him of my concern in paying the $50 replacement fee. End result is that he agreed to waive the $50 fee and the next day shipping costs. Although the replacement phone will be a refurbished unit.

I would not recommend that anyone attempt this download of version 1.10.

See this (and the rest of the threads on that site found by searching for "touch tone":

-- http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=144642&highlight=touch+tone

Now I get to look foward to a Refurbished 700P....at least it will be updated!

Try resetting it while pressing the D-pad "up".

Tried everything...Palm techs and Verizon tech's had no solution. Got my new/refurb 700P, should of left it alone.

I tried *228 and and got the prl update and others. Seems to be working fine now.

dial it with speaker on and select option 1

DON'T do it DON'T do it DON'T do it DON'T do it, there's a problem going from your phone application then to the web application or email application or anything that uses web access. I have three 700p's from verizon to fix the problem, I spoke to someone at the verizon tech support and stated there is in fact a problem they are working wtih Palm to fix. I wish you can go back the the original ROM, there's no way. Probably why 755p is not avail for Verizon. I am really trying to stick with the TREO Palm OS, but Blackberry is looking better and better. Hurry up and fix the fix or goodbye Palm forever

Same problem here. I have to go to network settings and hit connect about 3 times to get it to work

Since web sites are transient, here's what the PALM site says (as linked by the TreoCentral site linked above!)"

== "Verizon Treo 700p Update 1.10
== July 12, 2007
==
== We have taken down the Verizon Wireless Treo 700p and
== 700w/wx updaters as a result of increasing customer reports
== of network connectivity issues following the updates. We
== are currently investigating the issue and will re-post as
== soon as they become available.
==
== The reported error displays "Error 3000 - Data network is
== not available" when attempting to connect to the data
== network. This error does not affect your device or personal
== data in any other way. Thank you for your patience."