Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Does everybody know this?

I've only been using my Palm Tungsten C for about 18 months. In that time, I only connected it to my desktop when I needed to update software or move some documents to the Palm. Never did a hot-sync since I thought I thought the data would always be on the Palm.

Did you know that when your Palm completely drains the power, it loses everything? Yup, everything. I know, backups, backups, backups....

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A bit late to the game... Palm OS based PDAs have worked this way for soon 10 years.

Jeff Hunter said...

Yeah, yeah, but I've never run out of power.... Live and learn, I guess.

Noons said...

yeah, been like that for a while.

my (very old) palm III still loses its brains when the nimh batts go South. the problem nowadays with that one is finding a laptop that has an infrared port so that I can do the "docking" wireless: most only have that bluetooth crap and no infrared whatsoever.

One of the reasons I kept my old Asus laptop around: it works famously with both the Palm and my cellphone for updating/docking/whatever.

Andy Rivenes said...

A Palm TX does not lose data if it runs out of power. Even though Palms are now "old fashioned" (e.g. smart phones) I really like mine.