Palm would have to sell at least half a million or perhaps more LifeDrives in order to get special treatment like that. I am now on my second unit, thinking that the first one had a battery problem with its black-outs. Actually, in my daily trouble-shooting exercises, I have discovered that the new updated OS is very unfriendly to third-party software.
My trusty Tungsten 3 had more than a dozen programs running happily. It cannot write to my SD card, or move files either. The only thing working satisfactorily is the beautiful Vaja case I ordered in advance!
I was excited to have a new Palm with Wi-Fi, but am so embattled with this misbehaving PDA, and can only now consider whether I should jump ship completely and defect to the PC. I too am a long time Palm user. My original Pilot was one of the first on the street. I remember exchanging tech support e-mails with the founders. I have the same double button press issue as others have reported. Also does anyone have an e-mail program that they find superior to the Versamail that comes installed?
Much too common of a word. What is this app and where can it be found? Look at enteract. Wifi access on this device is excellent. I enjoy the screen, and pocket tunes. I then slipped a paper clip inside the leather hinge inside the slot to hold in place. It looks quite nice with perhaps 1 or 2 mm exposed on the top center. I have had the TX for a few weeks now after upgrading from a Tungsten E which was a temporary replacement for a Tungsten T3 that died on me. So far it has been a great handheld; good battery life esp.
I do experience the issue with having to press a navigation button twice before the device responds. Also, there was a graffiti lag between writing it in the graffiti area and when it would show up on the screen, but this disappeared once graffiti 1 was installed. Also miss the vibrating alarm feature and cradle. There may be some available through Office Depot. Amazon had at least one new one for sale. I have a Tungsten C, but will probably get a T X soon. I think that I damaged the power management circuit in the Tungsten C long story.
The charging light stays on, even when the PDA is not being charged, until the battery is rather low. It would always crash when I tried to type in an URL. They essentially denied that it could possibly happen. I have never owned one, and am considering the Palm TX.
After reading the review, it sounds like it would suit me well. I need an organizer, but also would love to have WiFi access for road trips I have two scheduled in the next few months — a Southeastern states tour, and also a visit to Utah.
Where would one go to replace the battery, if that should ever be necessary? A bricks and mortar store? Thanks for this site. The need for a replaceable battery is two-folded. The other is if the battery ever dies completely. Batteries fail. If you need to replace the battery, you could buy one online, crack open the unit and do it yourself it will be out of warranty by the time it needs a new one , or ship it off to Palm and pay about 2x the price, or ship it to many other pda repair places.
The rates are fairly reasonable. Julie, I would have to agree that the T5 and TX are an unfair upgrade. I did the same thing. Have also tried commercially available software fail to recall name that emulates drive mode into TX … no good.
Yes a wonderful replacement can be installed and noticed a reference to it within this forum. So lets get back to comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges. Now, what is simular in capability to the TX. But the wife has the T5 now … and may have the TX in the future. The device was a terrible disappointment. The alarm function was completely unreliable. Alarms set on the calendar would work for a few days and then stop working.
The PDA required what is termed a hard reset in order for the alarms to function again. A hard reset is a time consuming operation. It takes about an hour to completely back up and restore the files deleted by a hard reset. I had never owned any type of PDA before, But I naively believed that a simple reliable alarm clock and audible appointment notifier would be included in the programs.
I was wrong. The Axim x51v originally accepted voice recordings for calendar appointments, but that function also stopped working correctly. After a few days, whenever I tried to record for the calendar appointment, the PDA would switch to the notebook program and put the recording in the wrong place. There is an option in the notebook program to force the recording to stay in an existing program, but that option no longer worked. The folks at Dell repeated the mantra of soft reset, hard reset, and reinstallation of Outlook and the Sync program.
Doing such did not permanently fix either the alarm or recording problems. They continued to randomly recur. I returned the Axim 51v to Costco after trying to get it to work for three weeks.
I consider the reminder programs the most important on a PDA and the only reason one would purchase the device.. The first thing that I noticed is that the TX came with no case at all, only a flimsy little flip cover.
The x51 came with a pretty poor cloth sack that offered no protection for the top of the unit, but it did protect the rest of the unit from dust and abrasion. I would say that a decent case is a necessary requirement for both units. The Palm stylus is much nicer as the Gadgeteer reviewer noted. The case appeared to be well constructed on both units, and they both look nice. The X51 had several features lacking on the TX.
The x51 will accept flash cards as well as SD cards. The Axim X51 has a replaceable battery. The TX cannot use extra batteries because the battery is not user replaceable. As a side note, many vendors on the Internet offer replacement batteries for the TX so that one can replace the battery if it fails after the warranty has expired. The replacement battery comes in a kit with instructions and the Torque drivers necessary to disassemble the TX.
After initially testing the Palm alarms for a few days, I decided that the TX was a keeper. The notification system was easy to use and it worked flawlessly. The TX so far has never had any problems whatsoever and that feat has occurred despite an inexperienced user entering data and playing with the programs.
In the first week that I had the Axim, I found it necessary to perform three hard resets and about six soft resets because of crashes in the Windows Mobile 5 operating system. In contrast to the Dell programs, the TX calendar notifiers and task alarms are easy to use and the audible alarms have been completely reliable. In general, I found the Palm TX operating system much more convenient even though I have been using the Windows operating system for many years and the Palm programming was completely new to me.
The TX comes with one of the most comprehensive help systems that I have ever seen. One can download a page Adobe PDF manual that covers just about anything one would ever want to know about using the TX! The only area where I was a little confused even with the pop-up help file was in the transfer of contacts from my address book in Outlook Express to the TX.
After some fumbling around, I discovered that I could export my OE address book as a comma separated file to my desktop, and then import that file directly into the TX Contacts program. All of the fields that I used were correctly transferred to the TX using this method. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses synchronized perfectly. Probably somewhere in that huge manual there is a description of how to import data directly from Outlook Express, but my way works nicely, and it is fast and easy once one knows the procedure.
The TX Pocket Tunes music player and Rhapsody music cataloging and transfer systems worked flawlessly. Soft passages were inaudible on the Axim speaker with the volume control at maximum. Cataloging was difficult on the Axim PDA because the library insisted on importing all of the voice commands installed by the GPS navigation system when searching for music files.
The TX reproduced the music perfectly from Mp-3 recordings cut from old vinyl records. For some reason, The Windows program on the Axim did not suppress the irritating needle hiss on MP-3 recordings of old vinyl cuts. I think that the TX is the winner at music storage and reproduction. Photos were well displayed on screen by both systems, but the TX had an intuitively easier system for cataloging and showing photos.
The Axim sync system for music and photos was buggy and difficult to use so I turned it off. The Axim has a potentially useful feature that is lacking in the TX. The x51v accepts recorded messages. Unfortunately, I found the recording system to be unworkable for calendar appointments where it would be most useful to me.
It works flawlessly! Like so many others, I love my Palm Pilot and have used one since With Windows OS constantly updating, I keep worrying that I will eventually have to give it up, but alas, your website helped me continue to use it. I love that I don't have all of my private info and passwords in my phone or in the cloud.
This week I loaded windows 10 64 bit and tried to install my palm pilot with no success. I did all that you said in this post, but then I couldn't get my palm information to show in the Palm Desktop.
After some research, I found the link to this website to provide a "patch" for legacy Palm Pilots Tungsten C. Then all of the data showed up in my Desktop again.
When most of the other Palm OS vendors dropped out of the market, Palm rewrote their PIM applications and came out with a new internal architecture that was not fully compatible with Palm OS applications written for the earlier generation devices.
We refer to the older devices as Legacy devices. Here is a list of specific devices which fall into each category: Legacy Devices: any device running OS4 or earlier, any non-Palm brand handheld Sony, Garmin, etc. This procedure has worked perfectly with my Palm Zire 22 which is legacy model from the past. I thought I would never get the data transferred but it has worked perfectly with Windows Thanks so much In very special when I am visiting Industrial customers in the countryside, and also want to use my old, I know!
I will do the same procedure to my notebooks Windows My very best regards! Marcos Luiz S. Most Popular.
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