PDA Forum / Palm / July 2008

I've got a Handspring Visor Platinum that has all of my info on it.  I
just purchased an iMac with OSX.  From what Palmsource says, I need
Desktop version 4 for the Mac, but when I downloaded 4.0 it has an
error which the knowledgebase article says is missing files, and the

I use a Palm m515 with a Win XP Pro PC. The PC, however, does not have
Outlook or MS Office installed. I will not change that. I use Outlook
Express for mail possibly moving to Seamonkey soon. I use Firefox as a web
browser, OpenOffice for word processing, spreadsheets etc. and ...

I have a Palm M515. On 30 December, every year, only in my Palm Desktop
Calendar, I have 6 events entered all saying Unnamed - Birthday and having a
little birthday cake icon. I can't edit or delete these. They are not
visible on my Handset. I've no idea how I got them. Any ideas? ...

I have a Symbol SPT1550 that was doing barcode data collection during the
day, and evidently the user dropped it or otherwise caused a hard reset.
Our Satellite Forms data collection app icon is no longer on the Palm's
screen and the unit appears to be reset to defaults.  Is ...

Can anyone point me at documentation for the format of records in the
Treo 680's SMS message database?

Ok, here is my problem.  My father has an old Palm III that is dying.  So I
got him a Tungsten E.   The Palm III came with Palm Desktop 3 and he loves
it.  The Tungsten E Palm comes with Palm Desktop 4 and he doesn't like it
because it doesn't show as many fields in the calendar ...

I have a Tungsten E2 and a Mac computer.  Recently, just for the hell
of it, I opened the Palm Desktop and was surprised to see only one
contact, zero memos, etc.  I re-installed the palmOneSoftware.pkg and I
still did not see anything.

I was hoping to drum up some support for porting the open sources Java
ME platform (now known as phoneME) to Palm platforms.
If anyone is interested please see the http://phoneme.dev.java.net/
for more information.