I bought a Blackberry Curve and it works great, but I like the touch screen on the Treo. Thoughts?

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Sorry for the very late reply, I dont come to this site anymore.
To answer your qestion, yes I have WinXP.

Hope it’s worked out for you. I dont have the treo anymore, i have since upgraded to a T-mo MDA with WM5 and built in WIFI.

Thanks for the information on this topic, I’ve been wanting to try this for a while and seeing that you’ve made it work for a Treo 650, makes me wanting to as well.

I have a couple of questions. How did you set up the TREO to connect to the computer? My menus on the treo are very limited, nothing like the pictures at WHIZOO.COM. All I have in the “setup devices” on the treo are “hands-free setup” and “hotsync setup.” No where does it say connect to a network.

The second problem/question is that I use my laptop(a Sony) to connect. It has a builtin Bluetooth and its crummy. Doesnt support WICOMM stack at all. The hotsync does work well though. Every website ive come across says I need a working WIDCOMM prowered BT, but is there a way around it?

Thanks for your help!

Try the instructions here: http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/.

Yes, in fact I relied on DUN pretty heavily during a trip I took over Labor Day weekend. (I didn’t feel like paying Marriott $10/day for highspeed in my room.) I had a couple of glitches where it timed out on me (both times after more than twenty minutes of use), but it was pretty solid. It was definitely more solid than my previously hacked DUN.

Where’s your problem coming in? Is it connecting, but timing out? Or is there the problem with getting it connected at all?

Have you used DUN on Cingular since it’s been enabled with the last update? I’ve tried, but can’t seem to make it work. Any ideas or direction would be helpful…

I haven’t have any problem connecting to my Bluetooth-equipped iMac in my basement, using both Salling Clicker and the Bluetooth-shared internet, from my Treo 650 while I’ve been up on the second floor of my house. Your mileage may vary, but that’s been my experience.

BTW, do you really get long range with that adapter? Is this in both directions? I want to run PalmVNC on my Treo in the house and be able to use it all over the house. This means the Bluetooth connection will have to have long range in both directions.

Thanks, …Roger

Whoever you talked to at Sprint was misinformed. They released an update a few months back to allow dial-up networking for your iBook via your Treo 650 (this is to allow your iBook to connect to your Treo over Bluetooth and use the Treo as a dial-up modem.) See here: http://vocaro.com/trevor/treo-dun/

If you want to share your iBook’s internet connection with your Treo 650, the Missing Sync is your best bet.

Possibly the Missing Sync would work as well?

Rich - have you upgraded with Cingular’s latest stuff for the Treo?

I’m using The Missing Sync for Palm OS (http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_palmos.php). Like khalil said above, it’s well worth the money you pay for it because it’s a) built with the Mac in mind and b) gives you a lot more features than Palm’s software does.

I’m having problems syncing my Palm Zire 72 with Tiger.

I’m getting a treo 650 in a week and I want to know how you manage to sync your palm with your mac…

thanks for you time

the error is some type of conduit problem…

The only thing my Treo didn’t have in the preferences was the CINGULAR1 password. I added it, but no luck.

I may do a hard reset. I was hesitant because I didnt want to lose my pictures and what not, but I’ve already gotten them off the Treo. And I’m looking forward to using those instructions on attaching my PB to the phone as a modem after I get the MediaNet working again.

I did wind up subscribing to Cingular’s $19.99/month Media Net Unlimited data plan and it works great on my Treo. I didn’t switch from the MediaWorks plan before getting this activated, so I don’t know if your problem is related to your recent changeover from that or not. I can report that mine works great, and I’ve used the instructions that Trevor Harmon so graciously posted on his site (http://vocaro.com/trevor/treo-dun/) to set up my Mac to be able to use my Treo’s GPRS connection as a wireless modem.

My best advice would be to check to make sure that your Network preferences on your Treo are set up as follows:

Service: Cingular GPRS
Connection: GPRS
User Name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1
APN: wap.cingular

If it’s not set up like that, make a copy of your existing Network settings and set them up like that. I believe all settings are case-sensitive.

If rebuilding your network prefs doesn’t work, give Cingular a yell as they may have not set up your account right.

As a last resort, back everything on your Treo up, then do a hard reset. Before restoring everything back, give connecting a try. If it’s still not working after that, give Cingular another call as something’s wrong and it’s probably not on your Treo.

khalil - I don’t know how accurate my information is, but when I got my Treo 650 they wouldn’t let, or didn’t want, me get the mediaNet package since they classify the 650 as a phone. It looks like it might not include general internet access, just access to the mediaNet resources.

I waited a few hours, turned off my phone, turned it back on, and tried to download my email from my mac.com account, which I’d done numerous times with the Treo on the mediaworks plan. It went through the same process it normally does, but after hitting the signing on screen, it says “Canceling” then shows a red X and tells me that it is “Unable to Establish PPP Connection.” Additionally, it won’t let me access internet pages or send and receive SMS/MMS.

I’ve turned the phone on and off many times, done multiple layers of resets (all but the one that erases all my data on the phone, mainly because I don’t want to lose my pictures). That said, since starting this post I used the Missing Sync to share bluetooth internet access with my phone and have emailed myself all my pictures, so I guess I can to a hard complete reset, but am still afraid to lose all my info and don’t want to have to go through the pain of setting everything up once again.

If you’ve figured out anything I’d love to know.

You’ll want to check out this page for more information on making Bluetooth internet sharing work on Windows: http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/