Re: Adventures in TeXas

FWIW, I do have Netfront running on my TX using a custom ROM developed by Dmitry Grindberg.  Chris Short installed the ROM.  Still doesn't make for a very nice on-line experience with the TX, but I don't use the TX online anymore anyway.  Would be nice to check weather and exchange rates, etc..., but I can ask my wife or one of my kids to look it up on their device.

Also, the new Blackberry devices with V10 of their OS looks very capable. 

Best Regards,
Dwight...


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 From: dmccunney <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: [peditors] Adventures in TeXas
 

  
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Dwight C. Carr <carrdwight-/[email protected]> wrote:
> Best of luck getting the TX to resolve WiFi issues.  I have given up on it.  My connection was hit and miss, and now most web sites don't translate to the TX browser.  I have been planning to load the Opera Browser for TX, but never got around to it.  I do have all the parts for the last version that was available for TX.

I thought that installing the Enterprise Security update to TX wifi
might help, and downloaded the patches, but it turns out the3 person I
got the TX from had already applied them.

I had Opera Mini working on the Zodiac.  The challenge was finding a
copy of the IBM Palm JVM that was compatible with the Zodiac. (Clie
users apparently had similar issues.)

I have Opera Mini 4.2 apparently running on the TX, though the
mentioned wifi issues make it hard to really test it.  If you have
both Opera Mini and a working JVM, it's worth loading and trying.
Since it *is* a Java app intended to be cross platform, it will not
look and act like a typical Palm app, but what's there seems to work.

(I can provide the Opera Mini version and JVM if needed.)

Wifi is a convenience but not a necessity.  As mentioned, Palm
browsers fall down on current sites: support for JavaScript is
minimal, and CSS support seems nonexistant. Best of the lot on my old
Zodiac was a version of Access Netfront ripped from a Clie and patched
to skip the device check.  Getting it running required a shareware
utility from Dmitry Grindberg that increased the amount of dynamic
heap available.  The Zodiac provided 10MB, and Netfront wanted 20.
Neither run on the TX, and it's hard reset time if I try.

I did occasionally use pssh to get to servers, and PalmVNC to get to
other things.

> I have used Palm OS devices since my first Palm Pilot 1000 in 1996.  I bought my first TX, which is still in use, in 2006 and in 2009 I bought two more from Chris Short and also had Chris refurbish my original TX.  Chris adds glass screen, upgrades digitizer, replaces on/off switch, adds voice recorder, strengthens internal soldering, replaces battery, etc...  I also have Centro and Treo 680 phones, but don't currently use them as I use older cellphones with bluetooth paired to my TX.  I would like to find a phone that meets the TX useage so I would have to carry two devices, but until I find a suitable replacement, I'd rather carry two devices than go without the palm.  I am debating whether to buy one more refurbished TX from Chris in order to ensure I have a palm device until at least calendar year 2031.

I don't plan to give up the TX (or the Zodiac, if I can get one
working again.)  What they do, they still do well enough for me.  I
don't even really need to Hotsync.  I mostly just need to put stuff
on/take stuff off the device, and I do that through the card.

Most of what I do with both is read ebooks and play the odd game, and
occasionally use the calendar app for scheduling.  Address book
updates are a challenge, since my primary contacts list is in GMail.
I need to do a CSV file download, and import to Palm Desktop.  Rather
than sync the result, I'd grab the PDB file, stash it on the card, and
stick in in RAM with Filez.  (The PDA file would be a limited subset
of the full one in any case, containing only the most used entries.)

> Anyway, if I was going to replace the palm, I would hope to be able to satisfy as much of the following criteria as possible.  I would be glad to hear how well any other devices meet the below criteria.

Fortunately, John Markley chimed in.  I don't currently have an
Android device, and have only a vague idea of what is available for
it.
______
Dennis
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519

 

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