Recently my son stepped on my Palm E2. He is only about five so the blame is mostly mine. Fortunately, it was not all bad. Ever since I bought the E2 for ~ 190 a couple of years ago I had wished I had something with a little more capabilites. Since the E2 met its demise with a broken screen the next order of business was a hard case from Proporta to protect the new device. I considered the aluminum cases, but they seemed somewhat less useful and awkward. I settled on a clear case which has been stepped on and is still ok. I like Proporta because they seem to charge very fair prices for products and shipping (despite being across the pond) the lifetime guarantee is nice as well.
Compared to the Palm E2 the extra processing power in the TX is really nice when running Mapopolis (too bad Mapopolis is no more and nobody else is making new GPS programs for the Palm). Fortunately, I live in the North East and there is not a lot of new construction so I don't need any updates yet. Strangely, Mapopolis only runs well (voice command work, does not crash) when run from a SD card.
The next step was to try and get the Palm TX to dial my brand new W385. The steps that worked for me are:
Easy Part
- Update the phone link application (I don't think this is necessary)
- Establish a bluetooth connection between the phone and TX
Hard Part (I found these on a couple of boards)
- Go to Prefs->Connection- select my phone connection and Edit-
- change the "Model:" to "Standard GSM" from the drop-down list-
- click on "Details..." button that appears-
- replace the Init String with "+MODE=2" (do not include the quotes)- click OK- click OK- click Done (sorry I have no idea why or how this works, any comments welcome)
- pull the battery
- reboot the palm
- use the dialer and presto!
- NOTE steps 6 and 7 ARE required and are often left out.
Now my Palm dials my phone.
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