Palm's Treo 700w gets its AKU2 on
by Ryan Block 
posted Apr 6th 2006 at 12:20PM
Yup, here's the moment you've been waiting
for since you snagged that Palm Treo 700w -- Palm's
announced their Windows Mobile Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) upgrade (aka AKU2), allowing, among other
things, support for push email (and hopefully a rolled out fix for that DST bug). You all know the
drill, so prepare to backup all that data -- and we mean all of it, AKU2 will wipe that phone clean as a slate -- and
head over to Verizon's or Palm's support site later this month so you can get
your AKU2 on, too.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
theattack @ Apr 6th 2006 12:32PM
I'm still waiting for WinMo. 5.0 on my Sammy i 730
Walt_Mink @ Apr 6th 2006 12:52PM
Ugh! You bastages! You got my hopes all up. End of the month != soon.
I can't friggen wait to get my dirty little mitts on this update ...
Ross Carlson @ Apr 6th 2006 1:17PM
Guys come on now, you're just getting everyone excited here - NOTHING has been released yet contrary to the title "Palm's Treo 700w gets its AKU2 on". It'll be out "by the end of the month" - I wouldn't call that soonish and I certainly wouldn't be saying that you can get your "AKU2 on" because you can't yet....
Come on guys, you are better than this....
mark @ Apr 7th 2006 7:33PM
the update will not fix the DST bug.
the coolest thing in the update is the USB switch, allowing you to active-sync via plain old serial instead of this crazy corprate-centric 'secure' rndis connection.
dazed and confused @ Apr 19th 2006 9:39PM
ok - i just pulled the update from the Palm site and applied it to my Treo 700W ... it seems to have worked without any glitches. It is slow though - and cleaning up all the temp files has been the slowest part.
I was expecting my phone to go through a hard reset, but that does not appear to have happened. Rather my installed applications are still there and appear to work after install.
I will need to play with it a bit more to what's new, what's fixed, and what's broken.
Ryan @ Apr 22nd 2006 1:16AM
they took it off there site
Jay Mulkey @ Aug 8th 2006 1:40PM
So ... am I to understand we still can't use AKU2 on the Treo 700w? Is there any hope it will happen?