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Sprint's Palm Treo 755p phone reset patch released

by Sean Cooper posted Jan 16th 2009 @ 8:28PM

Is your Palm 755p mysteriously resetting? Palm and Sprint should sort that with this update that'll bring your device up to a better, more stable, and newer v1.08. We saw a similar patch addressing a "reset issue that occurs under certain specific and rare conditions" for the Palm 755p on Altel way back in June of 2008. This may be the same bug and this may well be the same fix. So if you're running v1.04 or v1.07, hit the read link and get it sorted with fixes on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Oh, and as per usual while updating: yada, yada, yada save. Yada, yada, yada be careful.

[Via Mobileburn]

Sidekick Slides losing power, respect when they slide

by Chris Ziegler posted Nov 13th 2007 @ 4:38AM

We're no QA experts here, but if your product is called the "Slide," isn't the slide mechanism the one thing you'd test the dickens out of? Alas, folks are discovering that Motorola's Sidekick Slide for T-Mobile has shipped with a devil of a flaw: actuating the display's slide periodically causes the phone to spontaneously reboot or to simply turn off and stay off. We've tested the claim on our own Slide, and yeah, it happens. Granted, it only happened twice out of thirty or so slides of the screen, but by standards of modern electronics engineering, we're pretty sure that's two times too many. As Boy Genius Report points out, to make matters even worse the power cycle is a hard reset, meaning your data's kaput unless you're within range of a T-Mobile signal to download everything from Danger's servers again. An ever-so-slightly loose battery seems to be the culprit here, but seriously, Moto, how did this defect ever leave a factory floor en masse?