Palm V OS upgrade
Carsten witt
Can I upgrade in one step from 3.1.1 to 4.1. ?
Will new OS use most of the tiny 2 MB RAM installed in Palm V or is there
some useful hints to avoid this ?
Last thing : On www.palm.com under SUPPORT an upgrade link is typically
named "Palm OS 4.1 upgrade". Does this mean : "upgrade to ver. 4.1 " or
"upgrade your 4.1 version" ?
regards
carsten
Walter Roberson
Carsten witt <do.not...@this.adress.com> wrote:
:I need to upgrade my Palm V with OS 3.1.1 to newest version possible.
Your boss threatened to fire you if you didn't upgrade to the
newest version possible?
Your lover threatened to leave you if you stayed even one subrelease
back?
You leased the Palm V and one of the lease terms requires you
to keep the software as current as possible, and they are threatening
to audit your compliance last week?
If one of the above does not apply, then we would have to seriously
consider the possibility that you do not "need" to upgrade to
the newest version possible, but that you would instead *like*
to upgrade to the newest version possible. Because any time
someone starts talking about "the newest version possible", the
rest of us start wondering what possible *technical* requirement
there could be to use the newest version POSSIBLE rather than
using a particular upgrade release that some software author has
indicated as being the minimum required to run their code.
:Can I upgrade in one step from 3.1.1 to 4.1. ?
I don't know.
:Will new OS use most of the tiny 2 MB RAM installed in Palm V or is there
:some useful hints to avoid this ?
OS upgrades for the V go into the flash memory, not the RAM.
:Last thing : On www.palm.com under SUPPORT an upgrade link is typically
:named "Palm OS 4.1 upgrade". Does this mean : "upgrade to ver. 4.1 " or
:"upgrade your 4.1 version" ?
Neither. What it means is that you should carefully look at the
list of features (and bug fixes) shown for that release, and
decide why you want to do the upgrade at all. There are only
a few OS 4.x changes that are of benefit on the V (relative to OS 3.5
anyhow). Most of the 4.x upgrades have to do with the new hardware
features of the m-series hardware, such as vibrating alarms -- and
to getting in support for wireless connections that are not relevant
for the Palm V.
Gary
Does that matter to you? You arnt losing anything by him doing it, nor will
it hurt the V. Just answer his questions, or dont reply. Some people just
want the newest version. I'm amazed sometimes at the judgement of people
made over the internet.
G
Bitterman
same hassles with people asking me to justify why I want to upgrade. What's
up with that?? One thing is certain, this is the last Palm I will ever buy.
Research in Motion's "always on" technology combining phone, e-mail, web AND
organizer apps blows Palm away. I just want something to hold me over for
another generation until truly usefull PDAs hit the market. For those who
question the need for wanting something better, I hear there's a cabin for
rent in Montana.
Bitterman
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Walter Roberson
Bitterman <bitte...@hotmail.com> wrote:
:I'm trying to find the same OS 4.0 upgrade for my Palm V and have had the
:same hassles with people asking me to justify why I want to upgrade. What's
:up with that??
Did you name specific features you wanted out of 4.0, or were you
apparently just wanting to upgrade to 4.0 because it was newer?
:For those who
:question the need for wanting something better, I hear there's a cabin for
:rent in Montana.
The OP of this thread didn't say that he was interested in the *best*
OS version for his Palm V: he said he wanted the latest *possible*
version. He didn't care whether it was more stable or faster, or
whether it had new features that applied to the Palm V: his only
concern was that it be the newest POSSIBLE -- and that it might by itself
be too big to fit in the 2 Mb of RAM (and it was stated as RAM, not as
flash memory.)
If the poster had asked what the latest *recommended* version
was, or had asked about the differences between the release he
had and the newer releases, then the poster would have received
a quite different answer.
Carsten witt
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