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02-04-2003, 03:04 PM
I've been having this trouble for a while and now that I have tried everything I could think of on my poor T665, I'm gonna start asking people :)
Basically, the IR port is very flakey.
Here's a quick rundown of the symptoms:
- IrMonitor detects the beam signals from everything I tested (Although with a big X instead of a O, which I assume means a faulty signal or something)
- IR Ping fails to detect any IrDA signals from lots of things (Printers, other PDAs etc.), *BUT*, it does detect my phone!
- OmniRemote works if Beam Receive is enabled. If it isn't, it comes up with an error message stating that the HotSync port is in use or something?
- Beaming between other PDAs is really messed:
T625 -> T665 = Works
T665 -> T625 = T625 doesn't even acknowledge (IrMonitor senses the signal, but with a big X)
T665 -> SJ30 = Works
SJ30 -> T665 = Gives an error, something about database not in right format (Tried this with PRCs, Memos, Addrs, Business cards...). Similar to the error you get if you try and beam something that isnt a Palm database to a Palm.
HOWEVER, and this is what really bakes my noodle, is that:
+ IR Pong 2 works over infrared, between both T625 and SJ30 and my T665 (While diagnosing, my friend and I wasted 30 minutes playing this :)
+ PageNOW, the GSM SMS comms software works, and can happily upload and download SMS messages from my phone all day (Well, 2 hours anyway :)
+ ptelnet works with my phone, and (with a few retrys) the IR port on my brother's laptop.
+ OmniRemote *used* to work whether BeamReceive is on or off, but once I loaded Omni while listening to an MP3, and ever since I've had to enable Beam Receive...!
Basically, the IR port is very flakey.
Here's a quick rundown of the symptoms:
- IrMonitor detects the beam signals from everything I tested (Although with a big X instead of a O, which I assume means a faulty signal or something)
- IR Ping fails to detect any IrDA signals from lots of things (Printers, other PDAs etc.), *BUT*, it does detect my phone!
- OmniRemote works if Beam Receive is enabled. If it isn't, it comes up with an error message stating that the HotSync port is in use or something?
- Beaming between other PDAs is really messed:
T625 -> T665 = Works
T665 -> T625 = T625 doesn't even acknowledge (IrMonitor senses the signal, but with a big X)
T665 -> SJ30 = Works
SJ30 -> T665 = Gives an error, something about database not in right format (Tried this with PRCs, Memos, Addrs, Business cards...). Similar to the error you get if you try and beam something that isnt a Palm database to a Palm.
HOWEVER, and this is what really bakes my noodle, is that:
+ IR Pong 2 works over infrared, between both T625 and SJ30 and my T665 (While diagnosing, my friend and I wasted 30 minutes playing this :)
+ PageNOW, the GSM SMS comms software works, and can happily upload and download SMS messages from my phone all day (Well, 2 hours anyway :)
+ ptelnet works with my phone, and (with a few retrys) the IR port on my brother's laptop.
+ OmniRemote *used* to work whether BeamReceive is on or off, but once I loaded Omni while listening to an MP3, and ever since I've had to enable Beam Receive...!