Griff
02-23-2004, 11:44 PM
Just changed my profile to reflect TH-55 ownership.
Overall the upgrade process from my NR70v was pretty simple though it took a while. I'm guessing a good 4-6 hours was spent by the time I was done.
My biggest headache was getting todo/db categories to remain populated when I did an overwrite from Outlook. Luckily before I started my upgrade I had done a full backup to Palm Desktop so I was able to use the Migration Tool. I would've saved a good hour if I'd just used the damn migration tool in the first place. Also had problems with Pocket Mirror Pro. I couldn't find where I'd downloaded the latest upgrade and of course signing into their site didn't work.
I did remove the old Palm Desktop (provided with NR70v) and that messed up Pocket Mirror so I had to uninstall it. Surprisingly most of my conduits didn't get deleted so I saved time by not having to reinstall PC versions of ShadowPlan, HanDBase, Pocket Quicken and ISilo. Documents To Go did screw up so I removed it pending the version 6 upgrade promised with registration.
My strategy as with previous upgrades was to move programs and data over one at a time either through fresh installs of the software or by beaming. Once a program was verified working I would delete it from the old handheld.
Before I began the upgrade I did a few things. First I made a zip copy of my user directory in the Sony Handheld folder. I then renamed my old directory and created a user for that directory. It was because I'd made that new user that I was able to use the migration tool.
Fairly straightforward, copy, test, delete, repeat. I will likely go through the Archive and Backup folders under the old directory just to make sure everything can be purged and then delete that user.
Once everything was moved I deleted all of the items in flash, removed jackflash support, removed jacksafe support and restored the jacksprat rom image I made before I ever touched my rom back in 2002. My NR70v is now sitting in it's cradle fresh as the day it was born, well internally anyway.
Overall the upgrade process from my NR70v was pretty simple though it took a while. I'm guessing a good 4-6 hours was spent by the time I was done.
My biggest headache was getting todo/db categories to remain populated when I did an overwrite from Outlook. Luckily before I started my upgrade I had done a full backup to Palm Desktop so I was able to use the Migration Tool. I would've saved a good hour if I'd just used the damn migration tool in the first place. Also had problems with Pocket Mirror Pro. I couldn't find where I'd downloaded the latest upgrade and of course signing into their site didn't work.
I did remove the old Palm Desktop (provided with NR70v) and that messed up Pocket Mirror so I had to uninstall it. Surprisingly most of my conduits didn't get deleted so I saved time by not having to reinstall PC versions of ShadowPlan, HanDBase, Pocket Quicken and ISilo. Documents To Go did screw up so I removed it pending the version 6 upgrade promised with registration.
My strategy as with previous upgrades was to move programs and data over one at a time either through fresh installs of the software or by beaming. Once a program was verified working I would delete it from the old handheld.
Before I began the upgrade I did a few things. First I made a zip copy of my user directory in the Sony Handheld folder. I then renamed my old directory and created a user for that directory. It was because I'd made that new user that I was able to use the migration tool.
Fairly straightforward, copy, test, delete, repeat. I will likely go through the Archive and Backup folders under the old directory just to make sure everything can be purged and then delete that user.
Once everything was moved I deleted all of the items in flash, removed jackflash support, removed jacksafe support and restored the jacksprat rom image I made before I ever touched my rom back in 2002. My NR70v is now sitting in it's cradle fresh as the day it was born, well internally anyway.