Add WiFi to your Treo 650! SD WiFi card drivers hacked

Plenty of Treo 650 owners were cheesed off that palmOne released their new smartphone without support for their WiFi SD card (which officially only works with the Tungsten T5, the Tungsten T3, and the Zire 72. They've promised to get around to supporting it sooner or later, but you know how impatient those hackers can be, and so hot on the heels of his fine work to uncripple the Bluetooth on Sprint's version of the Treo 650 so you can use it as a wireless laptop modem, "Shadowmite" has figured out a way to hack the driver for the SD WiFi card so it'll work with the Treo 650, too (the hacked driver is hosted here). Hugeness, of course.

[Andrew Wanrer @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Shadowmite did it again! First he got dun to work with bluetooth and now this!

[Andrew Wanrer @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

As Lenn Pryor pointed out in several engadget podcasts, isn't it amazing that companies are forcing their customers to go to war with them? Shadowmite and the gang on the TreoCentral.com message boards had to hack away at this project on their own.

PalmOne should have helped them out. This hack will get more people to buy Treo 650s.

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Yeah, but the problem is that to palmOne, we really aren't their customers, the carriers are, and they're not going to do much to piss those guys off. I do think palmOne will look the other way, though.

[Shep @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Now if they would just get someone to hack it for the Tungsten E :-D

[Dan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Download it and hold on to it before palm gets stupid and yanks it!

[H. @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I agree w/ the Tungsten E. Any clue if anyone will ever come up with a solution?

[gfunkmagic @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Quote:"Now if they would just get someone to hack it for the Tungsten E :-D"


It already works on the TE!!! Checkout this thread for more info fyi:

http://discussion.brighthand.com/palmhandhelds/showthread.php?s=6a33b6a917765aa7293b79c36cd5cc2d&threadid=71219

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

ok, here's the dumb question of the day... this only works with the 650 then? Is that because it's slot is SDIO?

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

ok, here's the dumb question of the day... this only works with the 650 then, not the 600? Is that because it's slot is SDIO?

[Uncle Ward @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Treo 600 has a different processor, and the code apparently is processor-specific.

[Rob de Jonge @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

The Treo 650 doesn't just need wifi to be a better phone. It needs >2GB of storage space and PalmOS 6.1 to make it the ultimate winner of smartphones if you ask me.

[Gerald @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Thanks, sent my GSM 650 into an infinite loop. Had to do a hard reset. I'll be sure to avoid anything from Mr. Shadowmite in the future!

[Brad @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Hey, what about Sandisk's SD wifi card that also has a 256mb of storage? Will this work?

[Kabeyun @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

No, Sandisk's WiFi memory card will not with work with any PalmOS implementation (PocketPC only). Nor do they have plans to develop a PalmOS-compatible model. I wondered the same thing and e-mailed them about it recently. Grrr...

[leftyfb @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Sandisk's SDWSDB-000 Wifi SD card works just fine on my Palm Zire71. I'll be getting a Treo 600 soon and will be trying my luck to get it to work there as well

[Noel @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I tried installing ShadowMite's WIFI for Treo 650 and it nearly destroyed by phone. Sent it into infinite looping. I had to do a hard reset and I lost all my data. I warn everyone out there not to be taken in by the apparently good news of the hack for Treo 650 WiFi. IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!!!

[mfcdubai @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Boo hoo for the loss of your data. Hacks are hacks, and we who want to push the envelope, and get our kit to do things it was not meant to do must accept the risk. (and BACKUP first !).
Treo 600, sandisk wifi card, and patiently awaiting even a buggy version of the driver for this combo - grovel grovel Shadowmite !

[Dave @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

It was made pretty clear it only works on CDMA phones (like Sprint) and not GSM phones (like Cingular) because shadowmite has a CDMA phone

[gatzke @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Same here on Verizon- Anyone get any results there yet? I think we run CDMA, but I could be wrong.

I hate to try it and be out $ and time for a reinstall...

[Roy @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I appreciate Shadowmite's work on resolving the DUN issues for the T650. I get the endless loop action with the P1 WiFi card. I also tried a SanDisk WiFi & got the Zodiac drivers to install, I could view wireless traffic but could never send data. Seems like we will have to wait for the Enfora WiFi Sled due out this month. Course it could be more vaporware.
Just paid $150 to terminate my 2 year contract with Sprint so I could switch to Cingular & keep my roll over minutes. I hate thieves & to me any company to keep the minutes I pay for monthly is a thief!
Roy