http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/ Engadget Comments for Palm Treo 700w Updater for AKU2 / MSFP on the web http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 19th 2006 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/
Like I said, I'm confused (I have an i-mate SP5 and I'm still trying to figure out if I can use the Motor wireless stereo headphones with it (I have them on order :)).]]>Apr 19th 2006 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 19th 2006 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/1. Didn't need to use my backup, everything was kept intact
2. NumKey is set by default for login passwords
3. There is a new Wireless Settings menu for Bluetooth and phone

Will tell more once I find more... :)]]>Apr 19th 2006 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 19th 2006 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 19th 2006 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 19th 2006 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/
hopefully this release will make the phone a bit more stable. i have to soft reset my treo about once every other day (at least) which is extremely annoying]]>Apr 19th 2006 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 19th 2006 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 20th 2006 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/
this was especially nice since for some reason our exchange server (w/sp2) never worked with AUTD. it would never even attempt to send the SMS message. this worked without me having to even touch the server. sweet.]]>Apr 20th 2006 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/ blackberry has been doing all this time, sending SMS
>message telling the mobile device

MS says it's actually a long-lived HTTP connection, so your phone is just sitting around not doing much, the server sends some data down, or possibly the entire message (I'm haven't looked into it) and your phone tells you.

Nice!]]>Apr 20th 2006 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/
MSFP Direct Push does NOT use SMS to keep the device up to date, and neither does BlackBerry.

The old MS AUTD used SMS and never worked all that well.]]>Apr 20th 2006 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/
Remember to reactivate your phone as instructed on the palm site using *228 and option 1. I did an initial manual sync in Outlook, and then waited. Emails started trickling in as they arrived, neat!

I then tested it with a friend who sent me a test email. Within 10 seconds of the "Send" button being pushed in his desktop Outlook, the little swirly ActiveSync arrows kicked in and the mail was being downloaded. I noticed the handshake is lighter than a full ActiveSync sync, but still longer than a BlackBerry. In all, I had the email on my Treo within 30 seconds of it being sent.

Although a few minutes later I received another e-mail on my desktop Outlook and the phone did not sync it, somehow. This is bad. Before I knew my phone would check every 10 minutes so I either waited or forced a sync if I expected anything urgent. But now, i do not want to just randomly check in case Direct Push missed something. I'll observe over the next few days to see if this was just a fluke or if this is a common occurence. As Microsoft MVP on mobility, you can bet I'll let Microsoft know loud and clear if this is the case.

I'll keep posting my experiences with Direct Push and the Treo on my blog. Check it to see updates.]]>Apr 21st 2006 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/
It appears to work flawlessly... I also admin our Blackberry BES server... and I can say there is maybe 1-3 seconds difference between arrivals on the two devices (BB getting delivered first). The only time I noticed no mail flowing was when I somehow turned off the phone wireless...

I have not yet tested the wipe feature added with the web admin tool on Exchange.. but will soon.

Also.. I was previously using an XV6700 (Audiovox) and must say this is much more stable and useable out of the box. Though I do miss the built in Wi-Fi on the 6700..

Oh..I did have a problem with the updater.. it would not run correctly from the setup.exe file... kept erroring out with "could not find Palm Treo 700x.msi" file of some such... I finally ran the update using the .msi itself and all was fine...

So far it looks VERY good... and all in all on par with Blackberry IMO.

Now if Palm will just RErelease the updater ;)

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After getting everything hooked back up, including the connection to my company's Exchange server, I'm now only able to synch email up via the phone's Active Sync function.. For some reason, I'm not able to update email from within Outlook Email. In Outlook Email, I used to be able to click on Menu, then Send/Recieve...now I cannot. It's there, but greyed out. I know my connection to Exchange is set up properly because I am successfully synching via ActiveSync. Anyone getting this problem?

Also - before I applied this patch, I had hooked up the SMS version of email push. It was pretty cool...until I heard that I was being charged for every SMS message from the server to my phone letting it know I had a new message it had to pick up. Is this new patch a different method of picking up email? If so, when I set it to sync "As Items Arrive", it asks me for my phone number..just like it did before. Anyone know anything about all this?]]>Apr 22nd 2006 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/
"Temporarily unavailable. We anticipate that the Treo 700w updater will be available at a later date. If you have already installed the updater, please disregard this message."

It's unavailable, but they anticipate it will be available, at a later date? What the heck?

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use at your own risk]]>Apr 22nd 2006 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Apr 23rd 2006 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Jun 14th 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/19/palm-treo-700w-updater-for-aku2-msfp-on-the-web/Aug 2nd 2006 4:49PM