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I spent another few hours with my Pre today to try and get all gmail contacts back. It’s been about four days spent in the past week since the 1.3.5(.1) Web OS update that I’ve been trying to perfectly personalize my Pre.
In the past week I’ve conducted two Web OS Doctorings and one partial rest. I’ve EPRd unsuccessfully. Four times. Resulting in my most recent doctoring today. I’ve unistalled and re-installed several different profiles. For contacts and for calenders.
I thought my device was working perfectly (despite the duplicate contacts) until I did a search for my brother-in-law. Then a search for a buddy I talk to a lot. To no avail.
Then I did a search for others and realized that I only had 767 of my more than 1400 google contacts show up in my phone. Then I realized a newly-added contact in my phone didn’t transfer to gmail nor did it show up in my Pre when a new contact was added in my desktop.
It’s become extremely frustrating! My phone not having all of my contacts. I posted and answered a few posts on Precentral about this issue and realize I’m not alone. There are several others who are having this problem without getting many answers. There was a recent fiz for the calender not syncing, but nothing about contacts.
It looks like Facebook paid its bills to Palm because my entire (1200+) Facebook friends show up with no problem (many w/o phone numbers–why do I even need that?). Same goes for LinkedIn, all of those relations show up to.
Conspiracy? Google’s new Nexus One , the latest “iPhone Killer” was announced today at CES. How do you think the syncing is going to be with that phone and gmail’s contact list?
I’ve really been hoping that Palm addresses this issue soon. In fact, after my last doctoring today, I got excited with the hope that the update to .1 was the fix.
I’m beginning to lose a little faith in the company I’ve had so much faith in since its 3Com days!
I hope they fix my google contacts soon and don’t potentially allow this to become another iTunes and Apple issue because unlike iTunes, I really need my contacts!
By the way, I’ve just gone into dev mode again and plan on installing all previously installed patches tonight. For those concerned about “bricking your Pre,” it’s impossible! For now, I’m going to call this a love/hate relationship.
Since I installed Web OS 1.3.1, I haven’t been able to use, what I consider a shoe-in for best feature never as of yet to be released officially, the Virtual Keyboard. With all it’s shortcomings, I still can’t believe it isn’t a Palm-sponsored patch.
Like many, I failed to uninstall any patches prior to updated to the above version, and my Pre never really worked as it should.
I know, I could have Doctored my Pre, but it’s been done once before and I didn’t appreciate adding all of my profiles again after the cleaning. For everything.
Unfortunatelty, the whole Palm Profile thing barely worked the way it easily should have and I had to re-enter most everything into my phone. I didn’t want to go through that again, so I was hoping the new 1.3.5 update would fix everything.
Well, again, I didn’t uninstall any of the patches and finally decided that my palm Pre needed another cleaning and finally ran Web OS Doctor again. It was flushed to new factory settings and I was able to enter my Palm Profile. But, I ended up having to add all profiles again and now have many duplicate contacts in my phone (but not in my Gmail contacts. Any ideas?).
But happily, I was able to install and re-install all patches and apps I wanted. Including Vitual Keyboard! Also, although I needed to re-install paid for apps manually (Tweed and Post’er-from which I’m typing from), they remained free to re-download, thankfully!
By the way, Post’er was impossible to find via search in the App Dir (“Post”, “WP”, “WordPress”, “ter”). Last resort was scrolling by release date (hoping the update will be available soon with images, categories and hopefully tagging) which had been more than a couple of weeks and a lot of apps earlier.
Needless to say, I’m an extremely satisfied early Palm adaptor! Congratulations!
And one last thing, 1970Mueller rocks for my theme. Great work. A donation is forthcoming!
If it were nine years ago for me, today would be the perfect day to not take a shower, put on some comfy clothes with a sweatshirt and baseball hat, and head to Hollywood Park Casino or Commerce Casino.
In fact, I would’ve been there for the past few hours. Regardless if I was up or down, the plan would have been based on the fact that if I have this much time before I have to be somewhere, then that was the amount of time I was gonna play for.
I was pretty good at sticking to this plan, but more often times than not, I really didn’t have to be anywhere at any certain time. So I’d spend more than a few hours feeding my compulsion. Some times more than for 24 hours at a time. Barely getting up to pee, for I’d miss more than a hand.
I was enticed by not necessarily the thousands, no tens of thousands of dollars I could potentially win, or of the amount of money I could potentially lose, but more so by the fact that I had the control to ruin everything I am or have on a hand of cards or the flip of a coin, or a game of basketball, baseball, football or hockey.
You could say I have a high-desire for control. Control of things I have the power to control and those I don’t. This led, by building over the course of many years, my culture as an impressionable kid, and certain situations I had become accustomed to (read The Outliers, by Malcom Gladwell), to my compulsion to gamble. I needed this kind of action, this kind of rush!
If it hadn’t been for the time I’ve had without placing a bet and the meetings I still attend (and will attend for the rest of my life), I might just say that today IS the perfect day to drive the 40 miles to Commerce. My family is at Disney on Ice and I have only myself to take care of. I could get to my dads house a bit late, or maybe bow-out at the last minute anyway (really, it’d only be me anyway). I’d be able to get in at least five or six hours of hold em’, or more’ in.
So why not?
Well, it would be the beginning of my new mindset of: “It’ll only be for a few hours,” that would inevitably lead to more hours. It would lead to lying to everyone close to me. And especially lying to myself. I know better. If I went to play poker today, or any other day (or exposed myself to any kind of gamble), it would lead to devastation. I would lose everything I’ve built by not gambling (and everything I ever hoped for while gambling). Family, business, home, and life.
After more than eight and a half years of abstaining from placing any kind of bet, I can say that although I may still have a great desire for control, I’ve learned that I don’t have control over things I can’t control. I know that I can’t control others, nor can I control myself when I gamble.
I know inside that I can not gamble like a normal person.
There is only one true way to stop gambling. Yes, I said stop gambling and not controlling my gambling.
If, you ended up reading this post somehow, and can relate to any of what I wrote about, please read that last paragraph again.
Shoot me an email or tweet if you want to talk about it.
I’ve been using the Palm Pre since day one. If I had any access to it before it came out on June 6th of this year, I would’ve jumped at the opportunity. In fact, I was in line at 6am to pick one up.
I followed all news and information since it was just a rumor. Watched the vidcast when it was introduced and even signed up to the Pre Dev Camp group (even though I haven’t developed since I was 8). I’ve owned every single device Palm’s produced since the Palm Pilot 5000 came out from 3Com. And, I just bought my wife the Pixi!
In fact, I was an organization freak using casio electronic organizers when they came out and a cel phone user when they first became available. After the humongous “brick” stage, of course.
When Palm introduced the Treo Flip (what was the name of that again?), I was in heaven. I thought that was enough. And when the 300 came out, then the 600, I was all over them.
But since I’ve been using the Pré, I can’t think of a device that makes more sense. Physically-speaking. The hardware’s virtually perfect.
It’s comfortable to hold (smaller and more form-fitting than the iPhone). Comfortable to talk on. If you think about it, it has the largest screen possible for its perfect size. Has a great physical keyboard (ala Treo), and is extremely durable.
For all of those things, WebOS makes it complete. Especially since Palm is leaving it open-source and promoting creativity among the developer community.
How much better can a communication, organization, and cloud device get?
are using the Touchstone charger.
I recently installed the Close Slider To End Calls patch on my Palm Pre. It worked great, except for the fact that I already became accustomed to ending with the button or just waiting it out until the call ended.
Needless to say there were a few hang-ups (sorry guys).
I figured that I’d get used to it and hang up by sliding it closed, but I realized there was a glitch, so I just installed it.
If you like it and use it, great. No problems. But if the phone is charging on your Touchstone, too bad, because it seems that you can’t even answer the call.
Typically when the Pre rings while on the Touchstone, you can pick it up, and without hitting any buttons, the call would automatically be answered. Now, with the patch installed, picking up the Pre causes the call to hang-up.
I’m not sure if touching any buttons prior to picking up the call would do anything, but I removed the patch anyway.
I suppose I already became accustomed to answering just by picking up the Pre from my Touchstone.
In other words, don’t install the Close Slider To End Calls patch if you use the Touchstone.
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