tips: bypass keyguard

When you set-up the keyguard on your treo 650, it will lock your phone after it goes to sleep - depend on the setting on the preference - to avoid any accidental keyboard pressed.

but when you wake the phone up, the lock still active, and you need to press the center of the d-pad to activate it.

so it need two step for the treo to be function normal, first waking it up by pressing the red phone button, then pressing the central button of d-pad.

btw, there's a shortcut for it, so you only need one step to wake your treo up.
it's done by pressing the alt button (the blue button) with the red phone button.
your treo 650 will instantly active.

source: id-palmOS milis.

fun with your contacts, and scroll a la blackberry

Treoblle is an application to ease you scrolling your contacts in fast. the display of the contacts name in big font is nice too.
You can scroll the contact list by stylus - i preferred using my finger - up and down smoothly.
press and move your finger/stylus up and down until specific name. to see the phone number/e-mail of the person, you need to press-hold for a second for the info to pop up.
it can operated by d-pad, but it loose the fun.

additionally to imitate a blackberry side scrolling, you might want to install treoSkey to emulate the volume button of your treo into scrolling button.
after you install the treoSkey, it will be installed under preference. open your preference, on section 'Other' you'll see treoSkey. enable it.
but somehow it's not instantly makes the treoSkey to work, after you go to your Home, press Option + side button to activate it.
now, with treoSkey so you can scroll a la blackberry on any application on your treo.

and one thing for sure, those two applications are free for use. :)

free games for treo 650

Bored with you current games on your treo 650? There's a good news from Pdamill, that they release their games for free.
free?! yes! no registration needed. just click and download.

go to Pdamill free games, then download the provided games, make sure you download the 320x320, instead of 480x320, because your treo 650 screen is 320x320.

unzip the downloaded file, then hotsync it.
if you encounter any error when running those game, try to rename the file [filename]320x320.pdb into [justfilename].pdb

a new hotsync cable

it's been months ago that i broke my hotsync cable. the pin on the right broke. but it's working just fine for synchronizing and charging.

until one month ago, the cable failing to sync. but still able to charge which sometimes causing extreme hot.

from id-palmOS mailing list, most of people suggest to clean the cable pin using cotton bud and alcohol.
I've tried it, and it wont do. the cable still fail to hotsync.

so i browse milis id-palmos' archives, and i found out that somebody just bought hotsync cable from one of the famous person ^:) in milis, zay.

later, i contact him whether he still had this hotsync cable. he said he need to check whether the cable still available.
then i arrange time to meet him in persons, since his office near by mine, but unfortunately the time is not on my side, so i failed to meet him.

i want to have discussion about my broken d-pad, zay is famous for fixing error in treo, so i wonder that he will be able to fix mine.

because there's small chances that i can meet face to face, than i request for the cable price and his bank account. i send the inquiry e-mail along with my address.

several days gone by without answer. and suddenly a package came to my house. and it's the hotsync cable!
wow! i even hadn't transfer any money yet.
now! i can hotsync, and charge with pleasure ;P

broken d-pad

i accidently dropped my treo to the floor, and then the d-pad is fell off. then i try tu put the d-pad back in. and turn out that i put it wrong, the upper side is should be the lower side.

wrong positioned d-pad cause the button hard to pressed. its kinda un-responsive.
at first it frustated me, because d-pad is the major button on treo. if it failed to response than you have to use stylus to do the work.

i try to re-plugged the d-pad, but it seem already glued back to it's container. then i look for needle. i push the needle betwen d-pad and treo body opening. then i try to levered out the d-pad, at first it seem not working, but on the second try it worked!

then i rotate the d-pad, put it back in. then d-pad function as normal

new 2400 mAh battery

3 weeks ago, i found out that my treo 650 battery is not functional as usual. it easily dropped and caused the phone to suddenly restart due to loss of power.

i think this is the time that i buy a new battery. because the current battery is already aging :)

so i contact several guy/store that might sold battery for treo 650. and to my surprise non of them has it. and one of them telling me, if i'm serious to buy from him, then he will import it.

because i need a new battery then i aggree to buy from him. and i order a seidio 2400 mAh for treo 650.

3 weeks later, the battery came.
whooho!, i'm happy. but then when i plugged the battery and charged it. no sign of recharging activity.
the treo keep shutting down after 30 seconds on. it keep saying something like "your battery is low, phone will shut down in 30 seconds."

the i examine this new battery. and i read on the back of the battery that it is for treo 680!. so i contact the guy who sell me this battery. but he said that no difference between treo 680' battery and treo 650's battery.

so i browse to seidio, on that page there's nothing that stated the treo 680's battery have compatibilty with treo 650. but, for treo 650's battery it has compatibility with Palm Treo 650/700w/700p/700wx.

and in the back of the battery it state diferent voltage between treo650's battery which is 3.6V and treo 680's battery which has 3.3V

so, the guy who sold me the battery said that he will check it out. and for the mean time he borrowed me a treo 700 battery that compatible with my treo.

installing mobile gmail application on treo 650

actually gmail mobile application cannot run on treo 650, there's some error 'lang java. something'. (even though you already install javaVM for treo.)

but this guy claimed that there's other older gmail application that can run on treo

so want to try it your self ? let me know if it is working ya?.. :)

updated 13 July 2007

mine is still not working :(
finally it's working, i need to go around, using explorer, to make the .jar file registered on JavaVM instalation

displaying alert window on treo 650 without stylus

when other treo application is active while an alert of calendar or task poped up, then the alert can be indicated by blinking asterisk icon on the left top corner of the screen.

for normal use of treo it is not needed of a stylus to touch the screen for activity.
first, i thought, i cannot displaying my alert window without touching the asterisk icon. somehow when i'm not in the mood to take off the stylus, i just using my finger to touch it.

later i found out that, it just need a 2 seconds pressing on the dpad center button on the treo 650 to display the alert window.

so for now, no need to hustle and bustle touching the icon of left top corner.