Treo 680 frustration

[indigo_rose99]

I ordered my new Treo 680 just before Christmas, got it just after Christmas.  The transfer of information was a bumpy road.  After a frustrating week of using it, I contacted Palm and they agreed that I had a lemon.  They sent me a new one that arrived just before I stepped on a plane to France.

The transfer of data from the lemon 680 to the new 680 went relatively smoothly.  I did not install any of my bluetooth apps, did not install TomTom before I left, and my new 680 has been working smoothly. 

Except...  Except when I arrived in France, connected to the internet and tried to sync with my laptop, it refused to connect.  The sync worked fine when I was in Texas, but here the Treo swears that it cannot detect the laptop.  The only things that have changed are (1)  I am physically in France and (2) I am using a different cable.  Same laptop, same Treo, same me.  No software updates to laptop or Treo.

I went to the Palm website and searched out reasons it would not sync.  I went through their troubleshooting list., full of reboots and tests.  Nothing works.  The only thing I can think of that I have not currently tried is a different sync cable.

Suggestions would be really welcome!

Comments

Nevermind.

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

Un f-ing believable.

After writing this, I had a brainstorm from two things:
(1)Got an email from Palm today about an update to the Treo that would allow it to use 4GB cards. ...Huh? One of the reasons I upgraded was because I knew I could use the 4GB card.
(2) During the upgrade from the lemon, I discovered that my 4GB card was a problem child. Cleaned it out, and operations went smoother. Most of my upgrade went through with the SD card sitting on the table beside me.

So, perhaps if I try to sync without the card...? Hey, I've tried everything else.

And it worked.

^%*&^@#!!!!

Re: Nevermind.

[ovrclokd.livejournal.com]

ooooh... suck, suck, suck.

is it possible that the 4G card is part of the reason your original 680 was acting up?

on the bright side, i'm really glad you finally got the sync to work! and hopefully the treo upgrade will iron out whatever card problem you're having. *hug*

TomTom?

[mac-the-mike.livejournal.com]

Does your Treo 680 have a GPS receiver? My Treo 700wx doesn't have that.

Re: TomTom?

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

No. When I had the 650 I bought the TomTom Navigator 5 to accompany it. There is a separate GPS receiver about the size of a stack of long business cards.