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Jun 17, 2005

Healthy Hard Resets on Zodiac

The Tapwave Zodiac is the fourth PalmOS device I've owned and used extensively. Without exception, I've found that doing an occasional hard reset on the device helps performance and recovers wasted RAM.

Before you hard reset, make sure you do a complete HotSync and backup, and note any special configuration settings. On the Zodiac, you can do a hard reset by holding down the Power Button and inserting the stylus tip in to the reset pinhole on the back of the device.

A hard reset of my Zodiac last week recovered 1.5MB of RAM, and performance is noticeably snappier.

I did have issues with boot-up crashes after my first HotSync. It turned out to be some bluetooth configuration files. I simply removed them from the local backup directory (usually in a directory like C:\Program Files\palmOne\YourName\Backup), and reset / reSync. Here are the files I had to remove:

06/05/2005  04:35 PM               502 Bluetooth_Device_Cache.PDB
06/05/2005  04:35 PM               260 Bluetooth_Trusted_Devices.PDB
06/05/2005  04:35 PM               239 BtExgLibDB.PDB
06/05/2005  04:36 PM             1,666 ConnectionMgr50DB.PDB
06/05/2005  04:38 PM             3,135 MMExtraISPs.PRC
06/05/2005  04:38 PM            90,772 Net_Library.PRC
06/05/2005  08:42 PM            35,508 Saved_Preferences.PRC

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