Hope is renewed for those of us wanting to buy the new PalmOne Tungsten T5. PalmOne is aware of the calendar glitch and is indeed working on a patch fix. Hopefully it will be a real fix and they will take care of the digitizer and delete confirmation dialog problems also.
Here's what was posted on the PalmOne support site when I searched for FAQ items for the T5...
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Solution ID: 1115
Tungsten™ T5 locks up when Calendar is launched
Did you set your Calendar's default view to start on Month? We are investigating an issue that has been discovered with the Tungsten T5 handheld: when you change the default display option in Calendar to Month, your handheld may freeze the next time you launch Calendar.
What to do
palmOne engineers are working on a patch to correct this issue that occurs when you sent Month as the Calendar's default view. In the mean time, follow these steps:
To un-freeze your device, perform a soft reset.
Change the conduit action for the Backup conduit to Desktop Overwrites Handheld (here's how to change conduit action).
Perform a HotSync operation.
The Calendar should now work as it did before it locked up. Once your Calendar is restored, do not set the Calendar default view to start on Month. If you do so, you will experience the lock up again.
You'll notice that other preferences for your handheld (such as color theme, button assignments and sounds & alerts) have reverted to whatever they were at the time you last synchronized. This is because the Saved Preferences file on your handheld was replaced by the older Saved Preferences file on your desktop computer. This is expected behavior.
Change the conduit action for the Backup conduit to the setting it had before you changed it above.
Help! It didn't work.
If your handheld still locks up when you launch the Calendar application, it's possible that the Saved Preferences file on your desktop computer contains the Calendar setting that displays Month view as default (and thus causes the device to lock up when you launch Calendar). This may happen if you've performed a HotSync operation after setting the Calendar's default view, but before performing the steps above. Try these steps:
Perform a hard reset. A hard reset will delete all data on your handheld. Make sure your data is backed up properly before performing this reset. It's okay if you can't launch Calendar when you perform the HotSync operation; the calendar data itself should be backed up if you synchronize properly.
On your desktop computer, locate your user folder.
In your user folder, open the Backup folder.
In the Backup folder, delete the file named Saved_Preferences.prc (it may appear as simply "Saved_Preferences"). Note: When you delete Saved_Preferences.prc, this will remove all preferences stored on your handheld, including preferences for any third-party applications. Depending on the application, these may include:
Registration codes
Game high scores
User interface settings
You'll need to re-enter this information after you finish these steps. If you need help retrieving registration codes¹, please contact the third-party developer, who will usually email the code to you. Check with the third-party developer if you experience problems using third-party software after you delete the Saved_Preferences.prc file.
Perform a HotSync operation.
The Calendar should now work as it did before it locked up. Once your Calendar is restored, do not set the Calendar default view to start on Month. If you do so, you will experience the lock up again.
You'll notice that other preferences for your handheld (such as color theme, button assignments and sounds & alerts) have reverted to whatever they were at the time you last synchronized. This is because the Saved Preferences file on your handheld was deleted with the hard reset, and it wasn't restored from your desktop computer. This is expected behavior.
Change the conduit action for the Backup conduit to the setting it had before you changed it above.
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