Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Cape Elizabeth, ME USA
Posts: 73

In using OmniSky exclusively for sending prescriptions, it is distracting to see all these other unwanted programs on the screen.

How can they be deleted?

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Mountain View, CA
Posts: 211

One way

Well one way to do it is to manually delete them from your visor and everytime you put in the Omnisky modem it will tell you installation is incomplete. All you have to do when that pops up is hit the Home button instead of Ok. Tada! I do that because I don't use Yahoo messenger and need the memory.

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Cape Elizabeth, ME USA
Posts: 73

OmniSky deletions

VisorGuy2,

I get you so far, but this system is new to me, and my PDA has a gazillion wierd titles that run my stuff.

What can OmniSky live without, and become the stripped-down wireless prescription monster I dream of?

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Mountain View, CA
Posts: 211

hmmmm

I believe that It can live without all of the apps that are loaded on the visor and run them from directly off the module, even OS Mail and such, I haven't tried this though.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 38

As a new OmniSky user, I'm going to bring this post back to the front and see if anyone can shed some more light on this subject.
I personally don't use a lot of the PQA's and files that OS "dumps" onto my VPR. What is the bare minimum that OS need to run? Can you run it strictly from the module? How? Is there a list of files somewhere that it downloads and which ones are OK to delete?
Any help appreciated.
cw

Registered: Nov 2000
Location: New York City
Posts: 76

You can certainly delete PQA's. Use a utility like Zarf's Catalog that let's you see the .pdb's on you Visor. PQA's are all of type "pqa" and have .pqa extensions. You can delete any you don't use here. I, for instance, don't trade stocks, so I deleted all the online broker PQA's. Not all the clipping apps that show up in the OS app show up here however, so there are many you cannot delete, or I haven't figured out where they reside. I'd love to get rid of all the sports related ones, if anyone can tell me how. I never use Yahoo Messenger, so I've deleted that without any problem.

I'd be leary of deleting the RAM copy of OSMail or the OS main app if you use them at all. When I tried, it seemed to make the system unstable (but then again, so many things make the system unstable, it's hard to isolate any particular cause ). It would work OK for while, but then start crashing left and right. Someone posted somewhere that OS said these apps were transfered to RAM because they're written to when they're used. I don't know if that last bit makes any sense. Can anyone confirm?

You can't, of course, get rid of the icons for the apps that reside in ROM. I created dummy category in which I dump icons I don't want to look at.

Hope this helps.

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 308

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Originally posted by valodya
I'd be leary of deleting the RAM copy of OSMail or the OS main app if you use them at all. When I tried, it seemed to make the system unstable (but then again, so many things make the system unstable, it's hard to isolate any particular cause ).

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