Registered: Jan 2000
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Posts: 14

I'm new to PDAs and only had my Visor a few weeks.
I was just trying to create a ShortCut called "." and it wouldn't let me because it said it would interfere ith the ShortCut ".1". Well that one is not listed in the ShortCut section, so I had no idea what it did. So I try it while I'm in the Memo section:
It moved the cursor to the beginning of the line where I started, then a small square it the very top left corner of the screen, in the "Memo 7 of 7" tab, starts blinking like a cursor. And I'm locked up (but it keeps blinking). I can't even turn it off! I hate to reset because I enter a lot of info into it today and won't remember it all.

Is this going to be my first reset, or does somebody know what I can do?!? (before my battery dies!) And what the heck is that ShortCut for???

Breathlessly awaiting any input,
Rembrandt

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

There are some shortcuts that are in the PalmOS that help developers when writing programs. The below is from Calvin's FAQ:

.1 - some sort of "debug" mode, opens the serial port. SERIOUS drain of the batteries if left open (soft reset to close)

So do a soft reset with the reset pin to fix it.

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James Hromadka
VisorCentral.com
Personal Website: http://www.Hromadka.com

Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 14

Thanks a million for the quick response.

I'm so new to this I didn't know that a soft reset doesn't lose any data (and my CD-ROM reference guide is at home). I just thought that "reset" was a bad thing and I never wanted to do it. I was thinking that a soft reset lost the data you've entered since the last sync, but kept programs and preferences, whereas hard reset lost everything and brought it back to that 'fresh from the factory' state. But I guess soft reset is no big deal.

But just to confirm the SERIOUS battery drain, it was like that for only a short while (30 minutes?) but it drained the batteries about 30% -- acccording to the stock battery icon. I haven't figured out what type of (free?) battery meter to get yet, if it's even that important versus just living with the stock one.

Nonetheless, thanks again for the quick response! This site is amazing! The things I've learned as a newbie....