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Actually that's not entirely true. When I first insert my Minstrel S is starts up the YadaYada Launcher, but it gets hung up and never finishing displaying icons. If I then do a soft reset with the Minstrel, it starts up and then gives me the "Removing Minstrel" dialog screen and then the rest of the system works fine, but doesn't recognize that there's anything in the Springboard.

Any thoughs from the collective wisdom of this group?

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I can't get my Visor to recognize that the modem is even plugged in. This may require a hard reset -

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"Any thoughts from the collective wisdom of this group?"

One word: OmniSky.

Sorry...I don't mean to be flip - but all of these mysterious problems and errors and failures are the reason I decided to bail out of YY and switch to OmniSky, at least on a trial basis. If I was premature, so be it, but at least I can use my modem again.

I can't give much of a critique of OmniSky yet, as I cannot use it from my home, but I'll be traveling with it again tomorrow and will do a more exhaustive shakedown. So far, in one day's trial, I have been able to receive and send email from my ISP without problems and that is my #1 priority. I have installed the new Beta version of Blazer, which I'll also be trying out.

I really liked YY and bear them no ill will at all, but at this time they obviously have some "issues", as the saying goes. If I am wrong and it all clears up and straightens out I will be very happy for them and for the loyal folks who have hung in there; in the meanwhile I need to use that modem, with which ever service will do the job!

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I wish Omnisky was an option, but I'm a Deluxe owner. Thought about doing the upgrade when Omnisky came out, but I had bought my Deluxe from Handspring before they were available retail and never got a receipt from them, so Omnisky wouldn't give me the rebate.

Anyway, it seems that the Yadsa software that is on the ROM in the modem and the new version were conflicting. I deleted anything it would let me, off the Visor and the Minstrel. Then the launcher on the Minstrel worked fine. Reinstalled 4.0 all the way from downloading the file from YadaYada. Ended up with the same problem.

So I've done a hard reset. Reinstalling from my backup module which is 2 days old and will just stick with the earlier version of the software for now.

Cnegrad - I will try your suggestion once I'm back running and see if I get anything working.

Thanks

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I wish Omnisky was an option, but I'm a Deluxe owner.

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How's Go America's coverage & software? I know absolutely nothing about them. Do you have a url? I'm afraid that if I go with a "minor player", that they might go belly-up too, and I'll end up at Omni anyway....

Here's hoping YY sticks around...

-cnegrad

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How's Go America's coverage & software? I know absolutely nothing about them. Do you have a url? I'm afraid that if I go with a "minor player", that they might go belly-up too, and I'll end up at Omni anyway....

Here's hoping YY sticks around...

-cnegrad

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GoAmerica looks great, but on their website, there is no mention of the Visor Deluxe (at least none that I could find). Instead, they say the following

"Go Wireless Now-Add GoAmerica's Minstrel S Wireless Modem Designed Exclusively for the Handspring Visor Platinum and Visor Prism"

So once again, I am left with the same head-shaking feeling I get when considering Omnisky. . . will it, or won't it work on a Vdx?

Hopefully this is all for naught and YadaYada won't be folding their tent soon. (I hope)

Ron

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Found a YY reference at this link [stay away if you're averse to profanity]:

http://www.f---edcompany.com/

The gist is that Thursday there were going to be layoffs. Not good!

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I still have no service from Yada. I�m pretty fed-up with this company. There�re not answering their phones, no status updates on their website�nothing. I�m ever so close to calling my credit card company and blocking any payments to Yada (If they dare bill me). I know some of you might be saying to give them a chance, "But come on" at least keep us informed if you still want or business.

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I can't grab a registration on the network. So Eric tried helping me with a couple Verizon technicians. They gave me one IP, no luck... then a test IP and it worked.

I know they are still providing service but I just can't get on the network.

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First post -- sorry if I botch any netiquette.

I signed up for YY for my visor deluxe a few weeks ago, had it working, then had it die. A tech directed me to the novatelwireless.com firmware update, which i got and installed. the modem seemed to work then, but yy produced constant fatal exceptions, and apparently had taken down the avantgo browser with it. of course, no access to tech support any more. i was still getting good connections (wash, dc) according to the minstrel utility.

i installed yy4 yesterday, which apparently cleaned up the corrupted stuff from yy3 well enough that as of this morning i get a good connection and can browse again. for how long, who knows.

c.

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Novatel WIreless firmware update

Forinash,

Could you provide the link to that? What kind of update does it entail? Thanks.

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i mentioned two upgrades, the novatel firmware and yy4 software.

i got the firmware upgrade from http://www.novatelwireless.com/support/downloads.html#1 based on the yy tech's recommendation to fix my numerous fatal exception crashes. he told me to get http://www.novatelwireless.com/supp...load/min32.zip, which i stupidly did without noticing that it requires palm os 3.3+, which my vdx doesn't support (right?). i went back and got http://www.novatelwireless.com/supp.../Minstrel30.zip and installed (it's just a single .prc) and the modem itself has connected fine since then -- just the yy corruption (which seemed to corrupt the avantgo browser as well).

i got the yy4 upgrade at http://my.yadayada.com/yy/download/YadaYada.exe. after installed via running the .exe and hotsyncing, first time i went into yy on the visor it took a couple of minutes zipping, unzipping, deleting and installing a number of apps. but then first time i ran the yy browser, it worked fine. c.

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looks like you'll have to get the yy4 upgrade by drilling down from http://www.yadayada.com.