Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Posts: 19

Has anyone had trouble receiving beams with their Prism? I just got a new one and it seems to not want to receive beams. It looks like it times out after a while. Pretty weird.

Registered: Mar 2000
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Posts: 98

Hold it away from whatever you are beaming to/from. I mean like 2-4 feet. It will work. Trust me.

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Visor Enthusiast and Innogear/Geodiscovery basher.

Registered: Nov 2000
Location:
Posts: 714

Could be bad IR hardware, had it in one of my Prisms and had to return it.

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Matt Nichols
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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Indiana
Posts: 6

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Originally posted by Slacker
Hold it away from whatever you are beaming to/from. I mean like 2-4 feet. It will work. Trust me.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location:
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Beaming Problems

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Originally posted by kevinklee
Has anyone had trouble receiving beams with their Prism? I just got a new one and it seems to not want to receive beams. It looks like it times out after a while. Pretty weird.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: South Texas
Posts: 11

Beamining Clearly!

Yea, had the same trouble. Even returned the first unit I purchased; it's the distance. This is actually a GOOD thing though I think. Now I can beam and receive across a table, etc., without having to hold the units directly together. Ever since I separated the units a foot or two, etc., haven't had any trouble!!

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 604

I've had the same problem - I can't wait to see if this is the fix.

Registered: Dec 2000
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Visor Prism IR Beaming

My brother and I have been trying to get my Visor Deluxe and His Visor Prism to Beam to each other. So far, no workee.
We've tried the distance thing already and hard resetted the Prism. No go. Any new ideas? Besides possible bad IR hardware that is...

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<b>Pete Vargas Mas</b><br>
<i>Phoenix, AZ, USA</i>

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Posts: 19

I have had the same problem trying to beam to a Visor Deluxe. Any ideas?

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Astoria, NY
Posts: 1

Goto your preferences and turn your Beam Receive to On. Yuo can also turn your Auto-off up.

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: South Texas
Posts: 11

Re: Visor Prism IR Beaming

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Originally posted by pvargasmas
My brother and I have been trying to get my Visor Deluxe and His Visor Prism to Beam to each other. So far, no workee.
We've tried the distance thing already and hard resetted the Prism. No go. Any new ideas? Besides possible bad IR hardware that is...

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Nashville,TN
Posts: 8

I have had my prism for about 3 weeks now. I have had 2 occurrences where I was unable to initiate or receive an IR transfer. In both instances I was able to get the transfer to work after a soft reset. The only cause I can give is that in both cases I had been experimenting with afterburner.
Frank

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 110

I've had my Prism about three weeks also, and while getting the bugs out (WeSync, an old version of Daylight Savings Hack, etc.) I was having occasional crashes while it was hotsyncing. I discovered that the Prism will reset its preferences to "beam receive off " when it crashes while hotsyncing. Weird.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Posts: 19

Any which way, it doesn't seem like the Prism's beaming works well. I haven't heard any really positive comments yet. I like the beaming function and it is disturbing that there are so many troubles. It should be very straightforward.

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: South Texas
Posts: 11

Prism beam is find; and great!

Any which way, it doesn't seem like the Prism's beaming works well. I haven't heard any really positive comments yet. I like the beaming function and it is disturbing that there are so many troubles. It should be very straightforward.

KevinKlee:

In reply, the Prism is absolutely wonderful. Color screen which is SO MUCH better on the eyes. Way additional megs, and the beaming is not a problem. As mentioned earlier, it actually gives you more space and more distance. Understanding the distancing idea -- I can now beam across a table and/or within a meeting of 6 people without having to "line and ajoin" our Visors like peas in a pod. Basically, aim them (IR) at each other within 2 ft. and "ta-da" beam confirmed. Gotta see the ALL the wonderful good, not just the few confused and being worked out bad.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 110

Actually, since I solved the crash-while-hotsyncing problems, beaming has worked flawlessly. It was frustrating while it was happening, but I can't blame the Prism. For all I know, any Palm OS device will reset to "beam receive off" if it crashes while syncing.