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minnesotafox · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: Windows vista & palm tungsten W

I am looking for help with my palm tungsten W and windows Vista, they aren't getting along. We have a new laptop w/ vista installed and it won't recognize my old cellphone I am using as a paperless pda. I have downloaded the most recent palm desktop ACCESS which does not mention Vista in the compatibility list. My Garmin Vista HCx works great but I don't want to spend $100 + on a new pda. Can I fix this or should I spring for a new Oregon with my coupon.

Thanks for any help.

-Lonnie

minnesotabrad · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

Use a coupon. Wink

Palm's and Vista do not play well together.

m&tcacheseekers · Geocacher Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 101

we have 2 tungsten w pda's along with a desktop computer running windows xp home and an acer laptop with windows vista home basic
and we are able to use our pda with both machines and download geocaching data using cachemate. what problems are you having??
we will try to help you out.
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m&tcacheseekers · Geocacher Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 101

here is the link to the webpage we downloaded the tungsten w software for windows vista

http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/windesk414.html

what cable do you have to use to connect your palm to your computer, we have a cradle with ac power connection
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Got GAS... (geocaching addiction syndrome)

fireman121 · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

GSAK 6.???, Palm Z22 and Vista don’t get along much better.
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m&tcacheseekers · Geocacher Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 101

gsak 7, cachemate, z22 XP worked fine here till z22 went swimming

fireman121 · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject:

I was using GSAK 7.0 and I got tired of the Nag Screen, and I was hoping not to pay for the upgrade.
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Remember One does not need the MNGCA to geocache, but the MNGCA does need members to survive.

minnesotafox · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject:

I have GSAK 7 & cachmate, I tried the link to palm 4.xx but I have a newer version installed already, when I export the PDB file I get an abnormal program termination file runtime error.

I think I found a palm Z22 on craiglist for $25, that seems like the way to go. A little more current and supported by palm for Vista. I should be able to get Vista to be happy. Thanks for the help.

-Lonnie

m&tcacheseekers · Geocacher Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 101

we found that with the z22 we had issues of not being able to see the screen in bright light... the backlight on the tungsten w made things much easier for us to use. we uninstall all palm software from our vista machine and installed the palm desktop and hotsync from the above listed link and have had no problems with it.

minnesotafox · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I didn't uninstall the old, I'll try that. We are running Vista home premium but that should be the same. We'll see.

ghost640 · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:52 pm Post subject:

I have Vista, GSAK and my T3 working together, but one trick I've used is to avoid the Palm install routine. I just have GSAK write the PDB file directly to my SD card, then have Cachemate rescan the card. That works fine and avoids bugs in the install program.

seldon · Geocacher Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 16

How do I load the gsak export file to the palm card, and then how do I get cachmate to rescan the card for the info? Have zire71, and new Vista machine, and they don't want to hotsync the cachmate files.

ghost640 · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: vista and palm