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Bad things about the Treo 600, or I'm annoyed as hell

Okay, just to be "fair and balanced", I have to tell you about 2 things that I find
extremely annoying about the Treo 600. 

1) Download a ringtone, just one ringtone, and your system sounds are toast. 
Apparently you have to download a ringtone manager, but neither one of the ones that
are available work on MY device.

2) And if you do download ringtones without a ringtone manager, the next time you
synch, they'll all be gone.  All of them.  Get Smart, gone.  Pink Panther,
Gone.  Pinball Wizard, Gone.  All of them, gone. And remember, the systems
sounds are gone too. 

On the plus side, it exactly fits in the Generation 2 IPod original case.

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  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    November 24, 2003
    You are way off base on the system sounds issue... it is only you.I have downloaded many ringtones onto my 600 and I have all my system tones still in place. I have both emailed the tones and downloaded them off websites - either way, the system tones are fine. I think you have something special going on in your case. Did you have a ringtone manager on an older Treo that you migrated?
  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2003
    Ring tone-manager ? Sming-tone manager !!Has anyone tried emailing the .midi file containing the tone/sound/whatever of their choice (as attachment) to their Treo 600 ? Just click the attachment, save at the prompt and go into (or it'll probably take you to) 'manage' on the sounds screen - and there it is !! Auto inserted as a tone or ring ! And if you have them on your PC..... EASY ! IF you still have a problem with Hotsync getting rid, try editing your backup on your PC to add the tones to the config files.....
  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2004
    I can't download ringtones or maybe l don't know how to do it, all ringtones downloaded, can't be find on treo...HELP
  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2004
    same problem. download ringtones and can't find 'em...please help
  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2004
    I had a similar problem with lost ringtones. Turns out that an old palm os4 program somehow created a conflict with the ringtones and I lost them. The only way to solve the problem was to delete the old program, do a hard reset and the restore using hotsync. I can't say which program caused the conflict--I got rid of a bunch of old ones.
  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2004
    I just download the midi files, they go into my sounds directory, I can select them, it's a good thing.

    Trouble is that all the midi's I download are too frikkin long! :)
  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2004
    www.vgmusic.com - Where I get all my ringtones.
  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2004
    what is really going on? what is the real deal with this treo 600? out of 100 people, how many are satisfied and unsatisfied?
  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2004
    does 3gupload.com and vgmusic.com work for treo 600
  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2004
    I have had absolutely no issues with the Treo600. I agree with the comments about the low res screen and the voice dialing. Having owned the HP5550 had to get reaclimated to the Palm OS. I also agree this is the wrong tool if all you want are nice ring tones. However, I do wish I could find an alarm/alert tone similar to the basic Motorola Skytel pagers for SMS messaging since it now serves as my pager.
  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2004
    Go to www.infinityball.com you can download movie recorder and voice recorder for free...
  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2004
    Use the speakerphone...forget the ear bud.
  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2004
    I bought the first Treo 600 that came to Norway, and i had it for a month or so.
    I need:
    Alarm Clock
    A PDA that dont freze
    A mobil that updates when you drive and change nettwork(it only goes No Nettwork) and i have to restart the phone part.
    The phone is a greate idé, but need som upgrade.
    I only use it for the PDA now, and for powerpoint presentasions(greate) with the SD cable
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2004
    any suggestions for a good website to download the ringtones?
  • Anonymous
    July 25, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2004
    OK, I'm in.

    I got a Treo 600 from Sprint for the low low price of $600. First problem: It rebooted every time I tried to turn on the phone. If I went around the back and tried dialing anumber in order to get it to prompt me to turn on the phone, it connected in roaming mode no matter where I was. Finally, if it lost the signal, the phone would reboot. I called Sprint, who transferred me to another department, then to Handspring, who put me on hold for 15 minutes while they researched the problem and told me to bring my phone in to be exchanged.

    My "new" phone arrived a week later, and turned out to be a reconditioned phone. Two weeks after I got it, that phone died while I was on vacation. I went to the local Sprint store in San Diego, and was given a brand new phone to replace it. Sadly, since I was on vacation I didn't have access to the backup of all the data I'd uploaded for use on vacation (maps, schedules, flight information, phone numbers).

    Now I'm on phone #3 and I'm experiencing the same problems that started me off: the roaming and rebooting. I hesitate to bring the phone in again to be fixed as I fear that I'll start yet another cycle of dead phones and lost data. All I can say at this point is that after 6 loyal years, Palm is dead to me. 22 months from now, when my contract is up, I'm buying a phone with a Windows-based OS. I'll never buy anything from Palm or Sprint again.
  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2004
    Wow...I have had my treo 600 since January. Have had NO problems. I would agree with an earliery comment...go to infinityball.com and get the FREE voice recorder and movie recorder. It works great and you can save it to the mem card.

    All in all... I like.
  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2004
    is there any way i can connect my treo 600 to a serial adapter to hotsync? my comp. woln't recognize a usb.
  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 31, 2004
    Am posting this in case somebody knows the answer to my problem. I called Palm One and they couldn't figure it out. I downloaded the Palm Os software from CD and website as well. But when I try to open the PalmDesktop it will give me this message: Cannot initialize rich support text. I can HotSync, though. And the pictures that I took transferred to the Treo Pictures folder on my computer. The phone is fine. I just can't download stuff my internet/computer to my phone via the PalmDesktop. Can anyone help? I am tired of installing and deinstalling the software.
  • Anonymous
    August 01, 2004
    the Treo 600 screen comes on by itself at 03:30 and this is annoying...I contacted Sprint and they have no clue... this seems to happen with all Treo 600s
  • Anonymous
    August 02, 2004
    i love my treo 600. no problems at all.

    maybe you folks just can't use it!
  • Anonymous
    August 02, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2004
    I HAVE HAD MY TREO 600 FOR TWO WEEKS. SO FAR, I LOVE IT. I AGREE THE CAMERA IS WORHTLESS UNLESS YOU ARE IN BRIGHT LIGHT. THE SPEAKER PHONE SOUND COULD BE BETTER. I LIKE THE LIGHTED KEYPAD AND MANY OTHER FEAURES THE KYOCERA DID NOT HAVE.
  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2004
    Buy iTunes and Lightwave 3.0. Ringtones are now any mp3.... sweet
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    May 29, 2009
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    June 15, 2009
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