re: Hotsync Crashes (invalid page fault) - [Palm] address book
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3932 messages posted)
The way you _intended_ your post to appear
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/post?1237131196
did *not* come thru:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1237131196
The first 2 paragraphs here are worth reading:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1217046552
AlbertC wrote:
|I'm trying to sync between a Samsung i500 and my win 98se computer
|using Palm desktop 4.1 and Hotsync Manager 4.0.4.
|It's been working great for YEARS but I did something and now it always crashes.
|
So, it seems obvious something has become corrupted.
|I CAN'T update to XP or Vista...
|
While those may move you forward in time, neither of those is an upgrade.
(Think: Product Activation; Windows Genuine DISAdvantage; DRM)
|...because I have a full office of these computers
|running software that CAN'T run on newer systems [1]
|
Win2000 was the last M$ OS without the extra nonsense.
If you feel you are chained to The Borg[1],
Arminius' advice on choice of OS may be apt.
http://www.pricewatch.com/software_oper_system/
Going off-script for this site:
A single copy of W2k can be installed on multiple computers
(though, unlike Linux/GPL, that isn't strictly legit).
|I usually sync between REA (a little organizer program) and Palm and my phone,
|but that crashed so I EXPORTED the address database
|(in a comma delimited form)
|then brought up the database in Works
|and cleaned it out of comma's and any bad records I could find.
|
I can sense the desperation.
You weren't very specific about your technique
--like what is left in the edited version to use for delimiters.
If you are trying to use this as a space-delimited format,
don't fields already contain spaces?
I'm also thinking the app you used to edit it inserted linebreaks
(where a hex editor wouldn't have).
|But it still crashes after I import the records
|(they import fine into Palm Desktop) when I do a Hotsync.
|
It is unclear whether you are talking about the *original* file or the edited one.
|As soon as it gets to the address book while syncing it crashes.
|
|I've tried uninstalling Palm Desktop AND doing a HARD reboot on my phone,
|then syncing with NO addresses. That worked once.
|But then when I imported the addresses in Palm Desktop,
|on the next HotSync it crashed again (invalid page fault).
|
Here's the standard boilerplate:
cache of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-002
(Good links there as well.)
You've run SCANDISK and looked in Device Manager, we ASSuME.
What I'm thinking is **borked device driver**.
...and, of course, the fewer things you have running, the fewer things to go wrong:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1127247347
Hint: Unplugging your 'Net connection
will allow you to kill some "security"[2] processes.
We're also ASSuMEing you run a firewall when online
and have scanned the box(es) for infections.
Arminius' *try a different computer* advice
is something I didn't think of right away
and I should be ashamed of myself for missing that.
There's also the issue that Micros~1 OSes co-mingle instructions and data in RAM.
There is no end to the problems this causes e.g.
http://google.com/search?q=Buffer-overflow
Your corrupted/edited file could be falling into this hole.
|My address book is about 10,700 records, I don't know if that is the problem.
|
Have you looked for a Usenet newsgroup / forum for the Samsung/Palm?
http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dalt.comp.sys.palmtops
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search
http://www.google.com/search?q=Samsung+Palm+inurl:forums+OR+inurl:forum
[1] Have you tried to run your must-have apps under WINE?
(In turn, running under Linux)
Your local Linux
Users Group could help you try this.
Many people find that WINE is more Windows-compatible than Windoze.
...and, of course, Linux and WINE are Free Software (gratis AND libre).
[2] ...if you consider band-aids to be "security".
cache of http://slashdot.org/tech/09/03/10/1942232.shtml#27140901
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