Cachemate will not load on my Palm

[+beerbrewer737]

Long story short: My palm m105 would not hotsync, did hard reset (batteries out for 5 minutes), cachemate icon gone, placed cachemate.prc and mathlib.prc in quick install, palm will hotsync but they do not load on my palm.

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[+Fuchsiamagic]

Long story short: My palm m105 would not hotsync, did hard reset (batteries out for 5 minutes), cachemate icon gone, placed cachemate.prc and mathlib.prc in quick install, palm will hotsync but they do not load on my palm.

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Not much information to go on. Has it ever worked before, or this this something new you are trying?

[+eyesofice2us]

Long story short: My palm m105 would not hotsync, did hard reset (batteries out for 5 minutes), cachemate icon gone, placed cachemate.prc and mathlib.prc in quick install, palm will hotsync but they do not load on my palm.

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Not much information to go on. Has it ever worked before, or this this something new you are trying?

Check to make sure your COM port is the same set, I had that also and had to change com ports..

[+Miragee]

If the Palm will HotSync, are you sure you put the .prc files in the correct folder to be added to the Palm when it HotSyncs?

[+team5150]

It might be the same problem that you were having with the .pdb files, no support yet from palm. Link

You might try posting in the cachemate forums.

[+Miragee]

Yet another reason to not upgrade to newer OSs . . .

 

My laptop has XP Media Center and HotSyncing without getting a "Blue Screen of Death" is a tricky operation.

[+ghost640]

There are a couple workaround posted on the Palm site - one is to copy the PDB to an SD card and move it into Palm's memory. I'll try this & report back, would love to have cachemate working again.

[+NightPilot]

Don't copy the file to the install folder, open the Quick Install tool and add it from there. Just being in the folder isn't enough.

[+beerbrewer737]

Well my palm will hotsync...if I create a name in the address 'folder' in the Pam desktop it'll show up on the Palm after the hotsync. I deleted cachemate and reinstalled it with no change.

 

Should I give up on cachemate? If so what is a good replacemant that'll work with GSAK?

[+beerbrewer737]

I don't think there is a problem hotsyncing (...if I create a name in the address 'folder' in the Pam desktop it'll show up on the Palm after the hotsync.)

 

Before I throw in the towel I'd like to ask everyone something: could someone (using Vista if possible) give me step by step instructions in the downloading, unzipping and loading of cachemate from the website (smittyware) to my palm.

 

Maybe I am doing someting wrong and don't even realize it.

 

Thanks

[+ghost640]

I can tell you what I do know, which may or may not help your problem.

 

Hotsync works fine under Vista (with fiddlling) - the problem is that the Palm QuickInstall program will not run under Vista. My problem was that I had Cachemate on my Palm, but could not add new PDB files. I figured out how to do this today:

 

Solution: Simple in retrospect (after killing the morning on this).

 

Create PDB file with GSAK

Insert SD card into the PC's card reader

Create a directory called /CacheMate

Copy PDB file to /Cachemate

 

Next time you boot up the Palm, it will scan the card and import caches from all the PDB files in that directory.

 

So that solved that problem.

 

My advise to you, BeerBrewer, is to find someone with a non-Vista PC (hopefully that also uses a Palm) and use their Quickinstall to install Cachemate. I know that's lousy advice, except that it should work, and be a one-time deal (with luck). After that, you can use the SD card trick above to get caches onto your Palm.

 

Good luck!

Ghost

[+beerbrewer737]

Thanks Ghost for the reply. However, I don't think it'll work for me as my palm does not have an SD slot (M105).

 

I might be in the market for a new palm.

[+ghost640]

Thanks Ghost for the reply. However, I don't think it'll work for me as my palm does not have an SD slot (M105).

 

I might be in the market for a new palm.

 

That will work, but wait till they come out with Vista support!

[+hisgrace1]

what size sd card did you purchase...i'm having the same problem I purchased a used 515 from e-bay with no manuals or cd's...i donloaded gsak and purchased cachemate but haven't a clue how to get it on my palm.............

[+VENTUREMAN7/ "A" TEAM"]

what size sd card did you purchase...i'm having the same problem I purchased a used 515 from e-bay with no manuals or cd's...i donloaded gsak and purchased cachemate but haven't a clue how to get it on my palm.............

 

Sent you a PM

[+Jenischmeni]

I may only know enough to be dangerous but...I want to take a stab at this with a couple of options.

 

A lot of cheap gizmos & gadgets come with card reader accessories. My daughter had this (cheap) little music player called a juice box that used SD cards. It actually came with an adapter that the SD card went into and then plugged into the USB of our computers. It ends up being the thing we use on the computers that don't have the ability to insert SD cards. (But I did read that the poster's palm did not use SD card.)

 

Can you access the Palm like an external drive when it's hooked up to the computer by it's hot sync cord and transfer over that way? I honestly can't test this method myself (or I would have). I have issues hot syncing the Palm by cord and can only do it wirelessly. (I've written Palm - it's a 38 step process to fix and ultimately it'll wipe out/reset the Palm. Not my most favorite fix since I can do it wirelessly without resetting.)

 

Again, I apologize if I'm mudding the waters.

 

I do know that there are a lot or work arounds for Vista. My son has Vista and has been successful at getting everything to work. Unfortunately, he's not that familiar with Cachemate. BUT, when he's home later, I will have him contact the OP with some Vista recommendations.

[+hisgrace1]

Ok so I purchase the Palmvista simple Installer...and still can't get cachemate on my palm....it hotsync's apparently just fine but that is it...I'm ready to throw this in the garbarge.....