So far it seems to be a mixed bag for me.

The install instructions looked easy enough but it was a huge pain in the butt for me. While Hotsyncing, my Treo and my PC kept losing the connection and so everything wasn’t getting transferred over and the installation would no auto-start on my Treo. Then when trying again, it would say “not enough memory” even though I had more than 15 MB, but I could resolve this by deleting the partial firmware files. I am not sure, but I think some of these problems were due to BackupBuddy, Sunrise, Photos, and other conduits getting in the way and causing errors. At least my first good Hotsync was after disabling all those conduits (something that I didn’t see in the Palm docs).

Once installed my phone info says:

Software: Treo650-1.13-ROW
Firmware: 01.28

The difference it made in memory is impressive. Whereas, I had about 4 MB free before, I now have 12.5 MB free! Also, it could be my imagination, but in the one or two test calls that I placed, it seemed that the volume was much better.

But not all is perfect:

• When I transferred back my data, not everything transferred properly. I lost my Metro cities, my VersaMail and XpressMail configurations, McPhling, my phone settings, and I don’t know what else. Irritating because I made a backup before the install with BackupBuddy and I thought that was supposed to take care of everything?
• Resets. I’ve had 4 or 5 resets already since last night. Errgh. One of them is reproducible – I get it while trying to sync any email account in XpressMail (#*377 just reports “Fatal Exception” – oh, thanks :-)). Great. It was nice being able to read work email, but I guess I’m not going to be doing that anymore! Maybe I can fix this by reinstalling XpressMail?

Update 2005-06-20: I got XpressMail working again by deleting it and reinstalling.