Wow, I was finally able to update the firmware in my Treo 650 using Palm’s instructions for the Mac platform. The last time I tried that, with version 1.04, I gave up in frustration after about five attempts and updated the darned thing with my gaming PC.
This time, I tried the SD Card update method. That didn’t work, so I tried installing it with the HotSync method for version 1.05a. Even though I was using Missing Sync (and thus had to mentally translate their instructions), the process worked.
The update includes a new option to fetch the time zone from the carrier. Before this change, the Treo was apparently only able to get the date and time from the carrier.
Meanwhile, Palm has DST Update for select devices, which I’d already installed and run.
Oh, and Verizon sent me a text message today to let me know I needed to patch my Treo, and that they had DST information for their devices.
I practically collapsed in a fit of laughter, as we were reviewing our DST documentation in the office at that very moment.