Palm 680 manual Synchronization, There’s a blinking bell in the upper-left corner

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C O M M O N Q U E S T I O N S

There’s a blinking bell in the upper-left corner

The blinking bell in the upper-left corner of the screen is the Alert icon. It appears when you have alarms or messages that you haven’t acknowledged.

1Press and hold Center or tap the

blinking bell with your stylus.

2When the list of pending alerts appears, do any of the following:

•Select the text of the alert to view the item. The item stays in the list.

•Check the box next to an alert to clear it from the list, and then select Done.

Synchronization

Synchronization backs up the information from your Treo onto your computer and vice versa. If you ever need to perform a hard reset or otherwise need to erase all your information on your smartphone, you can synchronize your smartphone with your computer to restore the info. Similarly, if your computer crashes and your Palm Desktop info is damaged, you can recover

your info by synchronizing with your smartphone. To make sure you always have an up-to-date backup of your info, synchronize frequently.

This section describes synchronization between your Treo and a desktop computer running Palm Desktop software. You can also synchronize the information on your Treo using third-party applications. See the documentation for the third-party application for information on features and configuration.

Before you attempt to synchronize, make sure you’ve installed the desktop synchronization software from the Palm Software Installation CD.

TIP Every device needs a unique name. Never synchronize more than one device to the same device name on your computer.

I can’t find my user folder

Windows: If your device name is one word, your user folder name is the first six characters of your device name. If your device name is two words, your user folder name consists of the first six characters of

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