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February 10 Treo 650 with FAT32 support!Well it's been a while since my last blog entry. I've been busy so I didn't even have time to report on the firmware version 1.71FW-1.20SW that came out a couple of months ago. It's the first Treo 650 firmware that successfully addresses DBCache management issues introduced with NVFS. Now the Treo 650 can release DBCache when it's about to be filled up. Bluetooth support is also more reliable than previous versions. All in all, 1.71/1.20 is a version that I could finally install onto my colleagues' Treos and forget about it. Unless someone gets really experimental and installs tons of unstable 3rd party programs, a Treo 650 running 1.71/1.20 should just be running fine for weeks without any random resets or the need to reset it manually to free up DBCache.
A few days ago, the mighty Shadowmite, Treo hacker extraordinaire, released a FAT32 support file that he got out from the ROM of a pre-production Treo 700p. After replacing the original FATFS.prc with this one in the ROM and re-flashing the firmware, voila! The Treo 650 can now support SD cards larger than 2GB! Even better yet, Palm has obviously done a great job rewriting the file system codes and as a result reading/writing of my existing FAT16 card is now distinctively faster than before. Since I rely on programs like Quick News and AvantGo which store their data on SD cards, this new FAT32 "hack" is such a welcome update. Great job Shadowmite, we Treo fans owe you big time! :)
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