Palm has indeed (finally) come out with the rom update that they have been promising for quite a while. Given how long it took to get here, I would have hoped the install would be less painful, but it did work — I think.
Part of the problem is that they didn’t include the standard “Here’s how you tell you’ve been updated” information on their website. That, plus the fact that it shut off part way through, and I had to reset it to get it to finish, makes me wonder whether I actually got the whole update or not. I’ll play with it tonight, to see if I can figure that out.
A worse problem was that, on the first sync after the update, it (together with The Missing Sync) caused all my contacts to be thrown away. Luckily, I managed to catch this before a .Mac Sync happened. Reseting my sync info fixed the problem on my Mac and the next sync fixed the LD too. The alternative would have been too frightening to consider: .Mac would have happily taken the trashed contact info and distributed it to all my Macs, almost guaranteeing that it would have been an unrecoverable problem.
Oh well, I didn’t brick the LD, and the Mac’s (appear to) still have all the right data on them, so I guess I can declare this as another typical Palm update. oao.
I did the Update last yesterday. It seems to have gone ok, although I did have to reset it part way through to get it to finish, which was a little disturbing. In any case, as far as I can tell the new versions of the apps are all there, so it appears to have worked.
Unfortunately, I’ve also crashed once since doing the update. Of course, that’s no worse than it was before, so I can’t say it was a side-effect of anything other than the lousy design of the LD.