cruelpupet

Since my last thread was moved (even though the purpose of it was to not sell my Treo) I guess I will have to create another one.


I along with many others here have an old treo laying around. In my case its an in amazing condition Treo 600. Are there any projects designed to use old Treos for other purposes?

I know that Wifi is not possible due to the OS not being able to handle multiple radios...what about replacing the OS. Shadowmite was working on this a while ago...does he or anyone else have linux running with Wifi?

whatever7

Dedicated SD MP3 player (in your car).

Don't laugh. They don't make SD (not miniSD) player anymore and one with a large screen would cost more than an used Treo 600.

FrozenCode

The Treo 600 operates on a TI OMAP310 processor, quite a difference from the Treo 650's PXA270 which Linux currently boots on. On top of that, there are major hardware design changes from the 600 to the 650.

An MP3 player sounds like a great idea if you have heavily compressed music... Maybe you could just use it as an all purpose tool in the car. Buy a vehicle mount and keep service on it. You could use it to get directions, find nearby gas stations or hotels, weather, etc.

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redbelt

Actually, they do.
A Hong Kong factory approached me recently and a Bulgarian factory too with SD card MP3 players in thier list of products.

Of course they deal in case lots and bulk.

I can facilitate a deal for you if you so wish!

whatever7

I can easily get one from ebay if I want one that has terribly un-ergonomic menu.

Antoine of MMM

My website/magazine Mobile Ministry Magazine does receive donated PDAs and acessories and them preps them for and trains missionaries how to use them. If you are looking for a place that could make use of an old Treo, MMM is it. See www.mobileministrymazine.com for more info.

You can also find other places to donate via the website www.charitydrives.org (or charirydrives.org/mobile from your Treo).

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Moved on to Symbian, but still will visit from time to time.

esatyawan

give it to your kid for a toy, mp3 player, watch winnie the pooh on the road

Silver Sun

I hand mine down to my father, he gets the best of both worlds. I have the device for about a year but all the good apps / foxes on it and he just syncs his data. He is just always one treo behind but he doesnt mind and he doesnt even have to pay for it, so its all good.

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JeeMan

Use it as a TV remote control. I don't know of the power of the IR for the 600 though...

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Silver Sun

It would be about as good as a nice pebble for that, all the treos to date have had rather weak IR range to put it a nice way.

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cruelpupet

hmm seems like theres not much to do with an old treo.

I had forgotten that the 600 didnt use the pxa processor so there's probably not much of a market for linux on it.

MP3 idea...eh I have an iPod and an old flash based player.

Got no kids

Novii Remote isnt a bad idea, but i might as well just put that on my 700 since i always have that on me anyway.


But this thread isnt just for me, what can be done with a spare 650 or a 700 currently.

whatever7

I just sold my 650 for $260. Why do you want to hold on to it and see the resell value drop like a rock in a few months?

cruelpupet

because the $$$ isnt that important to me. Id rather see what cool things you can do with it are. Maybe turning it into something similar to the chumby.

northreal

Make sure to do a zero out reset. This cleans the memory on your treo, not just the index file. Same as hard reset-but you have to hold down the hotsync button down on your sync cable too. Writes Zeros to all data clusters.

whatever7

The coolest thing you can do is load it with pTunes and NESEM and give it to a middle school kid.

stn415

sell it on craigslist and donate the money to your favorite charity. Or just walk up to someone with a crappy phone and hand it to them, just to see the look on their face, and walk away.

JeeMan

LMAO!!! That's a good one...

Priceless!

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robh11

my 3 year old daughter loved using some toyware called Playground on my Treo 650 so much so that I had difficulty using the phone myself. Problem was solved once I gave her my old treo 600. Great for trips. Does anybody know of other fun toyware for the 3-5 year old?

tirk

WM5?

tirk

...or you could donate it to this - those mad old Finns!