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My Treo 650 stopped syncing - "IT'S the Contacts Dummy"
My Treo 650 stopped syncing via it 's cable very early in its life. Physically the contacts with the cable looked fine and it was so new (less than 3 months) I could not imagine they were corroded enough to stop working so I spent many very frustrating hours trying to troubleshoot what I supposed were driver problems.
I got to the point of reinstalling my OS and having to reinstall all my programs and restore my data and it still didn't work. Needless to say I was at the point of doing grave damage to anything computer of Treo related so I just gave up and lived with the problem for several months. One day I was cleaning out a drawer in the office when I came across my trusty bottle of DeoxIT, it was also a day I had slated to finally fix that damn phone or something was going to dry trying.
Before the festivities had even got started (and the blood pressure/stress/aggravation level skyrocketing) I decided to try using the DeoxIT® on the sync cable contacts. I would have preferred some DeoxIT® GOLD (ProGold) but there was none around so on went a bit of DeoxIT® and I worked the connections a bit then a quick wipedown before trying the sync.
I truly was only stalling before digging into the software side of things, a bit like cleaning your classes before getting down to the serious work, but when I pressed the button the damn thing synced up without a hitch.
I tend to misplace that little red bottle and forget how amazing it can be, but I think I might build a little special shelf just for my DeoxIT® and get a bottle of DeoxIT® GOLD to sit next to it with a sign saying
IT's the Contacts Dummy
.
Bob-W
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