The new 3.0b5 Jack Sprat has been out one week and I DID NOT "alert the media" as JS has had more than its share of "bashing" on here. DrBaer is right - it's God's gift. BE SURE AND HAVE THIS LATEST VERSION BEFORE PROCEEDING, although I used 3.0b4 just fine.
DrBaer has really been my only ally in the JackSprat thing - very few people are as "nuts" about it as the good "Doctor" and "myself" for good reason -- it is a risk.
I freed up 10MB by dumping VersaMail, Photos (although the conduit remains on the PC and can't be deleted), Kinoma (updated version put back into Flash later), RealPlayer, LANGUAGES (there's 4MB right THERE!), calculator (I have 3 others), QuickTour, Welcome, and some other crap. Most important to me was getting Docs2Go out of ROM and installing the NEWEST upgrade - PalmOne should NEVER have put these things like Kinoma, R/Player and Docs2Go in ROM when updates are coming out every 5 minutes.
I'll email you, DS and send you some stuff in chart form. I've put together more support info than other documentation available. This isn't because I'm "clever" or anything -- I just love the app!!
Brayder have now (I think) isolated the T3 flash chip bug which was causing SOME people problems on the T3 SOME of the time - the first 3.0b3 beta I had required a ROM REFLASH - big blue flash, programs everyewhere, unit dead - and I STILL WENT BACK for 3.0b4 and DID IT AGAIN. I now have 3.0b5 in the arsenal but don't have anything else to delete!! JackFlash is FLAWLESS on my unit and JackSafe has brought me back with EVERYTHING after 3 subsequent HARD RESETS.
That minimizes what you have on your backup card in terms of file size - I have TWO separate and distinct backup files and the total is only 10MB on the card TOTAL - thanks to flash.
HOWEVER: in light of SOS's warning about "you have been warned," that is a very correct and serious statement - this isn't a game of "pong." Do something incorrectly (like press "ok" too quick because the flash chip tells you you're "done" when you're not -- that was part of the flash chip bug that Brayder have fixed!!) - you could get the white screen of death because it wasn't finished "writing."
It is also IMPERATIVE in my view that WHENEVER YOU MOVE something in or out of flash, you PERFORM A SOFT RESET. Don't ask. Just do it. It's better that way or you may get an odd "semi white screen" which requires hitting rear button twice - "Crash" won't kick in & help.
Most important - as DrBaer said, GO SLOW and be methodical. Make a list FIRST of what you want to pull (languages come out first), and try to get it all on the first "application swipe;" it is subsequent reloading of Sprat that sometimes gave people problems (not me). Then delete JackSprat from the handheld.
Follow instructions for JackFlash but they're a little sketchy on one point: INSTALL JACKSAFE FIRST as soon as JackFlash is ready to start loading apps in to flash. I seem to recall adding it "7th or 8th" and ended up moving things OUT OF FLASH and back to RAM so I could install JackSafe properly. J/Safe is your safety net in case of catastrophic failure - hard reset and ALL THE APPS COME back, although you'd still need to restore "Saved Preferences" from backup (they can't be stored in flash) to register all your stuff. Look in your File Manager and you'll see a 20k or so file called JSafe Protect" or something like that - you know then it's on there for good. I keep JackSafe in a separate-from launcher- folder on the card - but not accessible or launchable from the Palm itself. Just to be "Jack Safe safe." Of course, you can't install JackSafe in "arrears;" it has to be on there at the time of failure to do it's job - you can't say "Hey! Time Out! I wanna upt JackSafe in now!" You're screwed.
You'll be happy to know that ALL TEALPOINT apps except TealLock work FANTASTIC IN flash, by the way. Since Dropshort is a TP convert now, that alone should save a couple of MEG!!
