Handbook

Appendix A Maintaining Your Handheld
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4. Wait for the Palm Powered™ logo to appear; then release the power button.
5. When a message appears on the handheld screen, warning that you are about
to erase all the data stored on your handheld, do one of the following:
– Press Up on the 5-way navigator to complete the hard reset and display the
Digitizer screen.
– Press any other button to perform a soft reset.
NOTE
With a hard reset, the current date and time are retained. Formats
Preferences and other settings are restored to their factory default settings.
To restore your data from a Windows computer after a hard reset:
1. Click the HotSync icon in the Windows system tray (lower-right corner of
the taskbar).
You can also click the HotSync command on the Palm™ Desktop software
menu bar.
2. From the HotSync Manager menu, select Custom.
3. Select the appropriate user name from the list.
4. Select an application in the Conduit list.
5. Click Change.
6. Select Desktop overwrites handheld for each conduit.
Changing the HotSync setting from the default affects only the next HotSync
operation. Thereafter, the HotSync Actions revert to their default settings. To
use a new setting on an ongoing basis, select the Set as default box. Thereafter,
whatever you selected as the default setting is used when you click the Default
button in the Custom dialog box.
7. Click OK.
8. Repeat steps 4 through 6 to change conduit settings for other applications.
9. Click Done to activate your settings.
10. Perform a HotSync operation.