Or, for me, specifically, I’d just do a backup (as mentioned in the beginning of this post) BEFORE I install the new app. That works best for me. Less hair pulling experiences since I do some beta testing from time to time.

Thanks for sharing your experience and solution!

By the way … in one of the other forums I posted in, someone said that there was a problem with an older beta of Universe which caused NVFS corruption.

I personally find that the best preventative way to avoid installation problems is to do a backup before installing anything new so that you can do a hard reset and restore if you encounter problems. I have updated my posting today to reflect this info (I originally thought I had written it already but I guess not). If you do not have a backup program yet, I’d strongly suggest you do so. NVBackup is a great freeware you may want to check out. I personally love RescoBackup myself.

You may also want to go into your C:\Program Files\Palm\YourHotsyncID\Backup folder and sort a listing of all files according to date and see if you want to try deleting (or moving them to another folder) based on their date (obviously the newest ones would be what you may be looking for).

As I’ve mentioned, preventative measures I’ve found is probably the best and backups is essential for this.

You may also want to install an uninstaller app like Uninstall manager or Destaller and then re-install Universe3 and uninstall it again. It may be able to get rid of the files. And don’t forget to delete the extra files associated with Universe 3 like GIFLib.prc .

And try posting your question and problems at the many Palm forums I’ve provided at the LINKS section off on the left sidebar. You’ll get a lot of responses and hopefully will get a helpful answer there!

Good luck!

My TX was doing fine for amost a year — rarely crashing even though I have a ton of 3rd party applications, and games utilities. I love it! Recently I tried installing a Browser alternative called Universe 3. Right away it caused multiple crashes, so I immediately un-installed it and all of it’s related files (using FileZ). The problem it has left me with is that now whenever I use Blazer or AvantGo, touching the “down” button immediately causes a soft reset. It also crashes when I try to pull down any menu in AvantGo. My TX also now randomly resets itself when I’m doing nothing at all! And it also resets at the end of every HotSync. I’ve tried the Hard Factory Reset twice now — and the problems come back every time I restore my files with the first HotSync. I’ve also deleted and re-installed clean versions of AvanGo from their website — no change. Can you suggest any specific file (perhaps a preference file?) that I can try deleting to cure this problem? Short of starting from scratch and re-installing every single one of my dozens and dozens of programs one at a time, I’m at a loss!

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Michael

By that, I mean, copy the entire:

C:\Program Files\Palm\YourHotsyncID\ (replace the YourHotsyncID with whatever it is for yours)

folder and put it somewhere else on your computer.

If you ever encounter problems, you can paste the folder back there and replace it and go back to a previous backup.

Also, make sure to change the Hotsync Manager to “Desktop overwrites Handheld” before doing the hotsync, only if you are encountering problems and want to revert back to that older archive.

Not perfect, but should work.

Thanks again!

Thanks for taking the time to leave your comments and for reading.

Wes

I’d suggest moving your Solitaire game completely over to the card and test whether this still happens and making sure that no remnants of it is still in RAM.

Also, check out NoAlarms and see what alarms or events are scheduled to turn on the Palm. A lot of people have noticed that VersaMail or other programs tend to try to connect to the internet at odd hours of the morning.