How to avoid defaulting to a Category? (causes Fatal Excep..

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Not sure if this works - but if you insert a memory card when in the
Date/Time screen, the Palm might display this as the category rather
than the default one. If you put some useful software on this card,
such as a file manager, you might be able to repair something...
Good luck!

Peter


"[ice]" <megazoid@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> machine: Palm Tungsten W
>
> I installed some shonky software the other day and now even jumping to
> the category that the app is in causes a Fatal Exception. I do not
> know the exact app(s) but I have a clue.
> The problem is that when the Palm reboots it returns to the Category
> which causes the Exception and so on...
>
> After rebooting I am returned to Date/Time screen, but pressing Home
> just jumps me to the dodgy Category. Is there any way I can be
> returned to another Category so I can delete some of the likely apps
> causing this annoying problem?

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Thanks for your reply Peter.

I did some googling and found that other solutions include a hard
reset and re-install (that would repopulate with the offending app
though?) and a binary search by deleting half the apps algorithmically
to find the culprit.

I ended up doing something different - in the Prefs screen I am able
to assign apps to the 4 function buttons (address, calender etc).
I realized I had an app called Filez installed which I knew worked.
This lets me browse every file, on the RAM or the ROM, and modify it.
So what I did is to assign Filez to the Calender key, and so I was
able to launch that app without going to the Category view first. Once
in Filez I deleted a number of suspect apps (these included
eDrugReport, PalmFighter, iSilo and a few others).

Once that was done, I hit Home and waited... yay, no Fatal Reset!