... yes, my friends, when problems abound, and nothing else seems to work, back up and hard reset. It's not fun, it's not particularly the best way to go about things, but hey, this is the world of Microsoft.
Yeah, so I backed everything up [so I thought], then hard reset. On a trip with my youth group this weekend, we stopped at Best Buy for a power converter, and while waiting in the van, I turned on wifi, saw BB's connection, asked to connect to it, and sure enough, the arrows started shooting around like mad, and then it even said it was connected. There were only two (out of four) bars of reception, though, so when PIE said that "The Page Cannot Be Found" (the error message I most despise on the PPC, now), I couldn't be sure it was an issue with wifi, and I'm leaning more towards the fact that Best Buy's connection is WEP protected, plus as I said, I was in the parking lot. But I still don't understand what was wrong with the thing before resetting... I'm starting to think that MS royally screwed up their mobile OS, even more so than the full version. But hey, we gotta live with what we have, right?
Well anyway, I have yet to sync my PDA with my computer again, which will probably bring "exciting" fun with that. No doubt, my computer will pretend like I have a whole new device, and it'll want to create a new profile, or whatever, and etc... why can't I just use the current one I had before hard resetting? Or can I, and I'm not doing something right? See, this is my fifth, sixth... whatever iPAQ (first two locked up COMPLETELY, the next couple/few had various problems, all replaced under warranty), and I've always had a problem with getting them back on my computer. One day, this goof by the name of Tyler decided he'd try "Guess Chris' password!" well, he couldn't guess, and after about ten minutes, the device was locked up, and wouldn't respond to much anything, not even soft resets. Well, me being impatient (I probably could have brought it home, gotten all the data, then hard reset), I hard reset on the spot, and it was fine again. But I went home, tried to sync, and OH, YOU HAVE A NEW PDA! WELL, LET'S JUST SET UP A NEW PROFILE, AND A NEW DESKTOP FOLDER, ETC... It's annoying.
As are all the lengthy posts, I'm sure, as well as my sarcasm, plus the all caps stuff directly above. And for that, I'm sorry. But right now, I'm tired, and my PDA is giving me a headache. So... sorry, and hope you all (especially mousearoma) have a GREAT day/evening!
Later,
-Christopher