Treo 680 SIM PIN BUG and Service LED Application

I have now migrated from my TREO 650 to a TREO 680 which was a bigger step than I expected :-)

There are a few annoying things I'm working through one of which is the fact that the 680 has a bug which means that if the telephone's radio signal is lost then it will request the sim's PIN when it comes back up. Both the 650 and the 680 request the PIN when the phone is turned on (as they should).

I originally thought that I needed to make the connection better (by the old paper over the sim card trick) and in fact this may have helped so its possible I started with two sim pin issues!

Unfortunately the Telstra network also seems to fade in and out quite often (never had this issue with Optus) and after much experimentation I confirmed the pin gets requested when the signal comes back.

This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that the phone doesn't alert you to this fact by any means. The 650 would have made the LED a blinking red and it would have blinked green when the connected.

Some Idiot decided that the 680 wouldn't do this so I tried the "Service LED" application, this would then makem it easy to confirm everythings fine by occassionaly glancing at the LED.

I did read that ServiceLed used up the battery quicklyand unfortunately that was the case for me so I had to remove it.

Which left me only the option of removing the PIN on my SIM, not happy but what can you do...