AT&T Treo 680 ROM Update

Palm has been on a role quietly releasing a number of important software patches and maintenance releases. Last week, Palm released a security update for the Treo 650, 680, and 700p. And Palm has committed to releasing a maintenance release ROM upgrade for the Treo 700p next week. Yesterday, Palm rolled out a maintenance ROM update for AT&T/Cingular branded Treo 680 smartphones.

According to the Palm website, this latest update includes the following goodies:

• Improved power management for better battery life
• Camera software update (previously released)
• Helps correct distorted characters in the title bar of Phone application
• Helps fix device "freezing" under certain conditions
• Increased security in the System Lockout feature
• Daylight Savings Time rules updates (previously released)
• Improved support for unique wireless networks in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia
• Replaces "Cingular" branding with the new "AT&T" branding

The Treo 680 AT&T/Cingular update provides a fair amount of enhancements and updates to the Treo 680. The Palm website goes on to deal how to check to see if your Treo 680 needs the update and how to go about installing the update on your smart device if you do need it.

An interesting item of interest with this update is the ability to apply the maintenance release from a SD card as an alternative to installing the upgrade utility to the Treo via a HotSync operation. (miniSD and microSD cards are specifically mentioned as having reliability issues. A full sized SD card should be used for the update if you chose to utilize that installation method.)

Download the update...