Using Your Treo 700
P
Smartphone
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Locking your smartphone and info
Security and Palm
®
Desktop software (Windows)
The Windows version of Palm
®
Desktop software observes the security
password for your Treo smartphone. If you forget your password, you
cannot view your information in Palm Desktop. If your smartphone is
unlocked, you can change your password on your smartphone, but all
entries marked as private are deleted. You can restore your private
entries the next time you sync.
Follow these steps to recover from a lost password:
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Entering owner information
You can use Owner Preferences to record information that you want
to associate with your Treo smartphone, such as your name, company
name, and home phone number. If you lock your smartphone (see
Locking your smartphone
), the Owner Preferences information appears
on the screen that requests your password to unlock it, and you must
also enter your password to change the Owner Preferences
information.
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Tip
If you want additional
security for
Palm Desktop files,
you may want to
purchase a third-party
solution.
1.
Go to Applications
and select Security
.
2.
Select the Password box.
3.
Select Lost Password.
4.
Select Yes.
1.
Go to Applications
and select Prefs
.
2.
Select Owner.
3.
If you assigned a password with the Security application, select
Unlock, enter your password, and then select OK to continue.
