Digitizing Problem with 4 T's now

[sarantis]

I've had 4 Tungsten T's now. Each one eventually ends up getting screwy on the digitizer. I have to keep redigitizing my T every 2 days because the pointer will get off kilter by enough to drive you crazy. Anyone else having this problem? My wife's IIIc is doing the same thing but worse now and she has no warrenty. Is this a problem with Palms in general? If so, I'm not liking Palm too much now.

[Aardvark]

well it happens to me everytime the machine powers off i.e. several times a day.

[cyclinghermes]

Upgrade! TT3 is awesome

[aireq]

Originally posted by sarantis
I've had 4 Tungsten T's now. Each one eventually ends up getting screwy on the digitizer. I have to keep redigitizing my T every 2 days because the pointer will get off kilter by enough to drive you crazy. Anyone else having this problem? My wife's IIIc is doing the same thing but worse now and she has no warrenty. Is this a problem with Palms in general? If so, I'm not liking Palm too much now.


Yes same problem. .it's seriously pissing me off. I had the same problem with a palm V. SERIOUSLY ?!?!? WTF??? I mean I like palm and all but give me a frick'n break. The digitizer is pretty essential to using these things. You'd think with any amount of testing palm would have done to prototypes before mass producing these units someone would have noticed that the digitizer keeps going out of alignment.

[bertp01]

Did you try the hard reset as suggested at the Palm-site?

[bertp01]

I followed my own suggestion to do a hard reset. It worked well, briefly but soon I had to redigitize again. Now it seems to be holding but I keep feeling uneasy about this.

Funny thing is that the shift is always to the left (you have to place the digitizer to the left of what you need to press). I wonder if some specific application can cause this to happen in all others installed. Or the level of memory use?

[jacques]

I have had the same problem with my TT. I was lucky, that another, purely mechanical, problem came up, so now I am waiting to get an exchange unit from Palm. In the meantime I have borrowed a TT from a friend, who has upgraded, and surprisingly enough this has not given me one problem for one week now in spite of the fact, than I have installed precisely the same software on it and is syncronizing it to the same two PC's. I used BackupBuddy VFS to rebuild it after first hard resetting it, so the configuration must be the same as on my old unit (including username and preferences).
The only difference is, that my unit was US-english and the other is EFIGS.
As my experience seems to rule out any of my additional software to cause the problem, I can only conclude, that the problem rests with the Palm itself - and maybe only with the US-english version?
It would be interesting to learn, if my experience is just coincidental, or if other users have found the problem to occur only in the US-english version?

[Seraph]

Well this might not exactly be a hardware permanent fix, but i tried this out on my T1 that was having the same drifting problems (up to 1cm sometimes)

Digifix (http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/DigiFix-2001-12-10-palm-pc.html)

It stores digitizer information on manual digitize, then it copies that info back into system whenever you turn the T on.

edit: it was digifix not ondigi

[iiicRules]

Did you have the PalmOne digitizer fix or rom update installed?
http://www.palmone.com/us/support/downloads/tungstent_update.html
I had constant problems with my TT. But the T3 has been fine so far.
My iiic was and still is dreadful. Many times have I dismatled it, tried cleaning contacts, removing oxidation etc putting it back together and it is still just as bad.
Good luck
iiicRuled

[bertp01]

I did load the digitizer update long time ago. It solved the "5 mm from border" problem all right but this is different. How do I know if it is US-English or not? Mine was bought in the Netherlands.

[cyclinghermes]

digifix works download form pdastreet

[jacques]

bertp01

If it was bought in the Netherlands, it is most likely to be EFIGS.
The only way I know of to find out is to perform a hard reset. If You are prompted to choose your language afterwards it is EFIGS, if not it is US-english.
If You remember, how it was, when You bought it, You will know

[arnel.is]

I have the same problem. Anybody else have any good feedback about Digifix? My TT was working fine for over a year, so either installed something screwy, or bad hardware. I'll give Digifix a shot.