Mad Digitizer Syndrome Cured!

[elfs]

So, it seems that I've fixed my Palm m500. I was so worried. Omaha was saying that it was six years old and about to die and really, I should think about replacing it, but I like the old warhorse and there's no reason to spend $300 on a new one before I've determined that this one is well and truly dead.

I took the whole thing apart completely, used a can of compressed air on the inside, and then with a microfiber cloth cleaned all of the cruft that had collected under the frame. That seems to have done it. It was stable all weekend and the strange, random jitters from the upper left hand corner (there was a lot of dust and cruft packed under that corner) all seem to have vanished. Huzzah!

Comments

[intrepid-reason.livejournal.com]

I do the same sort of thing...My policy is that if I can clean it or fix it, I keep it...if in the same process I instead kill it, or seriously maim it, I was meant to buy a new one. {:o)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much my philosophy of stuff. I'm reminded of Brave New World and the "Ending is better than Mending" philosophy that drove their consumerist culture. Never did like that book.

And I am so impressed!

[pandakahn.livejournal.com]

Sadly I can't figure out how to open my Palm Zire 71 to change the battery or install linux on it yet.

Yes, I am impressed that you can open and clean your out. Some day.

MPK

Re: And I am so impressed!

[elfs.livejournal.com]

You may not be able to. Some of them are glued shut rather than screwed. The m500 is held shut with four micro-torx screws that you need a special screwdriver for. Fortunately, one came with my last battery replacement; I just needed to find the thing and some microfibre cloth and viola!

[woggie.livejournal.com]

That makes me want to take mine apart and try things now.