Comments on: Palm Problems: Pt 2: Digitizer Fixes

By: Stephane

Stephane — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:08:12 +0000

I bought a replacement glass digitizer from pdaparts for my palm TX, and followed instructions from instructables.com. It just works as new…. Anything else did not do the trick.

By: palmdiscovery

palmdiscovery — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:27:33 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t know the answer. Perhaps you could get some help by contacting Shawn of UsedPDAParts.com and see if he can help you since he fixes various Palm and related devices. Good luck

By: nat

nat — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:06:55 +0000

I read your post but couldn’t find the answer to my problem. I just order and replaced my Palm treo 700WX digitizer. Unfortunately the screen will not light up. I tried reinstalling the old one, now it does not light up. I can call out without use of screen, however, I can not connect with incoming calls. Any suggestions? I tried cleaning around the screen.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:01:28 +0000

KrossLt: As I’ve mentioned previously in this post and also in my email to you (his comment was originally posted at the old host and I have reposted it here), the last resort to this problem may be to fully discharge or drain the battery. Simply leave it in a drawer or wherever for a few days to a week to make sure it fully drains. Once it is fully drained (won’t turn on at all), recharge it fully by charging it for at least 3 hours if not more. Then turn it back on and see if the digitizer will work. Most times, it will.

If it doesn’t, it’s very likely a hardware issue and you will need to have the digitizer repaired. Check out the various places I’ve mentioned above in the post for repairs.

Good luck!

By: KrossLt

KrossLt — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:57:00 +0000

One bad day my Tungsten E2 touchscreen sturted not to work. No reaction at all

Tried to recharge ir, soft reset - no reaction.

Then I tried hard reset - after reset on calibration I realized than problem didn’t fix. Even badly - I couldn’t do anyfing and now I even can’t turn it on.

Maybe someone can tell me what I can to do now?

By: Ruth

Ruth — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:41:33 +0000

Thanks for the hot tip! My Treo 650 digitzer stopped working after a week of skiing–maybe some sunscreen got under the edge of the screen? Anyway, I found that in my case LOOSENING the screws got it back in action–maybe it released some speck of dust that was caught there. And everytime I re-tighten the screws, it stops working, so obviously there are still problems… but the screws are engaged, so I hope they won’t fall out any time soon. Sure helps to keep that tiny screwdriver on hand!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:48:34 +0000

Thanks for responding and providing more information on this claas action lawsuit, Gary E.

I would suggest readers to contacting the law firm directly and gather more information on what level of action has been taken and what stage they are in and then make your decision on whether to proceed with it.

Good luck to those who do proceed with this.

By: Gary E

Gary E — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:58:34 +0000

Regarding message 20 (and 21), this is a legitimate attempt to start a Class Action against PalmOne.

The law firm that is going to be representing the class is Strange & Carpenter (www.strangeandcarpenter.com). Person to contact is David Swift (Dswift@ strangeandcarpenter.com)

By the many results returned when searching for Palm Digitizing Issues, that this is obviously a wide spread problem. I personally am just a VERY frustrated Palm user. I contacted the law firm because I felt my Palm T3 (digitizer/screen) should not have failed as soon as it had. The law firm did some preliminary research and felt this was a valid case.

Please feel free to contact me at the e-mail in msg #20 or the law firm directly.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:53:42 +0000

Regarding comment #20 from Gary E. I am unsure if this is a legitimate attempt to start a class action lawsuit as Gary E has not provided much information on this other than his word that he has contacted a law firm. There is no website or any other information provided.

I strong warning to others who read his comment to please approach this with caution as I have no idea whether this is a sneaky attempt to get email addresses and contacts. If you decide to contact Gary E, please use a disposable email address from Gmail or hotmail or others so that you can be somewhat protected.

Also, my personal opinion on class action lawsuits is that they usually benefit lawyers and law firms the most rather than the underlying shareholders and others who are at the bottom. To go through the submission of documents and claims only to get a few dollars may not be really worth the time. And that is if it actually goes far enough to the courts.

Again, this is my own personal opinion but please approach carefully.

By: Gary E

Gary E — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:26:15 +0000

I have contacted an law firm that is interested in pursuing a class action agaist PalmOne regarding the digitizer issues so many are having.

I would like to speak with others that are experiencing digitizer issues with their PalmOne device.

I can be reached at DigitizerProblem#41place*com.

The e-mail address needs to be corrected so the # symbol is replaces with an ‘at’ sign and teh asterisk is replaced with a period. This was done to avoid bots roaming the net gathering e-mail addresses.

Sincerely,

Gary