[ale] OT: palm screen scrambled

[Thompson Freeman]

I don't remember the exact sequence, but I managed to recover something
similar on a palm two years ago with a hardware reset. If that is the way
you need to go - hope you have a good backup already.

On Thu, 23 May 2002, David S. Jackson wrote:

> I know this is OT, but a lot of you have palms, and I trust you more
> than the strangers on a palm list.  :-)
> 
> My Palm IIIxe can't seem to keep from getting its screen completely
> scrabled and locking up.  I put batteries in and it's about 10 seconds
> until it locks up and I can't even turn it off.  The buttons are
> non-functional.  It looks like a bunch of garbled mush on the screen,
> and it's unusable.
> 
> Have any of you all seen this before?  Do you know if it's repairable,
> or should I just get something else?  (I kind of feel like Palm OS must
> be made by Microsoft or something.)
> 
> TIA!
> 
> 

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