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HELP!, My touchscreen died!
HELP!, My touchscreen died!

New MessageHELP!, My touchscreen died! (modified 0 times) Bob01
My touch screen all of the sudden just died, I just stuck some velcro to the back of it (so I could attach it to a zipable folder) and when I turned it on, the touch screen stopped responding, I tried a hard reset several times with no success. The buttons still work. Perhaps I pressed too hard on the back of the epods when applying the velcro? (couldn't have been more than 10-15 lbs of pressure to just the edges (not the screen)), I am running full hack 2.04 Thanks for anyhelp out there
02-13-2001 00:01:56

New MessageRE:HELP!, My touchscreen died! (modified 0 times) Bob01
Just to also add what is running on the unit; ACT! and Moretodo, I've been hearing moretodo is causing crashes, but cant really see how it could kill the touchscreen even after a hard reset.
02-13-2001 14:33:18

New MessageRE:HELP!, My touchscreen died! (modified 0 times) NITF
Not sure about the actual reason the touchscreen dies, but it has been duplicated by few posters that MoreToDo causes problems with the Touch Screen.

If a Hard reset does not cure the problem, try the "remove the battery overnight" ultra hard reset. This has been proven to fix a few problems.

If you do get the touch screen running again I would reccommend removing MoreToDo as a precautionary move. If you don't get it working let me know because I need a slightly damaged ePod for some low level hardware hacking and am unwilling to ruin my only ePod.

NITF

02-13-2001 17:12:45

New MessageRE:HELP!, My touchscreen died! (modified 0 times) Bob01
Thanks for the info, I was thinking the same thing 2 hours (removing the batteries)ago, and got impatient and plugged it back in now, works again!, just have to partly redo the 2.04 hack
Thanks for the input though
02-13-2001 18:19:28

New MessageRE:HELP!, My touchscreen died! (modified 0 times) nhavar
Yes it has something to do with MoreToDo. My theory is that when you close moretodo it leaves some part of itself still active in memory. This part of the program is supposed to handle the alarm/alert functionality to popup notification or otherwise activate when an event takes place. Normal HPC/pocket PC's are designed with this functionality in mind and in some cases you actually have to disable features to keep it from happening and draining your battery. My thought is that since epods was not designed with this in mind that MoreToDo is not finding the appropriate hardware/software to do it's job and that somehow interferes with the touchscreen functions. The reason that the touch screen won't work until a hard/super reset is because even with a reset the moretodo hook is not being unloaded.
02-13-2001 18:36:05

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