Even in the future, nothing works.

[ewt]

Palm m130 is b0rked. None of the buttons work. this morning I turned it on and got the menu and none of the buttons would work. By the time I got home it had turned itself off again, and none of the buttons work. I tried putting it in the charger, took it out again, now it says "palm powered" and the buttons still don't work.

Le sigh.

This isn't a disaster - nearly all of the information was stored elsewhere as well, and I can get in touch with the students to double-check scheduling quite easily - but it is seriously annoying. Rent leaves my account this week so I can't buy a new one in any hurry.

I still need to give korpora £30 for the thing, as well.

Why oh why must everything break?

I guess I could try unscrewing it to see if bits have gotten in and messed up the wiring.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

My suggestion would be that a little rubber mat with pressy blobs in that comes between the buttons and the contacts has moved over a bit and now the buttons don't match up to the pressy blobs and make them press the contacts.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

Would that make the touchscreen stop working too, do you think?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Oooo. No, I don't think so, because that works via a pressure sensitive layer in the screen. I think it might be a more fundamental input/output problem in that case, like a broken electronic connection or something. Smeg.

[pfy.livejournal.com]

Might be worth opening it up and prodding/reseating any connectors you can find. For example, if the buttons and the touchscreen are both connected to the rest of the gadget by a particular connector, and it's wiggled loose, then that could do it.

It could also be a short-circuit caused by something conductive getting inside, or it might be a cracked circuit board. I suspect you won't find many socketed chips in a miniaturised device like that, or I'd suggest reseating those too. Or it could probably be lots of other things. If you have it with you tonight we can poke at it when we go home, if you like.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Nothing works on this damn tank.

Have you considered more tea?

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Might not help, but there's usually a button in the back to do a complete reset. (well, there was on my entirely different model pda.). You'd lose all the data anyway though.

[redcountess]

If Ewt has the data elsewhere anyway, my first suggestion would be a reset.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it's vaguely replaceable with phone calls and effort and suchlike, but no actually backups.

[korpora.livejournal.com]

Ouch, you should at least be able to navigate around most of it without the buttons though iirc. Have you managed to 'hotsync' it?