 Zaurus Sets Off Detector!, Library detector goes off every time... |
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 Feb 10 2007, 11:40 AM
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Well, I just got a Z (C3200) and am extremely happy with it. However, it has one very annoying quality. Every time (well, the vast vast majority of the time, anyway) I walk through the book detectors in a library that check for the tag in books it goes off. This happened very infrequently (ie once every 50 times or so) before I got my Z (I narrowed it down to either my phone, which can be on or off, or my Palm Tungsten T3, which was always off). But it happens about 90% of the time now, and so every time I want to leave the library I have to get someone from the staff to hand me my Zaurus after I walk through.
This may not be a huge problem to some people, but I'm a university student and I have to leave the library 2-4 times a day (which is VERY annoying when the alarm keeps going off). The Zaurus has been on suspend and fully turned off (ie "shutdown -h now" in pdaXrom) and it set off the alarm each time. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything I can do (other than build a Faraday cage - lol)? |
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Feb 10 2007, 12:29 PM
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yup! I use to experience that problem with my other Zaurus. I now have a c-3200 and have not experienced it yet. I do worry because it is really embarrassing.
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Feb 10 2007, 05:17 PM
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QUOTE(Cresho) I now have a c-3200 and have not experienced it yet. Strange -- I have a C3200 and it does set off the detector. I guess I got unlucky. |
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Feb 10 2007, 06:42 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 21-November 04 Member No.: 5,548 |
QUOTE(T3_slider @ Feb 10 2007, 07:40 PM) Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything I can do (other than build a Faraday cage - lol)? Wouldn't any metallic casing constitute a Faraday cage? For the record, this hasn't happened to me with my 3200 yet though. Only had it about two weeks though. |
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Feb 11 2007, 01:51 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 793 Joined: 28-November 04 From: NM, US, sometimes Asia Member No.: 5,633 |
I have a C1000 and so far have not had such incidents ... yet!
 Maybe someone left a tag in your Z? 
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