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Title: Cracked Screen!
Post by: jimg_uk2000 on September 11, 2004, 12:57:43 pm

I've been having a pig of a week which has just been topped off by discovering that my Zaurus screen has been cracked.

Since then I've had to do a full reset (different thing) and now can't get passed  the 'calibrate your screen' part.

Can anyone advise me if this really is the end of my lovely SL5500, or is there some sort of hope?  And if so what?

Thanks,

Jim

Title: Cracked Screen!
Post by: Chaos on September 12, 2004, 01:52:58 am

Search around a bit. There are plenty of other threads on this. Some even provide links to replacing the screen with a new one (from a second hand 5000D, 5500 or sometimes other PDAs).


Or you could just pick up a second hand 5500 somewhere. AFAIK, they're real cheap now.

Title: Cracked Screen!
Post by: jamesm on September 12, 2004, 06:06:06 am

There are usually a good number of old and unfortunate 5x00's kicking around ebay being sold for "spares". Perhaps you could give one of them a good home... or the screen at least

Title: Cracked Screen!
Post by: doseas on September 13, 2004, 05:33:18 pm

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Can anyone advise me if this really is the end of my lovely SL5500, or is there some sort of hope?  And if so what?

Try sending an Email to Bill Kendrick (bill at newbreedsoftware.com).  He posted to the tnn.sys.zaurus newsgroup about a month ago with the same problem -- he was looking for the location of the file that the calibration procedure creates.  I provided him with the info (and a sample of the file from my 5500).  Perhaps he came up with a way to circumvent the calibration process (telneting in??).

Title: Cracked Screen!
Post by: rabbituk on September 14, 2004, 06:13:16 pm

Hi,

I did this a year ago. The file that Opie/Qtopia looks for is /etc/pointercal. You find this out by telneting in and running qpe from that session - the first thing it complains about is that it can't find this file. Simply having that file present will stop Opie from recalibration but if you don't have valid values in the file then Opie will spit and restart everytime you touch the screen. My pointercal file has the following data in it "21219 0 120027 0 16452 -600432 65536" with no newlines at all. Putting information into the file is probably a better idea.

I've since replaced my digitizer with one for a Dell Axim. It works fine and is almost like brand new apart from where I clumsly scratched the LCD. Go to the follwing link for guidance on how to replace your digitizer - SL5500 digitizer replacement (http://www.lesterboal.net/~pboal/zaurus/). I got it all fixed for 35ukp. Only slightly more than Sharp wanted just to assess the damage!

Hope this all helps and please let me know if you aren't having any luck. I went a month wiithout using my Zaurus because I couldn't find this information! It was only when I was playing around with it that I found this out.

Cheers,

Daniel.