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Zaurus Sets Off Detector!
« on: February 10, 2007, 02:40:17 pm »
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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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2007, 03:29:58 pm »
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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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2007, 08:17:30 pm »
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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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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2007, 09:42:25 pm »
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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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Zaurus Sets Off Detector!
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2007, 04:51:04 am »
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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