Grafitti gripes -- restoring original grafitti the only fi..

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Hi all,

I am so tired of my Tungsten E's incompetent grafitti2 system. I had a
PalmIIIX years ago, and text entry was manageable on it. Now, after
having my Tungsten E for over a year, I find myself using paper more
and more, because it just takes too long to enter, check, repair,
enter, check, repair all my writing on my Tungsten.

There are many glyphs that are problematic, but the easiest example is
the backstroke. When I make an error (often), I carefully put the
stylus in the grafitti zone midway on the right side pulling to the
left as it touches down, continuing to the left at a constant rate,
and then I pick the stylus up from the surface as it comes to the
mid-left side of the grafitti area. And what do I get? A backspace?
No! Half the time, I get a period! Then I try to "erase" this mistake,
and half the time, it happens again! And again! Ugh!

The PalmPilot never would have gotten off the ground if its
handwriting recognition had been this bad.

I entered a complaint to Palm about this at
http://www.palmone.com/us/support/ [...] pport.html
I'm just waiting now to hear, "Welcome to PalmOne Customer Support. My
name is Raj and I'll be helping you today. I see that you are having a
problem hotsyncing . . . I'll then say that it has nothing to do with
hotsync, and then I'll get another machine reply, perhaps even from
the same person, er, machine, repeating their intro, "Welcome to
PalmOne Customer Support. My name is Raj and I'll be helping you today
.. . ." Eventually, I'll get the customer satisfaction survey, and the
problem will remain unaddressed. I don't know which is more irritating
-- having this shouldn't-exist-problem or going through PalmOne's
underfunded, off-shored support system.

Is the only remedy for this trying to user-install the original
grafitti subsystem? Does anyone who used both the old and then new
grafitti like the new system?

Thanks for responses and just hearing me rant.
Greg Conquest



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In message <ctfoen$2e3g$7@ns.felk.cvut.cz> Marek Stan?k
<marekdotstanek@post.cz> wrote:

>I like the new one, because if you write BIG and a little slower (with a
>GOOD stylus), the recognition rate and overall speed sends the G1 down
>the sink.

I'm not quite sure how you claim to write slower yet claim an overall
speed increase, unless you were making a significant number of mistakes
with the original Graffiti -- Personally, I rarely make a mistake, and
when I do it's usually because I'm holding my Palm at an angle.


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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:43:39 +0900, Greg Conquest wrote:

> I am so tired of my Tungsten E's incompetent grafitti2 system. I had a
> PalmIIIX years ago, and text entry was manageable on it. Now, after having
> my Tungsten E for over a year, I find myself using paper more and more,
> because it just takes too long to enter, check, repair, enter, check,
> repair all my writing on my Tungsten.

Buy a copy of TealScript and install it. Voila! Grafitti 1 back.

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pailface...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Where you refer to not being able to do a delete, and getting a
period
> instead, the problem is not with Graffitti II but rather with the
> digitizer being worn out.
>
> As proof of this, put you TE in the refrigerator for 15 minutes or
so.
> Now take it out and try it. It will work like new, but only till it
> warms up again.
>
> Greg

Another way to see if it is indeed your digitizer being worn out would
be to go to the Palm Prefs/Writing Area and select ON (write anywhere
on screen) and use the screen to do your graffitti text entry.

Greg

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:27:04 +0100, Marek Stan?k
<marekdotstanek@post.cz> wrote:

>Greg Conquest napsal(a):
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am so tired of my Tungsten E's incompetent grafitti2 system. I had a
>> PalmIIIX years ago, and text entry was manageable on it. Now, after
>(...)
>> Is the only remedy for this trying to user-install the original
>> grafitti subsystem?
>
>Of course not. The other way around is learning to use it :-)

I tried to give the easiest example I could (the backstroke erase),
with a good amount of detail, showing that my technical writing
ability was not the issue. It seems that your reading ability is about
as good as my Palm's OCR ability ;-)

<snip>

>Mark



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It was a time of great turmoil. The strong preyed on the weak, dogs
and cats lived together. One voice cried out in the wilderness: Greg
Conquest <gregconquest.com> wrote in
<6g7mv05b4midinsn496nid9pqflj6lid7g@4ax.com>:

> I am so tired of my Tungsten E's incompetent grafitti2 system. I had a
> PalmIIIX years ago, and text entry was manageable on it. Now, after
> having my Tungsten E for over a year, I find myself using paper more
> and more, because it just takes too long to enter, check, repair,
> enter, check, repair all my writing on my Tungsten.
>
[rant snipped]

> Is the only remedy for this trying to user-install the original
> grafitti subsystem? Does anyone who used both the old and then new
> grafitti like the new system?
>
http://www.zansstuff.com/programs/graffiti1.zip

Copy the files onto an SD Card and install them from there -- the
above .zip file should have further instructions.


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