Archived from groups: comp.sys.palmtops (More info?)
Hi,
I'm having a Palm m500 which I bought on ebay.
In 70% of the usage the palm is working fine but sometimes
I get the problem that it stops working and the system is
frozen for couple of minutes.
In this state neither the buttons nor the touchscreen react.
Than, after a break of 2-3 minutes (or sometimes longer) the palm
wakes up and executes all the activities. It's like it was saving all
button hits and touchscreen activities in a queue while idleling and than
working off one command after the other.
I did a software reset, a hardware reset and also used both the original
Windows software and the Linux jpilot for synchronization. But all
didn't help. The problem remains.
Does anyone have a similar problem or know any solution for that?
Archived from groups: comp.sys.palmtops (More info?)
In article <4268c7e7$0$7523$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net>,
Christian Christmann wrote:
> I get the problem that it stops working and the system is
> frozen for couple of minutes.
> In this state neither the buttons nor the touchscreen react.
> Than, after a break of 2-3 minutes (or sometimes longer) the palm
> wakes up and executes all the activities. It's like it was saving all
> button hits and touchscreen activities in a queue while idleling and than
> working off one command after the other.
If the digitizer were acting up, it could lock up the machine, but
I don't see how it would 'queue up' activity. What third-party apps
and hacks are you running?
Worst case, the OS is missing an interrupt or something and waiting
until another one comes, but other interrupt-driven activity (like
screen input) is at least received, but not acted upon. That would
point to hardware trouble... :-/
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