Rebuilding the Palm...
Jul. 27th, 2003 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jcfialaLast week I discovered something else good other than losing 2.2 more pounds - I found my palmpilot's fold-up keyboard. If you've ever seen one of these, then you know how cool they are - a little box the same size as the palm magically unfolds to become a normal-sized keyboard for your handspring. *very* useful if you're going to do any writing on it.
So, having found it, I plugged it in and made sure it worked. It did, but it was pretty low on the battery power. So I brought it home, scared up a couple AAA batteries, and replaced them.
Yesteday I picked up my palm to use it, and nothing worked. Now, this isn't entirely unusual, sad to say. Part of the plastic case for the handspring is cracked, and unfortunately from time to time I'll pick it up and it won't do anything. Usually, this means doing a reset - getting a pin and poking the back of the unit. Nothing happened this time, and I started getting worried as I tried to get it to do anything. Eventually I decided on a hard reset - this is when you take the batteries out and wait for the palm to forget everything it knows. After I took out the batteries I tested them on impulse - and found out that batteries that had been fine two days ago were now completely flat.
Insert swear words here.
So, I had to rebuild my handspring from the ground up. Luckily, that isn't too difficult - most of the programs I had on it are somewhere on my computer anyway. Plus, I was able to install more recent version of my favorite editor - QED. It's a lovely program that lets me edit doc files, and it's one of three programs for the palm that I've actually paid for. (Everything else is shareware or came with the machine.)
But still - dang that's a pain to rebuild.
So, having found it, I plugged it in and made sure it worked. It did, but it was pretty low on the battery power. So I brought it home, scared up a couple AAA batteries, and replaced them.
Yesteday I picked up my palm to use it, and nothing worked. Now, this isn't entirely unusual, sad to say. Part of the plastic case for the handspring is cracked, and unfortunately from time to time I'll pick it up and it won't do anything. Usually, this means doing a reset - getting a pin and poking the back of the unit. Nothing happened this time, and I started getting worried as I tried to get it to do anything. Eventually I decided on a hard reset - this is when you take the batteries out and wait for the palm to forget everything it knows. After I took out the batteries I tested them on impulse - and found out that batteries that had been fine two days ago were now completely flat.
Insert swear words here.
So, I had to rebuild my handspring from the ground up. Luckily, that isn't too difficult - most of the programs I had on it are somewhere on my computer anyway. Plus, I was able to install more recent version of my favorite editor - QED. It's a lovely program that lets me edit doc files, and it's one of three programs for the palm that I've actually paid for. (Everything else is shareware or came with the machine.)
But still - dang that's a pain to rebuild.
