Question to all TX owners - need help and opinions ...

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laulau72

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Hey all!

I'm calling all T|X owners out there in Palm land ... I myself have a T|X, but am a little concerned. I have it for around 1.5 months now, and am very happy with it. It does exactly what I want and more ... but I've got two problems:

(1) Power switch takes quite some pressing to turn on and turn off (it's not the delay after a sync that I read about in another thread, but just in general, like when I want to turn it on, I usually have to press it a couple of times before anything happens).

(2) When I attempt to write fast in Graffiti, sometimes it gets confused and either spits out a couple of letters that bare no resemblance to the graffiti that I inputted, or it makes an error sound. I didn't have this problem with either my Ipaq or Palm IIIx ...

So I want to know, are these two issues "normal" for the T|X and do you think I should go to back to the retailer and try can get to send it away or exchanged?? I'm just worried that over time, these things might get worse, and I wont be able to do anything about it (currently I have like an extended warranty of a year or so ...) :confused:

Thanks in advance!
Andrew
 
I have had my T/X for a few weeks now. I have noticed that you need to push the on/off button with your fingernail and a bit of pressure to turn it on. I supose that is to keep it from coming on when the button is accidentally pressed by something. (I cant tell you how many black photos I have on my cell phone because the camera shutter button hits the seat belt)

I have noticed the samething in Graffiti 2, but I was trying to use Graffiti 1 characters. I am sure others will chime in, but I think the T/X is fantastic. Now that I got the keyboard it is even better.

Bob
 
It is normal for the power switch to be hard to press and to also require that you hold it for a second, sometimes. The "sometimes" part is, at least my theory, is that the processor polls the switch periodically. If it does not happen to be polling when you press it quickly it will not even notice. Thus if you hold it down for a full second you will assure that it does poll the switch while it is down. Once it turns ON (or OFF) it is still doing other things even though the screen has lit up or turned off. Therefore it will not respond to changing it form ON to OFF or OFF to ON immediately afterwords. You must let it come fully ON (couple of seconds) before you can turn it OFF And likewise going form OFF to ON.

I have concluded that G2 on the TX is moody. It will sometimes get into a mode of not recognizing a character you input even though you input that same letter the same way and it does work at other times. I have studied this with my TX for some time now and have been very careful about the exact nature of my strokes. Sometimes I can olny get an L space when try to make a T no matter how fast, slow or carefully I try. Other times I can make a T very easily even doing it somewhat sloppily.

I don't think there is anything abnormal about your TX.

Mind you, all the above is just my theory that I have developed after careful consideration and study.
 
Big thanks for 69vert and gregte for your respective replies ... It's good to hear that my unit is "normal". I can understand why they would want to force the user to press the power button quite hardly before the unit will turn on, but it just seems that it requires excessive pressing. With the Ipaq1930 and Palm IIIx, I just had to briefly touch the power button and the units came on ... kinda of good and kinda bad I guess!!

So I take it that you both don't think I should get the retailer to loook at the unit?? :confused: Well, just as long as other people are experiencing the same thing I guess that's ok then ... I'm just concerned that's all, especially after having spent so much on the uni .. you'd want it to work properly on you!

69vert, I myself think the T|X is fantastic too, I couldn't ask for a better PDA ... it's jam-packed with features! Was just curious as to whether my unit was defective or not ... Yeah, the T|X recognition is definitely bizarre. I'm running Tealscript on it now, but even before it was installed, I had the same problems with the Grafitti going beserk on me. Any other T|X users experiencing the same thing??
 
I have been using my Palm for about 2 months now and I haven't had a problem with the power button once you get used to pressing it for just a second more to turn off.

I am having the same problems with graffitti recognition. At first I thought it was because of "air" between the screen protector that I'm using and the screen but I'm now wondering if it has something to do with processor speed? Sometimes it works fine, other times I can't see the strokes on the write area and I get wrong letters no matter how careful I write.

I found that the TX stylus doesn't help. I started using the stylus on a Bic pen (one of those multi pens, and also my preferred one which is a squat Bic ball pen with a stylus point on the top of the pen's cap) and also the opposite tip of my Rotring italic pen which is quite thick. These stylus/tips have one thing in common: they are all quite "heavy" and I can get more pressure with them and it has improved accuracy. It's still not 100% but it's better.
 
1 - Hold the button for a long two-count (one thousand one, one thousand two...), that seems to work for me.

2. Try applying a polish to the screen, I use Rain-X. Makes is slicker and allows you to press ever so slightly harder without feeling like your going to scratch the screen. I think the sereen on the TX is more sensitive to pressure than my old Palm. This should reduce the multiple characters resulting from an unrecognized or broken stroke due to too light of a pressure with the stylus.

Also, I've noticed that G2 will complete the last character if it does not recognize the suceeding stroke as a complement to the previous one. IE: An "L" and a "T" start with the same stroke and the second stroke for a t is to cross the "L" stroke. However, if the next letter is an "O" (as in "locomotive"), entering the stroke for the "O" completes the L and the O together (they pop up almost simultaneously). I don't have to wait for any letters to pop up, I just keep scribbling.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
John
 
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