Re: Screen unresponsive

From: Helio Diamant - MS/MVP, Mobile Devices (helio_at_nospam.pocketpcfreak.com)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:17:45 +0200

David,

I must say that my iMate is currently my 4th Pocket PC (all from different
makers: Ipaq, Jornada, Dell Axim, iMate) and I have never had this kind of
problem, unless when some software I've installed get stuck. Then I
soft-reset and everything goes back to normal. 

-- 
Helio Diamant - MS/MVP Mobile Devices
http://www.pocketpcfreak.com
"David M. Garlinghouse" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1a5f901c44e5d$b8982400$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Your problem is apparently common to Pocket PC's.  I am
> currently having the same problem, and neither soft-
> resets or anything else is helping.  The battery is fully
> charged, but the screen will not respond and will not
> reset.  As with yours, I am running the Dell X3i.  This
> is the Pocket PC 2003 software, but I had the exact same
> problem on the T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition, running
> the Pocket PC Phone Edition 2002 software.  So this seems
> to be a perpetual bug no one has caught yet.  Now, how to
> get this thing to reset.  At least I have a back-up on
> chip.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have a Dell Axim X3i with Windows Mobile.  While on
> the road my screen
> >became totally unresponsive to taps.  I tried turning it
> off and then on,
> >taking the battery out and reinserting it, and even
> resetting the PDA.  But
> >none of these helped at all.  Finally, when the PDA was
> running low on
> >battery power, it put a message on the screen saying
> that battery power was
> >low.  Fortunately, when I tapped it, it responded and
> has since that time
> >kept responding.  Does anybody know why it stopped
> responding and how I can
> >remedy the problem without waiting for it to run out of
> battery power.
> >
> >Thank you for your help.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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