X30 with a lobotomy - Page 3

rogerfgay · #21 (**permalink**) 03-08-2007, 03:32 PM

BIG QUESTION: I've looked at the owner's manual, checking especially for what every button does. Here's what I'm wondering. What happens when you carry the X30 around in your pocket? Is there some way to intentionally get the screen to be non-responsive so that it isn't executing all sorts of things?

I looked for a special lock button in the manual. No such thing. I looked at the beginning of the manual for some instruction like that on getting started. Still haven't seen anything.

But I haven't read it all, and this thought seems to make perfect sense. Is there a way to intentionally stop the screen from being reactive?

rogerfgay · #22 (**permalink**) 03-08-2007, 03:40 PM

There is a screen lock button on more recent models. I've seen the button in a picture of the X50. I also found a program for locking the screen ... ScreenLock for Pocket PC v1.2 ... but didn't find any documentation with it.

rogerfgay · #23 (**permalink**) 03-08-2007, 04:06 PM

I haven't been able to edit or even look at files yet. When I click on one, it just gives me a little properties window telling me what I already know from looking at the file name.

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Originally Posted by dna

You get a menu by holding the middle button? I will have to try that...

If we can explore and edit the files on the PDA, is there a file we could edit to fool it into thinking the screen was aligned? A registry file of some kind? I'd really like to see if the touch would work if I was past that point. Or I could even get some functionality out of the unit if I could just use the directional button.

rogerfgay · #24 (**permalink**) 03-08-2007, 04:07 PM

This apparently doesn't have anything to do with the program ScreenLock for Pocket PC v1.2. I found a forum where someone who's tried it posted ... he said it also makes the screen go dark and explained how to put it back in action by pushing two buttons. Does sound like it might be an interesting program to install if we ever get these things working.

rogerfgay · #25 (**permalink**) 03-08-2007, 04:10 PM

BTW: When I reinstalled the ROM, the screen certainly did change. I mean while the install process was going on. Quite exciting to see something different for a few minutes. I thought it was going to help.

rogerfgay · #26 (**permalink**) 03-09-2007, 03:06 AM

UPDATE: Although I cannot edit files directly while exploring with ActiveSync, I can copy files to and from the X30 and edit them on my PC. But edit what files for what purpose? I've replaced all the basic software on the unit.

rogerfgay · #27 (**permalink**) 03-09-2007, 03:24 AM

I'm wondering now if this thing has a start-up mechanism like PC Windows has so I can set it to automatically start an application when it boots up.

My guess is that the set-up screen (to align) has its own way of starting up automatically. It's only supposed to do it once (I guess).

But your thought on the next experiment looks like an interesting one. If the problem is only in the set-up, maybe progress can be made by editing to cause it to bypass the set-up.

In fact, from the looks of things -- where the cross-hairs show up in the align window -- I think the alignment is already probably pretty good.

I've spent a lot of time on this and need to get some other work done, so I'm probably going to stop working on it for a while. Please post it if you have some specific ideas about how the set-up might be bypassed, or if you try anything new.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dna

You get a menu by holding the middle button? I will have to try that...

If we can explore and edit the files on the PDA, is there a file we could edit to fool it into thinking the screen was aligned? A registry file of some kind? I'd really like to see if the touch would work if I was past that point. Or I could even get some functionality out of the unit if I could just use the directional button.

rogerfgay · #28 (**permalink**) 03-09-2007, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by dna

You get a menu by holding the middle button? I will have to try that....

Just tried to repeat that ... it went to the align screen instead. Still no response from the align screen.

I also once got a keyboard on the screen ... around the same time I got the menu. But I haven't been able to repeat that either.

rogerfgay · #29 (**permalink**) 03-09-2007, 04:31 AM

I wonder if I'm suffering from problems in installing new versions of the software. The screen was still unresponsive when I installed, so I couldn't do anything when it said that I should check the screen on the unit to see if I needed to do anything there to complete the installation. At one point, I heard a beep, so I think there probably was something required to complete ... but there was nothing I could do. The screen on the X30 didn't change and it was still unresponsive to tapping.

Pedah · #30 (**permalink**) 03-09-2007, 07:27 AM

Hi Roger, can you hard reset? on restart when you get to the align screen, take your time, be as exact as you can at hitting the centre of the cross on the screen, you did indicate in one of your earlier posts that you had some reaction from the align screen, it is an intelligent function of the OS and gives you a bit of leeway with accuracy, but I have found it to be tricky when I've rushed.