Grrrr

[revchris]

Last week Thursday, I banged into something (I don't know what, and I don't remember doing it). Banged into it hard enough to dent the aluminum hard case on my palm and shatter the display. I just got done setting up a repair order with Palm to have them fix it. The display is a $65 part, but the only place I can find it (PDAParts.COM, as PalmOne says they don't carry it) has it one backorder for at least two weeks. Hopefully, sending it in and letting Palm fix it will also cure it of the (fairly common, but still annoying) 'Tungsten Noise Problem.'

Also this morning, I got a call about 10 from teeka because the shaft for the quick-release on her back axle had broken while she was biking her trailer into campus. snakewyfe went to our house, got the truck, picked up Teeka and her bike and took both to our house. Then Teeka picked me up and we picked up the trailer and dropped her and it off at Library Mall. I need to do some calling around and find out if anyone in town has one, since the folks at Middleton Cycle tell me that the spare we ordered a month ago hasn't come in yet.

Comments

[misteropinion.livejournal.com]

You build your own gear, you get to be your own support shop, too. Isn't it grand?

[smithphoenix.livejournal.com]

Tungsten noise problem? That is something I have yet to notice with my Tungsten.

[revchris.livejournal.com]

There is a high-pitched whine that deveolps on some tungsten handhelds. Opinions on the cause are varied, but it appears to be tied to one of the upgrade patches, which supposedly ups the clock rate of the dive and enables the phenomenon.

The actual noise is probably caused by (from several people's opinions) either an unwanted coupling between the power supply and the speaker or by the display shifint slightly, allowing it to act as a resonator for some part of the internal circuitry.

Palm knows about it, and simply says that you should send it in for service. Mine, of course, didn't start doing it until it was out of warranty, and it wasn't worth the service charge to get it fixed.