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goteam

Palm death update (boring).

Jun 23, 2003 17:33

I skip one day of LJ, and I get all out of control, I tell you! Although I did write a nice long paper journal entry yesterday, which was fun (and some of it has spilled out here, of course).

( Palm death and tech support suckiness, in much more detail than any of you care to read about but I might need it for future reference )

dead palm, stupid, rants

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bagoffarts June 23 2003, 17:52:42 UTC

Nothing at all to do with this entry, but I just saw this and thought you may be entertained.

Sesame Street Disco

goteam June 23 2003, 17:55:30 UTC

That's fantastic. I'd seen pictures of Disco Grover before, but never found out so much about Super Seventies Sesame Street. Woo!

cubetime June 23 2003, 18:55:03 UTC

They were pretty competent when I submitted something via their webform. First I got the brush off, but they asked the "did this solve your problem? if not resubmit" question. So I did, and the second time through, someone with more brains paid more attention to it and said what I feared:

Yup, you're pretty much right, you're screwed. We know of no way to recover the info from your Palm V. You are welcome to perform a hard reset and restore from the most recent backup.

For reference, my Palm V is in a coma. After about 4 months of not making backups, it got the digitizer out of synch so badly that I can't type in the password. It now sits on life support (its cradle), locked and forever unwilling to give up those 4 months of info.

I've thought about taking it to DefCon and saying "I'll give N dollars to anyone who can recover all data off this Palm." Ah, well.

Good luck to you. Did you let it dry out for a good long while? (I hope it didn't go through the dryer, too.)

goteam June 23 2003, 19:39:53 UTC

My Palm's been drying out (insofar as it can dry out, seeing as the insides don't get exposed to much air) for about 24 hours. It's been plugged into the cradle for about 3 hours maybe, and to my surprise there's been no smoke or burning or anything, just total non-responsiveness besides the startup screen appearing. Frankly I'm amazed the screen is still alive after 23 minutes of heavy-duty hot wash (that'll teach me to check my pockets more carefully --- I'm good about pants, but it didn't occur to me to check my sweaters). Sigh....