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650 Touchscreen Calibration
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Posted by: scadle

Is it a normal problem to have to re-calibrate the touchscreen atleast once a day? It always seems like the bottom of the screen is out of calibration, so that I can't use the buttons on the bottom 1/4" of the screen

. Is there anything that I can do to not have to re-calibrate once a day, and sometimes more? I have a case that covers the screen, so the screen isn't being hit all day long. Anyone else have this issue?

Posted by: hchai

Try this,

1. Get a new business card,
2. Use one corner of the card, let it go underneath the edge of palm screen, between the outer rim and the touch pad. You can safely go in for about 2-3 mm (1/10 of an inch).
3. Your screen should be good again.

95% of the time, the out-of-calibration problem is caused by debris caught in that space.

Posted by: curriegrad2004

or the digitizer might be screwed up. Take it to palm and see what they can do. My Palm TE2 did the same thing and I took it back to BestBuy and they gave me a new one!

Posted by: scadle

Wirelessly posted (Palm Treo 650 (Sprint): Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320)

Well I'll try the business card trick, if that doesn't do it I'll take it to sprint...Thank goodness for TEP. (If you can call it that) Thanks for the info... it was driving me nuts.

Posted by: anythingbutmine

Also I believe there is an app out there that can save and lock the calibration, but I can't think of the name. I'm not sure if that would solve the problem or not, in this case. It does sound like there may be debris caught around the edges of the screen. Have you tried a hard reset, in case it may be an application causing this problem?

Posted by: scadle

Wirelessly posted (Palm Treo 650 (Sprint): Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320)

Haven't tried a hard reset, but that's kind of last resort. But it seems like cleaning it helped... At least so far.

Posted by: anythingbutmine

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What I was suggesting was getting a backup manager program so you can have your apps and settings backed up onto an SD card, perform a hard reset and determine if the problem has been fixed. If not, you can run the backup program and restore your data in a matter of minutes.

Cleaning around your screen *should* take care of it; true, hard reset is generally last resort. Something like BackupBuddy takes the edge off the ordeal though.