Comments on: Palm To Replace Faulty USB Cradles

> No exact details of the replacement program are
> available yet. It is not yet known if Palm will want
> the defective cradles sent in or if there will be
> any kind of a charge for customers. The company will
> be in contact with all registered Palm m500 and m505
> users with more details.

So you're better off waiting until Palm Support contacts you, or when PalmInfoCenter gets more details on this offer (Thanks Ed!).

This is actually great news. I had this USB problem happen only once, but once is enough. I don't want to worry about it happening again. The battery draining fix solved it for now, but I'm hoping that this will fix it permanently.

Jim

Of course your local P.C. builder will say, "Don't buy Dell. They're junk. You should buy one of our computers."

That's like asking a Lexus dealer if a Mercedes Benz is better.

What disappoints me most is that it took so long for them to own up to it. You know it's bad when the community has figured out two ways to fix this problem by ourselves before we hear even word one out of Palm about it. Even if they weren't ready to do mass-replacements of cradles, I still would have liked them to at least let us know they were aware of the problem, and working on solutions.

There's a difference between Doesnt support and doesnt release bug fix. Is there any bug with S300 ?? I don't think so. So WNTS = Who Needs tech Support

what !? You must be a palm employee. Don't forget Palm's history of false Advertising too.

Anyways if you are refering to the Sony US Movie division's Advertising department quoting planted comments in advertisments, then you must be really stupid. O well as you didn't catch my post last time I'll just cut and paste it again.

A quote from the news about fake reviews:

"Other studios and their subsidiaries named include Sony, Lions Gate Films, DreamWorks, Vivendi Universal, Artisan Entertainment and Viacom.

The California Civil Code and the Federal Trade Commission set down laws saying advertisements should be truthful."

1) There are alot of company that's doing this, I am not saying it right to do it, but it would be unfare for other people if they don't do it while others are doing it.

2) "advertisements should be truthful" I wonder which company just got accused for misleading advertisement, is it parm, plam or something like that.

3) Sony is a huge company they got movie department, music department consumer electronics department, chemical department, the list goes on and on, so is that Sony Movie US Division Made a lie about their movie so we should assume that their chemical, electronics, music are all built upon lie ?

Get a life

The 320x480 is an improvement. I don't think that anyone was gripping about the 320x320 screen like they did about the dimness of the m505.

LoL why would I be a Sony employee !? I didn't even mention Sony or Clie in my post.

You must be a palm employee then, you are basically out here to say all not pro-Palm post as posted by Sony employee.

Get a life

Seems it's your arguemnts that's failing not mine, your last post can't even do any rebuttal whatsoever except naming calling, it's pretty sad.

Posted by a fan of all makes and models, who is stuck with an m125.

Oh, btw, go ahead and accuse me of working for a company, I dare you!

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PALM POWERED!!!

When I tried hard resetting, at first it did nothing. No response from the unit. Then it came on, but immediately went into the calibration of the screen. For a moment there I thought that my troubles were over. But, it would not go out of this. Just kept putting those crosses up there to touch. You could do it all day if you wanted. So, more resetting. Actually it was kind of interesting seeing what symptoms or combination thereof would appear after each reset. Sometimes the digitizer would respond, other times not. Sometimes the screen was blank. Sometimes the power button stayed lit out of the cradle, other times it would not light even in the cradle.

I have an engineering degree but I did not need it to know that this unit was screwed.

What a ***hole

"...go find another forum to suck your thumb." is also probably wrong. I don't think that he believes
that any thumbs are being sucked by any forums. What he probably meant was "go find another
forum in which to suck you thumb."

The "Atypical" poster is neither an ***hole nor ***hole. He was just correcting someone who
typed exactly the opposite of what he meant.

A great read. I'll definitely be the first to take apart my PDA's if I ever hear something shaking around in it.

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If you sing in french while hopping on one foot, the evil birds won't come out of your bathroom mirror.

It could very be likely, but not in all cases. The two unauthorized fixes would not work on units physically shorted out by solder. The bad thing about the little pearls of solder is you probably would not hear something that small because the metal casing of the 505 has a plastic lining. I had two 505's with SUDS and neither one rattled, but I did not try either of the repairs.

One would wonder if Palm can actually create next generation ARM based PDA at the same technical level like HTC or even Toshiba anad Fujitsu. You think dusty color screen is a problem, wait until, more built in connectors, speaker, big battery, and massive CPU. Maybe Palm will make the first "smoking" PDA just like early Apple or Dell laptop.

"Lawyers for the plaintiffs are seeking class-action status for other users in the United States who bought certain models of the Palm devices. Palm III-series and Palm Vs reportedly are affected. "

"The allegedly defective Palms have been sold since 1999, and International Data Group reports that the law firm estimates "hundreds of thousands" of users might be affected by electrostatic discharges (ESD) that potentially could cause harm to PCs. "

http://www.eschoolnews.com/
news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3025

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Paul C.