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Obviously, there's more to the story than initially reported, but since it's posted as "News" folks might read the headline and never move on to the comments, where, so far, no one can repeat the problem.
That was a really long sentence, huh? Whew!
Anyway, those are my feelings on the subject.
Thank you for listening...
Rolando
Sony N610C owner
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Anyway, this is still news. When it affects people (no matter the number), it should be publicized. If it doesn't affect you--that's cool. If it does, then thank PalmInfocenter for bringing it in the spotlight where people can hopefully make workarounds now that it has been publicized.
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These programs have to be programmed to be compatable with 320x320. Disable monopoly in the enable high res feature and see what happens.
AND as a N760C owner, let me tell all of the other Sony color handheld owners to bail out of this discussion.
We have no business here.
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> before posting it here on the main page, as "News."
We tried to get feedback on it in the forums and failed. Adam posted a topic on it yesterday and it immediately went off topic. No one either confirmed or denied it.
www.palminfocenter.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=4199
It was definitely happening on the the devices Adam tested so I decided to go with it. Obviously it doesn't happen to everyone but it is to some, which is the way bugs work sometimes.
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Sounds like an application error to me..
So its probably nothing to do with Palm.. just shoddy programming by the application developer.
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Jeff L.
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Unless there are multiple instances of this "problem", this shouldn't be posted as a news story.
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Does this problem also occur with the Find dialog? (Also a non-application system dialog).
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Did you edit the article since it was first published this morning, taking out the part, with something to the effect of, "Palm will have to release a patch for this?"
I thought I saw that at the end of the article this morning. It just seemed like after such a bold article, which finished with Palm having to release a patch, that the article has now morphed into this potential-bug-description-without-as-much-research-as-Adam Zeit-thought er something.
It's no big deal I guess. That's why we come to the site; To read what's happenin. Major news sources incorrectly tallied states during the last election, and then withdrew, so...it happens to the best of em.
The reason this only shows up on some devices
The reason this only affects some devices is because the form-update event is only sent under certain conditions:
Normally, when the system puts up a dialog, it saves the portion of the screen that is obscured, and restores it automatically when the dialog goes away - it doesn't bother to send the form-update because the screen's already been redrawn. If the system can't allocate the memory to save the obscured screen area, only then will it send a form-update event to the application, to let it know it must manually redraw the screen.
I suspect that the people who've seen this bug may have hacks or system patches installed - while the patches aren't a problem by themselves, when they are run with applications which use up alot of their own memory (such as these graphics-intensive games) which also don't handle the form-update event, the redraw problem will occur.
Why it doesn't always happen
Backlighting for graffiti space?
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Wow! My *Sony Clie* doesn't do that!!!
Some failing apps
Stuck Pixel
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m515 Sidelight setting turns to "off' unexpectedly
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Demand for retraction in it's *own headline*
As stated in other comments, this is most likely a problem with applications, not PalmOS.
As such, being posted with such a scathing headline, I demand that a retraction or correction be printed, *as it's own news item*. A correction to something like this deserves it's own headline, as a lot of people just scan the headlines. A little "update: i guess we were wrong" in the bottom of the article won't cut it.
If it's a rumor or unverified news, fine, post it, just don't post stuff like this with such a damning headline, *especially* since it wasn't verified by anyone else.
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> The same happens with MegaLauncher and others
> Well, I have it in Eudora, Bejeweled and some other applications.
> I have this problem on my EFIGS m515 on a few apps, including Avantgo,
> Eudora Mail, Lemmings, PalmVNC, Omniremote 1.2 beta, McFile 1.12, and
> Route.
Just because you don't have a bug, doesn't mean a bug doesn't exist. By that arguement, I can say that there is no USB problem with the m505 because I've never had it happen to me.
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