regaining an accurate touch screen

[rpa]

Remember the part where you are required to use the stylus to touch the screen in three places. Well, I need to trigger that screen touching exercise because my Treo 650 just decided to reboot itself recently and ever since, what I touch on the screen isn't what comes up. I have tried a warm reboot with no result. Any thoughts? (Actually the only operation i cannot duplicate by other means is turning on the alarm for a date set on my calendar -- interesting what you are forced to learn on occasion).

[benjie]

How is the calibration after a hard reset? Anyway, after a reset it is not at all uncommon to have to reset the screen calibration. If it is not properly calibrated, what you tap may not be what you get. Ben

[rpa]

Actually, after some effort and various alternatives, I was successful. I started a hard reboot by turning the phone off, holding down the power button and then pushing the reset button with my stylus. I released the stylus, still holding down the power button, watching the bar cross the first screen at the bottom. Reaching the far right, the screen went flat grey just before the second circular PALM logo came up, per the help pages and in the interval just before that logo came up, I released the power button. I was immediately presented with the three point stylus touch routine I sought, and I now have regained accuracy when I touch the icons on the menu screens.

If anyone can inform me as to what causes this particular result in conjunction with a spontaneous phone reboot, I'd be grateful. Problem solved for now.

[benjie]

This occurs often after a reset if the saved preferences are deleted or corrupted. It is a "oh gosh" type of thing and is common with the "new" Palm file system. Hobbyist Software has Preference Doctor that saves the saved preferences file and makes reinstalling those saved preferences much easier. Ben

[kdallen]

rpa, if your phone resets on you and you need to recalibrate:

prefs/touchscreen will get you there from the main launcher screen.