shrike96
03-19-2006, 06:02 PM
Howdy folks,
I've had my NX-80 for about 2 years now, and it's a shame Sony got out of the PDA market. Best PDA ever. If you would put a 1.3 MP camera on the UX-50, I would have a dream PDA, though I must admit I've been tempted to the Dark Side by the Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720. Still, I'm a loyal PalmOS afficionado.
Anyway, in recent times, I have noticed a problem with menu items on most all programs displaying corrupt characters... for instance, a drop-down menu will list odd chains of international characters, and the length will exceed the menu box. Sometimes, the menu item will be blank. The characters displayed change from time to time. Sometimes, they will restore to their original correct form. The positions of the items still map to the actual menu item, but I can't figure out what's what if there's no text visible.
Some programs will lock up when I open the menu, either from the graffiti area menu button, or the small bottom silkscreen button. Wordsmith is notorious for this. I can't access any menus from Wordsmith. Most all of my apps are affected by this bug, to varying degrees.
I tried a hard reset, and it does appear to clear the problem. I restored a full backup from the MS via BackupBuddyVFS, and the problem returns. A warm reset won't help... in fact, when I do a warm reset, I can't get to any of the programs aside from what I have mapped to the buttons. There is no graffiti area visible when I do a warm reset. I can't even get to the Sony launcher this way, as I get stuck in the Palm Preferences screen.
I suspect that a file somewhere got corrupted, and restoring the backup restores the corrupted file as well. I do have the keyboard driver onboard, but I've removed the game controller. I never used it, and the driver causes no end of problems. Can the JogDial Assist driver have something to do with this?
Anyone else have this problem? Thanks in advance.
I've had my NX-80 for about 2 years now, and it's a shame Sony got out of the PDA market. Best PDA ever. If you would put a 1.3 MP camera on the UX-50, I would have a dream PDA, though I must admit I've been tempted to the Dark Side by the Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720. Still, I'm a loyal PalmOS afficionado.
Anyway, in recent times, I have noticed a problem with menu items on most all programs displaying corrupt characters... for instance, a drop-down menu will list odd chains of international characters, and the length will exceed the menu box. Sometimes, the menu item will be blank. The characters displayed change from time to time. Sometimes, they will restore to their original correct form. The positions of the items still map to the actual menu item, but I can't figure out what's what if there's no text visible.
Some programs will lock up when I open the menu, either from the graffiti area menu button, or the small bottom silkscreen button. Wordsmith is notorious for this. I can't access any menus from Wordsmith. Most all of my apps are affected by this bug, to varying degrees.
I tried a hard reset, and it does appear to clear the problem. I restored a full backup from the MS via BackupBuddyVFS, and the problem returns. A warm reset won't help... in fact, when I do a warm reset, I can't get to any of the programs aside from what I have mapped to the buttons. There is no graffiti area visible when I do a warm reset. I can't even get to the Sony launcher this way, as I get stuck in the Palm Preferences screen.
I suspect that a file somewhere got corrupted, and restoring the backup restores the corrupted file as well. I do have the keyboard driver onboard, but I've removed the game controller. I never used it, and the driver causes no end of problems. Can the JogDial Assist driver have something to do with this?
Anyone else have this problem? Thanks in advance.