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J_F
03-03-2008, 09:05 PM
My zodiac was working perfectly until a few days ago. Inexplicably the digitized lost precision (calibrating was useless) – soft resetting was more than enough to solve the issue. As it became more and more frequent imprecise tapping (after just a few minutes of use) I hard reset the unit. This solved the issue for a few hours.

Again the unit had digitizer issues – I had to tap almost 5 mm above the icon – I tried to calibrate, soft reset, and nothing. So, I hard reset the unit again.

Well … It is impossible to calibraye the unit after the hard reset – tapping on the X results in nothing – it cycles over and over again. Soft resetting without calibrating takes me to a situation where I cannot navigate with taps or any of the buttons or commands.

Any ideas … or … gasp … the zodiac is dead?

Thank you very VERY much for any help
Cyker
03-04-2008, 02:06 PM
Ack! :(

I was going to suggest e-mailing Jim at Olympic Systems - They were the outsourced repair company for Zods - But their domain seems to have been hijacked :(

Anyone know how to contact them now?
JavaJiveJump
03-04-2008, 03:35 PM
Perhaps this app from Dmitry might be of help:

http://www.palmpowerups.com/readarticle.php?article_id=5

PowerDiGi (http://www.palmpowerups.com/downloads.php?cat_id=1&download_id=7)
J_F
03-04-2008, 06:41 PM
so close ... so far ...

the application is installed but I cannot find a way to launch it

sigh

will continue trying with the buttons (it keeps taking me back "home")
zaoin
03-20-2008, 07:38 AM
I use digie from sdcard. It's freeware.

Perhaps this can help you.

Here. (http://www.tapland.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10491)
J_F
03-20-2008, 08:48 PM
will try zaoin, thanks

right now I am trying a suggestion from another board - let all the power drain out - in some units it apparently fixed the problem

I will keep the board posted
icefireicefire
03-20-2008, 08:58 PM
You could also take out the battery if you can open it up...
J_F
03-22-2008, 09:58 PM
I managed to launch digie - but the appl was not able to calibrate the unit; I also launched powerdigi but could not make it calibrate the unit; removing the battery or exhausting it did not work either. I looked at the connections (as indicated by zaoin). It all looks "normal".

At this point I am looking for another Zodiac 2

... this one? resquiecat in pace

Thank you to all that tried to help me
caseyatbt
03-22-2008, 10:06 PM
I've got a Zod 2, actually 2 available.
icefireicefire
03-23-2008, 11:08 AM
How much for the zod (I sort of want a backup...)?
zaoin
03-30-2008, 02:06 PM
How much for the Zod 2 too. Here Europe.