Lame joypad on the 2215

[Ed Hansberry]

Anyone else disappointed in the joypad on the 2215? It is very very sensitive. Way too easy to do a diagnonal move which messes up navigation.

Here are things I have notices so far with various apps that when you want to move up/down and inadvertently do a diagonal, you get unexpected results.

• Pocket Word - if you get an inadvertent diagonal, your screen focus jumps back to whereever the cursor is as the iPAQ moves it left/right.
• Pocket Informant - In Agenda View, you start flipping weeks back/forward.
• Pocket Bible - inadvertently move to the previous/next chapter instead of up/down

Anyone else? Other than that, this is a fantastic device. I would just like to see HP offer a patch that either reduced the sensitivity of the pad or gave us a control panel button to turn off diagonal movements. Being a non-gamer, I don't give a flip about that.

[Chris Pi]

Ed, I read a thread similar to yours awhile back where the solution if I remember correctly was to lower the general character repeat speed which in turn lowered the sensitivity. I don't know where this setting is though or whether this applies to your situation. Pretty vague advise but maybe someone else can be more specific :oops:

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

Ed, I read a thread similar to yours awhile back where the solution if I remember correctly was to lower the general character repeat speed which in turn lowered the sensitivity.
Funny thing is that my device is still "jumpy" after setting repeat delay to the max. There's definitely something else going on with the device.

In Pocket Excel, a misaligned D-Pad push suddenly jump me up or down about 3 or 4 rows and a column or 2 to the left or right.

[Ed Hansberry]

Ed, I read a thread similar to yours awhile back where the solution if I remember correctly was to lower the general character repeat speed which in turn lowered the sensitivity. I don't know where this setting is though or whether this applies to your situation. Pretty vague advise but maybe someone else can be more specific :oops:
Thanks, but the problem with that is it only prevents a runaway diagonal. In my examples, a single diagonal totally loses your place. :-(

[Chris Pi]

I hope the problem isn't also present on the 5550 which I've ordered. Does the 5550 use the same d-pad as the 2215/2210? Or is this an OS problem?

I should've read your first post more carefully, I didn't understand what you were asking when I posted.

Chris

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

I hope the problem isn't also present on the 5550 which I've ordered. Does the 5550 use the same d-pad as the 2215/2210?
No. The 55xx uses the same oval d-pad as the 54xx / 39xx / 38xx. You won't likely have the same issue, though having been a former 38xx owner, I'm not a big fan of that oval d-pad either.

[Mark R Penn]

I hope the problem isn't also present on the 5550 which I've ordered. Does the 5550 use the same d-pad as the 2215/2210?
No. The 55xx uses the same oval d-pad as the 54xx / 39xx / 38xx. You won't likely have the same issue, though having been a former 38xx owner, I'm not a big fan of that oval d-pad either.

The oval D-pad is only on the 39xx and 38xx, not the 54xx, and as far as I know the 55xx is the same as the 54xx. It's adequate, but no way as good as my old Jornada was. Navigation is fine, but it can be difficult to press it in as the action button without moving left/right/up/down at the same time.

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

The oval D-pad is only on the 39xx and 38xx, not the 54xx, and as far as I know the 55xx is the same as the 54xx. It's adequate, but no way as good as my old Jornada was. Navigation is fine, but it can be difficult to press it in as the action button without moving left/right/up/down at the same time.
Oops. My bad. I forgot HP had redesigned the D-pad for the 54xx.