maikii
05-25-2005, 12:08 AM
I have an IPAQ 2210, and the touch screen recently stopped working. It also looks like it has some lines on it that appear as if the screen was shattered, although one doesn't feel any such surface change on the outside of the screen, it looks like something internal. I don't know what caused this, as I have not dropped the IPAQ recently.
Are there any outfits that can repair the touch screen? (Which probably means, put in a new one? How much do they charge for this? (If it costs almost as much as buying a new one, that's not really worth it.) Reliability? Can anyone recommend a company who did this for them?
I see another post here from someone who says not to buy a screen from a particular company. Can a user buy a screen and install it themself? Are they user-installable?
On a different note, the Hitachi 4GB Microdrive I had in the unit also stopped working, about the same time. (Strange, it would seem that the unit probably had some serious trauma, for the screen and drive to go bad at the same time, with the screen looking shattered. But I cannot recall anything traumatic that has happened to it lately.) The drive does not only not work in the IPAQ anymore, it will not work in a memory card slot on a computer--no drive shows up with that card inserted, although it worked fine before. Does that happen frequently with those microdrives, that they go bad? Any way to fix them? Is it safer to use flash memory cards?
Are there any outfits that can repair the touch screen? (Which probably means, put in a new one? How much do they charge for this? (If it costs almost as much as buying a new one, that's not really worth it.) Reliability? Can anyone recommend a company who did this for them?
I see another post here from someone who says not to buy a screen from a particular company. Can a user buy a screen and install it themself? Are they user-installable?
On a different note, the Hitachi 4GB Microdrive I had in the unit also stopped working, about the same time. (Strange, it would seem that the unit probably had some serious trauma, for the screen and drive to go bad at the same time, with the screen looking shattered. But I cannot recall anything traumatic that has happened to it lately.) The drive does not only not work in the IPAQ anymore, it will not work in a memory card slot on a computer--no drive shows up with that card inserted, although it worked fine before. Does that happen frequently with those microdrives, that they go bad? Any way to fix them? Is it safer to use flash memory cards?