Linux and a dead smartphone

[Duncan MacGregor]

Maybe you can restore the Palm.

It is worth noting that in many Palm devices, there is a cable connecting 
adjacent circuit boards. The contacts for these cables are physical, not 
soldered. So pulling the plugs on such cables and reseating them will often 
restore operation.  This certainly works on Palm III-series devices, and 
before you scrap the Treo it is worth a try.

see

http://treotricks.blogspot.com/2005_11_13_treotricks_archive.html

Palm has been enthusiastically talking about use of Linux in new devices.


Duncan

On May 7, 2007 08:34:17 pm Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The touchscreen on my four-year-old Treo has fallen over and died. The
> phone is still quite functional without it, but it does miss some
> important features. Worse, if the phone ever reboots -- rare, but it
> happens -- it essentially becomes a brick, going into an endless loop of
> trying to calibrate a touchscreen that will never respond.
>
> I've called Rogers and their answer is to upgrade, of course. They've
> suggested one of two possible replacements -- the newer Treo 680, or the
> HTC S621 -- for which they've offered me an extremely good deal.
>
> The S621 -- known in the US as the T-Mobile Dash -- has good reviews.
> Most notably, it supports Wifi, and runs Skype and other softphones.
> This means, at a hotspot, I have the choice of calling using VOIP or the
> cell network, which I consider to be a Really Good Feature. Add
> bluetooth and a good media player, and it's quite the option. The
> problem is that its platform is Windows Mobile.
>
> Do any other options exist, of GSM cellphones that can do Wifi (and run
> a softphone)?
>
> Moreover (which brings us to the TLUG relevance), does anyone here have
> experience with the GPE (Linux for cellphone) platform? I've tried the
> weblinks but have a difficult time finding out the status. There are
> some stories of people who have made a Treo boot Linux (ie,
> http://www.grack.com/programming/misc/TreoLinux.html) but I can't find
> any details even about what hardware platforms are suitable for GPE.
>
> Is anyone here involved with GPE, or at least following it more closely?
> There are announcements of Linux-based Treos by years' end, but I won't
> be able to wait that long. Any suggestions of other options?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Evan



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