| Last week my Tunsten T5 went for a swim |
[Sep. 15th, 2007|10:00 pm] |
Don't ask how it came to do this.... it's annoying and embarrassing. It was clean water, not salt or soapy or anything.
It still didn't like it. It flickered and went dead.
I tried gently agitating it with centrifugal forces so that a good bit of water came out of it.
Still dead.
My T5 has been around for quite a while, (My T3 died at a Minicon several years ago) and the secure digital slot would no longer hold a card in place - I had to wedge them in with teeny weeny wedges, plus the t|x has built in Wi-Fi and my T5 wi-fi card was cracked (although still working).
So I ordered the T|X and then the fun began. The first thing is always locating all the damn keys and unlock codes for things. I'm pretty good about that, but almost all of them involved contacting customer service, not just doing self service stuff.
so I got the Kinoma player unlocked (it took a couple of tries, it isn't dependent on any of the easy stuff, you have to email Kinoma with the old information and they email you back something that works with the new device id and would no longer work with the old device id. But you have to let them know you aren't reinstalling, you are deactivating and transferring.
Intellisync which lets my Palm talk to Lotus Notes needed to be reinstalled and that took a couple of attempts, especially since they've been sold to Nokia. I had to install the new Palm desktop and then reinstall a newly authorized Intellisync. But the address book and the calendar are once again talking to each other.
I still haven't successfully located versions of electronhuts Klondike and Freecell, which I had paid versions of. The unlock codes I have records of don't work.
And I'll have to redownload new copies from Fictionwise of the Secure Mobipocket books keyed to my new device ID. Good thing this isn't last month when the Mobipocket DRM server was down for ten days.
Bless E-reader - I entered my unlock code on the new device for one book and any of 434 books are unlocked...
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/romsfuulynn&deepsearch=ereader
Actually I don't have quite all of them on my card, but the last time I changed credit cards I redownloaded everything all at once, so that's an every three year refresh, unless my card gets stolen or compromised.
But that wasn't the real crazymaking stuff. It purports to support Rhapsody to Go and I've spent several days trying to make it work, without success. At the moment the 14day free trial is making me think they can take it and fold it. (Although there is a lot of cool stuff there - I've been listening to Peggy Seegar)
Furthermore, Rhapsody or something upgraded Quicktime from 7.0.4 to a more current version, which doesn't support the wonderful Kinoma producer that painlessly changes avis into lovely perfectly sized MP4s that play on the Kinoma player.
Finding a 7.0.4 version of QT and getting the more current version of QT to uninstall was an ordeal. Taking a number of hours of persistence.
But I just got Producer working again, which is good, because the new TV season's about to start.
And I also found someone (Chris Short in Mankota,MN, email him at ips at chartermi.net for more info) who repairs palms. And apparently is both good and not expensive. Over 2500 ebay feedbacks and not one negative!)
So I mailed it off this morning and we'll see if it can be revived.
But it's a lot of stuff that I didn't need to spend time on. |
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