- Re: The Digest V1 # 908 (3)

- Rép : keyboard on MC218,

- Problems copying CF card to PC

- CF Card copy problems

- Black magic and Libretto #904,906

- Re: Mea Culpa

- SE P910i & Bluetooth

- SH888 - PRAR

- Serial to USB for netbook

- Re: The Digest V1 # 899

- 9300 Synchronisation

- Revo Link to PC

Date: 26 Mar 2006 15:12:06 +0100
From: Christopher Holly <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 908 (3)

Is there anywhere to learn about fixing a file in Disk Editor in Atelier EDU. Since I am going to reformat my C drive anyway (through totally brain dead reboot process), I feel I don't have much to lose. I can find some fragments that have text data that I want. Right now I am just copying it by retyping onto a Jotter file on the D drive.

also, if I copy my C: drive to a blank CF card, do you think the EDU disk recovery program can do anything with it?

Amazing how much time one could save by spending a little of it backing up regularly . . . .  But oh, the opportunity to learn new geek skills . . . .


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Chris Holly

Date: 26 Mar 2006 15:29:53 +0100
From: Jean Guillonneau <address truncated>
Subject: Rép : keyboard on MC218,

To Axel Moberg

A silly question. Is the repeat time correctly settled ?

Jean Guillonneau

Date: 26 Mar 2006 17:20:15 +0100
From: Christopher Holly <address truncated>
Subject: Problems copying CF card to PC

I'm trying to mend my ways. I plugged a CF card into a reader. Plugged it into the USB port and dragged and dropped into onto a hard drive where a directory awaited. It seemed to be chugging along fairly well. Then I keep getting error messages:

one is "Cannot copy [Name]: parameter is incorrect
another is Cannot copy [Name]: cannot read from the source file or disk

I think the files not being copied change when I "Safely Remove Hardware" and then plug it back and try again.

I am using an ATech ProGear card reader. There are new special drivers for Win XP.

anybody had similar experiences and sorted them out?

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Chris Holly

Date: 26 Mar 2006 18:07:12 +0100
From: Christopher Holly <address truncated>
Subject: CF Card copy problems

I solved my problem copying from my CF Card to my PC using a Atech Pro Gear adapter. After trying to copy the card to my laptop using a PCMCIA adapter, and doing so at lightning speed, I thought perhaps something was wrong with the Pro Gear device. Turns out I had the xD adapter card installed and when I removed that. Whoosh everything copied like I thought I remembered it once did when I was being careful.

I'd still like to know how to use EDU to recover messed up data, if that is even possible.

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Chris Holly

Date: 26 Mar 2006 19:10:32 +0100
From: Axel Moberg <address truncated>
Subject: Black magic and Libretto #904,906

For ***

Thanks a lot for the tip about Ctrl+K. It worked.

For Itamar, regarding the basic problem about coupled keys.

More and more curious. I did as you said. Hope I understood it correctly. And the problem with the was still there. But with fewer keys involved, and the couplings appeared in different places on the keyboard, until they gradually disappeared. But then the main batteries died. New batteries, and the problem was back again!

Then I tried again with each program, one at a time, as you said. And it worked, for about four hours. It may have been that I was sitting on the verandah in strong sunshine (but still 20 cm snow). That may have had same effect as my wife's hair-dryer. Enough to make the screen blacken, anyway. Maybe I should put on the stove before writing.  :-)

I am getting mentally prepared to buy a new one, if they can be found. But which one?

- What I don't like about MC218 (apart from the murky screen) is that the keys are sitting deep, and you have to hit them very distinctly, or miss some letters here and there.

- The weak spot on 5mx seems to be the screen cable. And I suppose the keys are the same?

- The screen cable on 5mxPro is said to be more reliable. And it has a bit more memory. But more complicated to load the programs. Any other problems with it? Hardly anyone talks about it in the Digest.

For Mike Dyers, about Libretto.

Thanks a lot. I have subscribed again (correctly last time). Hope it works now. I tried the link to the drivers but it led to Toshiba, and they only had drivers for the modern Libretto U100. Probably they have stopped supporting old machines. And I haven't got any replies to mails I have sent them before.

Axel Moberg

Bromma, Sweden

Date: 26 Mar 2006 21:25:21 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Mea Culpa

For Chris Holly: I'm not sure this will be of any help, but somewhere, this Digest or one of the Psion forums I follow, I read about recovering corrupt data from a CF card with a PC freeware program

www.pcinspector.de/download.asp?language=1#file_recovery

Someone had a corrupt D drive on a Psion and was able to recover using this program and a card reader. I've never installed or tried the program.

If it's your C drive, you might investigate something like (if you can connect to your PC) copying your C drive to a CF card onto a card reader then try using the program (PCISmartRecovery).

After having a major loss, I backup my Psion after entering any *important* info to both the PC and my netBooks E drive; my PC does a daily automatic incremental backup (including the Psion backup file on the PC) to a DVD+RW; and a couple of times each month I do an incremental backup to an external hard drive. Paranoia? I guess so, but I don't want to go through that loss mess again.

Best of luck in getting your data back.

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA

http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net

Thought For The Day: Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Date: 27 Mar 2006 08:08:44 +0100
From: Ian Chapple
Subject: SE P910i & Bluetooth

Dear All,
having just "sold out" and finally bought a Windows laptop, I have hit a problem. I would like to back up my P910 using Bluetooth, but cannot get SE PC Suite to "see" my phone via Bluetooth; however, it works fine with the cradle. Has anyone actually succeeded in doing this, and if so, how? A friend of mine has succeeded with his Nokia 9300, and he assures me that it was totally straightforward.

One interesting point for anyone considering moving to the Dark Side; the time it takes my laptop to come out of standby (hibernation) is absolutely pathetic when compared to a Psion or my wife's iBook...

Cheers, Ian.

Date: 27 Mar 2006 08:45:44 +0100
From: Prar <address truncated>
Subject: SH888 - PRAR

>Date: 24 Mar 2006 05:52:55 +0100
>From: Eric Lindsay <address truncated>
>Subject: SH888 - Prar

>>Date:  8 Mar 2006 18:00:20 +0100
>>From: Prar <address truncated>
>>Subject: Re: SH888
>
>>Eric I have a spare SH888 with two batteries which you are
>>welcome to have for the cost of the postage. Where is here
>>- I'm in London?

>I would be interested, mainly for the batteries obviously.  I
>guess I could be further away ... but not be much.  Airlie
>Beach, tropical North Queensland, Australia.  On the other
>hand, postage to here works.  Plus I actually have a U.K.
>bank account.  Any idea of postage costs?

Aha the curse of the global internet strikes again.

Lets take this off list.

PRAR
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Almost up to date...

Date: 27 Mar 2006 09:13:33 +0100
From: K81010 <address truncated>
Subject: Serial to USB for netbook

I would very much appreciate advice on converting the serial link to USB -
my new laptop has no serial port - I bought a converter cable and
appropriate software came with it. All loaded well but the Psion is not
recognised - I reloaded the driver from the internet but this has made no
difference.

The details are as follows
Obtained from  http://www.revealcable.co.uk/

USB to Serial 9-Pin Converter -£18.35 inc VAT

USB to 9 pin serial converter suitable for connection to any device with
RS232 socket to a USB port or hub.
Features
Supports automatic handshake mode over 600Kbps data transfer rate
Supports remote wake-up and power management 96 byte buffer each for
upstream and down stream data flow.
Easy instillation
Full compliance with USB specification Revision 1.1
Supports Win 95 OS R2.1 / Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows ME / Windows
XP and Mac OS 9.0
Length 0.45m
With thanks in anticipation

Dr David Norminton
Kings Corner Surgery
Sunninghill
01344 623181

Date: 27 Mar 2006 13:13:26 +0100
From: Elaine J Smith <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 899

Thanks Eric,

Re my 7book connector problem.  I managed to get hold of a docking  station before the memory went down so am sending all the files to the 5mx and  setting a reminder to check the 5mx batteries monthly!  No psion repairers  near me,
so will leave for the time being, as getting all data backed up to  pc.

Kind regards

Elaine

Date: 27 Mar 2006 15:56:01 +0100
From: "Hodgson, Steve (SELEX) (UK Edinburgh)" <address truncated>
Subject: 9300 Synchronisation

Having fallen from the one true faith I am seriously thinking about returning to Symbian. I do have a couple of questions first though. I read a review of the 9300 on the Register and it was pretty positive with the exception of the synchronisation software supplied by Nokia. Can anyone advise whether this software will sync well with Outlook in a corporate setting i.e. it MUST work with MS Exchange? Are there any alternatives to the supplied sync software? My problems with Palm are pretty minimal but they do add up. (1)  My agenda data has become corrupted in some way once too often (usually duplicate entries) and for some reason I can no longer sync Outlook Calendar data. This last problem despite the best efforts of Chapura and yours truly. (2)  Unicode support within the built-in applications is dire. I have a fairly large chuck of my contacts using a non-western alphabet. While I can use these okay on my Mac, on the Palm they become <String is unprintable>. Given that Palm are selling these things around the world in 2006 this is a bad one! (3)  My phone is finally dying after years of (mis)use. Rather than replacing two devices I can combine them together. I may have to go back and read the previous digests that listed essential Symbian software. Regards, Steve Hodgson

Date: 28 Mar 2006 04:38:33 +0100
From: Thomas Antony <address truncated>
Subject: Revo Link to PC

From: emai7s <address truncated>
Subject: Psion Revo Link to PC

> I have a Diamond Mako (Psion Revo) which I am not able to link with my > PC(XP Professional), for the last couple of months. I am not able to > > figure out why, the error message pops up each time. Tried the "help" with > no success.

This also happens to me every now and then, but I was able to find the culprit in my case - Palm HotSync was active. Once I deactivated Palm HotSync, the PC's port was suddenly free for the Psion, and I could sync without difficulty.

Don't know if the above is applicable in your case, but you might want to deactivate any other synching software on your PC before trying again with the Psion/Mako, since it may be blocking the needed port.

Peter
Dear Peter,
Followed your advice. Didn't work. I don't have any other PDA. But if in spite of it, my pc is running any such programmes (!?), is there any way to find out?

Rgds,
Thomas Antony
Aden, ROY