Portable brain damage

[avram]

Arg. I took my Clié out this evening to jot down a note and the thing was dead. Wouldn’t turn on at all. I’m hoping it’s just that the buttons got held down by my winter coat or something and ran the battery out. If that turns out to be the problem, I can just start locking it when I put it away. Fortunately I just did a full backup a few days ago, and haven’t put anything important in it since then. I’ve got it plugged in now, and the recharge light is on, but it won’t switch on while plugged; I don’t know if that’s a trouble sign or not.

If it is busted, I dunno. Sony doesn’t sell Cliés in the US anymore, and I’ve been getting frustrated enough with the incompatibilities between the Palm and iSync/iCal (Apple’s fault, not Palm’s or Sony’s, but still, and my life is even more difficult because I use DateBk5, which adds categories to the Palm datebook) to think about using something else, though I don’t know what. I’ve gotten used to a lot of the third-party PalmOS apps.

That’s weird. After a while, the recharge light turns off, but the Clié still won’t do anything. If I unplug the power cord and re-plug it, the recharge light comes back on. Crap. This isn’t good.

Oh, never mind. I just ejected the memory stick (which I generally leave in the slot), then poked the reboot button, and the device rebooted normally, everything back to normal, no need to even restore from backup. Hm. It must have had a software crash.

Comments

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Does Sony sell Clies outside of the USA?

[avram]

According to this story, they’re just introducing new models in Japan. Hm, looks like they still sell existing models here, but won’t make new ones available.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

I have a Clie, and I've learned some of its foibles. One time I thought it was dead, but in fact it had just gotten into a mode where the backlight wouldn't go on. The screen is utterly useless without the backlight, and it looks like it's dead. To flip this mode, hold the power switch in the on position for 3-5 seconds.

[avram]

Nah, this was deader than that. It wasn’t even making the software click when I pressed one of the hardware buttons.