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My biggest complaint about the Prism is the graffiti. aCCURACY REALLY SUCKS. I am used to writing about 30 word per minute on my old deluxe with a very high degree of accuracy. Now I can't even write one word on the Prism accurately. Is there any way to bypass Graffiti (apart from the soft keyboard)? Tealscript perhaps?

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I have seen a number of people recommend lowering the brightness to increase graffiti accuracy.

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I feel your pain yardie. I have the same complaint about mine. I used to could really crank out the text using the grffiti on my Deluxe, but now half of the letters come up as something else or not at all. I now have to write them very big, exaggerated, and slowly to make sure they come out accuratly. Hope this is something maybe they can fix witha software patch or something.

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And here I thought it was just mine. I was going to send it in for a replacement. Does anyone else's have trouble recognizing screen taps if you tap too quickly after switching apps?

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Can't believe my 75-year-old mother is more techno than I am. She just got her Prism this week and I had a chance to check it out today. Overall it's a terrific PDA and I've got to get one...

But...(and it's a BIG BUT), I need some assurance the Prism's Graffiti feature can work as effectively as it does on the other Visor models. I consider myself highly competent at Graffiti, but today I couldn't complete a word on the Prism without major hassles. Frustrating and discouraging.

And I'm hearing others are having similar problems. I can't believe Handspring would release a product that whimps out Graffiti-wise, so does my mom likely have a defective unit, or is this a major glitch in all Prisms? Any official word from Handspring? Anybody return their unit for a replacement? And did the replacement do a better job of Graffiti?

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Aware

Maybe we should all make Handspring aware of this problem and come up with a possible solution.

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Wow, I'm so glad that you guys have made these posts. I thought 'I' was doing something wrong. I have been seeing international characters coming up during my Platinum writing, that I have never performed before on my palm. I thought it was just me, but I don't think my writing has changed since 1996!

Now what?

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Actually, I'm noticing that the graffiti area is more sensitive. Maybe this is a good thing...

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I was wondering about this same digitizer issue today. I don't use graffiti any more as I use FitalyStamp which is a keyboard overlay and a hack that you install.

I can't get FitalyStamp to return the letters reliably even after de-installing all other hacks and other programs that could be interfering with the timings.

I went back to my Deluxe to check how accurate my tapping was there -- it was like night and day!

The tapping all over the Prism seems a little suspect. I haven't been able to figure out if I should press harder, press longer, or just return the Prism! Based on some of the notes here, maybe it's a common Prism problem though.

Turning the contrast way down did not help me.

I hope someone can come up with a solution -- I don't want to go back to a mono world...

I don't know if I would equate this the "tap bug" that was fixed in Palm OS 2.x but here's a URL where you can find info on that http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVal...54/tapbuga.html

[Edited by kalahari on 10-26-2000 at 12:21 AM]

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I'm also having a problem beaming apps. When I try it says "There are no exchange libraries available." Also in prefs I am unable to turn my beam recieve to "on" (it's highlighted but still displays off after I've selected - it's not the digitizer). Any suggestions?

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Try soft resetting your visor and see if you can beam again. If you have IRLink, make sure you don't of the IR redirected.

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That worked beautifully, thanks!! I forgot I had warm resetted my visor to see if that helped my grafitti recognition and forgotten to soft reset afterwards to get it back to normal. Thanks a bunch!! Speaking of soft resetting has anyone else noted that the 3 invisible shortcuts don't get copied onto the prism after a soft reset? That's wonderful! No need for dbscan anymore.

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TealScript

Has anyone tried bypassing Graffiti with a third party solution such as TealScript? I am curious to know if there is a difference with recognition. I haven't received my own Prism yet so I cannot test this.

Kalahari:

I would hate to go back to mono too. Color is just too sweet.

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Yardie

Has anyone tried bypassing Graffiti with a third party solution such as TealScript?

I have TapPad hack and overlay on my Prism and this seems fine. Here's what I've noticed relative to my Palm Vx -
1. Graffiti is a little more sensitive to making accurate letters.
2. Regular WriteRight's not designed for a Palm IIIc make the issue worse.
3. WriteRights designed for a IIIc seem to improve accuracy.


Now I'm not up on this post to promote anyone's product over anyone else's because I get paid too. I just report my impressions. I'm in the automotive industry so there shouldn't be any conflicts.

I had a IIIc and noticed that the graffiti was not as forgiving as my Palm Vx. The Prism I have is touchey but with a TapPad overlay (middle caps hack as well) and a WriteRight over that as long as I right big, I can't really complain.

I hope that everyone else that is having problems can either have Handspring resolve them or obtain useful information here on these posts.

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Tap Accuracy

I've been noticing bad tap accuracy working with RsrcEdit in my Prism. (I've been colorizing all my icons :^). )

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Originally posted by dick-richardson
Speaking of soft resetting has anyone else noted that the 3 invisible shortcuts don't get copied onto the prism after a soft reset?

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That was fixed in OS 3.3

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I have been using my new Prism for three days now and have not notice any problems with Graffit or tapping accuracy.

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After considerable testing using FitalyStamp and using Graffiti, I determined that the digitizer on my Prism is performing erratically. For approximately 20% of my taps/strokes in the Graffiti, the digitizer was returning the incorrect result/character. I even did a hard reset to ensure that there was nothing loaded on the Prism that could be affecting Graffiti recognition.

Handspring is sending me a replacement.

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quote:

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Originally posted by MarkEagle
That was fixed in OS 3.3

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Oh. Nevermind me. Just sticking my head out of my cave for some fresh air. Thanks!

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Response from Handspring?

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Originally posted by kalahari
After considerable testing using FitalyStamp and using Graffiti, I determined that the digitizer on my Prism is performing erratically. For approximately 20% of my taps/strokes in the Graffiti, the digitizer was returning the incorrect result/character. I even did a hard reset to ensure that there was nothing loaded on the Prism that could be affecting Graffiti recognition.

Handspring is sending me a replacement.

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