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Well I just bought my wife a platinum and the 16 shade color display blows. I've exchanged it 3 times at Staples and all three have the same exact problem. Specifical I get streaing dark or light lines the entire vertical length of the screen in various locations (always the same locations in a given image). The streaks flicker various shades of grey.

Have any platimum users noticed some really poor quality displays using Firepad and or Chrome? There is a few threads on the VisorVillage site that discuss this but I hav'nt seen any here, with my exact symptoms.

I have tried adjusting the contrast, Overclocking, and the various no streak hacks. With the right combo I can get either streaking + shadowing, or sever flickering. Tough choice, huh.

And I was so happy with Handspring after the flicker on my prism went away with the mysterious SG fix.

Do other people have good 16 shade grey displays? Was it just a bad lot of screens?

Registered: Oct 1999
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Do this. Go to http://www.palmgear.com and download the new hackmaster (I think it's called X-Master) and look for a hack called "no streak hack". This should fix your problem.

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As mentioned above I have done this and it did not work. There are a bunch of "No Streak" type hacks written for the IIIx and Palm OS 3.1. They basically mess with the refresh rate, so you can eliminate streaking, but you get a worse sparkling/ and flickering effect, or you can set the refresh really low and get streak/shadowing but limited flickering.

Does anyone have a platinum with a high quality 16 bit display?

In the other discussion there was around 15 people who "Reported" the exact problem I have (and even with replacement units from handspring).

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Try the SG fix for the Prism to adjust the contrast and brightness.

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Hold down the power button until the brightness switch comes on. Then adjust it. I do not have a VPL so it may be that the brightness is on the silk like on the VDX. Whatever, this adjustment of the contrast may fix the flicker and streaks.

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Thanks but The SG fix dosn't do anything on platinum. I have also tried installing afterburner and overclocking the processor, some people have said this worked for them. It did imporve it slightly but not signigicantly.

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I too was really unhappy with my Platinum. Many 3rd party apps had streaking and shimmering effects going on. I returned it and got myself a Prism. Never am I going back. The color screen is too clear and easy to read for me to return to the world of monochrome.

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Update

Well I've exchanged my wife's platinum 2 times at staples and 2 of my co-works have purchased platinms of their own. All of these units ( 5 total now) have the same flickering problem /(or big time streaking/shadowing when using the "No streak/afterburner hacks).

I havn't seen one with a good display, I'm wondering if the Platinum just has a hardware deficiency. Has anyone ever seen a good 16 shade image on their platinum (using fire pad or similar program)?