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A couple months ago, I tried Power Digi and was fairly happy with it. In the last couple weeks, even it is not doing that much good for me.

In the last few days the card reader is acting up. Even without changing anything, it will stop reading a card, and it takes a near-magical series of removals, reinsertions, and resets to get it to read again. I am getting rather fed up!

Re: Headphone jack- The headphone issue is common in many pocket electronic devices- it hit some older models of iPod hard as well.

It is usually a simple matter of a small prong inside the jack getting bent and needing to be pulled out a bit. If you can visualize what you are doing, a small hooked tool works great.

To help someone visualize the problem, just find a 1/8" headphone jack that is totally open and visible. A replacement part from Radio Shack, for example, will do this nicely (part #274-248 is close).

The fairly cheap jacks they use bend easily- plug a headphone in and wobbling it will often bend the prong. Some dust or lint in the workings will mess things up as well.

Re: PowerDigi- I've used this in the past, and been... reasonably satisfied but not completely so. I had not thought about going so extreme as to do a digitizer replacement, but that appeals to my inner modder.

It royally ticks me off that this is such a common problem, and the Palm factory solutions seem to be to just swap your returned Palm for a refurbed unit. Sure, replacing every year-old unit with an updated digitizer might not be cost effective for them, but I wish they would at least give us the option of paying for an upgrade like that.

Of course, it is not quite so much a problem that I am really willing to sacrifice my Tx for a couple weeks for them to tinker with it, either!

Palm fascinates me. Their up-and-down responsiveness is fascinating- as long as it is happening to someone else.

I have basically given up on their service department. The last two times I used them, the problems just popped back up within weeks and I basically wasted the time and money.

I am planning to try the glass digitizer and a new battery- but for now, I am happy that we have SOME solution!

A related fix- a freebie thankfully- is PowerBtn to take care of my non-functioning on/off switch.

Claire- I like the board version as well. you may want to give the original Traffic Jam from eSoft a try- it really is well done. I would have reviewed it, but it has been around a while and been reviewed before.

e-format whenever possible. I would whack out of I lost the ability to do most of my casual reading on my Palm Tx, and we have been cutting off our magazines one by one.

Instead of paper subscriptions, we have been using the library, Internet, various forms of podcasts, etc.

It would be nice if more of the magazines did e-versions- magazines must account for huge volumes of trash and chemicals in the inks every year.