From: Karl and Kathleen Prihoda (kapri_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 15:33:10 PST
Marco is a genius!
I do not have very good technical skills, but his technique worked
great! Recently, I bought a Newton off of eBay. I thought that I was
safe because I bought it from a vendor; one mentioned here. When it
arrived it had a nasty case of the jaggies. It was almost unusable and
I was depressed. The vendor wanted me to spend more money on a new
screen.
I tried all of the cleaning techniques with no luck. Marco's case
warping idea was the trick. So far, no jaggies over the last 4 days,
for the most part. I removed just a smidge of the case with a Dremel
tool and then rotated the screen so that the latch side is up. This
keeps me from resting my hand and causing the dreaded JAGGIES FROM
HELL!! When a problem begins to arise I just stick the tip of the
stylus under the lip of the case and pry it up, ever so lightly.
So far, so good. I hope this helps other people with the same problem!
good luck,
........karl
> Jaggies are caused by a deformation (twist) of the upper plastic case
> half.
> It is especially the right long side of the case, which is sort of
> weaker
> due to the lid mechanism. Its long edge is pressing constantly onto the
> screen and fools the pen digitizer. I removed at both jaggied MP2kx the
> upper case half and the jaggies disappeared and reappeared after
> remounting.
> Then I removed about 0.2mm of the edge with a milling machine and
> cleaned
> and remounted everything and the two Newtons are now cured and work
> fine
> since that modification. Instead of a milling machine a nice scraping
> tool
> or a Dremel hand engraving machine would probably do as well. The bad
> thing
> is that one has to take apart EVERYTHING of the Newton - I needed
> about 4
> hours for all of my experiments and the repair.
>
> Marco Mailand
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