[NTLK] Circumvent a Dead eMate Screen's Calibration

From: Steele Campbell (the.vampire_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 03:37:02 PDT


I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not -- most common sense
(and/or knowledge) is foreign to me ;)

Anyway, I have an eMate that has lost total screen response, not such
a bad thing until one tries a reset or a brainwipe, both of which
force the user to calibrate the screen after their completions. Well,
I was toying around with key commands to see if I could get the
ding-dang thing to work and I found out that after a warm reset (not
sure about a cold boot) that if one simply closes the screen at the
calibration, effectively turning the unit off (which is impossible
though the keyboard until the unit has finished the calibration), the
unit will simply revert back to the backdrop once reopened.

Anyway, as I said, probably well known but cool (for me) nonetheless.

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Thank you kindly.
-Steele
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