My Crazy Patchwork Broken Treo 700p

I have not found any mention of anyone having had this particular "issue" with their Palm Treo 700p.



I did not drop it, get it wet, throw it at the mailman - nothing. I just woke up one morning and picked it up and this is how it looked. The whole thing started the night before, when the phone started going into hotsync mode when I wasn't even touching the thing. I thought maybe it would stop doing that after a reset. Alas I never got the chance to do the reset, because once it went into what I am calling "Patchwork Quilt" mode, it refused to respond to a hard reset. Yes, I took the battery out, yes I tried a hard reset, yes I brought it into Verizon where they tried to do a hard reset.

So I thought maybe Palm would fix it for me but they said no - well, unless I want to pay $199. These things can be had refurbished on ebay for less than that. So I'm going to try mailing it into one of these non-Palm repair places, which may or may not have a more reasonable repair price than Palm.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else has ever encountered this same strange patchwork display problem with their Treo, and if so, what was the cause?

I've since switched to a Centro, which seems about the same as the Treo just smaller and with a nicer keyboard. Oh, and I switched over to Sprint from Verizon. I like Sprint's broadband wireless data plan - unlimited high speed data and a basically free USB card. Apparently Verizon no longer offers unlimited broadband data plans, so I decided I ought to get in on the Sprint deal before they stopped offering it as well!

The Land of Snow

There is an awful lot of snow this year up in ski country - so much that everyone has to go out and shovel it off the roof to avoid a collapse.

So much that it's hard to see road signs, and many people's windows are completely blocked.

The snow woman appears to have skis for eyelashes. Note the small telephone pole to the right of her - turns out she's officially the tallest snowwoman in the world at 122 feet!

Snow Woman

The last time I was up here in Bethel the snow woman was just a pile of snow about 30 feet high - now it is complete, and it's amazing! It must be 100 feet tall. Pine trees for arms and tires for buttons. However I am really not sure it's a woman. I think they're just trying to make women feel some sense of equality by calling it a snow woman. Even so, it's hard not to appreciate her.