Palmary screen whine is a common problem – most Palm handhelds suffer heavily from it. My Tungsten T3 hisses, my Palm Tungsten E2 hisses(silently), Alexander Gratz’s Tungsten C hisses like mad – only my Z22 shuts up.
Our friends from HacknDev now had enough of screen whine, and created a fix called WhineHack. I tried it on my T3, and it works for a litle while after each powerup – changing from application to application eventually resumes whining operations though. IMHO, they still need to patch the winDisplayChangedEvent event – but please don’t take this as the only true word…
Anyways, this seems to be a great thing(as it is available for free and in source and compiled form) – please give the HacknDev folks feedback by commenting here(a few hackndev developers read TamsPalm, they will pick it up eventually)!
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“Shutting up” a Palm is also available by setting the CPU clock a bit higher or lower. By my T3 it worked when I set the speed with PXAClocker to 399Mhz. But some day it started to whistle again, so, because at the time it had warranty yet, I returned it to Palm for fixing
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Funny, I haven’t experienced screen whine in either my E2 or my TX.
I hope that this is not an issue that shows up after a Palm ages a bit…
Hi,
I already saw quite a few whining E2s…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
Mines is very loud, only warpspeed keeps it bearable, makes me miss my clie.
Version 1.1 released. Setting it to “Ultra Violence” mode (for serious whine killage) should do the trick. It tries to fix the whine every time the CPU idles, but there may be some slight performance effects if you have lots of hacks installed (I haven’t noticed any but LDs are terribly slow anyway). Also winDisplayChanged is now hooked which might help with some programs if you set it to a lower level than Ultra Violence. Thanks for the suggestion, Tam.
Hi
Thanks for the program
Just wandering if using this program has any effect on battery life
Also does it have any effect wearing out the hardware of the palm at all
Thanks very much
It shouldn’t do anything much to battery life but I haven’t really tested that. Also it’s quite unlikely to wear out the hardware but I’m not familiar enough with TFT/LCD screens to say for sure.
[...] Afortunadamente, vÃa TamsPalm descubrimos que en HacknDev han creado WineHack, un pequeño programa gratuito que detiene el molesto zumbido en las Palm con procesador XScale: Tungsten T3, T5, ¿E2? (leer más abajo), LifeDrive y Palm TX. Por lo visto funciona, aunque parece que si tenemos un programa de overclocking funcionando al mismo tiempo, pueden producirse cuelgues. Es un programa experimental y en desarrollo, asà que habrá que seguirlo para ver cómo evoluciona. [...]