[Repairs] [support-gang] Development XO

Mel Chua mel at melchua.com
Tue May 6 22:25:53 EDT 2008


Moving this thread to the "repairs" list (let's try to make our repair 
discussions public - the results of the conductive ink pen will probably 
be interesting to lots of people beyond support-gang.) Thanks! --Mel

Alan Claver wrote:
> On 5/6/08 10:00 PM, "John Gunkel" <jgunkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Of the two M-stock machines I have received, one of them was not
>> remedied by a recalibration. I am going to take a quick look at the
>> ribbon cable and see if the "circuit repair" pen (basically conductive
>> ink) I have will do the trick. That is, if it's a bent-ribbon-cable
>> problem.
> 
> I think this applies only to the dead on 1 axis trackpad issue. We've seen
> several of those. Seems to be a different issue than the jumpy trackpad
> which we've been told may be related to an ALPS manufacturing issue.
> 
> In my case, it's a jumpy trackpad that didn't get fixed by recalibrating or
> updating to 703.candidate. The pointer always want to jump to the left
> center of the screen regardless of the starting position.
> 
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