I *DID* buy a new phone because I was having tons of problems with the keyboard on my 650. Certain keys would work/wouldnt work... and squeezing the phone or pressing on the casing in certain places would restore functionality (temporarily) to some of them. Eventually, the semi-working keys included the center button - which makes the phone useless for all but answering calls (cant unlock the screen lock obviously - gotta wait for a call to do anything).
I went to eBay and bought a Treo 680 - which while it is pretty, and it is great actually having free RAM on it (unlike my Treo 650 with the same apps), the antenna is worse (I live on Long Island, and TMo has limited signal strength here - the 650 does a decent job of only losing signal in the main part of my house - and rarely upstairs or the outside edges of the main floor - while the 680 needs to be at my window upstairs or has no signal). The other "wonderful" issue is going from 4-5 day standby with radio on to the amazing 1 day on the 680 after all the updates.
As I am going away (far upstate NY) this week and will be in an area where I barely got signal with the 650, I decided to see if I could fix this damn thing once and for all (previously I had tried re-seating the keyboard cable with either only temporary results or no change at all).
Finding the instructions here and on the links provided to fully disassemble the phone has allowed me to clean out the keyboard unit, and re-seat the cable with the board out to ensure it is fully seated (and a piece of paper between the cable lock and the cable).
So far so good... all buttons work, and the phone is once again fully functional and ready to make the trip upstate this week... so...
...To one and all, my thanks,
Robert
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Palm m505 -> Treo 600 -> Treo 650 -> Treo 680
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