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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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USB Devices Taking a Snooze

- Sierra Modro

Fujitsu P1620 James Kendrick over at jkOnTheRun has been posting his experiences on his new Fujitsu P1620. As a P1610 owner, I've been interested to read about the similarities and differences in the platforms. James ran into a problem on the P1620 with the touch screen going dead and unresponsive. After realizing that the P1620 uses a USB touch screen digitizer, he went into the device properties and disabled "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power." As he rightly acknowledges, there is no reason why the touch screen should ever be allowed to turn off. That's just silly. Uncheck the box, and voila - problem solved. Read James' post for the full details.

I have run into this same problem with other USB based devices in systems, so if you have a feature that seems to die intermittently, check to see if it has this setting in the device properties in Device Manager.

via jkOnTheRun

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3/12/2008 1:35 PM MST  

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:51:23 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
This started with Chris Heitmann responding in the comments on Amazon about the Fujitsu u810 HID power option.


>"Posted on Feb 13, 2008 9:53 PM PST
> Chris Heitmann says:
>After using the u810 for a day - I also became frustrated with the >unresponsiveness of the Touch Screen after not using it for 10 seconds or >so. It was so frustrating to me that I was beginning to consider a >return. Fortunately I finally found the solution so I thought I'd share.
>
>HERE'S THE FIX! (Instructions are for Vista Home Premium - might be >different on XP)

>Open up "Device Manager" in Control Panel.
>Expand "Human Interface Devices"
>Double Click "FCL USB Pen Tablet"
>Choose the "Power Management" tab
>uncheck "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"
>
>That's it. Real responsiveness! This really makes a HUGE difference in >usability. Even if you have gotten used to the way it works or you've >never had another tablet so you feel it's performing ok - try this.
SAM
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:54:45 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I'm most interested in whether it's worth $1100 over and above what the going rate is for a 1610.
I do think power saving on the touch screen is useful, it's just the obscurity of the reason that's not.
jpfx
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:56:05 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Hi,

I have been having this problem with the u810, it does not fix unless you rebot or go to stand by and on again.
Virgilio
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