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August 21, 2003

How to Put Original Graffiti on Your Graffiti 2 Palm OS Device

So you bought a new Palm OS PDA only to find out that Graffiti 2 is irritating the crap out of you. Wouldn't it be great to replace the Graffiti 2 multi-stroke characters with those classic unistroke ones from Graffiti? Well, Palm Infocenter has step-by-step instructions on how to do just that.

Here are the instructions, which were originally published by Brando, in a nutshell:

First, Using a file manager like FileZ, find these two files in the ROM on a PDA that has original Graffiti on it:
-- Graffiti Library.prc (30k)
-- Graffiti Library_enUS.prc (22k)

Second, beam those two files to the PDA on which you want original Graffiti to be installed.

Third, do a soft reset. That's it....you're done.

Additional information is located at the Palm Infocenter article, so give it a read.

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Comments

Piloteers rejoice!! :)

Graffiti "Classic" vs. Jot Lite (aka Graffiti 2)? There's no question in my mind which is more efficient & elegant, and this now mitigates a serious reservation many experienced PDA users had regarding upgrading to the latest PalmOS handhelds.

A big question in my mind is whether this work-around will still work on forthcoming OS6 devices.

Posted by Dan at August 21, 2003 04:27 PM

I am desperately searching for a way to restore the original graffiti to my Kyocera 7135. It uses OS 4.1. I followed the suggestions in the following article from Palmgear.com but it didn't work and I was unable to find the exact files described on the article. Can anyone tell me how to restore grafitti to my Kyocera, or who can?

Posted by David Glueck at November 27, 2003 02:06 PM

Hi,

i could not find Graffiti Library.prc, size: 30k, creator: grft and Graffiti Library_enUS.prc, size 22k, creator: grft. could anybody send me them?

Thanks

Posted by zzbor at March 29, 2004 03:49 PM

Hi,

I just did the other way around:
I upgraded my TT with Graffiti2 (G2).
I do have a TT and a TT3 and use sometimes G1 other times G2 is confusing.

I decided to use only one of them.

Since G2 is "newer" in the PALM platform, I chose it (bad choice?).

I did the following:

1)Ran FILEZ 5.3.2 (freeware: www.nosleep.net):
1.a)clicked "View an edit files";
1.b)checked the "ROM" box (lower right);
1.c)Looked for:
1.c.1)Graffiti 2 Library (type Libr) and
1.c.2)Graffiti 2 Library_enUS (type ovly)
1.d)and Beamed them (you have to beam each one of them separately) from TT3 to TT;

2)Soft reseted TT;

3)THAT'S IT;

I'm now thinking now about doing the other way around,
as this page shows (using G1 in both TT and TT3) because of the following:

A)I got used to G1;

B)G1 has less 2 strokes characters;

C)Got furious when tried to write "L" followed by a space (" ")
- seems to be impossible: G2 recognizes it as a "T" (Try it out, guys!);

D)I use a lot ponctuation symbols like ";" (3 FREAKING STROKES ?!?!);

E)found out that PALM DID NOT release G2 as an evolution of G1 or whatever,
but because of copyright problems...

Hasta,

Zakk.

Posted by Zakk at March 31, 2004 02:29 PM

We have tried from Palm IIIC (a french version OS 3.53) to Palm Tungsten E (multilingual version). And i have a message that; graffiti is not compatible with this version of Palm OS 5.2.1

I'm so disapoint!
I loved graffiti 1.

Thanks for all.

Posted by Misouris at April 9, 2004 11:28 AM

We have tried from Palm IIIC (a french version OS 3.53) to Palm Tungsten E (multilingual version). We couldn't see files with "Graffiti library.prc" and "Graffiti library_frFR.prc", we have seen and beamed : Graffiti and Graffiti_frFR, so! And after a soft reset, i obtained a message that; graffiti is not compatible with this version of Palm OS 5.2.1

I'm so disapointed!
I really prefered graffiti 1.

Any more clue?

Thanks for all.

Mario

Posted by Misouris at April 9, 2004 11:34 AM