M600i Touch Screen Calibration

I thought I had to send it to the shop again to get that touch screen calibrated. Luckily, the first Google search result returns a forum post that tells you how to do that yourself, using the built in setup wizard. To do so, go to Tools > Control Panel > Others > Setup Wizard, and on the 6th step, you'll be greeted with the calibration tool. Neato! I don't even remember seeing this when I first received my phone and went through the setup steps. Anyhow, it's there, so knock yourself out.

So what calls for the calibration? Simple, my M600i died on me. How? No idea. But probably on account of the team karaoke night. The night after when I whipped out the phone, it was off and I thought "Great, it automagically shut down itself for no good reason." and tried to turn it back on. No dice. It was stuck at the boot up screen. I was devastated. After numerous futile attempts, I had to give up and dig out the trusty X800 which drained the battery like there was no tomorrow.

That weekend, I went to the SE service center annexed to the Sony Gallery in Wisma Atria on Orchard Rd. to get the damned thing fixed. After waiting in the queue for what seemed like 3 hours, I was told that because the phone was bought out of country, it was going to be treated as out of warranty. Way to go, SE! On account of that, I had to sign a form stating that SE Singapore was not to held responsible for additional damage while servicing the phone. And I would have to pay a 15 SGD fee just to have it examined. The following week I received a call from the service center telling me that the repair charge would be in the tune of 4 or 5 hundred SGD. Yeah right, that's about the price of the brand new M600i.

So I made a call to Senao and sent the phone back to its Taoyuan service center. The only drawback is that they wouldn't send it back to me, not even if I gave them my address in Taiwan. It had to be picked up in person. Well, that's fine by me as long as the phone is brought back to life. It probably took them only a day to service the phone. Because it should take about a week for the package to go from SG to TW and I sent it out on a Tuesday. The next Saturday I saw my dad updating his Google Calendar with an entry of picking my phone. Senao told my dad the main board had to be changed. Thank god the phone was still in warranty.

When the phone finally got back in my hand, I set it up like I did before it died and fired up my favorite app, SCUMMVM, to play one of my all-time favorite, Monkey Island. That's when I found out the screen needed calibration. The thought of going back to the SE service center here was horrifying I put up with the off pointer at first for days. It as amazing I never thought of googling this issue. Well, I am glad that muse on the toilet half an hour ago paid off.