Help with my HP 49G

[Eric Rechlin]

(05-18-2017 07:09 AM)grsbanks Wrote:  The pressure under the screen thing was for the 48S/SX/G/GX series of machines, which are original HP devices, whereas the others are completely different and made by a different manufacturer (Kinpo). Not sure about the 48GII but the 49's and 50 g are in fact ARM-based machines emulating the Saturn processor and running the HP firmware on that emulator.

Point is, the hardware is totally different. A trick that works for one has little to no hope of working for another

Incorrect. The 49G hardware is actually very similar to that of the 48S/SX/G/G+/GX, and in fact uses the same CPU as the 48G/G+/GX. You're thinking of the 49g+, which was built by Kinpo with an ARM processor.

The workaround of squeezing the bezel on the 48 does indeed apply to the 49G, and I've used it with success on one that is failing.