That's good, glad it works again

Same here. Me knowing I couldn't color any pics kinda messed up my wanting to draw.

What brand of tablet is this? Every time someone tells me their tablet dies and it suddenly starts working again, it's a loose USB cable. Does every tablet out there have a lousy tension relief or something?

Well mine's a Wacom Graphire 3 tablet. I bought it back around Summer 2005. Its not that it has bad tension, its that for the past 3+ years, I never knew that wrapping the cord directly around the device (causing it to pull from the base) will eventually do a number on its internal wiring.

The same thing happens to head phones all the time. A damaged head phone on the outside may not looked ripped, but the inside's wire fibers may be damaged due to constant twisting and bending. You can never tell that the headphones are messed up until you can't hear from one of the buds. Then you have to set the wire to a position to get it working and any other angle will have the sound go out again.

I have heard that new tablet have detachable wires to prevent easy damage. And having detachable wires will be easier on the wallet, considering any damage to said wire, and you can just buy a new one rather than sending the whole tablet into repair.

I hear ya. Amazing how much just a few pennies of manufacturing would improve a device, but noooooooo.

My headphones have a 1/8" jack on the bottom, so there's no wire to rip out, and I can replace the cord with whatever length of wire I want. High-end Sony MDR headphones are awesome -- even if they did discontinue the model I really, really like. Why do companies always kill the products I like?!