Re: iPAQ 3660 not responding to anything after beingunused for several months

Even if battery is totally empty, it should't prevent ipaq from starting,
right? If it does, can I fake ipaq to think it has the battery, although it
does not have it connected? (I don't need battery)

When I remove the internal battery, there is no sign of life whatever.

Papu

On 10/16/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Papupata wrote ..
> > Thanks for reply. iPAQ was switched off with the dip-switch and I have
> > recharged it over night without luck. So I don't think it's a battery
> issue.
> >
> > Papu
> >
> > On 10/15/07, Heiko Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >  *I once had the same problem – seams that your battery was
> completeley
> > > empty and may be damaged. To prevent this, you should have switched
> your
> > > iPAQ off with the "dip-switch", which pysically disconnects the
> battery (no
> > > discharging, no recharging in this state).*
> > >
> > > * *
> > >
> > > *Try recharging the battery for a while without switching your device
> on.
> > > Mayby you can revive your battery. Anyway you will experience a
> dramatically
> > > shortened uptime of your battery until you have to recharge. Consider
> bying
> > > a jacket (with WLAN and Card-slots) or a new internal battery.*
> > >
> > > * *
> I must repectfully disagree. Li-Ion batteries do no respond well to being
> allowed to go totally flat. . .and flat they will go whether the  batt
> switch is on or off. They generally will self-discharge as much as ten
> percent per day. I don't know what condition your battery was in when you
> left it into "retirement", but this  may well have been it's 'death knell'.
>    Changing the battery on a 3600 is relatively trivial, and cheap. There
> are complete picture instructions on the 'net'. There's no realy danger of
> leaving it a brick since you have already flashed Familiar onto the ROM.
>    Cheers,
>    Bob Perron
> > >
> > > *Changing the internal battery may brick your iPAQ and … you will
> loose
> > > your warranty…just kidding…*
> > >
> > > *Hope, you will have success in recharging your iPAQ!*
> > >
> > > * *
> > >
> > > *Greetings, Heiko.*
> > >
> > > * *
> > >
> > > *Von:* [email protected] [mailto:
> > > [email protected]] *Im Auftrag von *Papupata
> > > *Gesendet:* Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 09:53
> > > *An:* [email protected]
> > > *Betreff:* [Familiar] iPAQ 3660 not responding to anything after being
> > > unused for several months
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have an old 3660 ipaq with familiar linux in it. It was left unused
> for
> > > several months and now it is not showing anything life in it. If I
> plug
> > > charger to it, power led starts to blink. If I press the reset button,
> led
> > > will turn off and start blinking again after I release the button.
> That is
> > > all I can get out of it, it seems that I can't turn that on. Screen is
> > > showing nothing, there is no serial output, power led only blinks.
> What I
> > > can do?
> > >
>

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