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

I left it connected to charger overnight. At the morning, power led was not
anymore blinking, it was steady on. That's all, I still can't turn that ...
thing on. This is something else than battery issue.

Frustrated Papu

On 10/16/07, Heiko Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Right. The iPAQ won´t run without internal battery. There is no circuit
> or bypass, that swaps between power-supply and battery, so you are
> simultaneously recharging the battery and consuming capacity. If a cell is
> broken, your iPAQ does not get the power from power supply, which runs
> through the cells. That's why a jacket only helps if at least **SOME**
> capacity of the internal cells is left. The jacket permanently recharges the
> internal cells and keeps this little capacity up.
>
>
>
> Be careful, when connecting the power supplay directly to the contacts of
> the battery. Requiered data for recharging electronical devices is different
> from those required to run them.
>
>
>
> Greetings, Heiko
>
> * *
>
> *Von:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *Im Auftrag von *Papupata
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 11:00
> *An:* [email protected]
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Betreff:* Re: [Familiar] 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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