Re: iPAQ 3660 not responding to anything after beingunused for several months
Papupata <[email protected]>
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Hi, according to this: http://www.weethet.nl/english/pda_ipaq3630_replacebattery.php ----- My iPAQ didn't work in the craddle either. Using only the powersupply didn't do any good either. So why doesn't the iPAQ just start? It has power doesn't it? So this can't be the battery ... right? Well, could be true, but did you try to *hard reset the iPAQ*? .. Use the stylus and gently push the *resetbutton* (indicated with the red arrow in the image above). You might need to push the power on button - but usually the iPAQ now starts ... in that case: your iPAQ is not dead, but it's battery is ... (might need to try it more than once). --- iPAQ should turn on even if battery is dead. Mine doesn't. What else can I try? And that power led is getting power from somewhere... Papu On 10/17/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Papupata wrote .. > > 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 > > > To re-state the obvious: I believe you have a failed battery. When a > Li-Ion battery fails through "exhaustion", it will manifest a high > resistance condition. The charging circuit "reads" this high resistance > condition and misinterprets it as meaning that the battery has attained a > full state of charge, when in fact no such condition exists. Thus the steady > LED. > You may attempt any, and all other remedies, but to rule out the > simplest and most efficacious remedy, i.e. replacing the battery, if for > no other reason than to test the ACTUAL condition of your current battery, > through some arcane decision making process leaves me speechless. William of > Occam weeps. :^) > Cheers, > Bob Perron > _______________________________________________ The Familiar Linux Distribution Familiar mailing list [email protected] https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/familiar irc://irc.freenode.net #familiar