Re: H3800 dead.

On 6/30/06, Hennie Strydom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 07:54 +0200, Derek wrote:
> > Hi, I've an IPAQ H3800 with Familiar and Opie v 0.8.2 installed on it.
> > I has been working nice, but now it's just dead. If I try to charge it
> > no leds are blinking, if i try to start it, nothing, not even reseting
> > o reset plus power button press. I ask here because it never happened
> > before with windows on it. Does this happened to anyone?
> >
> > If I can't fix it, how could I retrieve the information in the backup
> > files that are in my SD card?
> >
> > Any help will be appreciate.
> The battery is probably fully run down.  Place it on the charger for a
> while (possibly up to a few hours) The charging light will not flash.
> Then reset it and promptly place it back in the charger.  Once
> adequately charged the boot loader will run as usual after a reset.  At
> this stage you can boot opie and allow it to charge as usual.
> The Ipaq hardware does a minimal trickle charge when the software is not
> running to control charge, so it still charges but very slowly and
> without any indication.
>
> Regards
>   Hennie
>
>
>
Thank you! I finally got a charger which can be plugged and allow reset and
it worked. Now I know, never let it go so down.

Regards.

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