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08-27-08, 06:10 AM

Hi there Bernard

I've just watched your video - very good! I'm not sure what the problem is with my Axim. I only use it nowadays as a GPS unit but when were on holiday a couple of weeks ago driving back from Switzerland, I noticed that the unit was not charging in the car holder. I fiddled around with the Axim and it appeared to work (orange light came on), but then would flick off again. In the end I cradled it in my lap for miles holding the thing at a certain angle so that the light was on!!! The light even turned green eventually, and so I thought all was well. However, the next time I switched it on, it said the battery was low, so I don't think it was charging.

We gave up on it in the end and I thought I would simply charge it in the cradle when I got home. Here the problem lies, I think. When I put the Axim in the cradle, the light didn't come on at all. It makes me think that the connectors in the bottom of the Axim might be damaged??? I thought a good wheeze was to simply take out the main battery and charge that in the cradle, which I did, but when I put the battery back in the Axim, it said that the backup battery wasn't charged and I had therefore lost all my data and it had gone back to factory settings. Well, as I said, I only use it for GPS and the maps are on a separate SD card, so it doesn't take that much to set the software up again....just a bit time-consuming and annoying.

I really like my Axim and woud love to have it back in operation. Having seen your video, I am tempted to take it apart and check everything but I'm not sure that what I can do will fix the problem. Of course, it may be that the backup battery has failed, but I would think that the light indicators would operate properly if that were the case?

Any thoughts?

I'm so desperate that I've even begun looking at buying an X51v on Ebay, but I don't know if I'd be getting into worse troubles with the added problems that model suffered from?.....I never updated my X50v to WM5 and was happy using it on Win 2003.

Again, any suggestions would be very welcome. Oh, and I'm in the UK if that makes any difference concerning people who might be able to fix my Axim if it came to that....

Many thanks for any help.

Chris.

08-27-08, 06:10 AM	#50 (permalink)
pdamaster Guest Posts: n/a	Wonder what my Axim 50V problem is??? Hi there Bernard I've just watched your video - very good! I'm not sure what the problem is with my Axim. I only use it nowadays as a GPS unit but when were on holiday a couple of weeks ago driving back from Switzerland, I noticed that the unit was not charging in the car holder. I fiddled around with the Axim and it appeared to work (orange light came on), but then would flick off again. In the end I cradled it in my lap for miles holding the thing at a certain angle so that the light was on!!! The light even turned green eventually, and so I thought all was well. However, the next time I switched it on, it said the battery was low, so I don't think it was charging. We gave up on it in the end and I thought I would simply charge it in the cradle when I got home. Here the problem lies, I think. When I put the Axim in the cradle, the light didn't come on at all. It makes me think that the connectors in the bottom of the Axim might be damaged??? I thought a good wheeze was to simply take out the main battery and charge that in the cradle, which I did, but when I put the battery back in the Axim, it said that the backup battery wasn't charged and I had therefore lost all my data and it had gone back to factory settings. Well, as I said, I only use it for GPS and the maps are on a separate SD card, so it doesn't take that much to set the software up again....just a bit time-consuming and annoying. I really like my Axim and woud love to have it back in operation. Having seen your video, I am tempted to take it apart and check everything but I'm not sure that what I can do will fix the problem. Of course, it may be that the backup battery has failed, but I would think that the light indicators would operate properly if that were the case? Any thoughts? I'm so desperate that I've even begun looking at buying an X51v on Ebay, but I don't know if I'd be getting into worse troubles with the added problems that model suffered from?.....I never updated my X50v to WM5 and was happy using it on Win 2003. Again, any suggestions would be very welcome. Oh, and I'm in the UK if that makes any difference concerning people who might be able to fix my Axim if it came to that.... Many thanks for any help. Chris.