imported_Brian

Hi
I woke up this morning and I had to find a phone number to make a call. I tried to turn the iPAQ on and it would not come on. I charged it for 10 minutes and it would still not come on. I then gave it a hard reset and a soft reset and it started for about 5 seconds and turned off again.
I connected the charger and the 5550 started up. I went thriugh the start up process after a hard reset and looked at the power indicator and the backup battery was 100% and he main battery was flat.
Had to charge it for 15 minutes before the main battery moved off zero. I have now backed up my data from a backup on my SD card so I have not lost data.
I have had the 5550 over 3 months now and this is the first time this has happened. I would be interested what the reason could be.
I have heard that if you leave many programmes open when you turn off the device this can drain the battery because they sometimes start the device up.
The iPAq was off for 6 hours so it occurred during that period. When I turned it off the battery was 70% charged. The iPAQ is working fine now.
Has anybody else had this problem
Regards Brian

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slashlos

I'm still kinda new at iPAQs but it seem very odd to me that a dead battery requires a hard reset, but then again, given that all that "it" knows was in volatile memory aka RAM anyway is there really a difference?

I myself have not had this situtation yet [only had my 5555 for a couple weeks] but in looking forward perhaps there's a way to have all 'data' kept in ROM and 'programs' in RAM. Then when this occurs again, your data wouldn't be lost and you'd merely sync again. It does seem strange though that after being dead it takes a few hours charge for the batteries to revive the units, but this seems typical.

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wh0c4rez

Brian,

I have a 5455 and have had some of the strangest issues with the battery. I, too have woke up and found a powerless device. I have been reading a book with msreader, turned the device off, set it down, picked it up 5 minutes later, hit the power button and found a dead device. I had some real problems about 5 monts ago, my device would play a game with me everyday and wipe the slate clean on me. EXTREMELY frustrating. I then began a regimen of using iPaq backup due to the wasted time having to reinstall everything from scratch. I considered purchasing a new battery. But now, after about 5 months, it hasn't happened again (knock on wood).

For slashlos: As for the hard reset, I think I can speak from experience, when your device appears to have completely kicked the bucket, you'll try ANYTHING to revive it. I've done more hard resets than I can shake a stick at until I "figured out" the problem with the battery.