If your battery is 0% and won't charge look here

OC Noob · 08-08-03, 12:38 PM

This has been covered, but noone has mentioned how to resolve the problem w/ out a cradle that I saw in my searches.

The Axim will NOT charge on a car jack, ac wall outlet or USB connection alone once it has dropped below a certain level. At 0% you don't stand a chance of charging your Axim via any of those individual methods.

I saw people resolving their problems by using the cradle (while the AC adapter is plugged into the cradle, but perosnally, I only have the UBS cable and wall adapter. I tried everything individually, not realizing the Axim needs the power of the USB cable AND the wall adapter to charge when the battery is down to 0%. Once I plugged both in it charged away like a good little boy.

So if you are having problems charging your 0% axim you need either the cradle or the usb cable AND the wall AC adapter plugged into your Axim/cradle.

Hope this simplifies things for a few people.

ps is it in the manual? I don't have one.

carwarr · 08-09-03, 03:41 AM

That seems very strange to me. I thought I read somethere that using the cradle will not charge the Ax when below 30% but if you were to plug it straight into the wall wort(transformer) with its 2.4amps of power, I would have thought that you will be getting the max power that it can put out. Using the cradle seems to use extra amprege to power the cool blue light on it so that is why I assume you don't have that much left to charge the Ax with but to have to plug in the wall wort AND the USB cable??? I think the max a USB port can (or will) put out is .5 amps and unless the circuitry in the dell uses both of them (which would be strange in itself) at the same time to charge, I don't understand how that that helped you.

Something is strange about the charging of the AXIM. Who the heck makes a 5.4v transformer!!! 5 voits is normal. And in all my years of electronic repair, I have never seen a 5VDC wall wort at 2.4amps that was THAT small. I would be really courious if it is truely putting that much out.

Anyway, glad you got it charged and hope to hear about more people getting it to work this way.

Herb · 08-09-03, 03:51 AM

Whenever my Ax didn't want to charge so far for whatever reason, I just released the battery for a short time, refitted it and it charged.

ceej13 · 08-11-03, 02:23 AM

I guess this is just to let everyone know then, Keep your Axim charged as much as possible.