what I thought was impossible just happened!

after starting my Dell Axim X3i all data + configuration were missing, i am faced with a blank OS again, and I cannot find my back-up...how this can happen??? battery???

Yep, battery is the most likely culprit. Easy way to tell is to see if the battery is now flat. Unless you've already left it on charge of course. Had it been left alone for a while?

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Sorry that sucks! Happened to my brother too

Did you do a backup? Do you have an sd card? this happened to me w/my old toshiba e335, now I back up at least 1x per week.

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if you backed up your information on an sd card, the backup should be there even if the battery went completely dead. wierd

will reinstall everything and do a backup on my sd card for the next time, but I don't have much space as Tomtom 3 is taking up much of the space there...

do the backup and then move the file off to your pc.

Big Dave

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And did you discover whether the battery had simply been drained, or whether it is defective?

that's why I bought sprite.. 30 bucks and it backs up for me every night (cos i kept forgetting to do it myself )

This week I have been mostly listening to..... Short cummings audio

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I'm a little confused about this.. so if the battery is completely dead or if I take it out now then I'll lose all the installed programs and settings in the ROM?

..and why did you have to get sprite backup for 30 bucks? I thought the activesync 3.8 backup option would do the job.

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batteries were drained after only 2 days...I mean I use it nearly everyday, my Axim is 1 year and a half, is that the end of the battery then??

YEAH! SPrite Backup!

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Just charge it up more frequently.. batteries do tend to wear out as the get older.

And Activesync backup doesn`t allways backup things especially if files are open at the time. The built in backup util is better than the AS one although it;s still not perfect and when you start to get lazy you don`t get a full set of backups.

Sprite closes down all the programs and files you may have open and does an automatic backup every night while i;m asleep. So 3 mins after a hard reset I can have all my data back, even if i;m on a train.

This week I have been mostly listening to..... Short cummings audio

Life — In Funny, Six-Minute Slices

     

Or you could get an extended battery.... 2000mAh doesn't sound too bad for a replacement does it?

Rest in peace my beloved X30
You took a lot of physical abuse... (lots of drops!)

Maybe it wasn't the battery's fault. Did you lose everything in BIS (Built In Storage)? Do you have a CF card or SD card, and did you lose anything previously saved to them? If so, then something more serious is afoot.