Randomly Turns On?

[Norco]

Does anybody have a Axim that randomly turns itself on like mine? I'll have it sitting there just connect to AC power recharging, and suddenly it feels the need to turn on. So I shut it off, but this has happened several times now, I don't know what the deal is. Any ideas?

[jbit]

Mine does the same, very anoying considering i have it on the desk oposite my desk and my backlight on full when on ac...
always wakes up at like 2am and wakes me up too ;(
I've had to resort to turning the backlight off before i goto bed... i just assumed it was a pocket pc fault

[Mike C]

As you probably know, the Axim never really turns off ... it just disables the screen and causes processes to go dormant. The RAM still contains the OS ready to go, and any apps you have "running" will still be there when you wake it up again ... and start driving the display with them again.
For example, if you start a game of minesweeper, the clock counts down while you have the app open, but if you return to the Today screen, it stops ticking away while minimized. It is still loaded in RAM and ready to resume when you switch to it.

Anything that happens that requires an active system to deal with it ... like removing a memory card, or docking to the PC, will wake up the device to adapt to the change.

When you are charging, is it just the AC power cord, or is it in the cradle connected to the PC?
Are your memory cards properly inserted? If there was a loose connection to an SD or CF card, or a problem there, it would wake up every time it sees a change occur.

Other than the unit trying to sync, or a notification (which you would have seen) I don't know what else will wake it up. It's not really normal if it's just laying there charging ... at least my 400 does not turn on unless just removed from sync, or the rumored status check at midnight.

[jbit]

my mmc card isnt in it at night (leave it in my pc over night so i can cp my playlist of the day and email to it in the morning)
And my pc runs linux so it doesn't try to sync unless i tell it to.

I think it might just be microsofts great feature that wakes the ppc up at like midnight or whatever. and becasue of smart minimize i probably haveabout 10 programs running in the background that keep it alive.
(the person who thought of smart minimize shold be given a medal with a deativated ("closed" if you will) bomb in it... see how he (or she) likes smart minimization when it wakes up at midnight ... heh heh heh
Anyway ..

[JakeRich]

Activesync in anything but "manual" sync mode will wake the ax up when it thinks it's time to sync. I have all Activesync options to manual only. My ax sleeps nicely through the night on my bedside table.