jonibook

Hi,
I saw quite a few posts about batteries suddenly discharging. About two weeks ago I got home from work and my Axim 5 was dead. I assumed I had forgotten to charge it. I charged it and reloaded my programs and synched it. Next day , same thing. I assumed it was my battery, so I borrowed an almost new battery from my husband and boom, same thing. I called Dell and was told to upgrade my ROM. Did that, no help. I called Dell again and they told me since it was out of warrtanty they could do nothing except sell me a refurb for $199- I keep my battery etc. What a deal! They said it was not repairable since it was an integrated unit and the problem was somewhere on the motherboard.

In the meantime i did some research & found PDAParts.com selling an Axim5 64 mb 400 mhz motherboard for $79.95. Three days later it was sitting on my kitchen table. I took everything apart, put it back together with the new motherboard and VOILA!!! My Axim has kept its power now for 24 hours. I had to upgrade my MS activesync (free on MS site) as the new card has a newer version of Windows Pocket PC.

If anyone else is having the same probvlem hope this helps.

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ukphitau

does this apply to the X5 sucking the life out of a backup battery

Ill let me Dell sit for about a week and my main battery is dead and so is the backup battery. My logic is if the machine is off it shouldnt drain a backup battery like that


Mike

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psychoticpnut

Your axim is never "off" it sits in a stand-by, or suspended mode so that when u press the power button it jumps right back to where u were. Because of this, it will slowly discharge the battery and if that battery runs out, it uses the backup battery, so you dont lose your data, once that battery runs out, it has the same effect as if you did a hard reset on it

hope that helps mike

-Pnut

ukphitau

is there a way to just turn it off??
but that makes me feel better tho and makes sense
i thought it worked like the TI graphing calcs and their backup batts ...but if its "always" on makes sense


Mike

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uzziah0

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Originally posted by ukphitau is there a way to just turn it off?? but that makes me feel better tho and makes sense i thought it worked like the TI graphing calcs and their backup batts ...but if its "always" on makes sense Mike

To turn off the Axim, remove the main battery and the back up battery!
The reason a PPC is always on is that the RAM requires a constant power to retain the data, otherwise the data is all erased. The ROM is not erased, that is where the OS is stored and it is loaded into RAM to run; any memory cards are not erased too (memory cards have a different kind of memory that can survive without erasing, but is usually slower and /or more expensive that RAM).