Power up problems Axim 51V

FRSOAR · 01-31-09, 11:48 AM

My Axim 51V is now three years old, havent used it for 6 months, went to switch on and - nothing. So bought new battery cos thought might have drained, and new charger. However got it to fire up once and all seemed OK, but when put in cradle, left for a few hrs in my mind on standby charge, and when i tried to switch back on, absolutely nothing. Tried pressing all buttons, soft re start. Getting really hacked off. Please help any suggestions?

bigtsr · 01-31-09, 12:48 PM

LOCK switch upper right side-check it!

FRSOAR · 01-31-09, 02:00 PM

Thanks but yes aware of that one, have just managed to hard re boot so fingers cross it will be OK. now find works fine and then leave for 15 minutes or so and the dam thing has to be hard booted again, really cant get my head round it please can someone advise

bigtsr · 01-31-09, 07:56 PM

My next guess would have been the battery door switch
but if you did a hard reset it must have had power.

02-01-09, 05:15 AM

I have a similar problem: my X50v won't boot up. I've tried all possible button combinations / taking out battery / hard and soft reset / try second battery . . . but the Ax won't turn on. However, I can charge the battery through the cradle. Last time I remember turning it on was downgrading back to ppc 2k3...

Have I bricked it?

02-01-09, 05:33 AM

Note: I've tried getting into sd bootloader and diagnostic mode -- > no luck.

I feel like I'm doing CPR to a dead beat =/

FRSOAR · 02-01-09, 05:37 AM

yeap getting there she (I am begining to get the affection for her back!) has now been up and going for three hours in the cradle all synched up. However just begining to set the wireless connection and -BANG_ she went down on me again (LOL) now having put her in cradle I am monitoringg her lifesines above my PC if no result by end of today then I will have to call time and let her pass peacefully any more thoughts will really be appreciated.

mostlylisten · 02-01-09, 09:31 AM

When you say new charger I assume you mean an AC plugin. (Don't give up on this thing yet). They aren't that expensive and charge the axim well. Sounds like either one of two things. 1) You may have bought a bad battery that isn't holding the charge for very long. I would look at a dell battery. They are better quality as I have two of them and hold a charge for the specified period of time. 2) you might have programs running in the backround which take up enormous amount of power thus causing the battery to drain fairly fast. Check in your settings before you power off (I wouldn't leave it on standby as that drains power also.) and make sure and make sure all running programs are gone. One other thing the wifi might be on (blinking green light) when you power off. This causes fast power drainage even though you don't have the power on.

Hope one of these suggestions helps if not come back with a comment. It can't be anything too severe I don't think.

FRSOAR · 02-01-09, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by mostlylisten

When you say new charger I assume you mean an AC plugin. (Don't give up on this thing yet). They aren't that expensive and charge the axim well. Sounds like either one of two things. 1) You may have bought a bad battery that isn't holding the charge for very long. I would look at a dell battery. They are better quality as I have two of them and hold a charge for the specified period of time. 2) you might have programs running in the backround which take up enormous amount of power thus causing the battery to drain fairly fast. Check in your settings before you power off (I wouldn't leave it on standby as that drains power also.) and make sure and make sure all running programs are gone. One other thing the wifi might be on (blinking green light) when you power off. This causes fast power drainage even though you don't have the power on.

Hope one of these suggestions helps if not come back with a comment. It can't be anything too severe I don't think.

many thanks will take all on board and try and sort with the new charger the program running sounds sensible to me, the battery was shwoing 100% when i checked will update with latest tomorrow