Hi,
I've developed a small app that I believe it could be useful with a non-working capacitor (like mine). Whenever you want to swap batteries, just tap an icon placed in the system tray, and answer yes to the confirmation message. Current date is then written into flash and restored on power up (adding one minute, which is more or less the time it takes to replace the battery and boot the Axim). It isn't extremely exact, but you can restore the date and time with an acceptable error.
Is anybody interested?
Absolutely, but I wouldn't want the icon in the system tray as mine is full of daily used apps already. Would there be another way to use it other than this- say in the programs with the option of putting it in the sys tray?
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Hi,
I've developed a small app that I believe it could be useful with a non-working capacitor (like mine). Whenever you want to swap batteries, just tap an icon placed in the system tray, and answer yes to the confirmation message. Current date is then written into flash and restored on power up (adding one minute, which is more or less the time it takes to replace the battery and boot the Axim). It isn't extremely exact, but you can restore the date and time with an acceptable error.
Is anybody interested?
I'd be interested in your workaround - do you have it posted somewhere? I swap batteries a lot when I'm on the road listening to books on tape - which since they are DRM managed, means date and time is relatively important.
-I am always surprised that people just dare to open up the device with no, or very little experience of doing so. If you never broke anything by opening it - this might be your chance ... If you broke some things before - then you might know better what to do and what not to do. I am especially surprised that nobody writes anything about ESD. Whenever I open this kind of things - even Computers - I definitely see that I myself got some ground connection. If you never heard about that - do not open your Axim ...
-I am absolutely not surprised that a battery survives much shorter than a capacitor ... capacitors usually do not get broken - at least not that I heard of that. Batteries instead do have a limited lifetime. So - yes - a battery might do but not as long as a capacitor. Given the life expectancy of an Axim that has a broken capacitor it might be long enough though ... But why do the same work get worse result?
-Farnell is not just in UK ... Farnell / Electronic Component Distributors / Suppliers / Electronics, Electrical Parts, Electrical Components and Wholesale Electronics. but so far I only knew them as industrial supplier. Can you really order with them as a private person?
-gluing without soldering: are you really serious? Why not just live with the problem ... if you really dare to open the thing ... then go the last step also.
Finally: I am a precision engineer and I would say that I do have a lot of experience in opening things and I broke a lot of things by doing so (I also managed to repair a lot of devices successfully) but at the moment I do not feel like opening my Axim just because of the broken capacitor ...
Actually the main points are:
-the snap-fit of the housing - they really easily break when opening
-the soldering cause heat destroys some components and in the factory things like that are not soldered with a soldering iron - so these parts do not need to survive it necessarily - the design of the capacitors pads shows that it is not meant to be soldered by hand ...
Here it is the small app I talked about before. It works as follows:
Once installed, it places a battery icon in the system tray (srvctec, for the moment this is the only way, but I can change it easily if you are interested in another way for launching the app).
Whenever you want to replace batteries, tap on this new icon. You'll be asked whether you want to replace the battery. If you answer yes, the app stores current date into the flash and suspends the Axim. Once suspended, just replace the battery and power on the axim again (powering on just after replacing is important because if you don't do so, the stored date is no longer correct). During boot, the app will detect correction is needed and will update the incorrect date with the stored one adding 60 seconds (more or less the time it takes replacing the battery and booting).
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I am not sure if the program works or if I misunderstood it ... Actually the time correction goes automatically? The only thing I need to do is push the battery symbol before changing battery?
And another one: when my device was very new I could change the battery without even doing a softreset. The device just went off and with the other battery on again - no reboot. I have seen the same thing with a Pocket Loox ... I consider this almost worse problem with the broken backup whatever than the lost time ... Cannot be solved with some small program ...
I am not sure if the program works or if I misunderstood it ... Actually the time correction goes automatically? The only thing I need to do is push the battery symbol before changing battery?
Yes, and answer yes to the "Change battery now?" question. That's the way it should work.
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Here it is the small app I talked about before. It works as follows:
Once installed, it places a battery icon in the system tray (srvctec, for the moment this is the only way, but I can change it easily if you are interested in another way for launching the app).
Whenever you want to replace batteries, tap on this new icon. You'll be asked whether you want to replace the battery. If you answer yes, the app stores current date into the flash and suspends the Axim. Once suspended, just replace the battery and power on the axim again (powering on just after replacing is important because if you don't do so, the stored date is no longer correct). During boot, the app will detect correction is needed and will update the incorrect date with the stored one adding 60 seconds (more or less the time it takes replacing the battery and booting).
Let me know if it works OK for you.
Absolutely brilliant!!! Thanks Mike, I change batteries regularly while flying and this little app is a blessing. I am a reasonable solderer but this app negates the need to bother with locating a cap/battery and risking damaging my x51v.
Cheers,
John
Actually the main points are:
-the snap-fit of the housing - they really easily break when opening
-the soldering cause heat destroys some components and in the factory things like that are not soldered with a soldering iron - so these parts do not need to survive it necessarily - the design of the capacitors pads shows that it is not meant to be soldered by hand ...
best regards
Daniel
You have to be kidding There is no way to break the x51v housing, I open mine, a LOT of times, without any problem. 4 torx and a credit card :hide: damn easy
Here it is the small app I talked about before. It works as follows:
Once installed, it places a battery icon in the system tray (srvctec, for the moment this is the only way, but I can change it easily if you are interested in another way for launching the app).
Whenever you want to replace batteries, tap on this new icon. You'll be asked whether you want to replace the battery. If you answer yes, the app stores current date into the flash and suspends the Axim. Once suspended, just replace the battery and power on the axim again (powering on just after replacing is important because if you don't do so, the stored date is no longer correct). During boot, the app will detect correction is needed and will update the incorrect date with the stored one adding 60 seconds (more or less the time it takes replacing the battery and booting).
Let me know if it works OK for you.
OK Mike, I unzipped the app but - how do I get it onto the Axim? All I see is a .cab file but no .exe file. Do I just transfer this file into the ActiveSync folder on my computer or what? All I've ever installed before onto the Axim are .exe files
Sorry if this is a dumb question - but I know your program will make my life easier.
OK Mike, I unzipped the app but - how do I get it onto the Axim? All I see is a .cab file but no .exe file. Do I just transfer this file into the ActiveSync folder on my computer or what? All I've ever installed before onto the Axim are .exe files
Sorry if this is a dumb question - but I know your program will make my life easier.
OK, I'll jump in here.
I would just connect your pda to your pc via AS and then click on explore in the AS window and browse to a folder on your pda where you want to put the .cab file. Then just drag the file from your pc to that location on your pda. Once you have the file on your pda, just use the file explorer to browse to the location you just copied the file to and run it (either double or single click it depending on your settings). This will install the program. When it asks where you want to install it, I would just choose the device as the location, since this is such a small app, plus you don't have to worry about it working properly when running from one of your memory cards (some programs don't play nice when running from memory cards).
Hope this helps.
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Hi guys,
My axim started doing this 3 months ago, 1.5 years after I bought it. I don't want to open it by myself, but was thinking about sending my Ax to PPCTECH guys for replacing capacitor. I am not sure if they provide this service. They did RAM upgrade for my Ax year ago and I was very pleased with their service.
Absolutely brilliant!!! Thanks Mike, I change batteries regularly while flying and this little app is a blessing. I am a reasonable solderer but this app negates the need to bother with locating a cap/battery and risking damaging my x51v.
Cheers,
John
I agree its absolutely brilliant. I can confirm this fix works with WM6! Have tested it four or five times with no issues. Perhaps a monitor could move this as a sticky note for other users that have not found this simple solution. Thanks for a great feature. Another wonderful use of the fantastic Axim user site. :approve:
Here it is the small app I talked about before. It works as follows:
Once installed, it places a battery icon in the system tray (srvctec, for the moment this is the only way, but I can change it easily if you are interested in another way for launching the app).
Whenever you want to replace batteries, tap on this new icon. You'll be asked whether you want to replace the battery. If you answer yes, the app stores current date into the flash and suspends the Axim. Once suspended, just replace the battery and power on the axim again (powering on just after replacing is important because if you don't do so, the stored date is no longer correct). During boot, the app will detect correction is needed and will update the incorrect date with the stored one adding 60 seconds (more or less the time it takes replacing the battery and booting).
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There is no way to break the x51v housing, I open mine, a LOT of times, without any problem. 4 torx and a credit card :hide: damn easy
