My Ipaq 2795 spontaneously stopped completely. It was functioning correctly last night. I docked it to charge overnight, and it seemed fine when I pulled it off the charging cradle this morning (battery full light was on)
Now I get no response when attempting to power it up an hour later. Returning it to the docking cradle gives no response (no charging light, battery full light, or power up)
Can anyone give me any ideas on how to revive it, or does it become a paperweight?
I've tried pulling the main battery for a half-hour, to see if that made any difference at all, and I've tried pulling both memory cards.
I'd be perfectly happy at this point to do a factory reset, since all of my data is either on one of the memory cards, or synced to Outlook. unfortunately, it looks like you have to be able to power the unit on to even be able to do a factory reset.
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oldsoundguy
I would have the on board Li-Ion battery checked. When those go, it is like turning off the light! I always check the charge in that battery by going into system before I take it out of the charger. Have had one die on me in the past and a lesson was hard learned that way.
stormfire
OK. I had a spare non-OEM battery stored at home for taking long trips, so when I got home I tried that.
The unit booted right up, as soon as the battery was put in, but was reset on time/date to 5/9/05 noon.
The backup battery shows as 100%. Shouldn't it have maintained the time/date setting, if it was really OK? Or is it likely that it's bad and the smart battery is protesting the backup battery being bad?
I never use the non-OEM battery if I can help it, because it's a "dumb-battery" and doesn't report it's status to the unit, so it always shows 100% until the unit shuts down from the battery being totally dead.
YankeeJeep
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The backup is very short term and tries to maintain the RAM integrity with a power trickle when there is no power from the main battery. So if it was several hours before you were able to switch to the alternate battery then it is not surprising that the backup drained. It functions best in maintaining the RAM area during a main battery swap. It should recharge back to 100% if it is in good shape.
richardhula
See my post on this thread:
http://www.smartphonemag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30698
Richard
jhar
My 2795 has stopped charging and the battery ran down. Were you able to run your 2795 with the battery removed, using only the cradle to power it? My problem doesn't seem to be the same but if yours wouldn't run with the cradle to power it and the battery removed, then maybe mine just needs a new battery. I fear it is really dead.
Were you able to confirm that the backup battery only lasts a short while to save data? I wonder if I need to somehow get this thing back up long enough to do a hard reset (to clear personal data) or if the data died when the backup battery died?