Hey Gene,
I've never seen this problem occur, but it certainly sounds like the
internal battery is dead. The primary batteries of course are the AAA's
that you put in. However, there is a small internal battery which is
supposed to keep the power up for a minute when you change the AAA's.
Either it's dead, or the wiring to it, or something like that. A pain,
to be sure, but nothing that you can't work around with a hotsync.
I assume you have no warranty on it? I've changed batteries on tons of
Palms and never seen this happen before, so it's a rare problem, not
that that's much consolation.
--Byron
gbeaird@io.com wrote:
>Sorry for the strictly Palm question, but this is as close to a Palm list
>as I have right now, and seeing as how there should be several on this
>list with a Palm, maybe someone can help me.
>
>We record our GEEZ data onto a Palm M100, OS v. 3.5.1. The time before
>last when I replaced the batteries, the machine completely reset itself.
>I had to reinstall all my applications, including all the GEEZ apps and my
>productivity applications like Mine Sweeper and Backgammon. :-)
>
>I didn't pay a lot of attention to things when I swapped the batteries,
>but noted the machine was on when I turned it over after installing the
>new batteries. I _thought_ the machine was off when I pulled the old
>batteries, but was not certain.
>
>I just swapped the batteries today, the SAME thing happened. This time,
>though, I KNOW the machine was off when I pulled the old batteries, and I
>installed the new ones within the 1 minute window you are supposed to
>have. Reinstalling all the software, and ANYTHING I might have entered
>into the machine at each battery replacement would significantly limit the
>usefullness of this machine, and hence, the GEEZ. Does anyone have any
>idea what is happening?
>
>I had not gotten to the point where I had received a low battery warning.
>I was probably at about 20% battery life left (I replace the batteries
>early when we are going to have an event and the battery level is less
>than 1/2). Thank you for any input.
>
>Gene Beaird
>86 SVO, G Stock, unless the Firebird is broken
>85 Firebird, CP
>92 Camaro B4C 1LE, FS, ESP, CP, SM, etc., etc.,
>Pearland, Texas
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