Re: How stable is 0.8.4/GPE on Ipaq 3950?

2007/3/21, Niklas Höglund <nhoglund_at_gmail.com>:
>
> On 21/03/07, Marcelo Urbano Lima <marcelo_urbano_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I've been away from the list for the last months after I got a dead
> > batery trying to use 0.8.2 on Ipaq 3950 and leaving battery drain for
> the
> > first time.
> >
> > I bought a new battery and restored Pocket PC but I'd like to give it
> > another chance, so what are your experiences with new familiar releases
> and
> > Ipaq 3950?
> >
> > Any battery/ASIC/learn cycles issues?
> > Mount/SD issues?
> > Suspend/Power off issues?
> > How many of you don't use your Ipaq for such long time that the battery
> is
> > drained and you can't even turn it on? Does it recharge and you have the
> > Ipaq back to life?
>
> I have a 3870. I don't know if the batteries work the same, so
> hopefully someone with a 39xx can tell you. You may want to look for
> the hardware support pages on handhelds.org to see if there is any
> 39xx-specific information.
>
> On a 3870, the battery will drain too completely to allow it to boot,
> if you leave it long enough, or refuse to let it suspend when the
> battery is low. I've gotten it into this state a couple of times. The
> device can't draw power from the charger until after the kernel is up
> and running, so this is a really stupid hardware design, IMO. It
> generally works to leave it in the charger in this situation. The
> device trickle-charges then, even if it is off, and it will have
> enough power to boot the kernel and start charging properly after a
> while (sometimes several days).

I had this problem, too, for a long time with my 3870 (opie, familiar).
After a week of charging, I had once enough, and really searched a last time
for a solution: And I found it! If the battery is completely discharged and
nothing happends when putting the ipaq in the cradle then the following
helped with me: press the first (left, calendar) button and the last (right,
small arrow) button to the same time and (to the same time) press with your
stylus the reset button, and do that for about five seconds. After that, the
Ipaq started here with me suddently as soon as I put it into the cradle...

Cheers
Jan

There's a couple of notes on the 3900 series on
> http://www.handhelds.org/projects/h3900.html
>
> Niklas
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Received on Sat Mar 24 2007 - 01:21:30 EST