re:PalmPilot Battery Problem

[Lou Ordorica <lou@Central>]

Thanks for all your responses regarding my Pilot battery problem.
Several individuals have pointed out that this is likely
a hardware problem with the capacitor that preserves the
contents of memory during battery swaps.

I called 3Com, and a friendly service representative told
me that this is not an uncommon problem on older Pilots,
and advised me to change the batteries *one at a time*.

Others on this alias suggested that I check the pins in the memory
card slot to verify that they are not bent (I recently installed a 
2MB upgrade).

I'll try both of these fixes out tonight.

Thanks again,

lou

> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:21:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Weatherford <david.weatherford@Eng>
> Subject: re:PalmPilot Battery Problem
> To: lou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, pmeyer@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> 
> Lou,
> 
> I also have a Personal with the 2M upgrade and have never had this
> problem.  Your capacitor must be shot.  Call 3Com.
> 
> Dave Weatherford
> 
> #Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:53 -0400 (EDT)
> #From: Peter Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> #Subject: re:PalmPilot Battery Problem
> #To: lou@Central
> #Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> #
> #In message "PalmPilot Battery Problem", lou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> #
> #Lou, 
> #
> #Gut instinct suggests that your new memory consumes more power than your
> #previous 512k.  It may draw sufficient power to deplete any stored 
> #energy in a shorter time than the 1 minute grace period.  
> #
> #Peter Meyer
> #
> #=> I have a perplexing problem. Everytime I change my 
> #=> Pilot's batteries, I lose all my data.
> #=> 
> #=> The owner's manual says I have a minute to install fresh 
> #=> batteries while the built-in power source stores the data
> #=> in memory, but this doesn't seem to work on my PalmPilot Personal
> #=> (just upgraded with 2MB PalmIII OS upgrade).
> #=> 
> #=> After installing a new set of Alkalines, I tried removing them
> #=> and replacing them immediately - same results, my data was
> #=> lost (good thing I have PilotManager to restore a backup!)
> #=> 
> #=> Any help is appreciated.
> #=> 
> #=> Thanks,
> #=> 
> #=> -lou
> #=> 
> 
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