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iPAQ 3850-battery issue
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10/15/05 11:15am
towyou88 |
Last night, I apparently left the pda powered on. When I tried to turn it on this morning it would not do so. When plugged into external power I was able to power it up no problem. Spb showed that it had 11% of 'juice'. Is it possible that i 'smoked' the battery? Is there a minimum power range that the pda will not operate with? Any suggestions? Thank you for looking!!
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Werner Ruotsalainen
Moderator
It is; several resellers sell batteries for the old Compaq h36xx/37xx/38xx series. Make a quick Google search - you'll find plenty of them.
useless_smurf
thanks for the reply
i left it to charge while i went out, and i returned to find that it still has no response to anything. I guess the battery has died, is it possible to replace the HP battery?
thanks
Werner Ruotsalainen
Moderator
A deep discharge always includes the possibility of the battery irrecoverably dying (see the above posts). This can be the case with your PDA too.
useless_smurf
my ppocket pc hasnt been charged ina while, i'd say around 2 weeks.
I cannot turn it on, and when i plug it in to charge no light is show. It also doesnt connect with the pc.
Will it charge after a while, or is there someting wrong?
thanks
Werner Ruotsalainen
Moderator
It's subjective. If you can live with the shorter battery life it provides, then, you may not want to swap the battery right now. (Prolly you won't ever need to get a new battery then if you decide to get a new model soon and put this iPAQ in the drawer.)
towyou88
Thank you. Now it will turn on with about 33% charged. When would you recommend replacing the battery as far as "age" is concerned?
Werner Ruotsalainen
Moderator
Nope. You can only make a serious impact on the (remaining) life of your battery if you don't touch your PDA for weeks. Then, the battery will indeed be deeply depleted, which means a considerable hit on life expectancy. As you've powered up after some hours of the PDA's switching off itself, no considerable damage has been done to the battery as it still had some charge.
Yes, depending on the model of the PDA and the age of the battery. Yours switched off at 11% because it has an aging battery. With a brand new battery, it would have switched off at, say, 2-3%.
Another example: my iPAQ 2210, when it was brand new (some 2.5 years ago), switched off at 2%. Now, after 2.5 years of continuous use, it switches off at 23-24%, which shows the battery is indeed aging.