Re: bricekd iPaq?

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:03:35AM +0000, julie doyle wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a h3970 iPaq that I think might be in a bricked state. It was left
> without charging for a couple of hours and when I got back to the iPaq the
> splash screen was on it. I tried doing a reset which didn't work and I
> couldn't boot linux again from HyperTerminal. Now the splash screen has
> gone and the iPaq seems dead. It has been charging for the past two days
> but it won't restart at all.
>
> Has anyone any ideas how I could bring it back to life??

The mailing list archive is probably full of techniques one can try to
revive their iPAQ. All the way down to using the jtag interface to unbrick it.

But to save you some time I'll give you the most usefull one generally.

Disconnect the battery, leave it out for about 2 minutes. Plug it back
in. Try charging and soft-reseting. If nothing happens try this cycle a
few more times.

E

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