Re: [iPAQ] After wince restore, iPaq no more recognize battery

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 03:21, abossard_at_gmx.net wrote:
> Dear frineds of iPaq, Linux and Compaq
>
> I have an iPaq 3870 nine month old and it wont load the battery under wince.
>
> What did I do?
> First I installed Familiar 0.6 (and 6.1 later) with unstable opie, worked
> fine. Then I restored wince throught the wince_image.gz created by the
> bootblaster (I followed the instructions on
> http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.6.1/install/install.html respective
> http://www.handhelds.org/projects/wincerestoration.html).
> But wince doesn't load the battery anymore. So I was wondering if the iPaq
> Battery is bricked and I went back to Linux and it worked. So I choose to
> restore WIN CE from the Compaq Rom Update (instructions from
> http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/Restoring%20Windows%20CE%20from%20the%20Compaq%20iPAQ%20Update).
> And it wasn't succesful either.
> So I also get fruther and tried ist with host11.exe (on the same page), no
> success.
>
> So what are the symptons:
> - orange led doens't blink (but it does when running selfcheck, so the led
> itself is ok)
> - if I remove the iPaq from cradle it turns off after about 10s, ressing
> reset reactivates it for another 10s and so on
> - in the 'Stromversorgung' (german for the Power App in System Control) it
> shows 'Verbleibender Akkustrom' (Remaining Power) Unknown.
>
> I tried hard reset, soft reset, even installing the english rom, no succes.
>
> If I try to use Compaqs official RMO Update Tools, it fails. This is because
> something change my Model Name to ¢§°#§@§ (some weird characters) instead if
> IPAQ 3800.

seems like an asset partition related problem
which bootldr are you using ?

> I already searched google, google groups, handhelds.org inclusive mail
> archives and found nothing that could solve my problem.
>
> So do you know any solution?
>
> Cheers
> Andre

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