Tungsten C power problem

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Under Preferences there's an option for "auto off after X minutes".

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:13:22 -0500, ANTant@zimage.com wrote:

>Hello. My father's Tungsten C seems to have power problems. He says his
>PDA keeps turning itself off during usage even when battery is charged.
>He does use it a lot so I am not sure if his PDA is dying. He only had
>it for about a year.
>
>Note that he doesn't have the latest firmware update due to problems
>according to
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2co... newsgroup thread.
>
>Is this a common problem and how can this be fixed? Does Palm have to
>fix it? Thank you in advance.  

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Actually, it is not that. It is random power offs.


In alt.comp.sys.palmtop.pilot Slinky <slinky@do.fysh.not.org.spam> wrote:
> Under Preferences there's an option for "auto off after X minutes".

> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:13:22 -0500, ANTant@zimage.com wrote:

> >Hello. My father's Tungsten C seems to have power problems. He says his
> >PDA keeps turning itself off during usage even when battery is charged.
> >He does use it a lot so I am not sure if his PDA is dying. He only had
> >it for about a year.
> >
> >Note that he doesn't have the latest firmware update due to problems
> >according to
> >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2co... newsgroup thread.
> >
> >Is this a common problem and how can this be fixed? Does Palm have to
> >fix it? Thank you in advance.  
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In article <9uSdnXWWz8G_Zp_cRVn-uA@mminternet.net>, ANTant@zimage.com
wrote:

> Hello. My father's Tungsten C seems to have power problems. He says his
> PDA keeps turning itself off during usage even when battery is charged.
> He does use it a lot so I am not sure if his PDA is dying. He only had
> it for about a year.
>
> Note that he doesn't have the latest firmware update due to problems
> according to
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2co...
> 8&seekm=6NGdnTPoe83_r0DdRVn-uw%40mminternet.net newsgroup thread.
>
> Is this a common problem and how can this be fixed? Does Palm have to
> fix it? Thank you in advance.  


Has he tried backing up all his data then doing a hardreset on the palm?
Might be a bug that could be corrected by that.

M. Prindle

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ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> Actually, it is not that. It is random power offs.
>

Is he loosing data every time it shuts itself off?

Ryan

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> > Actually, it is not that. It is random power offs.

> Is he loosing data every time it shuts itself off?

Ryan, nope. It looks like the PDA is OK now. Who knows what happened. I
will follow-up if it happens again.
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