Sudden power loss crashes Zire 71

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jgeerling@comcast.net (Jim Geerling) wrote in
news:9f48191a.0409291356.34d424b2@posting.google.com:

> I have been using the Palm Zire 71 for over a year now with no
> problems. I love it! But all of a sudden in the last couple of
> weeks, it has suddenly developed a strange problem with losing all
> power. For example, I just charged it 3 days ago and have hardly used
> it since. Last night I checked the battery level and it was still
> showing full charge. But this morning, it was so dead I could not
> turn it on, or reset it. I now have to give it a good long charge,
> then hot sync it because when it comes back on it has been hard set
> back to zero memory.
>
> Any one else have this problem with Palm or any other similar device?
> Perhaps the battery is dying and not taking a charge correctly?
> Perhaps something is draining the power that I don't realize? Help!
>
> Jim G
>

Perhaps the battery indicator needs calibrating. Try doing a soft reset
while it's on the cradle.

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Regards,

Stan