OT Axim 5

[Terry Beckingham]

George,

I have had the same thing happen with my Axim X5 as well. I have replaced 
the backup battery several times, but it doesn't help. I sometimes do a 
soft reset which will sometimes fix the problem. Other times, I remove and 
reinstall the battery.

Peter Joris suggests that perhaps rom version A05 will fix the problem. 
That has not been the case for me. My Axim came with version A05.

Terry Beckingham RPT

At 02:05 PM 5/28/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Colleague,
>In September 2003 I purchased the Axim 5 hand held computer from Dell 
>Canada.  In October 2003 the following message dropped down: "Backup 
>battery very low.  To prevent possible data loss, replace or recharge your 
>battery according to the owner's manual."
>I contacted Dell and they replaced the original backup battery.  In the 
>meantime I purchased a backup battery from a friend who is a whole seller 
>of batteries.  He measured the "defective" battery and claim that the 
>battery is still good.
>Since than I bought 4 separate backup batteries from my friend because for 
>no reason at all I have been receiving warning messages about low battery 
>charge.
>Before I pursue this problem any further I decided to experiment.  Using 
>two batteries which were "defective" I replace one with the other when I 
>received the warning.  Interestingly enough when I replaced the old 
>battery with the "new" defective battery all looked well.  Backup battery 
>showed 100%.  The next time I checked the battery in the system it showed 
>70% charge only. (I haven't used the computer at all)  At other times when 
>I replaced the battery with a "new" old battery it showed 100% and then 
>within 2 seconds the bar got empty and showed 0%.  This happened several 
>times.  Sometimes I was able to use the computer with the "defective" 
>reading at other times the dropped down window kept warning me.
>Interestingly enough I have 5 backup batteries (CR 2032 Lithium) which 
>read being fully charged when I measure the charge with a meter outside of 
>the computer, but from the computer I am getting warning messages of low 
>battery charge.
>What makes me suspicious is that it happens irregularly.  In another word 
>this problem occurs intermittently.
>When the main battery charge shows 70% I always recharge it.  I do not 
>drain the batteries.  Also I am semi retired meaning that I do not tune 
>and use the computer every day.  It happened in the past that the computer 
>was sitting in the cradle for days and when I checked the charge level it 
>showed less than the previous time.
>The computer is used only for tuning pianos using Tune-Lab.  There are no 
>other files such as calendar, customer files, etc.
>My questions are:
>What am I doing wrong?
>Anybody had this experience?
>What was the solution?
>Any feed back would be appreciated.
>George Takats