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Originally Posted by MarcFou
Persistent Storage. It wont help your battery. I was under the impression with the new data storage that the power button would work like a true on off switch. Since data does remain even when the battery is dead, I assumed shutting off the device would do exactly that. Apparently not. The ipaq power button still works as a "stand by" button. On a 100% charge I shut off my device. Waited 6 hours. Turned it on. The battery was at 96% and the programs I left running were still running. Thats not what I was expecting.
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You need to expliciltly configure your PDA to shut down itself completely when you, for example, press and hold the Power button.
(If you can live with the tens of seconds-long - that's the case of the x51v; the HP WM5 devices may be similar - rebooting process, that is.)