Back up Battery Burns out in a Month

[tcmraven]

Has anyone had a problem with premature replacement of the backup battery? I have to replace the battery at least once a month. :(

[Kacey Green]

I've only owned devices without replaceable backup batteries

[Kati Compton]

Has anyone had a problem with premature replacement of the backup battery? I have to replace the battery at least once a month. :(
Which Dell?

I only have that problem when I let my Axim X5 drain the battery (ie, spend too many days between charges).

[jpaq]

I had that problem until I replaced it, and upgraded to the most current ROM. Since then I have ordered and purchased the WM2003 Upgrade disk, installed it successfully and continued to have better performance.

Itend to think there was a problem with the drain in a previous ROM.

[Kowalski]

this is not normal. the device uses backup battery only the main power reaches to 0.

[chunkymonkey75]

I used to support the Axim X5 where I work and this was a common problem. Usually it was because the customer waited too long between charges. (backup battery is not rechargable). Updating to the latest ROM corrected many of those problems. I had to send a couple of them back to Dell because of this problem as well.

[David Prahl]

I had that problem until I replaced it, and upgraded to the most current ROM.

Bingo, methinks. I was having strange battery issues until I upgraded to a new 2002 ROM.

[xbalance]

I have been getting the backup battery warning regularily for a very long time. I replaced the battery once but it was only a matter of a few days before I got the message again. It is assuredly something wrong with the Axim X5 since I never let my unit get below 40% before re-charging. Also, the backup battery will return to 100% after I charge the unit. It is a pain in the butt but throwing money at batteries is not the answer.

Is there a way to supress the backup battery is low notification? I could not find a way.

[Kati Compton]

You may want to check to see that it's in there firmly? I think a few people early on (including me) had problems where the contact wasn't good at first with the backup battery so it was being read incorrectly...