My E330 won't power on!!!!

[alcdroid]

I arrived at the office and took out my e330 and foud that it would not power on. 8O I tried to soft reset....nothing. A hard reset.....nothing. It is almost like the thing is totally drained. The thing is, I left it in the cradle all night and it took it out only less than an hour ago.

Well, I'm going to have to wait 'til I get home and see if it still charges up. Since I did a backup a week ago, and I sync it with the PC everyday, I am not worried about data loss.....but going the day without a PPC is just torture :( What's worse is that trying to figure out what went wrong is going to haunt me all day......so much for my productivity for today. [/code]

[c-naptik]

Kind of the same thing happened to me 2 months ago...I couldn't power it on any longer, tried soft-resetting it many times, did nothing, manage to turn it on again by hard-resetting it but there were still battery level indicator problems, I actually think that it wouldn't charge correctly anymore, and the unit was hotter than usual in the back.

I'm in France and had to send it back to the US, where I purchased it, because Toshiba France wouldn't repair it...stupid..

Had to send it to someone in the US who later sent it to Toshiba, and it was repaired in a few days, was very quick, I'll never know what was wrong with it though...and how to prevent a similar problem once again. A technician I had on the phone before told me that I should soft-reset my unit each time before charging it on the craddle and that I shouldn't leave the extra SD card in it at all times. Is that really true ??

[alcdroid]

Well, this is a VERY late update, but I managed to get it charged up when I got home. I guess I did not post anything for a while because I wanted to duplicate the problem...which I have not been able to and that frustrates me.

As for leaving an SD card in the device, I always do that and I have never taken it out since I got it. And doing a soft reset before charging? That's a new one. These things never caused me problems....and there is no reason to believe that this apparently isolated incident was a result of it.

cheers!

[zeno]

....I shouldn't leave the extra SD card in it at all times. Is that really true ??

Hope not. I did read recently that you should pull out the SD before doing a soft reset. Perhaps the two are related.

While I do neither, I can see some of the justification for removing the SD card before doing a soft reset as it could lead to some corruption of the SD file system (similar to when you turn off the power to a pc when it is in the middle of accessing the disk).

While I do not know if it related, I have had problems in the past with my storage cards becoming corrupted--usually I take them out, place them in a pcmcia adapter in my laptop, and then run chkdsk on them to clean up any corrupted clusters.

tb

[c-naptik]

Thanks for the info Zeno and Alcdroid, that really sounded strange to me...why wouldn't we be able to leave the SD card in the unit at all times ? Execept for resetting it, I kinda understand this as you both do, I even think this is written in the manual.

I'd really like to know what was wrong with my unit btw, it's been repaired but with no exaplanation nothing, maybe they keep track of the problems when the PPC's are being kept for repair.