Data Survives?

[gregmills]

I have an e750 and there have been a couple of times where I went to turn on the wifi and instead hit the hard reset switch. No matter how fast I switch it back the data is always lost.

The device has also taken a couple of short drops that jarred it enough to pop the battery out. in those instance the data has been lost just like a hard reset.

Tonight it took one of those falls and the battery was out of the unit for a good 5 minutes. When I popped it back in the data had survived. I've always had to restore from a backup before but tonight it came right back on like nothing had happened.

How is that possible?

[OSUKid7]

Pocket PCs with external batteries have a small backup battery. When you hard reset it, you're telling it to delete the data. When the battery comes out, the backup battery is still powering the flash RAM enough to keep your data safe. Perhaps tonight the device didn't hit as hard as before? Maybe before it hurt the backup battery and/or RAM itself? Not sure actually. :|

[Ripper014]

As mentioned above it was probably the fall that caused the reset... not the lack of battery power... Most units have enough charge for a device to survive at least 5 minutes before losing all its data. This is normal and is why those units with removable batteries can change them without losing any information.

[jimski]

BTW, please stop dropping 8O your PPC or at least get a really good case.