Dead iPaq. Can battery cause all this?

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I moved recently and packed up my iPaq during the process (carefully). It took quite awhile before I got around to the box with my iPaq (1+ month). I have had it for a bit over a year.

Now it won't start. I have tried leaving it in the charger for the day, soft reset, hard reset, turning it on while in the cradle and turning it on while connected to a car charger. No response at all. I've also tried charging the battery in the aux charger -- I get no lights from the cradle.

Can this all be the battery? Or wouldn't it have at least started when in the cradle or connected to the car charger even if the battery was totally kaput?

Thanks!

[Menneisyys]

I moved recently and packed up my iPaq during the process (carefully). It took quite awhile before I got around to the box with my iPaq (1+ month). I have had it for a bit over a year.

Now it won't start. I have tried leaving it in the charger for the day, soft reset, hard reset, turning it on while in the cradle and turning it on while connected to a car charger. No response at all. I've also tried charging the battery in the aux charger -- I get no lights from the cradle.

Can this all be the battery? Or wouldn't it have at least started when in the cradle or connected to the car charger even if the battery was totally kaput?

Thanks!

It is certainly the battery. My 3660 behaved exactly the same way when its (ex-)battery died - it didn't even try to boot up/lght up the charging LED on a charger.

Get a self-installable battery pack, and install it.

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Get a self-installable battery pack, and install it.

Thanks for the speedy response. By self-installable battery pack, I assume you just meant a spare battery? (I have a 2200 series, with a replaceable main battery.) There isn't any sort of internal battery I've burned out?

[Menneisyys]

Get a self-installable battery pack, and install it.

Thanks for the speedy response. By self-installable battery pack, I assume you just meant a spare battery? (I have a 2200 series, with a replaceable main battery.)

OIC, I thought it was an older model (36xx-38xx), this is why I said 'self-installable'. On the 2210, you only have to change the main battery.

Please note that some 3rd party batteries for the 2210 (especially those of HardCE - so far, two of them died on me because of their faulty protection circuitry!) behave very bad, so it's preferred to buy HP's own batteries.

There isn't any sort of internal battery I've burned out?

Nope, the 2210, as with all new PDA's, have condensator-based backup 'batteries' meaning no need to change them / you can't destroy them.