Guest FunkyMagic Posted May 14, 2003 Report Posted May 14, 2003 All has been well for the last few months - nicely tweaked SPV running fast and with no problems for ages AND THEN THIS MORNING... Picked the phone out of its charger, it crashed and I couldn't power back on. I removed the battery, reinserted it - but about 15 mins later the battery was exhausted. Sat in in a charger at work all day. Wait for it to be fully charged, and then with that Task thingy tool watch the %'age rapidly drop, the phone now consistently loses ALL charge in about 20-30 minutes!! Now - is this likely to be a battery fault, in which case I'll get it swap - OR - is a hard reset worth doing first (which I don't really want to do). Regards, FunkyMagic!
Guest adam Posted May 14, 2003 Report Posted May 14, 2003 It sounds hardware rather than software to me, but then M$ is latin for inserting chaos generator!
Guest James Posted May 14, 2003 Report Posted May 14, 2003 you might as well try a hard reset first but i really cant see how this can be software? strange one!
Guest adam Posted May 14, 2003 Report Posted May 14, 2003 Could it be the connection to the battery? That might be worth investigation rather than a reset.
Guest FunkyMagic Posted May 15, 2003 Report Posted May 15, 2003 Tried removing the SD card and everything else to no avail. Did a Hadr Reset last night and left the SPV in the charger over night. Drove from Huddersfield to Leeds (40mins) this morning and the battery was less than half power by the time I got into the office. Looks like I'll be trawling round the shops at lunchtime for a spare. As an aside - its wierd having a 'reset' SPV again! It runs *really* fast - I guess I was due a rebuild anyway! FunkyMagic
Guest adicken Posted May 15, 2003 Report Posted May 15, 2003 Had a similar problem with my SPV not so long ago.. Orange diagnosed that it was a battery fault and because my phone was under 12 moths old they replaced it free of charge. Next day delivery aswell!! Superb service. Replacement cost would be about £50. By the way i don't have orange care. Hope that helps
Guest James Posted May 15, 2003 Report Posted May 15, 2003 you dont have orage care! wow! that is good service!
Guest urdone311 Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I know it's not a smartphone, BUT its probly the same deal: I have a laptop that was running sweet as hell for a long time, then one day i realized it was not lasting at all on the battery...Windows XP would say that the battery had 2.5 hours left on it, but it would drain in a half hour instead. So I reformatted and clean installed XP, didn't solve the problem. Over time it gets even worse, i still havent bought a new battery because I'm lazy- the laptop lasts about 5 minutes with the LCD light on the lowest level possible. Did you drop your phone at any time? I think batteries can be damaged by a collision...not sure though.
Guest FunkyMagic Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Didn't drop the phone. The only 'slightly' unusual thing I did was 'remove' the battery. I had one of those - "won't restart after powering down" problems - had to pull the battery out to get it to start again. However - for a happy ending - I don't have Orange Care and they happily replaced my battery...and my SPV is running better than ever after the hard-reset - I've installed all the software I need (for now!) - and it just seems FASTER than it did with the same stuff loaded previously. Is this possible!? FunkyMagic
Guest morpheus2702 Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Perfectly possible I think The battery problem sounds quite common - my old Ipaq after a year wouldn't hold any charge. Its something to do with the battery structure breaking down after a 1000 charge/recharge cycles.
Guest amo Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 I had this problem too FunkyMagic. i had to get a replacement from orange. no other solutions
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