Ipaq 4700 question

[Nick Kennedy]

Hi Gents
I left my ipaq 4700 unplugged for a couple of years and now it seems to be
really dead. I plugged it in for a couple of days and hit the soft reset,
nothing, no light at the top. Is there anyway to revive this little guy?
Nick Kennedy

[Uncle Fuzzy[_2_]]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 5:42:58 AM UTC-7, dogger wrote:
> Hi Gents I left my ipaq 4700 unplugged for a couple of years and now it seems to be really dead. I plugged it in for a couple of days and hit the soft reset, nothing, no light at the top. Is there anyway to revive this little guy? Nick Kennedy

Very likely you will need to replace the battery. At least it's easy on the 4700 series! With it plugged in, you might try a hard reset, which involves holding at least three of the buttons (I don't remember which) and hitting the recessed reset button with the stylus. I don't have the procedure handy, but I've found it by 'googling' it before.

[quietpilot]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:42:58 AM UTC-5, dogger wrote:
> Hi Gents I left my ipaq 4700 unplugged for a couple of years and now it seems to be really dead. I plugged it in for a couple of days and hit the soft reset, nothing, no light at the top. Is there anyway to revive this little guy? Nick Kennedy

I have an 5555 that behaves is the same way. The main battery is fine but inside there is a little internal disk shaped one that holds a charge when swapping the main battery. Disconnecting and reconnecting this resurrected it from the dead a number of times. Its fine until left off power for over a few months or so.

It and its little brother are free at
http://www.glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=281

[Maciek K.]

make sure the battery lock switch is in its right position.

Maciek

[Gordon Walker[_2_]]

It would also be a good idea to replace the back-up battery whilst
you are at it. Takes 2 minutes and costs about £2, so no big deal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYwc_-ISnsA

[Peter von Tresckow]

Gordon Walker > wrote:
> It would also be a good idea to replace the back-up battery whilst
> you are at it. Takes 2 minutes and costs about £2, so no big deal.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYwc_-ISnsA

Buy an Oudie... Or something similar

[[email protected]]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:42:58 AM UTC-5, dogger wrote:
> Hi Gents
>
> I left my ipaq 4700 unplugged for a couple of years and now it seems to be
>
> really dead. I plugged it in for a couple of days and hit the soft reset,
>
> nothing, no light at the top. Is there anyway to revive this little guy?
>
> Nick Kennedy

There is a battery INSIDE that keeps certain settings alive - one of the settings is that battery can be charged using the plug, otherwise plugging it into charger wont make any difference. Replace the inside battery and then replace the regular battery at the back with one that still holds some charge. Once powered up change settings to charge via the usb. Now you can re-charge all of the other batteries that you thought are dead and useless...

[Paul Remde]

Hi,

I'm not sure my experience with my iPaq hx4700 agrees with the note below
about the internal battery. The main battery on my iPaq hx4700 is fine, but
the backup battery died many years ago. The unit functions just fine. The
main battery charges fine. But I know the backup battery is dead because if
I remove the main battery the unit loses all its internal memory and
settings. I'm not motivated to replace the backup battery. I have one but
I haven't installed it yet.

I only keep the iPaq hx4700 because I want to be able to run SeeYou Mobile
and Glide Navigator II on it when I need to support customers that use those
programs on a PDA.

I suspect that replacing the main battery will solve the problem with the
"dead" unit below. Or perhaps the unit is really dead (not battery
related).

I sell the Naviter Oudie 2, so I'm biased, but I can honestly say that I
highly recommend it. It is a great product. One feature I love is that it
has non-volatile memory. No data gets lost and nothing needs to be reset if
the main battery gets low. It just works. I also love that Naviter
stripped out all the Windows software. I used to spend a lot more time on
the phone helping customers work Windows CE on a PDA. That is not necessary
with the Oudie.

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
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On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:42:58 AM UTC-5, dogger wrote:
> Hi Gents
>
> I left my ipaq 4700 unplugged for a couple of years and now it seems to be
>
> really dead. I plugged it in for a couple of days and hit the soft reset,
>
> nothing, no light at the top. Is there anyway to revive this little guy?
>
> Nick Kennedy

There is a battery INSIDE that keeps certain settings alive - one of the
settings is that battery can be charged using the plug, otherwise plugging
it into charger wont make any difference. Replace the inside battery and
then replace the regular battery at the back with one that still holds some
charge. Once powered up change settings to charge via the usb. Now you can
re-charge all of the other batteries that you thought are dead and
useless...

[[email protected]]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 5:42:58 AM UTC-7, dogger wrote:
> Hi Gents
>
> I left my ipaq 4700 unplugged for a couple of years and now it ems to be
>
> really dead. I plugged it in for a couple of days and hit the soft reset,
>nothing, no light at the top. Is there anyway to revive this little guy?
>
> Nick Kennedy

I bought a replacement battery for my 4750 a few years ago here: http://www.pdasmart.com/ I have no interest in the company personally, just know that they sell the correct batter for that unit.

[JohnDeRosa]

One comment based on a IPaq model 2215 so may not relate to your 4700.

The battery cover of the 2215 must be in place for the unit to power
up. The difference between "in place" and "not in place" could be
used for microscopic scientific measurements. I had the cover come
loose (ever so slightly) in flight and the unit powered off, which was
a lot of fun (not). Took me a while to figure out what was going on.
There is a small tab on the battery cover that pushes a switch telling
the unit life is good. Of course this tab often breaks. Of course a
replacement cover is difficult and expensive to come by. Fix =
gaffers tape on the cover. I never understood what they were trying
to protect me from. I suppose the lithium battery but sheez.

Am I bitter? Nah. I switched to an Oudie!

YMMV.

- John

[Dan Marotta]

Why not jam the switch down or, for the more adventurous, solder a jumper
across it?


"JohnDeRosa" > wrote in message
...
> One comment based on a IPaq model 2215 so may not relate to your 4700.
>
> The battery cover of the 2215 must be in place for the unit to power
> up. The difference between "in place" and "not in place" could be
> used for microscopic scientific measurements. I had the cover come
> loose (ever so slightly) in flight and the unit powered off, which was
> a lot of fun (not). Took me a while to figure out what was going on.
> There is a small tab on the battery cover that pushes a switch telling
> the unit life is good. Of course this tab often breaks. Of course a
> replacement cover is difficult and expensive to come by. Fix =
> gaffers tape on the cover. I never understood what they were trying
> to protect me from. I suppose the lithium battery but sheez.
>
> Am I bitter? Nah. I switched to an Oudie!
>
> YMMV.
>
> - John

[JohnDeRosa]

On May 2, 7:25*pm, "Dan Marotta" > wrote:
> Why not jam the switch down or, for the more adventurous, solder a jumper
> across it?
>

Well I am adventurous! I opened the patient and (as I remember it)
the tiny switch was surface mount rather than through hole and had
multiple contacts. I removed the switch and soldered across where it
seemed appropriate. Worked for a while. Luckily I owned several for
backups.

Jamming something to hold the switch closed was problematic due to the
layout. You had to be there.

I think that the HP engineers were playing hard to get.

- John