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i-mate problem !!!

hi
i have i-mate ( XDA II ) work only on charger , battry is ok , i tested it on other devices
it work for not more than 1 min and restart again to the startup screen that apper after reset the device to its original state.
i tried flash it and flashing finish ok , upgrading main , extended rom and radio stack but the same problem exist
anyone know what is that please !!!!

Are you sure you are sliding the little red slide/switch inside the battery compartment back into place when you change the battery? This slide switches between backup battery and main battery. It sounds to me like you are running for about 1 min. on the backup battery, then it drains and your device resets.
Is the red switch correctly moved toward the battery?
If so, try jiggling that switch to see if maybe it is not making good contact.
HTH!

thanks for replay
the sw is ok coz if i set it to unlock possion mobile not power on and the red light on
but if i put the battry and lock the key it work in the charger not more than 1 min at all and restart again .
i upgraded its sw and it finish without any problem but still the same
please help

If your imate is not new, try to clean the battery contacts with soft tissue and may be some alcohol, may be there is some grease. Also check for the
status of contact pins.
Also, as u tried the battery with other imate, what about urs with the other battery???

this happened to me
if you got it wet or damp
my xda2 got wet and this happened to me i found if i left it to dry out i took the xda2 apart used a soft tooth brush on the motherboard put it back together and hey presto it worked and didnt hard reset

newbee 1. screen problem 2. battery problem

i got a used mda compact II and in one night i managed to really screw it up.
it came without a battery so i got a pm16 battery which i hope is the right one.
the battery meter shows nothing for the battery and does not display the internal battery meter at all. even when on battery, it seems the plug icon is on, on the main screen.
i was playing with it and reset the screen corners too far out. now i cannot access the menu items in the far corners. i tried a reset and a hard reset and nothing changed. even the keys don't access the far corner items. when i hit start i get calendar. the 'x' in the far right corner doesn't work
just now when i played with it, the landscape mode was on. how do i go back to portrait. i see no icons for that.
thanks a lot

i reinstalled 1.12 and was able to re-calibrate the screen
my battery indicator screen still does not work and still shows unknown for main battery and no display at all for back up battery
any help for that?
thanks

In my magician I got PM16A battery, which is supposed to be suitable for a QTEK S200 as well.
Regards, M

i take it that your battery indicators work correctly
i don't get green or amber lights from the led either. initially they flashed when i plugged in the power cord but now - nothing
my model number is pm200

Yes my batt.meters are functioning. Don't forget that with WM5 you don't need a backup battery & that's most likely the reason you don't see it in your panel.
You bought it second hand I presume. If not, how about warranty?
M

the battery i bought has run out of charge and the wall charger doesn't make it work.
i put in a complaint to paypal to get my money back.
obviously the reason the guy didn't include the battery was because i would have learned earlier that the unit is bad.
so it goes
ich

Dead magician...? Red light!

Hi all,
Need som urgent help. The backcover of my device is not fitting well any longer. Guess I´ve bumped it to many times...
As a result (Iguess) I cant turn on or even charge my magician!
The only thing that is happening when I try to charge is that a red light is turned on. What does this mean?
Any solution of how to get it work again?
Is it possible to buy a new back-cover? Live in Sweden.
Thankful for some ideas!
Regards Emil

Most probably the notch on the battery cover that hits the microswitch lever has broken. You will find the microswitch on the lower-right corner of the device when facing down. Put something soft but strong enough (ie. foam) to keep the microswitch in the ON postion then mount the battery cover and temporarily fix it with tape. Be sure to keep your device plugged in via USB or charger in order not to totally discharge the backup battery. If the backup battery gets depleated, then it's like doing a hard reset.
You can buy parts from ebay but I've always bought from Brando and is very reliable dealer (shop.brando.com.hk). Delivery is quite fast too.

Hi Zerimar and thanks for your answer!
Unfortunately that didn´t do the trick. Still the same red light when trying to charge. And I can´t turn it on! I am pretty sure that the battery is flat out by now but even so I would think it would load and then after a while, I would be able to turn it on.
Am really frustrated abt this!
Any more ideas maybe?!?
Regards Emil

u'd better send it to service...

BoomerCE said:
u'd better send it to service...
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Well, that´s what I´m trying to get around... Thats why I´m hanging around here

If have have my device charged via USB or charger, the LED becomes as soon as I remove the battery cover. If I hit the microswitch lever then the LED turns green and start to boot up. If main battery is removed the LED stays red even though hitting the microswitch's lever.
It looks like it's not charging your main battery or your battery is already defective. If your device is over a year old and you're still using the same battery, then its time to change it. Bulges in a battery is a sign that it needs replacement.
Before sending your device for repair, why not look for someone you know who also has a Magician or equivalent device and quickly borrow his/her battery?

I had red LED when plugging into a main charger - and then the phone reset.

Red LED + loop booting-poweroff = dead battery
If the LED is RED when you charge your device for hours
If the device tries to boot sometimes, but powers off by itself some minutes after (it means, at least, that your device CAN boot! )
Your battery may be dead, I bought a new one for 10Euros on ebay...
Those batteries are perfectly compatible with HTC Prophet or HTC Beetles (Ipaq 6515) and maybe other devices... easy to find!

Hermes bricked? Toasted? Need assistance urgently!

Before anyone jumps on me, I've been going through the Wiki and forums extensively, and found just one similar problem. Which wasn't solved...
My HTC TyTN/Hermes 200 won't boot up anymore. It is totally dead. I even can't get it into bootloader mode. Screen stays blank and the LED is off.
Put the (3 months old) battery in another Hermes to test it, and it's at 100% charge.
My Hermes shows a steady red LED when it's plugged into power without the battery in, and no LED at all when the battery is installed. The red LED turns off when the battery is installed while there's power going into the unit.
I've left the battery out for at least an hour, plugged it back in, same results. Like the other guy I tried the "pull power, pull battery, plug in power, plug in battery, reset" trick http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...6469&p=1077622 - to no avail.
Does anyone have any last resort ideas on how to get it to at least come back up to a boot loader screen ?

check the battery contact points on the phone. the hermes shows a red led when its plugged in but without a battery

... have you ever dismantled your hermes? your screen ribbon cable may have dead tracks or not be connected properly
just a test on the opposite side of the battery connectors with battery removed press firmly without putting pressure on the LCD, this worked for me when i had a white screen on power up.
if this fixes the problem you may need to actually dismantle the back and put some flame retardant electrical tape on the back over the existing tape to add an extra layer of pressure and retension

XtreMe_G said:
check the battery contact points on the phone. the hermes shows a red led when its plugged in but without a battery
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Yes, I have cleaned the contact too, nothing. And the battery is OK for sure, my colleague's TyTN runs on it without any problem.

Mattnokis said:
... have you ever dismantled your hermes? your screen ribbon cable may have dead tracks or not be connected
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In fact I have, I have totally dismantled and reassembled my TyTN yesterday afternoon, nothing.

the only other problem may be that when being dismantled you may have damaged some sensitive components, Electro Static Discharge will fry sensitive CMOS components, they do not like it at all, whenever dismantling you should wear an earth strap, any time i dismantled mine it was on a workbench with a static mat and i was earthed through the mat.
but this is one possibility, the only other idea is to swap main board and displays with another that works, finding someone willing to allow you to do this with a working hemes is the tough part.
thats as much all i can think of for now

R.I.P. my trustful Hermes 200
Thanks all for your assistance. I have come to the conclusion that my sweetheart is no longer among us. May she rest in peace.
I have obtained a (2d hand) replacement yesterday. May this one last longer.
I'll keep the old TyTN for replacement parts.
Oh well...

[Q] elf jtag and startup issue

hi,
i have just bought out my dead elf from the closet to revive it back to life after reading the jtag method its been more then an year it had been lying in my drawer...first a little history my elf went down when it fell off my hands and the lcd started to malfunction it was like half screen black and half white but i cud still use the set ....then i dont know how it happened, now it wont even turn on if i tilt my device towards light a bit i can see that the lcd turns on for a sec without backlight then off...and nothing else no led no vibration or sound..!!!
so today i tried to jtag it and the worst case happened the copper plating on the pins came out.. ...so is their any other pin out??? i can see the exact same pins at the back on the same location are these the same pins..???

bumppppppp................