Re: [NTLK] Battery Draining When At Rest

In addition to this well documented issue also look at beam prefs in
In/Out and in prefs.
Since the newton is not truly off but in a low power mode when turned
off I would look at the contacts in the battery silo and on the tray.
Look inside with a small light to see if there is corrosion on the
Neg. contact . If not clean all contacts with pencil eraser.
Do you feel some springiness as you insert the tray? If not bend the
Neg. contact to increase contact.

Woody

On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Jon Glass wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dave Bellamy <dave_bellamy@mac.com>
> wrote:
>> . It is not coming on my itself
>
>
> Yes it is!!!! 3 am every day, in fact. All Newtons do it to roll over
> daily activities. If you have your Newton set to automatically turn on
> the backlight, and then to stay on for a few minutes, you can easily
> wear down your battery, and if something is not right somewhere, it
> can stay on for an extended period of time. My Newton has done this
> more than once. I found it at 4 am shining away brightly. I found the
> only way to stop that was to do a soft reset, and check my
> preferences. It was a while ago that it did this the last time, but it
> may have been something with the network, but I don't recall...
>
>
> --
> -Jon Glass

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