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larrycow

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"check Backup Battery" In Dmesg
« on: January 26, 2006, 12:20:16 pm »
I bought a refurbished Collie a couple of months ago, and it mostly works like a charm. But whenever I remove the battery or switch the battery lock, the whole RAM is cleared. I realized it isn't normal when I read a "check backup battery" kernel message in my dmesg.

This is not a big problem since I have my root on an SD card, but I'd like to know if there is a way to change the aforementionned battery, where I can buy a new one, maybe some schematics on how to access the old on on my Zaurus... all this.

If anyone already performed the trick, any advice would be welcomed. Thanks alot.

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"check Backup Battery" In Dmesg
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2006, 01:08:51 pm »
From what I remember of reading the collie source code, the backup battery level is never actually checked and therefore this message is always present.


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