Zaurus 5500 Reset after battery runs down

[x-router]

Hi,

I brought my Zaurus from ebay and it appear to work fine. However every time the battery runs down it totaly resets after a few hours. IE with the sharp ROMS you lose anything installed and have to go through the setup again and a similar thing happens with OZ but it basicly gets messed up.

I have left on on charge for a few days and it still does it. I assume this is not normal!

Anyone have an ideas on how to fix this?

[lardman]

Perhaps the backup battery is dying?

What memory split are you using with OZ? If you use 64-0 you'll only have to wait for it to reboot and you shouldn't get any problems with the battery going flat.


Si

[x-router]

It does seem the backup battery is at fault after reading a bit more about it.

It seems to do a hard reset when the battery dies. So with the sharp roms the system is ok as it's all in the first 16MB? I lose all my setting for example if I have edited /etc/pcmcia/wirless* etc. Anything installed.

Is there anyway to replace the backup battry?

[lardman]

With the Sharp ROM you'll loose all of your settings as they are stored in a RAM disk. With OZ you may or may not loose your settings depending on what memory layout you are using. I use 64-0 which means I have no RAM-disk and my settings are stored in the flashROM.

I'm not sure about replacement, try a search for it, otherwise I suppose contacting Sharp directly might be the best way.


Si