On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:49:24 -0400, Dr. Woodard
<DrWoodardOnDS********.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:54:49 -0400, Marshall Price
><d021317c******.com> wrote:
>
>>Every night, unless I leave my Pocket PC plugged in, the battery is
>>drained, and the date and time are lost. It's an HP iPAQ hx2795b.
>>
>>The problem seemed to crop up after I installed ActiveSync, a Bluetooth
>>driver for an HP folding keyboard, and a Dvorak keyboard layout driver.
>>
>>I uninstalled all but ActiveSync.
>>
>>I've noticed that the Pocket PC doesn't detect some of my SD cards, but
>>this occurred earlier. When I insert an SD card, the Pocket PC turns on
>>automatically, a behavior I'd like to disable, if possible.
>
>My understanding is of the 2495 and 2795 the problem occurs with
>Activesync and the use of CF/SD cards. Alledgedly the problem
>can be fixed by changing something in Activesync which I never could
>get to work.
>
>There is a fix for this but i've never gotten the fix to work.
>
I have a 2490 and suffered similar problems ie. on some mornings the
ppc had lost all its charge and at other times the "on" button did
nohing but a soft reset brought it into life.

I could not find any reason why the problem happened sometimes and not
others.

I read about SD cards possibly causing problems so I switched to a 2G
compact flash and, 2 weeks later, I have not had a reapeat of the
problem.

(anyone want to buy a jinxed 2G SD card -:)

Paul (note that this email address is not read)

Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> way back when, I also suspected that it's necessary to assure that the
> timeout settings don't overlap... for example, having the battery power
> off matching ac power screen off settings... to be safe, make sure every
> one of the power off times is unique...
>
> reason for suspicion , the possibility that the system checks the first
> event that comes up when the time increments, and doesn't check the
> other(s).
>
> However, at this point, my vote is that something is running and keeping
> the unit on... to determine, since the device is "hard resetting"
> restore your data, but don't restore or add any third party apps the
> next time this happens, then see if the problem occurs the next night...
> if it doesn't, it's likely one of the apps... if it does, the problem is
> likely hardware.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>

As it turns out, my problem was solved by the "fake server hack."

But last night, I found my Pocket PC on again. I have no idea what it
is now.