You might want to keep an eye on your battery
discharge times. If it seems that your battery isn't
lasting as long as you think it should, then perhaps
you need to condition it. This entails draining the
battery completly dead, then fully charging it, and
repeating for a total of 3 cycles. Once you do this,
the battery should function as close to new as
possible. If it doesn't help, then your battery is
probably close to the end of it's days.
The 2x00 doesn't have a backup battery. And if you
pull all power out of your Newton, several buroughs in
New York will be without power for several hours ;-P
No...nothing will happen to your data! honestly! And
here is something else...if you pull the backup
battery out of a 120, and take the main batteries out,
nothing will happen to your data either! The Newt has
non-volatile memory! It will hold it indefinatly! Just
as a test, I fired up my original 120 and it has
everything I put there when I shelved it 3-4 years
ago!
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
subdomain)
--- Michael Mays <chaosmonk_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> And this, years before Palm put quick-charge
> batteries in their PDAs.
> I'm very, very impressed. :D I no longer refer to
> my Newton as a
> PDA...it's now a "palmtop computer" whereas
> everything else is just a
> PDA. :)
>
> One more question I've thought up. Does the 2x00
> have a backup battery
> like the 1x0 series? And if so, how do I replace
> this? And if not, what
> happens if I pull the battery out... do I lose any
> of my data?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Mays
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net] On Behalf
> Of David Abramowitz
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:49 PM
> To: Newton
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newton battery questions
>
>
> On 4/29/02 3:39 PM, "Michael Mays"
> <chaosmonk_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > 1) I'm assuming the battery charges when
> plugged in while the
> pad
> > is powered off, but am I wrong in this?
>
> You are correct. As long as it's plugged in, it's
> charging.
>
> > 2) How long should a battery typically take
> to charge in the
> > MP2000? It seems like I plug mine in and 10
> minutes or so later it's
> > done charging. And the battery meter on Avi's
> Backdrop seems to climb
> > like a rocket when it's plugged in. I thought
> these sort of batteries
> > would take much more time to charge up. It would
> be NICE if it only
> > took a few minutes to charge, but I'm not going to
> assume anything of
> > the sort. Does this mean that my battery is
> screwy? Last time I
> charged
> > it it lasted a very long time on battery.
> >
> Yup - it only takes a few minutes to fully charge -
> life is good.
>
>
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