From: Robert Serna (japecan_at_comcast.net)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 00:22:11 PDT
thanks for the tip Johannes, but the mp2100 came without a battery and
it took 5 days to get here! another solution? also I am able to back-
up this broken newton (as advertised!) download other packages to it
and even do beaming of packages! but that warning still comes up.
japecan_at_comcast.net
Robert M. Serna
----- Original Message -----
From: Johannes Wolf <mp2100_at_mail-gw.estec.esa.nl>
Date: Monday, May 19, 2003 11:58 pm
Subject: Re: [NTLK] TIME STILL CURRENT AFTER RESET!
> I do not remember what was the reason behind for that "factory
> calaibration"message, but regarding time and date it is pretty
> clear that you need to
> unpower the Newt completely and wait (at minimum) 4-6 hours for
> the superCap
> to be discharged. Of course if the device is open you can
> discharge the
> superCap much faster using a resistor to short the capacitor pins.
> As long as the superCap will hold sufficient charge, the RTC of
> the Newt
> will keep date ad time and will continue ticking.
>
> Cheers
> Johannes
>
>
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