From: Johannes Wolf (mp2100_at_mail-gw.estec.esa.int)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 08:41:51 PDT
Hi Jon,
first off - sorry for the trouble you have.
There is in principle nothing wrong with the advice given to you regarding
the batteries.
If your battery pack died that way it was old and weak anyways.
But this does not help you much, I know.
What I do not understand is: normally you do not loose anything when the
battery goes down.
Especially not the whole contents of the internal memory!
In the worst case you may lose the bit of information/software that is
actually written into the memory when the battery finally drops out.
Be assured that it has been reported that the Newt keeps all the information
even after YEARS of being not powered at all!
I would recommend you to do a so called brain wipe - you seem to have lost
all the previous installed packages anyways...
This is done by holding the power button down while pressing the RESET
button (on the back of the MP2x00) until you see a message on the screen.
Then try to install all your packages again and everything should work
fine...
Good luck and most of all:
have alot of fun with your Newt!
Cheers
Johannes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Jon Scordia
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:57 PM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: [NTLK] Starting again! Problems reinstalling.
> Well, you learn the hard way. I was acting on advice to fully
> charge/discharge some 'new' Newt batteries for max capacity and
> lost everything. To my horror, seconds after the Newt told me I
> had 19% battery life left and after a low batt. warning, I
> suddenly found it to be dead. On swapping in fresh batteries I
> was faced with the initial setup screen. No installed apps or
> data to be found.
> I've been re-installing all of the apps & drivers that I had
> working comfortably until a week ago.
> However I'm trying to install Blueprint 2, which HAD worked
> happily, onto the internal memory with plenty of space. It
> installs, but then fails to activate. I get an error message that
> I can't remember in detail from here at work, something along the
> lines of an incompatibility with this Newton. The downloaded
> installer is the SAME one as before.
> I assume that there aren't any soups or prefs that are troubling
> me, as that's all presumably toast.
> Any ideas? Observations? (other than IDIOT!)
> Thanks guys,
> Jon.
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