From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 12:16:41 PST
On Dec 20, 2005, at 11:40 PM, Tony Kan wrote:
> Folks
>
> My wife and I have two Emates.
>
> After leaving them for 2-3 days after being fully charged with no use,
> they
> seem to have difficulty coming to life, as if the batteries were stone
> dead.
> In fact, they won't come on at all until I plug them into the AC
> adapter and
> then they start from a boot. A message says that the machine restarted
> because all power was removed.
I think the emate has a sad old bug that makes it unreliable in this
way. Stephanie Mak (sp?) back in the day, suggested this is due to the
lid off switch not working exactly right. You can try using the power
button instead of just closing the lid. In fact her website had
instructions for disabling the lid switch entirely, although it's not
clear to me whether this fixes it or not.
I have had a couple of emates and they both suffered from this
unreliable power issue, which no other Newton I have owned ever had any
hint of.
>
> Yet when I tested the battery with Frank G's Battlog it is giving me
> over 5
> hours of life so far?
The battery is probably not that bad then.
>
> Any ideas on what the problem is?
Try turning them off from the power button instead of just closing the
lid. Kind of a bummer I know.
Marty
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