RE: Internal omnigo battrey?
Burke, Paul T. (burkep@pweh.com)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:15:22 -0400
I had a similar experience with my OGO. The 1st time I removed all of
the batteries I waited 5 minutes, like Jake did, and had similar
results. Then I tried it again but waited 10 minutes and my data was
cleared out. I agree with what you're saying Jeff.
Paul
>> Hi, Teusday morning my omnigo crashed and i couldnt soft or hard
>> boot because i couldnt find a pin and soft booting didnt respond so i
>> took out the batterys (both). About 5 min later i put them back in and
>> my work wasnt gone! It restarted and went into geos and all my apps
>> were still there. That meanes that there must be some kind of
>> rechargable backup battery (besides the coin cell) built into the omnigo
>>
>> THaks
>> Jake
>>
>
>Most likely this is due to capacitance and SRAM memory threshold. This
>is quite
>common with volatile RAM (some SRAM cards do this also - some for 24
>hours or
>more). A user has taken apart the Omnigo and has described the
>contents and did
>not mention an additional battery. Any one else?
>
>Jeff Hinman
>ust941@edcca4.bgl.ca.boeing.com
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