Re: BRICKED IPAQ. HELP!!!

good news: not a brick.

not sure how you have 3 LEDs, I only have 2.

This is not an uncommon issue and is fairly easy to fix.  The easiest way (and 
most brutal) is to remove your battery and unplug the ipaq - let it sit for at 
least 10 minutes (maybe more).
put your battery back in and IF the LEDs are off, hit the reset key.  If they 
aren't off, you need to take your battery out and let it sit a while longer.

the more complicated way, but perhaps nicer to your backup battery is to remove 
your battery and close the cover, then while pressing the reset key, plug it in 
to the charger (can't be done with the cradle, need a standalone cable).  The 
problem with this method is that you now have no battery in your ipaq and you 
have to swap it in (usually possible on a suspend without needing a reset)

bricking (true bricking) is actually very hard to do from everything I have 
read.
HTH,
j.

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:01:26 +0400, Icebird 
<Icebird-5V6hr5OkoTgedp2WBT/QOw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetz all.
> My HP Ipaq h2200 has been bricked, yet I can't get why: I haven't
> modified rom, tryed to use lab or anything else. I've been working
> with WiCE to find yesterday morning that it just won't turn on.
> I thought it was the battery and I plugged it into the charger. Well I
> just got a blink of screen for a second and then it went blank
> (without backlight) again. When the charger is plugged and for some
> time when you unplug it all three leds are on. They are not flashing,
> just on. When I unplugged the charger they were on for some time and
> then turned off. The pda doesn't turn on, hard and soft reset don't do
> anything. It's as good as a brick =(
> Anyone can help sort out what happened? Or maybe that meens that WinCE
> is itself dangerous for hardware =) ?
> --
> Have a nice day,
>  Andrew aka Icebird                          
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