Registered: Jan 2001
Location:
Posts: 17

Problems with Battery Drain

I'm having a huge problem with my visor dx that's basically making it useless. It's chewing right through new alkaline batteries, about a pair every 3 or 4 days. Use isn't heavy, just maybe two alarms a day and maybe 4 or 5 minutes of use, yet the battery still drains very quickly. I can be in calculator for two or three minutes, and when i return to the app. menu, the battery is down twenty or thirty percent! I downloaded a battery utility to check that my Visor wasn't set to a rechargable battery setting, and it wasn't, thinking that might have been the problem. Anybody else experiencing this, or have a fix? Many thanks.

Leo ::

Registered: Dec 2001
Location: DFW
Posts: 82

Try going through the shortcut tap tap 7 settings.

Try a soft reset.

Try a hard reset.

Try a battery out reset.

One of the above will prob fix it.

good luck,
/s/MTM

Registered: May 2002
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1

I just started experiencing this problem as well. I've gone through three sets of batteries over the last week and a half.

As for mdatl's solutions, I don't understand the first one, "Try going through the shortcut tap tap 7 settings." I went to the Shortcuts in Preferences and didn't see anything about "tap tap 7." Is this something undocumented?

Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Midland, MI
Posts: 92

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Originally posted by mdac
the shortcut tap tap 7 settings." I went to the Shortcuts in Preferences and didn't see anything about "tap tap 7." Is this something undocumented?

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Registered: May 2002
Location: cali
Posts: 3

Man, I had the same thing happen with my old 2meg visor. It was broke. Nothing I tried fixed it. I ended up trading it in for a new one.

What a bummer huh?

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 11

What is the tap tap 7, or .7 supposed to do? Which utility should I be in when I do it?

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Kalamazoo, MI USA
Posts: 27

In memo pad, first enter the grafitti stroke for shortcut - like a cursive lower-case "L". Then double-tap and enter the number 7 with grafitti. It will sequence you through settings for the battery meter.

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: ILLINOIS
Posts: 227

BEAM RECIEVE

ALso -- In soem units and/or some enviorns -- the beam recieve uses alot of power--

Make sure it's off--

Under preferences------General-----Beam recieve ----SET TO OFF

Registered: Apr 2002
Location:
Posts: 24

blast... nobody's found a solution to this, eh? My friend's Visor 2MB just started doing this and I told him I'd try to find a solution. I can actually see the battery draining itself when I use a battery utility!

Leo, if you downloaded a utility that lets you change your battery type, you don't need the .7 trick, because it does the same thing as your utility.