Registered: Jan 2000
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Visor battery dies in 2-5 days

My brother has a original Visor with 2mb memory. Lately the battery dies within 2-5 days and he loses everything. He has no strange software or springboard modules installed. He is about ready to give up on it. He uses standard batteries not rechargeables. Is there anything we can do to fix this or is it just the age of the visor? His Visor was purchased right after they came out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
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A soft reset can sometimes help, especially if the unit hasn't been reset in a while. If that doesn't make it better, a hard reset might.

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Registered: Jan 2000
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Thanks we will give that a try.

Registered: Aug 2000
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My co-worker's Visor (a Deluxe) developed the same problem. We tracked it down to the capacitor on the button board - clipping one of the leads allowed the battery to stay charged. It had evidently developed a short. However, this appears to be the same capacitor that provides power to the memory while you're changing batteries. So, every time she'd change batteries, all the memory would be cleared (makes a backup module *very* handy). Button boards are available from gethightech.com, but she opted to upgrade to a Prism. To be truthful, we never did replace the capacitor or button board to be 100% sure that the capacitor was the problem...

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