IBM T30. Battery will not charge.

90 day warrenty. I would return it. I just opened mine last night, and was up all night reading and applying. I am noticing some sketchy stuff with it however... I will play it out.

Please refer to the following article for a detailed diagnosis of your problem:
http://www.fixya.com/support/r6416948-troubleshooting_laptop_power_failures

how long has it been since the batt was purchased? usually batteries are considered consumable parts. meaning in due time, performance will degrade, laptop batteries should be good for 1-2 yrs, after that it battery hold will degrade. also check your ac adapter, try removing the batt, and turn the system on. if the system works without the batt. then it might be the batt itself thats having issues...

You need to purchase a new removable battery for your RX
The removable batts usually only last about a year (like cell phone batteries).
Although it is showing 100% charge, the battery is not storing enough power to run the ipaq

The rx series uses 2 batteries, one is the removable one u can see/access when u remove the back cover. The other batt is a small round batt which stores the basic info for your system (so you don't lose your data when u swap out the removable battery).

This small (backup) batt is similar to the cmos battery on a laptop or pc.
You cannot easily replace this, as the unit needs to be disassembled to access this batt.
If you are tech-y (and brave), the replacement button batteries are sold on ebay for $9-12

Normally, if your removable batt is bad, you could still use your unit plugged in, and could
remove from AC power without losing data. Not the case if your replaceable batt is exhausted.
When both batteries are bad, you lose everything when u remove unit from AC power.

My workaround without having to disassemble unit:
Purchase and fully charge new removable batt (They have huge capacity ones available for like $15 - better than the original !).
Load up all your programs & settings the way you like.
Perform full backup to SD card (& also on PC via active sync - to be safe)
Now the only time you should lose your data (like hard reset) is if you allow the battery
to completely drain, in which case you can restore your backup.
If you purchase 2 removable batts, you can easily swapout without losing data if you
use the usb charge cable & leave ipaq plugged in while you change battery

Hope this helps

trying seeing the status of it in the bios! that usually tells you if the battery is faulty


it might make you caliibrate the battery to!


or it might not see it all which means its bad!

allow battery to complete charge (green lite)
Or change battery if chrge not completing.
(check your AC charger)

Whenever you first purchase a device you must charge the phone fully otherwise if you charge it partially an then use it it will never charge good. You may need new battery see if youe warranty covers it \. If you are within 30 days of purchase you can exchange it at no cost!

So found the problem it was the seilnoid on the wasnt working properly store said good put it back hit with small hammer fired up so just replaced whole strarter now fires first time sounds awesome had lot of trouble tracking it down went threw new battery's thinking that was prOblem but was bad starter unit try this maybe will help u to

Worst case is you need a another motherboard because the power supply unit and charging unit are on the motherboard. Then again it could be the DC power jack on the motherboard is loose and needs replacing. The website below is a link to a ebay site that sells these power jacks.
http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-Thinkpad-T30-T30p-DC-power-jack_W0QQitemZ200216009749QQihZ010QQcategoryZ158847QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

Also is an ebay site for T30 motherboards.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=t30+motherboard

If your good with tools you can replace these parts yourself. Below is the IBM website where you can download the service manual in pdf.format and fix it yourself without taking it to a computer repair shop.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-42308

If this helps, Please leave a positive rating.
Thanks,
Ray

The camera was working fine 5 days ago. Yesterday when I tried to switch it on, I assumed that the battery was flat so I charged it but when fully charged the camera still won't switch on. i Please help!