TyTN USB charging and lock/overheat incidents....

[rmorby]

Hi all,

I recently bought the TyTN to replace a SE P900 and make the move to WM5. This is a really impressive piece of kit and I am following this forum regularly now to make this device really work for me. I use the phone an awful lot during the day so I tend to charge it whenever possible. Whilst I am sat at my desk rather than doing any actual useful work I tend to leave it plugged into the USB cable to synchronise as well as charge.

On 3 occasions now I have come back from the kitchen or wherever and found the device locked up and VERY hot..... When I pull the USB cable out of the TyTN the device is unusable still and a soft reset is required to get it going again. Plugging the USB cable back in resynchs to the PC and no further problems detected. The temperature then slowly goes down to "normal".

I /think/ that on the 1st occasion this happened, the battery life had gone down from around 70% to 30%............... Although on the more recent occasions, i didn't notice any particular drop in battery level.

Does anyone else have any experiences of this kind?


Cheers

[Impossible]

I belive i may have had this problem the other night.

I have a vario2, left it to charge over night. Woke up the next day and it had locked up and the battery had dropped to around 40% charge.

Imp

[ferrari]

For curiosity...your Tytn's serial number starts with ?
Bye... :lol:

[rmorby]

Mine is HT627....

[chaos42]

i had the same problems with my tytn HT628.
it was getting pretty hot when charging and really hot when wlan was turned on at the same time.
My replacement unit is a HT633, and gets a little bit warmer during charging, but not as hot as before.
i noticed that the battery, that came with the new unit was a litlle bit different then the one i had before. there is a metalplate on the bottom of the battery. the old one was completly covered with white plastic. anyone else have this kind of battery?

[rmorby]

Ah - now that is interesting...

Mine has a completely white plastic covered battery too. I'm just conducting a test - WLAN on and charging via the USB...

Incidentally, I've set it to stay on when charging, and the screen backlight is on permanently.

[rmorby]

I left it like that all night and when i got up - guess what!

Locked up TyTN

Wasn't very warm though... but I don't usually leave the WLAN on overnight. I'll keep testing.

[Impossible]

I have a vario 2 and my serial starts HT632, my battery is almost all white.

I have a screen alignment problem and its getting swapped on monday.

Imp