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Kaysee_sw
11th September 2008, 04:18 PM
Hi,

While I'm waiting for my spare battery to arrive, I thought I'd check and see how useful it's going to be...

Is it possible to swap batteries without having the device 'hard reset', or can I quickly swap when I need to without having to reinstall and setup all my stuff?

Thanks.
diggy128
11th September 2008, 04:27 PM
Swapping the battery is like soft resetting.

Power off - power on

I don't think anything is lost. You just reboot the phone.
horstborsch
11th September 2008, 04:31 PM
This will never be possible. You have to keep up your power supply during the battery swap. This is only possible with a large capacitor. And only for this use you will never see this built in a mobile handset due to the extra cost, weight and needed space.

While taking out the battery the device will only power off. After replacing the battery you can normally switch on your device, this is like a soft reset! Don´t worry about lost programs and so on.
Kaysee_sw
11th September 2008, 04:45 PM
That's what I wanted to hear - I don't mind a quick power-down to swap, I just didn't want to then have to re-sync with the computer to get all the settings back.

I suspected the \internal storage was flash-based so would survive a battery swap, I just wasn't sure about the main memory - my old XDA would lose everything when the battery was low.

Thanks all!
Napfkuchen
11th September 2008, 05:00 PM
I don`t know what happens if you swap the batteries when the device is on external power - maybe that works.
tnemec
11th September 2008, 08:25 PM
I don`t know what happens if you swap the batteries when the device is on external power - maybe that works.

Does not work - reboots as well...
Lost_in_translation
12th September 2008, 08:46 AM
Hi,

While I'm waiting for my spare battery to arrive, I thought I'd check and see how useful it's going to be...

Is it possible to swap batteries without having the device 'hard reset', or can I quickly swap when I need to without having to reinstall and setup all my stuff?

Thanks.

Windows Mobile does not lose the data on power-loss since version 5. Devices up to WM2003SE held data in Ram and lost all settings and data when the battery was empty.

Some devices had a small auxilliary battery which held the data when the battery was empty.

Have fun!