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Subject: Warning - airline power
From: Stephen K
Date: 31 Dec, 2002 16:23:10
All,
I bought a nice new XDA in Hong Kong airport. Charged it up in
the lounge for 20mins and killed time waiting for my flight to
London playing with my new toy.
After boarding the juice started running out well before my
gadgetlust could achieve closure.
As withdrawal symptoms kicked in I considered my options: 1)
risk using the onboard (Britsh Airways) laptop charging kits on
my XDA; 2) go mad
Needless to say I went for option 1....
Zzzztttzzt
...awakening 3 weeks later in an asylum outside London - the
proud owner of a very dead XDA.
My XDA still works (could get it to boot for a few seconds on
remaining juice) however it refuses to charge. (No light from
the charging diode).
If any hardware wizards out there know which bit I am most
likely to have fried and if there is a repair/bypass solution my
therapist and I would be most grateful.
(In moments of madness I have been eyeing the little connector
at the back of the XDA {I assume its for connecting the extended
battery - could that be rigged as an alternative charging
route??})
Help me harwaregurunobi... you're my only hope.
Subject: Dead, deader, deadest
From: XDA developers
Date: 31 Dec, 2002 18:36:13
Not sure what an "onboard (Britsh Airways) laptop charging kit"
is, but if it is meant to plug into a laptop, it is usually 19
volts. Your XDA wants 5 or 6, so if that's what you did, then it
is likely you have, indeed, murdered it quite violently.
The trick, we figure, is to leave certain details out of your
story when returning it for warranty repairs. "It suddenly
stopped charging" sounds just fine to us.
Losing the toy for a little while means the neuron connections
that caused you to do this will not get any of the good
chemicals. This is good news, because they sure as hell haven't
deserved any.
Subject: Bad neurons
From: Stephen K
Date: 31 Dec, 2002 18:56:45
Did I mention something about a flight? I must have been
hallucinating, perhaps a side effect of the chemicals my
therapist has been prescribing - now that I think about it my
xda was fine one minute, then suddenly just stopped charging.
My dysfunctional neurons have suffered enough already - I don't
think they'll be making the same mistake any time soon. I'll
give them a week more suffering and then by a stop gift gadget
to see them through until the replacement arrives.
Thankyou hardwaregurunobi... you have brought balance to the
force.
dated before January 19th 2003
Subject: Warning - airline power
From: Stephen K
Date: 31 Dec, 2002 16:23:10
All,
I bought a nice new XDA in Hong Kong airport. Charged it up in
the lounge for 20mins and killed time waiting for my flight to
London playing with my new toy.
After boarding the juice started running out well before my
gadgetlust could achieve closure.
As withdrawal symptoms kicked in I considered my options: 1)
risk using the onboard (Britsh Airways) laptop charging kits on
my XDA; 2) go mad
Needless to say I went for option 1....
Zzzztttzzt
...awakening 3 weeks later in an asylum outside London - the
proud owner of a very dead XDA.
My XDA still works (could get it to boot for a few seconds on
remaining juice) however it refuses to charge. (No light from
the charging diode).
If any hardware wizards out there know which bit I am most
likely to have fried and if there is a repair/bypass solution my
therapist and I would be most grateful.
(In moments of madness I have been eyeing the little connector
at the back of the XDA {I assume its for connecting the extended
battery - could that be rigged as an alternative charging
route??})
Help me harwaregurunobi... you're my only hope.
Subject: Dead, deader, deadest
From: XDA developers
Date: 31 Dec, 2002 18:36:13
Not sure what an "onboard (Britsh Airways) laptop charging kit"
is, but if it is meant to plug into a laptop, it is usually 19
volts. Your XDA wants 5 or 6, so if that's what you did, then it
is likely you have, indeed, murdered it quite violently.
The trick, we figure, is to leave certain details out of your
story when returning it for warranty repairs. "It suddenly
stopped charging" sounds just fine to us.
Losing the toy for a little while means the neuron connections
that caused you to do this will not get any of the good
chemicals. This is good news, because they sure as hell haven't
deserved any.
Subject: Bad neurons
From: Stephen K
Date: 31 Dec, 2002 18:56:45
Did I mention something about a flight? I must have been
hallucinating, perhaps a side effect of the chemicals my
therapist has been prescribing - now that I think about it my
xda was fine one minute, then suddenly just stopped charging.
My dysfunctional neurons have suffered enough already - I don't
think they'll be making the same mistake any time soon. I'll
give them a week more suffering and then by a stop gift gadget
to see them through until the replacement arrives.
Thankyou hardwaregurunobi... you have brought balance to the
force.
