T5 power stays on

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...::: Tzapu14 :::...

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My new T5 has suddenly decided not to stay turned off. It's set to turn off after 1 min. of being idle. But it chooses not to turn off by itself. When I manually hit the power button, it comes back on within 20 sec.

What's up? I'd appreciate any help at all!
 
Guess I figured it out on my own. Don't know why I didn't consider the possibility that the New Year was messing it up. Especially when it was perfect last night before going to bed.

I went into my contact book & got rid of my birthday notifications for those around Jan 1-5th. (I had 3 that were in that time period.)

My Palm is now happily off & charging again...
 
You should write this up as a bug report to PalmOne. This is not normal behavior for alarms. The changing of the year should have no effect when alarms are displayed, especially for alarms days into the future. This is a bug in thier alarm handling and I suspect they will have the same problem when we switch to daylight savings time again.
 
The symptom you mention is due to an event in the calendar that is in one year, and the the notification for it is in another. In other words, if you have something on the calendar for Jan 2, and you have it alarm 3 days prior, it will cause your palm to turn on as you describe.

Also, having the USB plugged into a powered PC at the same time the charger is plugged into the wall eventually destroys the charger. Go figure, but it has happened to several and the consensus is to never have them both plugged in.

Too bad Sony pulled out. I'm very pleased with my NZ90. I'm considering the Asus PPC for her now. I think Palm is in trouble and therefore the PalmOS, as superior as it is, will suffer too.

I just bought a T5 for my wife that I'm returning immediately. DOA from palmOne store and research on their forums indicates more problems that I feel comfortable with. When I wrote for technical assistance, they replied, "Please call this number (not toll free) to coordinate the repair of your device" IMO , a DOA unit deserves a cross shipped replacement. I have to turn my back on Palm; too bad.
 
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