+sarhound Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I've had my Explorist 500 for a couple of years now, and it started to act funky yesterday. I couldn't get it to shut down, even using the multiple keystroke combo, so it became necessary to pull the battery to get it to turn off. Today, I think the battery gave it's last gasp of life. I can't get the unit to power on at all. I found the thread with the Motorola battery number, and I've got a bid out on one. Hopefully, this will fix the problem. How long have any Explorist users gotten out of their original battery? I'm guessing that I've done pretty well to have it keep going this long, since my cel phone battery usually croaks a lot more rapidly. Of course, this whole affair has to happen when I've finally got a few days off to go caching. I'm stuck here now until the new battery arrives. Bummer. Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I've had my Explorist 500 for a couple of years now, and it started to act funky yesterday. I couldn't get it to shut down, even using the multiple keystroke combo, so it became necessary to pull the battery to get it to turn off. Today, I think the battery gave it's last gasp of life. I can't get the unit to power on at all. I found the thread with the Motorola battery number, and I've got a bid out on one. Hopefully, this will fix the problem. How long have any Explorist users gotten out of their original battery? I'm guessing that I've done pretty well to have it keep going this long, since my cel phone battery usually croaks a lot more rapidly. Of course, this whole affair has to happen when I've finally got a few days off to go caching. I'm stuck here now until the new battery arrives. Bummer. It does not sound like a battery problem Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 We have a local cacher here who uses Google Earth, cache descriptions, and the hint to find caches without a GPSr. He has found a few hundred that way. Maybe you can try that during your days off . . . I am sorry that happened to your GPSr . . . Quote Link to comment
vagabond Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 've had mine since July 22 2005, it gets charged almost every day and the batt. life is now down to about 10 hours before it dies. The 500 has found 1594 caches so you can see I have gotten a lot of use out of it in the 21 months I've had it. Quote Link to comment
+sarhound Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well, my husband just checked and found out that the cable is pulling power, and it looks like the battery did take a charge. The unit still won't power up. Any ideas as to why a unit will suddenly just die? Quote Link to comment
danielbacon Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well, my husband just checked and found out that the cable is pulling power, and it looks like the battery did take a charge. The unit still won't power up. Any ideas as to why a unit will suddenly just die? Try this: simultaneously push GOTO + OUT + POWER Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Try cleaing the contact points Quote Link to comment
+sarhound Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 Already cleaned the contact points... Magellan support gave me a stellar response, telling me that I needed to hook it up to a computer. (DUH! The unit doesn't power on, so that won't do me a heck of a lot of good.) Second response was to send it in for repair, so I guess we'll see if the unit actually is repairable. And all of this after a bunch of new caches got put out in my area. Looks like the PDA is going to get to do a trial run of BeeLine GPS. Quote Link to comment
+EScout Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) Take your SD card out and try starting it without the card. IF a file on it is corrupted, it can cause problems, such as not booting up, and possibly your problem. Worth a try. If this is the problem you may have to do a chkdsk with fix command on your card while it is in a reader attached to your computer. Edited March 29, 2007 by EScout Quote Link to comment
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