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HP 50G eating batteries
Message #1 Posted by Iqbal on 5 Mar 2011, 11:21 a.m.

I have an HP50G and I have changed new batteries three times in three weeks. Both set of batteries. It works fine from the USB cable. Not much into electronics, but I know how to open the 50G. I have already had it replaced by HP but they didnt collect the faulty one. SO I can experiment on this. Any ideas?

      
Re: HP 50G eating batteries
Message #2 Posted by Han on 5 Mar 2011, 11:25 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Iqbal

Have you checked to see if your firmware is up to date?

      
Re: HP 50G eating batteries
Message #3 Posted by Crawl on 5 Mar 2011, 5:10 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Iqbal

If you carry around the 50g in a book bag, be careful it's not getting turned on in there by accident. (I put mine in a different case because of that issue)

            
Re: HP 50G eating batteries
Message #4 Posted by Iqbal on 5 Mar 2011, 10:37 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Crawl

Have the latest firmware. I bought 15 of the blue ones from Spain. And the first one I tried eats batteries. Luckily the others are fine. I even did what HP said and leave batteries off for two days and then inserted new ones... same thing, the batteries were dead and even though it was hardly used.


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