PDA socket closing

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ekraus
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PDA socket closing

Post by ekraus »

I have a problem with my PDA

It goes to sleep and when I wake it up I have found that the socket has closed.

Is there a way to stop this other that setting the power settings on the PDA to "ON" all the time?
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Post by ScottBot »

I think some network drivers give you the option of whether to power down the network card when in standby. Typically you would want to power the card down, as it's will definitely shorten the battery life.



What I do is to disable the sleep on the PDA and set the screen blank time on the Software Remote to be about 10-20 seconds. When the Software Remote blanks the screen, it will usually turn off the display (if the PDA supports this) which will help on battery life while in use. I typically only have the PDA out of the cradle for the few hours while I'm watching and and then it goes back into the cradle for charging.
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