M505 power button? or battery problems?

[VidGameKing]

I own a M505 that was given to me by a palm sales rep who used it as a demo
when they first came out. she said it had a sticky power button, a problem she
said was standard with the eairly M505 units. basicly she said the button would
either stay on or stay off. but on dissasembaly of the unit the power switch is
still quite tactile, indicating, (to me) that the unit is still with-in proper
operating standartds, but I cannot be 100% sure that that is the case. so I was
wondering if you guys knew anything about the "sticky power switch"? also it
appears as if the battery on this unit is beyond charge, because I charged it
last night, all night but I cannot get it to charge. Then again, when I unplug
the battery and plug it back in again the power light turns on for a few
seconds then it turns off as if the power button was being pressed, so maybe
there is a problem with the power button and not the battery. what would be a
good way to test it? I'm not a clueless user, you can give me technical
instructions, and I'll understand them. I could de-solder and remove the power
switch that would make it so I would know for sure that that switch wasent
being pressed. what do you think? any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank
you for anything

[JohnKes]

Some m505 had power buttons that stopped working. As for the battery, try an in-cradle reset. If it doesn't hold a charge after that, you might need a new battery.

In-cradle reset:
http://support.handspring.com/esupport/forms/hsResolutionView.jsp?ResolutionId=7183&ResType=il

[VidGameKing]

so I e-mailed gethightech.com and asked them what the problem could be, but they sent me an e-mail saying for $20 they would look at it and tell me what they think it could be. I dont really like that response. anyways I dont own a "cradel" per say I have the cool charger cable from Targus that also is a sync cable, it charges the unit off of the USB connection as well as having a sync button located on it, it tryed plugging it in and pressing the reset button but that didn't seem to work. I think it might be dead. I could go to like gethightech.com and buy replacement parts for it but that would be way too costly for someone who wants it to work for free. is there anything else it could be? let me know. thanks

Jonathan

[VidGameKing]

okay so I just realized yet another thing, when I plug it in, it does not make the beeping noise to tell me it's plugged in! when I pluged it in for the first time in a very long the grenn light slowly went on at first and then poped on to full brightness, unlike a M515 i once had that when I first put it on the charge after a long period of time it slowly went up to full brightness from nothing, without suddenly poping to full brightness, like the 505! so I think I narrowed it down to two things, first, the battery is so capoots that it wont even hold a charge for even a short moment!, or, the mainboard is completely dead. the button seems to work too much for me to think it's dead. but then again I could be completely wrong. does anyone here have the knowlage and experiance to answer my questions? I hope so. thak you for you time and help.

Jonathan