What's wrong with my pda??

Question

i found my pda after like a year of losing it then when i switched it on, it didn't work. what's wrong? whoever helps me get my pda working again gets 10 points!!!

Answer 1

what pda is it?

and you need to charge it or need new batteries.

it should say what model it is on the battery... like pm16a is for mda compacts.  

Answer 2

Ill send this in bits, cos it wont let me send it all!!!!!!

(it will only let me answer once!!! grrrr)

There are three basic resets available: the soft reset, no-notify reset and the dreaded hard reset. Each has a purpose, and it is important to know when to use each one so that you don't use a nuke to kill a fly. I must recommend that you regularly perform a full backup of your PDA, either to the memory card or the desktop--preferably both.

to do a soft reset:

This is accomplished simply by unscrewing the top of your stylus to access the small pin in the top. Push this pin into the tiny hole in the back of you PDA (the "reset button") and release it. Your screen will go blank for a couple of seconds, then the Palm OS screen will come up then the back/front/side light will come on then the general preference screen. All saved data will be preserved on the device. If you have hacks loaded, X-Master will ask if you want to restore your last set of hacks. If you suspect a hack caused the initial problem, then answer no and reenable the hacks one at a time until you find the problem. If you are using PiDirect II or a similar program, it will ask if you want to activate it as well.

A soft reset basically resets the memory structures in the handheld. This recovers from memory conflicts, corrupted system service chains (mainly due to malperforming hacks), memory leaks, and system lockups due to the dreaded "Fatal Exception" program errors. Upon receiving a fatal exception, a reset button will appear at the bottom of the screen. Tapping that button quickly will initiate a soft reset. If tapping the button doesn't work, then push the reset button on the back to the device as described above.

If you perform a soft reset, but your device locks right back up again (in other words, you are in a soft-reset-required loop), try the next level of reset:

Answer 3

It will need some sort of power supply or battery!

Depends what make/model it is to fid out what battery you'd need.