How to have the battery life show on the screen ?

It looks like your battery has bought the farm.

Batteries have a finite life, shortened if you've use your laptop while mainly plugged into the mains.
If the batteries are not charged and discharged on a regular basis, their life becomes much shortened.

Certainly if you laptop is over 2 - 3 years old, you're looking for a new battery.

it shoud show on the right hand side of the screen


tom
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If it is shwing some life in the screen then the screen seems to be OK. Hence it should not cost much to repair the circuitry.

IT'S CALLED A FROZEN SCREEN...

2 OPTIONS

ONE, RESET IT !!! (See resetting instructions below)

TWO, let the battery die out!

Waking up your c330...

If you left your Garmin c330 on running the battery will have 1% life left. If you turn c330 back on again, it will flash screen for 3 seconds then die, even charging it at this point will not wake it back up. TO BRING IT BACK TO LIFE... plug in the power home or car into Garmin c330. There is a tab in the front Garmin gray frame of your screen. You must take like your fingernails and under the logo "GARMIN" pull the whole gray plastic frame off. Underneath the plastic frame to the right hand side. There is a "RESET" button. Make sure power is plugged in while hitting reset. Your battery should come back to life. Cheers

try not using the flip up screen on this it will extend the battery life.

The proper way of charging the battery on your phone is by waiting for your phone to indicate that it's running out of powe but not completelyr, if you frequently charge your phone even if it's not yet necessary(battery life indicator show half-way) the ability of the battery to store power will deminished hence the battery life is shorter. Last resort would be trying another battery unit to test if it's your battery of your phone that's causing the unsual battery drain.

Or you can try the following steps on conserving your phones battery life;

• Turn off your Infrared and BlueTooth when not in use. Even when they are not in use, they do keep drawing power looking for signals.
  
• Switch off the vibration alerts. Vibration causes a lot of power usage thereby making battery drain fast.
  
• Re-adjust your screen brightness to around 50%. Screen power is another silent killer.
  
• Usually, presetted Backlight durations are of pretty high order, this can be readjusted to get more from your battery. Try reducing the Backlight duration.
  
• Often we don’t understand that playing games requires Light, Sounds and Shakes. This in turn leads to tripling of battery drainage.
  
• Lower Ringing and other message sounds. This too helps saving a lot of battery.
  
• Finally, do charge your battery before it gets drained fully. This enhances battery life.
  

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Maybe your battery aging, battery's life is about a year (I also use laptop)
If you often use external power supply, take out the battery, it will extend battery life, because the battery's life depends on the times of charging and discharging.
You say the screen is brighter, some laptops have a default value of setting LCD screen in computer system, you can adjust the brightness youself. Press "EN" key, and press "upward" at the same time, the screen can be brighter.
Or you can get a replacement battery,
I don't know what's the brand of your laptop, I have bought a battery online, the quality is OK.

take it appart againg and check all connectins are secured it sounds like the screen plug is disconnected

chris

preform a soft and if necessary a hard reset back info to pc first http://www.pdacortex.com/pocket_pc_sites.htm Pocket PC Sites