I have an IPAQ 3950 PDA, I bought a in car charger from ebay and after using it my PDA no longer works. It will not switch on, charge on its home cradle or connect to my laptop, the IPAQ is completely dead. Help please

Yes you can buy them on e-bay here is the link for one
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Charger-For-HP-iPAQ-hx2100-hx2400-hx2490-hx2750-364401-001-367205-001-/360527673086?pt=AU_MobilePhoneAccessories&hash=item53f11fb6fe just charge up the battery externally and away you go I bought a second battery so I can have one on charge charging while I am using the one in the IPAQ so no down time

Buy a third party adapter from say Ebay.

It must be the hp pda battery problem or the problem of your hp pda battery charger.
iPAQ hx2795

Thats a good PDA, I had the 3950 model 3-4 years ago

http://www.ipaqrepair.co.uk/store.php?cat_id=6&catname='iPAQ%20Parts%203900%20Series'

speaker
http://www.ipaqrepair.co.uk/view_product.php?product=181

If you need a new external case look here
http://www.ipaqrepair.co.uk/store.php?cat_id=76&catname='iPAQ%20Cases%203900%20Series'


you can also look for the parts on ebay http://www.ebay.com/
for cheaper deals.

It could be the mainboard on the ipaq is messed up. Bring it to a local tech maintenance shop

If you purchase a new battery, they usually come with directions and special tools to change the battery. I had the same issue with 2 of mine when I got them at a used electronics store. IF it is the battery that is not working, then replacing it is easy, and you can get a replacement at your local Battery-Plus store.

In my case, one was fixed by a new battery, the other was not, and I actually had to press pretty hard in the cradle to get the second one to work. It never worked out of the cradle, so I gave that one to a neighbor kid to tear apart and see if he could get it working. (I got them for $15, so no big loss.)

The charger might be bad. Or then the pdas connector is bad, or the motherboard is damaged.

to find out is your charger working you could use a tester to test it or another pda.

If you could get some power into the pda you could use the bootloader to test the device. Its been years since I had my 3850.

Il have to find instructions on how to get to the bootloader but test the other things first.

Drop a comment.

This IPAQ will not support 3rd party battery manufacturers. Ensure you are using an original HP battery. You usually can use the battery one time--but when the charge runs out, so does your luck.

Most of the time you will get an on-screen warning that the battery will not be able to charge when you use a 3rd party battery. If you are using an original, you might need a new battery--they do wear out after time--too-old batteries no longer hold a charge.

Download the manual off the HP site. It's FREE

When you charge up your iPaq, do you use the cradle, or do you use the AC-adapter with the little iPaq power converter that came with the iPaq? Try both, and see if it charges up your pda. Try and borrow an iPaq car-charger and see if it charges up that way (the ones that do not need the iPaq power converter). If you are lucky enough to power up the iPaq even for 2 minutes, enable USB fast charging in the SETTING -> BATTERY. Your USB-data-cable or cradle will then be able to charge it up that way...