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Factory settings restored with new batteries installed

By ALY

9 years ago



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  • Latest reply 9 years ago by TheLaw
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#1 9 years ago
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ALY

ALY

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10y 53,150 409 13

I installed fresh new Duracell batteries about 3 months ago in my TZ and I haven't been playing it a lot lately. Like a week or more without powering on.
In that time it happened twice that it booted with Factory settings restored?!
It doesn't happen every time. If I power it off and back on right after or in the same day, week maybe it doesn't restore factory settings.
The batteries are new. But still if the batteries were bad it probably wouldn't act like that..
Any clues?

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#2 9 years ago
 
JNS

wellarmed

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10y 57,400 972 55

Corroded battery holder.

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#3 9 years ago
 
SMK

TheLaw

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US Ann Arbor, MI

12y 162K 48,068 19 30 1

Could be as simple as bending the contacts so you making good contact with batteries. Chekc out the pin repair area for this, as it will show you how to test with a DMM if you're getting the correct connections & volts

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#4 9 years ago
 
BAK

dsuperbee

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US Sacramento, CA

11y 82,550 5,597 6

So you may have something draining the batteries, or you have a bad battery holder. You need to test for voltages. Pin wiki covers this:

http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_WPC#Battery_Issues

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#5 9 years ago
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ALY

ALY

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10y 53,150 409 13

Do you think there was a split second in powered off state when the connection with batteries was lost due to corrosion?

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#6 9 years ago
 
SMK

TheLaw

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US Ann Arbor, MI

12y 162K 48,068 19 30 1

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Quoted from ALY:

Do you think there was a split second in powered off state when the connection with batteries was lost due to corrosion?

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