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Title: Pleo unusable, not staying awake long
Post by: jenren on September 18, 2009, 04:05:26 PM
Pleo wakes up with a fully charged battery for about 5 seconds.  Have any ideas?  Have owned him for a year.  Clueless.  Is it the batteries?  Cannot do update because do not own winzip file opener.

Help.  Trying to figure this out with my 8 year old. 
Title: Re: Pleo unusable, not staying awake long
Post by: b blue eyes on September 18, 2009, 05:17:09 PM
Help is on the way Jenren, I can't help but others have been contacted who can.  Hang in there.
Title: Re: Pleo unusable, not staying awake long
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on September 18, 2009, 05:35:58 PM
If you have more than one battery and your Pleo is doing the same on both then that would be an awfully big coincidence. I don't think it is a battery issue if that is the case. However it is possible.

Is the battery charging from 3 1/2 to 4 hours? I assume you are seating the battery properly since you must be an old hand at it :) If it is not charging for the full amount of time then there may be a charger issue.

If you want to try the downgrade then you can get a free .zip opener like winRAR, winzip or 7zip. Install the program and then right click the download and choose extract.
However if Pleo will not/can not stay on for any amount of time then downgrading may be dangerous.

Finally is Pleo stone cold and is the battery stone cold, the thermistor which monitors temperature may be playing up and giving a false reading. The only way to check that would be to run DinoMITE.

Hope this helps, hang in there.
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