Help! Psion and border software users

jemski

Member
Location
Dorset
My psion just died on me with no battery warning. It's currently charging and working but I'm worried it's going to have lost all my lambing info!!! It won't connect with my pc for me to check. Any ideas on how to get it to connect? It's normally a bit temperamental but connects after a few attempts. I've tried about 50 times and no joy. About to throw it against the wall....
 
I know nothing but maybe let it fully charge then turn it off and back on again before trying. Ditto turn pc off and on again and give them both a chance to recognise/be recognised.

You have my deepest sympathy, I know how scary the idea of lost data is but honestly if it's not working stop doing it and reboot is usually the best option. I have my fingers crossed for you.
 
Thank you! Ok I will walk away... Had to be in the middle of the busiest part of lambing... [emoji35]

Yes. Start thinking about how much manual recovery you can do if the worst comes to the worst. I get the impression you have a good system so you might surprise yourself.

I'm very tempted to say it could be worse - you could be watching the rugby but that would be to under estimate your pain although I think you have a chance of recovery unlike some I can think of.

How do I get emotis on the phone? Anyway wink, wink, sob.
 

Tim W

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
2nd internal battery so you will be ok
Clean connections (they get dirty/greasy very easily)
If you continue to get problems call the Helpline and they will sort you
I sometimes have to do a warm re-set on the Psion if it gets stroppy with me ---
 

andybk

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
yes agree with tim above , have always used my own psions so had to add scanner and software myself and from boarder , they always store the info on the drive as they go along (unless its died ) backup battery keeps it safe , as said turn comp off restart , open the windows mobile icon yourself (green one ) and then connect the usb from base station will take a few mins sometimes and your away .
(if your a bit handy psion 2s are only £50-100 on ebay sometimes 3s , from time to time just get right operating system for our software win mobile 6 for border, win ce for shearwell ,
 
Last edited:

exmoor dave

Member
Location
exmoor, uk
My psion just died on me with no battery warning. It's currently charging and working but I'm worried it's going to have lost all my lambing info!!! It won't connect with my pc for me to check. Any ideas on how to get it to connect? It's normally a bit temperamental but connects after a few attempts. I've tried about 50 times and no joy. About to throw it against the wall....


Mine did the sudden crash last week!
It was showing full battery then just died while flashing some orange light for a while.

It had 10 days of fairly intense lambing records on it so I was fair bricking it!

Couldn't get it to charge or turn on' on the cradle on the clamp.

Ended up having to take it home take battery out and charge battery on main docking station.

Seems fine now.

It's crashed suddenly a couple of times!
 

andybk

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
Mine did the sudden crash last week!
It was showing full battery then just died while flashing some orange light for a while.

It had 10 days of fairly intense lambing records on it so I was fair bricking it!

Couldn't get it to charge or turn on' on the cradle on the clamp.

Ended up having to take it home take battery out and charge battery on main docking station.

Seems fine now.

It's crashed suddenly a couple of times!
they sometimes have a loose connection inside I was told ) , dropped my old one the same died as you described , changed all the gubbins over to another , had nothing to loose with old one so dropped it hard again , put it back in cradle , and it sprung into life ,enough to get latest records off it anyway , lol
 

jemski

Member
Location
Dorset
Thank you everyone!!!! You all made me panic a little less. Its now finally connected and is downloading all the records! Phew!!!!!!! I will sleep tonight now! That is, when I'm not worrying about the 200 odd lambs outside in this weather...
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 35.1%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

  • 1,290
  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
Top