Not personally having a T5, I can't be of too much help, however, I would note that it's completely normal for the device to be a bit hot during and shortly after charging - just the nature of the process. Being a lithium-based battery, if it shorted, you would likely have much bigger problems (presuming it didn't have sufficient protection built-in).

There is a way to do a *hard*-hard-reset, but that would void your warranty, so I won't post it unless no one else has any better ideas.

~Jeffery MacEachern
<>< :: Angstrom|Palm Z72 User :: Ubuntu Gutsy User :: All-around Geek

Hey,

I had something quite similar happen with my TX. I was tinkering with Linux, but when I left Opie I used the reboot key instead of shutdown. It froze and no amount of resets pushes on the back would bring it back to life. Apparently, there is a problem with shutdown and it cand hang the device up like this. I'd only had my TX a week when this happened to me and I was scared I 'd created a 300 dollar doorstop. Like your unit mine became very warm. I'm not sure why that occurs, but I guess that's common too.

Anyway, the solution was to let the battery discharge completely. Try keeping your unit off the charger for some time. Mine only took few hours to discharge, but I do recall reading where it could take up to 12 hours to accomplish this.

Once the battery discharged, I plugged the unit into the power charger and did a hard reset. I'm pretty sure a hard reset was required, but you could try a simple reset and see what happens. Anyway, when I did the hard reset it restored my TX to factory defaults, which unfortunately, means lost data. Thankfully, I didn't have much data in the thing so what was lost was meaningless. Since then I end my linux sessions doing a shutdown, followed by a push of the reset button on the back and my TX will spring to life.

I don't know much about the T5, but I would think the process is similar. Discharge the unit and do a reset. Hopefully will get you going again.

I hope this works for you. It was a pretty antsy five hours when it happened to me.

Good Luck,

Lewis

If you at least red the damned README, you'd know what happened :E also you can search this site instead of asking already thousand times asked and answered question. Wait two days and recharge...

I downloaded the files from this site: there is no README included, otherwise I would definitely have read it. ;-)

You're right! Yesterday afternoon, after basically dismantling the T5 and putting it back together, I tried the reset again after plugging in the cable and it came back to life. I didn't do a hard reset and I didn't lose any data. Thanks for your quick reply.

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~miska/ "Do not use reboot!" ... dont you have problems with your eyesight ?

Thanks for the link to your site. I didn't know it existed (I downloaded the file bundle from the hackndev site). Now that I've bookmarked your site I can read all the warnings directly. :-)

Пидор ! Продай свой палм мне ! Ты его сжег ! Факт ! Нах он тебе такой ! Мудило !
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P.S. KONKA - idias for life ............................................. loading !

what? use damned english or go to f... somewhere else.

Marex, be so kind, please delete message above and block the author (deface) for some time. His message is offensive and has nothing useful in it.

please translate, Im not deleting something I dont understand (even if I like deleting stuff)

Marex, will do this privately. See no reason to post translation of anything offensive right here.

Well if he's an asshole and didnt read the README ... poor him, it just shows how inteligent he is ...

Hi all ! first of all i am sorry that my english is so bad =(
I am from Baltmixt Test engineering Group ... o.begunov@baltmixt.ru | ICQ : 233099999
1. firs my quastion is plz show me all files which you have use for loading linux on your palm OS ?
P.S. It is will help me to pripare some solution for your demage Plam ...

I am waiting ...
send me all files (image , fs , loader , config ... other which you have use before ... by mail )

Adios ! Amigos !

All files are on the main page and palm fixes itself once you unplug/discharge battery as already mentioned several times all around this forum.

Really now ... this is something. I'm really starting to feel the urge to send that guy a DVD image with all the sources in it ... through email. I wonder how he will like receiving 4.7 gigs of data (mostly useless for him) :)