Appendix A

Troubleshooting and Support

All Motion Computing Tablet Clients have passed a rigorous series of performance and quality-control tests, but now and then a problem may occur. If you do not see a solution among the following system and software issues, check the section “Support Options” in this chapter or go to our website at www.motioncomputing.com/support.

SOLUTIONS

TO COMMON

PROBLEMS

PROBLEM

CAUSE

SOLUTION

POWER

 

 

The Tablet Client won’t start when

The Power switch hasn’t been

Slide and hold the power switch

I slide the Power switch.

fully engaged.

for at least a half-second, but no

 

 

more than three seconds.

 

 

 

 

Fully discharged battery or no

Connect the AC adapter to

 

battery and no AC power.

operate the Tablet Client and

 

 

charge the battery.

The Tablet Client won’t shut down.

An application has locked up the

Press the SAS button (small

 

Tablet Client.

button with a key icon nearby) to

 

 

start Windows Task Manager and

 

 

close the application, or

 

 

Slide and hold the power switch

 

 

for at least 5 seconds to force a

 

 

shutdown of the Tablet Client.

 

 

 

The display goes black while the

The Tablet Client system has gone

Slide the power switch for about a

Tablet Client is still turned on.

into stand by after sitting idle for a

second to resume operations.

 

period of time. (In this state, the

 

 

power LED flashes blue.)

 

 

 

 

BATTERY

 

 

Data loss during battery swap.

The unit is designed to maintain

When you swap the battery with

 

the data and settings for up to 30

the unit in stand by, be sure to

 

seconds in stand by while you

save your data before removing

 

swap the battery. This time may

the battery to avoid data loss.

 

vary due to your system and the

 

 

programs you’re running.

 

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