PDA issues

[newpostyco13]

recently had an issue where my PDA died half way round the duty no phone on me and to far to walk back now ive caused a national crisis by not scanning a covid kit im the 1st one in the country to do it has any one else had this issue what would you of done ?

[clashcityrocker]

Written down the tracking numbers and then entered them on return to the DO.

[newpostyco13]

Written down the tracking numbers and then entered them on return to the DO.

i didnt know how to do that do i have to write all numbers down?

[clashcityrocker]

Written down the tracking numbers and then entered them on return to the DO.

i didnt know how to do that

Even better.
Write down the 13 digit barcodes on Tracked/signed for/Special Delivery and give the list to someone else who does know how to manually enter them.

[poisonpostie]

Try to have a phone with you. as i just take pictures of barcodes and when you get back they will mostly scan off your phone .if they don't just manually put the numbers into a scanner, writing down all the barcode numbers is mind numbing as we now scan so much,

[qwerty2]

Why should we use our own phones to do their job for them?
I've done a whole delivery at Xmas without scanning one thing
They never said a thing

[sicknote25]

Why should we use our own phones to do their job for them?
I've done a whole delivery at Xmas without scanning one thing
They never said a thing

How can that get a thumbs up?? We are paid for the services we provide. I appreciate the using your own phone thing but not scanning anything on a delivery just damages our job security as contracts can be lost???.

I would make a record of tracked items and specials and enter them on return to office.

[qwerty2]

Tried that once and gave up after first bag had about 25 items written down
would take ages and I don't go back to office anyway
I haven't be in office for more than 6 months just walk to where I start

[goneaway]

The PDAs at our place have started doing a weird thing. They seem to be crashing less when out on delivery, but nearly every day when returning to the office, they spontaneously reboot themselves. I'm not the only one to have noticed this. The odd day or two it doesn't do it. The first few times I noticed this, I would go to do the "consolidation scan" for my collections, but would find the PDA had logged out. So, causing a delay of about 5 minutes whilst logging in, just to scan the consolidation barcode in the office . As the same pattern was being followed for a few days, I paid more attention, and then one afternoon, I saw the PDA switch off and reboot on its own from scratch.

Anyone any idea what is doing this? Is it by design? Or maybe a bug in the software or hardware, causing the PDA to reboot as soon as it is close to the office - perhaps connecting to the office wifi is causing a crash? The reboot will happen in the car park outside, but of course, the wifi signal will spill outside the building a little. Has anyone else noticed this recently?

[Slipperman]

The PDAs at our place have started doing a weird thing. They seem to be crashing less when out on delivery, but nearly every day when returning to the office, they spontaneously reboot themselves. I'm not the only one to have noticed this. The odd day or two it doesn't do it. The first few times I noticed this, I would go to do the "consolidation scan" for my collections, but would find the PDA had logged out. So, causing a delay of about 5 minutes whilst logging in, just to scan the consolidation barcode in the office . As the same pattern was being followed for a few days, I paid more attention, and then one afternoon, I saw the PDA switch off and reboot on its own from scratch.

Anyone any idea what is doing this? Is it by design? Or maybe a bug in the software or hardware, causing the PDA to reboot as soon as it is close to the office - perhaps connecting to the office wifi is causing a crash? The reboot will happen in the car park outside, but of course, the wifi signal will spill outside the building a little. Has anyone else noticed this recently?

This has happened to me a few times recently.

[SpacePhoenix]

Maybe a software update that's failing each time?

[wacko74]

The PDAs at our place have started doing a weird thing. They seem to be crashing less when out on delivery, but nearly every day when returning to the office, they spontaneously reboot themselves. I'm not the only one to have noticed this. The odd day or two it doesn't do it. The first few times I noticed this, I would go to do the "consolidation scan" for my collections, but would find the PDA had logged out. So, causing a delay of about 5 minutes whilst logging in, just to scan the consolidation barcode in the office . As the same pattern was being followed for a few days, I paid more attention, and then one afternoon, I saw the PDA switch off and reboot on its own from scratch.

Anyone any idea what is doing this? Is it by design? Or maybe a bug in the software or hardware, causing the PDA to reboot as soon as it is close to the office - perhaps connecting to the office wifi is causing a crash? The reboot will happen in the car park outside, but of course, the wifi signal will spill outside the building a little. Has anyone else noticed this recently?

Ours also had a habit of doing this a while back but it seems to have eased off now, almost every day it would crash/reboot literally just as you were about to do your consolidation scan when stood at the locker window.

[Parmyarmy25]

Its recommended that all pdas are rebooted every working day
Doubt this happens though doesn't in our office

[goneaway]

Its recommended that all pdas are rebooted every working day

I always do a full reboot in the morning when I get my PDA (and it tends to be a different one every day), to minimise problems and slow downs, but this rebooting when returning to the office still happens. It's good advice though, generally. As is taking a spare battery!

[SpacePhoenix]

Chances are that many of the PDA batteries will have now exceeded their maximum number of charge cycles