Apple Newton Won't Charge

Question

I just sold this apple newton on Ebay and I went to go test it before shipping, and now it won't charge the new refurbished battery pack I got for it. It says "Fault" instead of "Charging". A window popped up saying the newton was receiving too much power. Is it likely that my factory power supply has gone bad, or is it probably an issue with the rebuilt battery?

Answer 1

I just had the same problem with my newly attained eMate, I'm a returning Newton OS user.
What happened was the same fault issue is that game me the same popup alert saying it was getting too much power. I used a third party party adapter that came with a MessagePad 2000 which worked fine with it, but when I used it on the eMate, it gave me that fault and error message. The eMate with the Newton adapter it came with gave me a great battery charge of 8 hours, but when I used the third party adapter, 9V, it like confused the battery and lasted only about an hour or less.
Then I used that third party adapter with the MessagePad again and it would restart the MP and eventually NOT turn on again! I was puzzled so I left the MP2K unplugged overnight with worn out battery also removed. Then I took that 3rd party adapter and plugged it in, and restarted and all is fine.
If you are using a Newton OEM power adapter, maybe it went bad, try using another one. But then again, maybe the batteries they used for the new refurbished battery require that sort of overnight power resetting if thats what its called.
I'm just sharing my experience so that it may help you in someway.