topic Missing Data in ArcPad Questions

Missing Data

BrandonMaier — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:01:00 GMT

I have a project where all the road signs within the jurisdiction are captured as points. This is year 3 of ongoing checks and at this point only the date and a couple attributes are updated to reflect current conditions. This year however we seem to losing data, sometimes what appears to be a whole days worth and other places randomly.

The thought occurs to me that perhaps the field staff is pressing cancel accidentally, however I can't see this being the case when a days worth of data is gone. The other possibility is we are using an older model GeoXH that no longer holds a charge in the battery and needs to be plugged in all the time. Perhaps the power was cut and caused the data for the day to be lost, I have no experience with something like this so I'm not sure if power loss would cause data loss.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Missing Data

stuartcassin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:19:12 GMT

If your data is being stored on the physical memory of the device and it completely disharges that battery, then you hve a fair chance of losing data. If it's on a seperate storage medium like an SD card then power loss shouldn't be an issue.

Missing Data

BrandonMaier — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:02:48 GMT

It is being stored in the physical memory, good to know my suspicion is probably right.

Thanks for the reply

Missing Data

BillCrawford — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:06:12 GMT

Why not buy a replacement battery for starts? :rolleyes: