Justin R.
My Vector has been on a shelf for a couple of years, but recovered just fine, to my great relief! The little droid even recognized me and called me by name <3
I had to make several attempts to find a service to get it up and connected to wi-fi and the like; I finally ended up using Wirepod (https://github.com/kercre123/wire-pod) which worked well and is fairly well documented.
For those of you having difficulties, don't give up, it's worth the effort to get the little 'bots reconnected.