[blazie-support] Re: sick M40, or at least a dead battery...
- From: "Mahjoub Boulhaj" <boulhaj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:09:27 -0400
That's exactly the same problem that I have had with my BLM40 for the past 2
months. I'm not sure if it's a battery problem or something else. But
whatever it is, ask for an exchange because no matter what they do to your
current unit, the problem will resurface after no more than 10 days of use.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "notetaker list" <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: [blazie-support] sick M40, or at least a dead battery...
>
> Hi all --
> Ok, funny someone complained about this just this morning, because it just
> happened to my M40 -- I turned it on and got a braille display full of
> jibberish, then speech came on and sounded like it was severely ill, then
it
> died and the display pins sank slowly into oblivion...
> Now every time I turn it on it says "warm reset", then dies.
> Of course, I haven't charged it in a while so I went to plug it in.
> Now I'm wondering if I have it plugged in the right jack as it still
doesn't
> work. Is it supposed to work while it's charging? I just wanted to check
> that my data wasn't lost.
>
> And while on the subject of my data, I took it to a meeting this morning
> before it died, and found that 80% of my notes file had been truncated.
> Could this have been due to a low battery?
> And if so, why only 80% of the file? Why not the whole thing?
> And why wasn't I warned about the battery being low? How can I check
> battery level?
>
> If this thing doesn't charge by tonight I'll have to send it in -- all
$5000
> of it -- to FS, to fix or trash or do whatever.
> But I'm sure it was just the battery.
> How long should it take to charge?
> How long should the battery life be, assuming I turn off speech most the
> time?
> TIA
> --le
>
>
>
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