[blazie-support] Re: sick M40, or at least a dead battery...
- From: Stephen Clower <supersteve03@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:22:23 -0500
Your best bet might to be to create a large file in your Braille Lite and
issue the recover command.
To do this:
1. Enter the files menu with O-chord F.
2. Hit C to create a file. Enter something, doesn't matter.
3. Reenter the files menu with O-chord F.
4. Hit the letter B. This will bring up a prompt asking "How many pages to
expand?" Enter a large value, such as 50.
5. If you were put back into your newly created file, reenter the files
menu with, you guessed it, O-chord F.
6. Hit dots 123456 and answer Y to the recovery prompt.
You'll be put back in your file, and more than likely you'll see a lot of
garbage characters. If you remember anything that in your notes, such as a
word or phrase, search for it with an F-chord. If you find it, you can then
reconstruct your data. If this works, let me know and if necessary, I'll
help you with removing the garbage from your file.
Best regards
Steve
At 06:15 PM 8/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, after being plugged in an hour or so it started working fine.
>In fact, I didn't lose the notes I typed in this morning.
>However, the 80% of the notes I took over the past 3 weeks appear to be gone
>forever.
>I'm trying to figure out how/why it disappeared.
>I don't think I typed any destructive keystrokes.
>Another question:
>How is the flash memory accessed? Could the missing data be there?
>Could it still be resurrectable?
>It wasn't important data, but for the times I do type in something important
>I want to be sure it will be safe.
>Could my notes file (eee) have gotten too long?
>It's just that it was there a few days ago but gone this morning.
>TIA
>--le
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stephen Clower" <supersteve03@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 5:12 PM
>Subject: [blazie-support] Re: sick M40, or at least a dead battery...
>
>
> > Hi Laura. Yes, the unit is supposed to function when plugged in. I have no
> > idea why your notes file was damaged, sounds very suspicious. It's not
> > sounding like the M40 is such a reliable unit right now. Stick to your
> > other Braille Lite if you still have it.
> > At 01:39 PM 8/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > >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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