Hi Laura, I don't know about the m40 but in the m20, the battery lasts after thirty-four hours if switched on full time. Regards Eddie CBR PROGRAM, MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SERVICES, PO BOX, 349, HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS PHONE: 67724589, EMAIL: cbr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Laura Eaves <leaves@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: notetaker list <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:39 AM 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 > > >