[bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
- From: "Jeremiah Z. Rogers" <jzr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:32:29 -0400
The issue of setting the time on Book Port from the transfer tool has been
discussed, and addressed by APH, here before. It is technically impossible
due to hardware limitations. I clearly remember a post by Larry on this
subject which stated this nearly verbatim.
Jeremiah
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On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen
Sent: October 21, 2004 17:05
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
Yes. But what good is d e f if your battery goes dead<grin>?
I sure wish we could set this from the transfer tool.
At 10/21/2004, you wrote:
>Pete:
>
>Pressing D+E+F does preserve the current time/date.
>
> >>> ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/21/04 03:53PM >>>
>Here are two suggestions for preserving the time/date, in addition to
>the other settings which can be preserved as Dale points out below:
>
>1. The BP Transfer software itself could grab the time/date from
>the computer upon connection. I vaguely remember APH staff saying that
>the hardware did not support this, but I'm not sure.
>
>2. If pressing the D-E-F key combination also saved the current
>time/date and the user quickly changed batteries, the time/date would
>be very nearly correct. I wouldn't mind losing 15 seconds or so - One
>wouldn't even notice this since the clock is only accurate to the
>nearest minute, and most people usually replace the batteries within a
>day/month/year!
>
>-- Pete
>
>From: "Dale Laser" <drlieser@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [Bookport] Saving BP Settings
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:46:00 -0500
>
>The d-e-f command saves the voice settings. Obviously, keeping the
>time=20 rolling would require power, so that is not maintained.
>
>Dale
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