[bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings

  • From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:56:14 -0400

From my perspective, all this worrying about losing or not losing the time 
just doesn't get me especially worked up. I wear a watch; anyone I'm around 
wears a watch; I'm never far from a radio or television. In the overall 
scheme of things where the Book Port is concerned, it's simply not that 
important to me. If the device had never included a clock, I wonder how many 
would ever have missed it to begin with.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Henrichsen" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings


Yes, but if you are listening to an audible file or some other mp3 file,
you won't get the warning at all until your reading just stops and you get
a read error. Then the batteries go completely dead. There is no time to
save the time. This has happened to me twice at least.
At 10/22/2004, you wrote:

>That's why you have the low battery announcement, so you can change it on =
>time.=20
>
> >>> paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/21/04 05:05PM >>>
>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=3D20
> >rolling would require power, so that is not maintained.
> >
> >Dale




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