[bookport] Re: The need to reset BookPort
- From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:04:54 -0500
>Hi,
>
>i've had that happen as well. I wonder if its some sort of indexing
>problem? I have the speed on maximum most of the time when reading, but
>when i've slowed the unit down, it doesn't seem to happen.
>
>Best
>
>-James-
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:14 PM
>Subject: [bookport] Re: The need to reset BookPort
>
>
>> Hi, Larry -
>>
>> I've experienced a somewhat similar condition with my BP. I'll be reading
>> along, not touching the keys at all, and the device will just stop cold.
>> Normally, pressing the 2 key will resume reading. It's not the timer
>> expiring and I'm sure it's not low batteries, either, since mine are over
>> 70% and it happened last night. I don't receive any indication that the
>> stop
>> is coming...no messages of any kind or anything like that.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:47 AM
>> Subject: [bookport] Re: The need to reset BookPort
>>
>>
>> Hi Jerry.
>>
>> Does this happen everytime the unit sits idle for a while? If so, does it
>> =
>> happen even immediately after the double-beep shutdown sound?
>>
>>
>>>>> jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx Monday, November 22, 2004 5:04:36 PM >>>
>> Had I been more carefully monitoring all posts to this list, I might have
>> seen something about a problem that I am beginning to find quite annoying.
>> After several hours on the shelf or in my briefcase, I'll take out the
>> BookPort to continue listening to a piece, only to get no response at all,
>> as though the batteries were completely flat. The only remedy, a farely
>> simple one, is to temporarily break the connection between the batteries =
>> and
>> the unit, this, of course, causing the BookPort to annoyingly revert to =
>> its
>> firmware defaults. Also, as of the latest release of the firmware has come
>> another problem, I'm sure discussed several times here. For no apparent
>> reason, the BookPort just stops reading, requiring that I press the read
>> button to get it going again, not a big thing but a little bothersome
>> nonetheless. I'm wondering whether or not the first problem that I =
>> mentioned
>> is somehow linked to the option that allows one to silence the locked key
>> beeps. Just a thought since I am unable to peek at the source code.
>>
>> Still very happy with my unit,
>>
>> Jerry
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