I don't consider this off-topic at all. People need to know what these units can, and more importantly cannot, do. The software problems you mentioned, among other bugs, are most of why I stopped using my own unit. I never ran into the hardware problems you have, thankfully. > On Feb 26, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Carlos Lopez <carlos.lopez.1209@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I hope this isn't off topic. I'm just expressing my thoughts about the > BrailleNote. > > I'm getting very annoyed by the bn's instability. I've been experiencing > many bugs with the BrailleNote lately. My bn has frozen or just locked up > out of nowhere, refused to turn on, choked on digital talking books and > caused me to lose all my data, didn't load some pages in Keyweb, given me a > million exception command and data misalignment messages, etc and I've had to > reset millions of times. Also, some touch cursor keys have been getting > damaged. I've already sent it twice to Humanware for repair: the first time > was because the braille display got damaged and the second time was because > of a damaged touch cursor key. Both times were months from each other. To > be more specific, I sent my bn for repair the first time last April and then > in August. Early last month, I started having problems with other touch > cursor keys, but then they stopped because I sprayed the display with > compressed air. However, now I'm having problems again with a touch cursor > key. It isn't working. > > The BrailleNote has indeed been a helpful device since I use it for almost > everything including for school and to surf the Internet. However, the > constant bugs are really irritating. If this continues, I may just lose my > faith in the BrailleNote. > > -- > Carlos > > Sent from my BrailleNote Apex BT 32 running KeySoft 9.4 build 1226 from the > HumanWare BrailleNote family > ------------------------------- > BNU: BrailleNote Users - a forum for users of BrailleNote family of products > from Humanware. > Website: www.braillenoteusers.info > > IMPORTANT: By default, replies will be sent to individuals. If you feel that > your reply would be useful for others, please use "reply to all" feature in > your email client. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send an email with the subject > line of "unsubscribe" to braillenote-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. > > You can also visit our list page at: > www.freelists.org/list/braillenote > From this page, you can unsubscribe, change email delivery settings and view > list archives. > > If you have any comments or questions for list moderators, please send an > email to braillenote-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Thanks. -- Have a great day, Alex mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx