[BNU] Re: The BrailleNote and Bugs

  • From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Carlos <carlos.lopez.1209@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 23:22:31 -0500

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
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Have a great day,
Alex
mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx



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