[icon Discussions] Re: Big Braille Plus Problem!
- From: Tyler <programmer651@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:56:24 -0500
Did you try holding the phone-keypad star key while resetting? And what is
reflashing?
Tyler Z
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:53:29 -0600, Gabby Abby wrote:
>Ever since the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, my Braille Plus has started
>going down hill. First, when I would go to download a file, any file,
>whether it be a book or a movie, off the Internet, it would start to
>download it just fine. Then, when I tried to go into the download manager,
>nothing, and I mean no key presses, would cause the BP to respond. I
>checked, and the keypad switch was unlocked all the time. Then, disc drive
>mode stopped working, and this is the program I really need! When I would
>dial 63 to get into disc mode, it would tell me that it was preparing to
>enter, then it would either just hang, or it would completely ignore my key
>presses. Again, I checked my keypad switch. It was unlocked each time, and
>still no responses came from my keypad. I tried several things. I tried
>deleting a bunch of big files. I even uninstalled my audio tutorial, for
>goodness sakes, just to get some memory back! I don't think it's a memory
>problem, since the above problems continued. I thought the BP may have been
>having trouble recovering the memory space, so I did several things. I tried
>taking out the battery and leaving it out for awhile (I know it was more
>than 5 minutes). Then I put it back in and tried again. Nothing. I think,
>all the times I did that, when I went to put the battery back in, I may have
>bumped something inside the battery cover and knocked a wire out of place or
>something. I tried my best to make sure I didn't bump anything. I also tried
>rebooting it, resetting it, and, yes, reflashing it, which I know you're not
>supposed to do unless it is a huge emergency, but I considered it to be a
>huge emergency. I made a backup, reflashed, restored the backup, and still
>nothing. I tried reflashing without making a backup (I know there was
>nothing I would have lost of any importance). Still nothing. I have no idea
>what to do next. I really need to use the Braille Plus for school until I
>learn how to use the BP18, so I really, really need it to download files and
>I especially need disc drive mode to work. Any advice would be urgent and
>greatly appreciated.
>
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