I would either set the power off to the maximum; or set it to never. I am
hoping that power off issue while down loading gets resolved, but I think
that is a known issue.
That, or you need to remember to hit the status button periodically to keep
it from shutting off.
I personally decided to set the auto shut off to never back when it caused
problems and just take care to turn it off when I was finished so as not to
run the battery out.
It is a drag when e-mails vanish like that. I've had that happen with
computers as well that got flakey in the middle of retrieving messages.
Best of luck,
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Crystal French
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:19 AM
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [icon-discuss] power off question
Hi,
Last night, I went to download email.
I have my email set to delete messages from the server, and the power off is
set to the default.
The download seemed to be taking a long time, and I checked the status,
which said it was downloading 44 messages.
I was not doing anything else with the Braille Plus at the time, and let it
continue, figuring that there might be an attachment which could be holding
things up.
Then, the unit said it had reached a period of inactivity, and shut itself
off.
The click and snip sound had still been going when it shut itself off.
I turned it back on at once, and did still seem to be in the email program.
I hit cancel, but the unit had gone into flakey mode at that point.
I did a reboot, and things went back to normal.
However, when I went back to email, my 44 messages, which had not downloaded
had disappeared into Cyber Space, no doubt lost forever.
My question is, should the unit have powered off like that when it was still
trying to download email?
If, an attachment was the problem, is there a way to request the email
program to not download attachments?
I tried to find such a setting, but didn't find it if it is there.
Not a happy camper about the lost messages, but would like to know how to
prevent this from occurring again.
Crystal
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