[bookport] Re: Battery drainage and Spanish

  • From: "Grant Hardy" <granthardy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:13:03 -0800

Well, at least we know now that that isn't the problem.  Thanks for your 
effort testing these things.

Grant
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Norton" <joenorton1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Battery drainage and Spanish


> Well, that was a good idea, but, again, no discernable difference with
> clock not set versus clock set.  Just wish I had thought up that idea to
> test myself.  Just goes to show 2 heads can be better than one.  Thanks!
>
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Grant Hardy wrote:
>
>> Joseph,
>>
>> Can you try operating the unit with the clock unset and see if you then 
>> hear
>> the buzzing?  This will tell whether the clock theory is correct.
>>
>> Grant
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joseph Norton" <joenorton1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:14 PM
>> Subject: [bookport] Re: Battery drainage and Spanish
>>
>>
>>> Well, got my telephone pick-up coil back out and listened to the
>>> electromagnetic noise from the Bookport with beta 1.20.22 installed.
>>> Selected Spanish option and let the unit go to sleep.  The buzzing noise
>>> characteristic to the earlier firmware without the battery drain was 
>>> still
>>> not present, whether Spanish was set to yes or no.  Again, reverted back
>>> to 1.20.20 (thanks Larry for that patch) and the buzzing noise was back
>>> when the unit was asleep.  Again, the Spanish option had no effect on
>>> this.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Liam Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cheryl,
>>>>
>>>> I think I figured out the problem. You don't get drainage because you 
>>>> are
>>>> reading in Spanish. I decided to check Spanish yes in the keyboard
>>>> options
>>>> when I stopped reading two hours ago, and I did not get even a one
>>>> percent
>>>> drainage. This is unusual. Usually the drainage is so great, two hours
>>>> would
>>>> have produced a significant percentage drop in battery level. Most of 
>>>> us
>>>> are
>>>> reading in English, which is where the drainage occurs - the English 
>>>> yes
>>>> option. Others can test this - when stopped reading, choose Spanish yes
>>>> option.
>>>>
>>>> Liam
>>>>
>>>>> From: "Cheryl and Dash Lenartiene" <Dashman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Reply-To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Subject: [bookport] Battery drainage and Spanish
>>>>> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:13:17 -0500
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>      Well, I'm on my third day with the same set of batteries, and my
>>>>> battery gauge says 60%.  The unit has spoken for 424 minutes, and I 
>>>>> did
>>>>> about 15 minutes of recording last night, which drained the battery by
>>>>> about 8%.  The clock is running, but not set to the correct date and
>>>>> time.
>>>>> I will try setting it and see what happens.
>>>>>      I've noticed a bug when reading in Spanish.  If you press the 2 
>>>>> key
>>>>> to read continuously, then press the 8 key for status, the BP reverts
>>>>> back
>>>>> to English when it resumes reading.  You must stop and start reading
>>>>> again
>>>>> with the 2 key in order for the Spanish pronunciation to re-engage.
>>>>> Cheryl
>>>>>
>>>>
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