[bookport] Re: Reason, among many, for thanksgiving!!!!!

  • From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:53:05 -0500

I assume that it's some kind of slow-discharge capacitor or something.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:38 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Reason, among many, for thanksgiving!!!!!


Agreed.Just what happens inside that unit that takes 24 hours to reset I
couldn't tell you, but it's true.

Bruce

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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Walt Smith wrote:

> The first time I killed my BP, I tried all of the standard remedies and it
> was this same process; leaving the batteries and CF card out of the unit 
> for
> about 24 hours; that cured it. I would never assume that a BP is truly 
> dead
> and beyond resuscitation until I'd tried this final step.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandy Licht" <slicht@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 1:24 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Reason, among many, for thanksgiving!!!!!
>
>
> The report of my Bookport's demise was
> exaggerated!  Hallelujah!!!!!!!!  For those of you who inadvertently do
> what I did, (I tried to update the BP with low strength batteries, thus
> aborting the firmware installation.),                    this is my
> solution for the dead Bookport.  After discovering the Bookport had no 
> life
> in it at all, I removed the memory card and the batteries... the fresh
> replacements.  I left them out for approximately 24 hours.  When I put 
> both
> the batteries and memory card back in the Bookport, Precise Pete said,
> "Defaults restored."  Everything is now working fine.
>
> I sincerely hope I have learned a lesson.  It is so important to make sure
> the battery level is high when installing firmware updates.
>
> Sandy Licht
>
> Phone: 409-898-8218
> Jeremiah 29:11 - 14A
> 11For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They
> are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
> 12In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13If you look for me in
> earnest,
> you will find me when you seek me. 14I will be found by you," says the
> LORD...
>
>
>
>

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