[bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
- From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:29:33 +0100
Hi,
I suppose people do use the clock on it because of the memo functionality.
that obviously needs some method of naming the files
-James-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 7:56 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
> From my perspective, all this worrying about losing or not losing the time
> just doesn't get me especially worked up. I wear a watch; anyone I'm
> around
> wears a watch; I'm never far from a radio or television. In the overall
> scheme of things where the Book Port is concerned, it's simply not that
> important to me. If the device had never included a clock, I wonder how
> many
> would ever have missed it to begin with.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Henrichsen" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:13 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
>
>
> Yes, but if you are listening to an audible file or some other mp3 file,
> you won't get the warning at all until your reading just stops and you get
> a read error. Then the batteries go completely dead. There is no time to
> save the time. This has happened to me twice at least.
> At 10/22/2004, you wrote:
>
>>That's why you have the low battery announcement, so you can change it on
>>=
>>time.=20
>>
>> >>> paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/21/04 05:05PM >>>
>>Yes. But what good is d e f if your battery goes dead<grin>?
>>I sure wish we could set this from the transfer tool.
>>At 10/21/2004, you wrote:
>>
>> >Pete:
>> >
>> >Pressing D+E+F does preserve the current time/date.
>> >
>> > >>> ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/21/04 03:53PM >>>
>> >Here are two suggestions for preserving the time/date, in addition to
>> >the other settings which can be preserved as Dale points out below:
>> >
>> >1. The BP Transfer software itself could grab the time/date from
>> >the computer upon connection. I vaguely remember APH staff saying that
>> >the hardware did not support this, but I'm not sure.
>> >
>> >2. If pressing the D-E-F key combination also saved the current
>> >time/date and the user quickly changed batteries, the time/date would be
>> >very nearly correct. I wouldn't mind losing 15 seconds or so - One
>> >wouldn't even notice this since the clock is only accurate to the
>> >nearest minute, and most people usually replace the batteries within a
>> >day/month/year!
>> >
>> >-- Pete
>> >
>> >From: "Dale Laser" <drlieser@xxxxxxx>
>> >Subject: [Bookport] Saving BP Settings
>> >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:46:00 -0500
>> >
>> >The d-e-f command saves the voice settings. Obviously, keeping the =
>>time=3D20
>> >rolling would require power, so that is not maintained.
>> >
>> >Dale
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