You know what I have found, sometimes when the clock isn't set, the = sleep timer doesn't always stop when it should. This only happens = intermittently, but it's annoying enough that I usually end up setting = the clock so I don't have to spend all that time searching for my place = in a book. -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:29 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings Actually, I don't even set it most of the time. I just thought it would = be=20 nice if it could be set as it was with the roadrunner. At 10/22/2004, you wrote: > >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 =3D > >time.=3D20 > > > > >>> 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 = =3D > >time=3D3D20 > > >rolling would require power, so that is not maintained. > > > > > >Dale