[bookport] Re: TO LOCK OR NOT TO LOCK, THAT IS THE QUESTION

From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:43:16 -0600
You're probably right!
I'll have to hear Precise Pete screaming in my ear!


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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:35 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: TO LOCK OR NOT TO LOCK, THAT IS THE QUESTION


You shouldn't have said anything? Now it'll happen to ten times today 
alone. <GRIN>

Bruce

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Richard Ring wrote:

> I find this interesting.  I have carried the Bookport in my shirt
pocket
> for over two years now, often it is locked, often it is not.  Not once
> have I ever seen those two keys pressed simultaneously so as to cause
an
> unwanted reset.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Buhrow
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:27 AM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: buhrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] TO LOCK OR NOT TO LOCK, THAT IS THE QUESTION
>
>
>       Hello folks.  I confess to being a bit nervous about starting a
> debate
> on this list, but I've spent a lot of time thinking about this issue,
> and I
> realize that I could go either way, so I'm interested in what others
> think
> before I float a change request on this list.
>       As many of you know, pressing the 2 + B keys simultaneously
> resets
> your bookport to its factory default settings.  Did you know, however,
> that
> this key combination still works even when the unit is locked?  When I
> first discovered this fact, I thought, "well, that makes sense, if the
> unit
> is mis-behaving, it's useful to be able to reset it regardless of
> whether
> it's locked or not."  However, on a couple of occasions since, I've
> locked
> the unit while playing, dropped it in my pocket for easy listening and
> carrying, only to have something bump the keys of the unit in such a
way
> as
> to trigger the magic reset option.  This is, to say the least while
> listening, a rather disconcerting event.  Upon further reflection, I
> realized that the two keys which need to be pressed to cause a reset
are
> in
> a vertical line when juxtapose to each other.  And, so, it began to
> occur
> to me that this iis a fairly likely scenario.  If a straight edge
bumps
> you
> which happens to press the center line of keys while you're listening,
> even
> for a brief second, all bets are off.  You're resetting the unit, and
> you'll have to pick up reading at the point where you began your most
> recent reading session, rather than at the point the unit reset.
>
>       I don't know about anyone else, but I find this behavior
> somewhat
> annoying.  So, I began to think, and I came up with three possible
> solutions to the problem, which is where the debate begins.  Below are
> my
> three ideas.  What are other's thoughts on this issue?
>
>
> 1.  Leave things as they are, living with the not unlikely event that
> you'll stop your reading session on occasion by resetting the unit
> inadvertently.
>
> 2.  Change the behavior of the firmware such that reset requests are
> only
> honored when the unit is unlocked.  The idea here is that if the unit
is
> really and truly crashed, keyboard input probably doesn't work anyway,
> and
> so a power cycling, i.e. battery pull, is in order afterall.
>
> 3.  Change the sequence of keys used to reset the unit.  I'd suggest a
> 4-key sequence, like: 4 + 6 + A  + C.  This idea stems from the
> observation
> that I've found that if the unit is dropped on its back, even a short
> distance, the weight of the keys impacting the unit as they stop
causes
> them to be activated.  Further, I've noticed that the keys which seem
to
> be
> activated most are those in the center of the keyboard.  I attribute
> this
> to the notion that the keyboard flexes most in the middle, and that
this
> causes more motion between the keys and the board behind them on
impact.
> By utilizing multiple keys at the edge of the keyboard to accomplish a
> reset, the likelihood that a reset could be triggered by dropping the
> unit
> is much lower.
>
>       Am I just particularly picky, or have others noticed this
> problem,
> and, if so, do they have thoughts about it?
>
> -thanks
> -Brian
>
>
>
>
>
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