[bookport] Re: The need to reset BookPort
- From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:15:34 -0000
Hi,
i've had that happen as well. I wonder if its some sort of indexing
problem? I have the speed on maximum most of the time when reading, but
when i've slowed the unit down, it doesn't seem to happen.
Best
-James-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:14 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: The need to reset BookPort
> Hi, Larry -
>
> I've experienced a somewhat similar condition with my BP. I'll be reading
> along, not touching the keys at all, and the device will just stop cold.
> Normally, pressing the 2 key will resume reading. It's not the timer
> expiring and I'm sure it's not low batteries, either, since mine are over
> 70% and it happened last night. I don't receive any indication that the
> stop
> is coming...no messages of any kind or anything like that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:47 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: The need to reset BookPort
>
>
> Hi Jerry.
>
> Does this happen everytime the unit sits idle for a while? If so, does it
> =
> happen even immediately after the double-beep shutdown sound?
>
>
>>>> jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx Monday, November 22, 2004 5:04:36 PM >>>
> Had I been more carefully monitoring all posts to this list, I might have
> seen something about a problem that I am beginning to find quite annoying.
> After several hours on the shelf or in my briefcase, I'll take out the
> BookPort to continue listening to a piece, only to get no response at all,
> as though the batteries were completely flat. The only remedy, a farely
> simple one, is to temporarily break the connection between the batteries =
> and
> the unit, this, of course, causing the BookPort to annoyingly revert to =
> its
> firmware defaults. Also, as of the latest release of the firmware has come
> another problem, I'm sure discussed several times here. For no apparent
> reason, the BookPort just stops reading, requiring that I press the read
> button to get it going again, not a big thing but a little bothersome
> nonetheless. I'm wondering whether or not the first problem that I =
> mentioned
> is somehow linked to the option that allows one to silence the locked key
> beeps. Just a thought since I am unable to peek at the source code.
>
> Still very happy with my unit,
>
> Jerry
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