Hello Jerry, When I had the lock beeps activated the first problem you mentioned occurred occasionally. I just temporarily disconnected the batteries put them back and did a reset. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Neufeld" <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:04 PM Subject: [bookport] The need to reset BookPort > 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 > > >