[bookport] Re: lock beep problem
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:22:32 -0400
Brian -
That's an excellent description and I appreciate it. I'll do the test next
time I'm on the BP. Since I always have headphones on; and I have a serious
hearing loss; if the tone is being generated from the BP speaker and not
through the phones, I wouldn't hear it, so perhaps it is actually there and
I'm just not able to hear it. Thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Buhrow" <buhrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:50 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: lock beep problem
Hello Walt. Just to clarifiy, here's how things are supposed to work.
If lock beep is set to yes, then when the unit is locked, and not reading
any material, pressing akey will cause the unit to sound a tone, not
through the headphone jack, but inside the unit itself. If you happen to
happen to be wearing headphones, or have speakers connected to the unit
when it is off, locked, and lock beep is set to yes, then you'll hear the
tone from the unit itself, followed five seconds later by the double beep
from the speakers or headphones indicating that the unit is turned off.
If lock beep is set to no, then when the unit is locked, and not
reading, pressing a key wil cause no sound to be emitted from the unit
itself, but, 5 seconds later, if you have headphones or external speakers,
a double beep will be sounded through the headphone jack, indicating that
the unit has turned off.
If you don't observe this change in behavior when you change the
settings, then there is something wrong with your Bookport. To determine
if it is a software, i.e. firmware problem or a hardware problem, i.e. the
internal beeper is broken, you can test the beeper by setting an alarm and
telling it to sound internally. If, when the time arrives, you hear no
sound from the unit itself, as opposed to the connected speakers or
headphones, then your beeper is broken and, I'm guessing here, but you'll
probably needd to return the Bokport to APH for repair. If you don't need
the internal beeper for alarms, and can live without the lock beep, then I
don't think there's anything wrong with using it without the internal
beeper. That is to say, I don't think you lose any more functionality than
I've just described.
Hope that helps.
-Brian
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