Hi katie, when the battery is calibrating, you won't be able to do email or anything else with it. If you keep interrupting it to do other tasks, it will never complete. My suggestion is that you start the calibration with the machine is nearly flat, and at night time. Leave it overnight and perhaps a little more, so a weekend might be a good time to do this. But whatever you do, don't interrupt it.
Jonathan Mosen BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager HumanWare DDI: +1-925-566-9265 http://www.humanware.com Katie Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ght.edu> To Sent by: Braille Note braillenote-bounc <[email protected]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc .com Subject [Braillenote] mPower battery 21/11/2005 03:46 issues, please help! p.m. Please respond to Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .humanware.com> The other day when I checked the status of my battery, I received the message that my MP needed recalibrating. I've received this message before, and had to exit out of the power status setting, and retry, so I didn't think much about it. Then, when I checked the status a second time, it gave me the same message about recalibrating. I believe this occurred Wednesday. So, I decided I'd just wait until I got home for my holiday break yesterday, Sunday, to recalibrate. Well, last night while I was reading my e-mail offline, I received the "battery is critical message". While I was in the process of plugging in and connecting the AC adapter, the MP tried to do a reset or something. It beeped at me, and when I plugged in the AC adapter, it reset, and I had to fix the clock. I then went to the support information mode, and hit r to start recalibration. My unit began to talk... something about discharging the battery. I began this process at 9:30 PM eastern time. When I woke up this morning at 7:30 AM, I checked it, and it said something about cycle 2. I'm just wondering what is happening here. How long should I let my MP do its thing while recalibrating? It just keeps discharging and then charging again, then it starts all over. Right now I'm connected via the AC adapter so I can write this message and everything, but I'm just concerned about this issue! Another note, when I enter the support information mode and press a, the message displays "gauge is not accurate, error plus or minus 100 percent". What's the deal here? Thanks everyone. Katie ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
