Hi Carol: I've not seen the MPower, but I'll tell you what is strange to me. Generally, a battery will have a "battery low" at around 3 to 13 percent. I say it like that, because everyone's machine has it's own personality. However, it used to be at about 3 percent. Even at the "battery low" point, you should be able to work a couple of hours. I would have a hard time believing the battery gauge would be inaccurate, since you just got it. Generally, when you shut down totally, it's after the "battery critical" reading. I'm just really surprised.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Samuel Joehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:21:48 -0700 (PDT) >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] CRASHES, RESETS AND RECOVERY >Hi Carol, >When your battery is not completely flat, you should hear and see a mesage >that says "ac adaptor on" when the BN is receiving power from the charger. As >far as resets are concerned, they are covered thoroughly in Appendix C of the >manual, "troubleshooting." Here's a simplified explanation of what you lose: >Software reset (no keys held down): no files or settings, except maybe some >defaults at various prompts >If a file or E-mail is still open and you have not saved it by exiting, you >will lose the file or any changes you made to it. >1-2-3 reset: simply runs the original version of KeySoft that is burnt into >your KeySoft system disk. The data you lose is the same as the soft reset. >Hard reset (re-initialize): Anything in the BrailleNote's memory will be >re-initialized. Date and time settings are lost. All files on the Keysoft >system disk that were saved by you are lost. No files on the flash disk are >lost. >Hope this helps to some degree. >Best, >Sam >Carol Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, >Well, it had to happen to us, just three days after our BrailleNote >arrived, after considerable use, the battery went down to a "Battery >Low" state as we were reading an item from the manual . . .. (That was >the first time we'd heard it.) Within a second or two, we heard a >strange noise (a little like the speech skating across the text) and >then everything went dead. We plugged in the power, left it for a >little while but still we heard no message. . . .. We tried all three >resets. NOTHING! I tried a couple more times - with no response . . .. >Then we both left it for a while, to think what we wanted to do next. >Mike decided to plug in the power cord again. This time he wiggled it >about in the socket a little, well, pushed it in rather firmly - there >was a beep and things sprang back into life! >This isn't quite what we expected to happen at the first "Battery low" >warning, but we're not particularly bothered and only glad that we don't >have to send it back, as we had envisaged. Now for some questions: >1) As we had the "Help" open at the time, are we likely to have >lost anything vital, or will the "resets" have fixed that? >2) I'd be grateful for a further explanation of these resets - what >each one actually does by way of restoration and what we stand to lose >when using them. (I find I haven't taken in the manual explanation on >this one.) >Finally, when the battery begins to go down again, are there any steps >we should follow that perhaps we missed out on this time around? >We're just so glad our mPower is "empowered again" (excuse the pun)! >-- >Carol >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >___ >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 >___ >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
