Dear List: I enjoyed reading this message very much! I noticed the same word separation issues in this e-mail as a few of us have talked about in previous posts regarding 6.11 and earlier versions. It's not a bad separation, but it's a short e-mail. This does answer a question for me. Kind Regards, Rhonda Clark
>----- Original Message ----- >From: Ilona <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote list <[email protected] >Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:09:23 +0200 >Subject: [Braillenote] Battery observations,service resets and internal mic >recording level >Hi Jim, Carol, Paul and others, >Jim, you wrote that the default internal microphone recording level of 12 >doesn't work for you and you'd have to set it to 9 or lower to get anything >intelligible. I find that too (and I have no network card inserted in the >mPower that might interfere). It's not even a matter of inferior sound >quality, there's just hardly any sound at all; if I made a five second >recording there might be a one second crackle toward the end of the recording >but that would be all. So I keep it at eight or nine. >It's kind of a relief to read other people's experience with the mPower >regarding battery behaviour and service resets. Apparently it's not my unit >being faulty but it's a bit more common in these members of the BN family. >I'm not a technical person at all but I tried to find some sort of pattern in >the chain of events that might lead to a lock-up that could only be remedied >by doing a service reset (at some point I was at an average of one service >reset a day and felt this might harm the unit since this type of reset is >supposed to be the last thing to do, under strict technical supervision). So >far I haven't figured it out. Whether I have any cards inserted or not >doesn't seem to make a difference and it doesn't seem to be the time it has >been turned off that causes it to freeze like that. A few things I try to do >is make sure to return to the main menu before turning the unit off or leaving >it on and unattended for a while (it will usually go into hibernation mode the! n) and! > do a re >set or plug in the ac adapter before I turn it off for the night. Call it >superstition but it seems to help. >As for the battery, I recalibrated it once and it took about eight hours to >discharge. About a week ago when I charged it I noticed it went to 92% and >claimed it was fully charged. I unplugged the adapter then plugged it back in >and after a few seconds it said it was fast charging again (which it claimed >it was still doing when the battery power report had been at 100% for maybe >half a minute). Shouldn't it have said trickle charging? Anyway, it went to >100% as it should and I must add it usually does. I also find that once it's >under 10% you never know when it will turn itself off. The first few times I >did not get the "critical" message but now I do. It still seems to go out at >around 8% or 6% though. >Another thing I noticed is that the manual doesn't seem to cover all the >support information mode options. One that isn't covered (unless I missed it) >is the i option which used to be something like battery inaccuracy count and >is now battery cycle count. Before the value was reset after a recalibration >either a deliberate one or as a result of using the unit until it goes flat. >Now the value seems to go up and does not go back to one. At first this >surprised me because I hadn't noticed the change of the name of this option. >Now I guess it's just how it's supposed to be. >Thanks for reassuring me that this unit is not the only one experiencing these >things; I was afraid this machine might quit some day and I'd have to return >it (which I definitely do not want to do!) but now I feel confident that it's >nothing serious, just....different. *smile* >Have a great day everybody. >Kind regards, >Ilona. >___ >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
