Hi Jonathan! I still have my loner bn, but think I will soon geg my tramsplant with my very old bn to a new mPower. This question about calibration then, is about both the loner bn and the mPower. Do you have to have the volume on the speech high to make the battery drain faster during the "talking until my battery is flat" thing or can you turn it way down so that, for example, if you're doing it at night, you don't wake up other people in the house? Is there a way to really speed up the process so the battery drains really really fast so you can start charging and use the unit more quickly?
Thanks for the help Jonathan and list. Richard, waiting for the mPower! > ----- Original Message ----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:58:41 -0500 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] mPower battery issues, please help! >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 >___ >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
