Well, I call it "a little worrying" rather than just something different. The reason I say this is that you cannot depend on the battery to say it's "low" and we've had a "critical" message. Once ours says "low" it's out either straight away or within a minute. We still had 49% battery the last time around and weren't thinking it would go flat when I started a short recording.
Dean, please, please can you get this addressed now. Just sending information to the engineers has got Mike and I nowhere fast. -- Carol [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ilona Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 6:09 AM To: Braillenote list 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 then) 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005
