Hi Carol
One thing I noticed about the battery was that in checking the battery
level, it told me it was at 55% at one point. The next time I checked
it, though, it said it couldn't give me a percentage. It was very soon
after I got the 55% reading. I used it for a long time after that,
thinking I'd get the low battery warning, but I didn't. When I did get
the low battery warning, I was only able to read l-o-w b-a-t... before
it went flat. So I'd say I had no warning of the flat status.
But it just occurred to me that somewhere, either on this list or
elsewhere, I seem to remember hearing that it would take a few charges
and discharges for the battery to behave. I wonder if I'm imagining
that or if there's any truth to that.
Jean
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From: "Carol Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 10:10 AM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] problem turning on mPower
Jean, I think that is what is supposed to happen and is probably OK with
yours. With mine we aren't going down to the last 10% or nothing like
it. Again, though, we are crashing either immediately after "Battery
Low" or very, very soon afterwards.
I'd certainly wait for some directive if I were you. Glad you're happy
enough as things stand.
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:25 PM
To: Braillenote List
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] problem turning on mPower
Okay, Carol. It said in the User Guide that the battery was already
calibrated at the factory, and when I used space with I and then A it
said the calibration was accurate. Does that Accurate then mean
nothing? It did work for a long time before going flat which impressed
me, but I didn't get the low battery warning I was expecting.
But thanks to Dean, I am back up and running. Oh, I got the impression
that the machine automatically did the calibration, and that the only
time it would be necessary to manually calibrate it was as the battery
aged. Are you saying differently?
Jean
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From: "Carol Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:01 AM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] problem turning on mPower
No, you did nothing wrong, Jean. We've been through this with our
mPower. I won't write more on list apart from to say that Dean is
getting it sorted.
We haven't yet lost anything but have had to use the reset Dean
suggested almost every time. The next step for you may well be to
calibrate your battery, but by all means wait for instruction from Dean
if you wish. A few of us found that you need to get your battery down
to about 90% before starting to calibrate. Somehow we didn't get it to
work with a "supposedly full" battery.
Hope this helps a little.
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Carol
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Menzies
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 11:53 PM
To: Braille Note list
Subject: [Braillenote] problem turning on mPower
I've had my Mpower BT for three days now and have my first unsolvable
problem.
When I first unpacked it, I plugged in the AC adapter and let it charge
until it said 100%. Then I removed the charger and have been using it
while reading the built-in User Guide and experimenting with the Word
Processor. Based on what I had read on the battery, I thought I would
get a Low Battery warning and then a Critical Battery warning before the
unit went flat. However, I was reading something and the Low Battery
warning popped up and then the unit immediately seemed to shut down. The
display faded and there was nothing. I did shut it off at that point.
Then I plugged in the AC adapter but the unit did not come back to life.
I waited a while, turned the switch to off and back on, but still
nothing. I tried the reset button on the left. Then I tried pressing
dots 4-5-6 and pressing reset. Still nothing.
Did I really do something wrong here?
Jean
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