James. I am not Jonathan, but I wanted to jump in here. I don't want you to
get paranoid about the battery in the MPower and whether you should
purchase one for yourself or your partner.
Of course you should and as soon as possible. The MPower just drains a bit
faster than the bn classic does. Even the bn classic loses five percent or
so of its power per day due to the clock, etc.
The MPower loses more, in my case, up to ten percent per day. Not really a
problem. I just charge it every five to seven days instead of eight or nine
days. You are really going to be quite thrilled with this unit even to the
point of using it instead of your computer when you can't be near your
computer.
So, go for it<grin>.
At 9/14/2005, you wrote:
Hi Jonathon,
I'm not trying to be rude or in polite etc, but what will happen to thos of
us who are considering buying M power (like myself and my partner), if the
problem persists? I assume we will have to send our units away to the UK
offices, but is there any possibility of being issued with replacement
models if this is the case?
Onece again not trying to be rude just wondering
All the Best and keep up to good work
James
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Hi Paul, the behaviour you are reporting is definitely not typical, but it
is happening for a few of our customers. We're spending a great deal of
time doing analysis to find out why some units are experiencing this, and
we will get this resolved. We have our theories as to what is happening,
but it's not really helpful for me to post what would only be educated
speculation at this time. Typically, you can turn off the mPower and the
battery is likely to stay at about the same percentage level overnight. The
issues with the level indicator are also being investigated. Plenty of
resource is being allocated to this investigation, and I've no doubt we'll
get to the bottom of it. To those mPower early adopters who are
experiencing some issues, our apologies and we appreciate your patience.
Most of you will already have had private email from us as we collect as
much data as we can. For a brand new piece of hardware, things are going
really well overall, and we will iron out this wrinkle that is present on
some units.
Thanks,
Jonathan Mosen
BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager
HumanWare
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Once mine got to nine percent, it stayed there for 24 hours. I was able to
read probably eight more chapters of my book and in the end, I used the mp3
player to get it to go dead. With the MPower, once it gets to nine percent,
it never goes lower; so you really have no idea how much of a charge you
have left until you get the battery critical message. It took me quite a
while to get the battery critical message.
At 9/12/2005, you wrote:
>Some one told me theirs was at 84 percent then dropped to 79 percent the
>next morning.
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>Hi, Pam. What I am interested in with MPower users is how much does
>their
>battery drain when they don't use the unit? Mine is at nine percent, so
>I
>assume I will bet the messsage and then I will be able to charge it. I
>wonder if it is the new memory chip and the alarm in combination that
>drains the battery more than with the classic bn's.
>At 9/12/2005, you wrote:
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> >Definitely still a concern here too. This last time I got a "battery
> >low" warning at nine percent which was fine. But then about a minute
> >later it completely died. I plugged it in. It was still at eight
> >percent. I also had to reset the time and date.
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