Hi Dean,
Thanks I read that and forgot to save it, so I'll go to the
archives and get it.
Thanks,
Stacey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:43:12 +1300
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] battery is critical
Hi Stacey,
I also sent some information to the list about a week ago
regarding new
commands in the support information mode. You may want to look
at the
archives.
Regards,
Dean Jackson
Humanware
Christchurch
New Zealand.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:05 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] battery is critical
This is Joseph. The commands for Support Information
Mode can be found on the Chapter 2 of the User Guide
under battery topics and recalibrating topics. I hope
this information may help you.
p.s. I've looked on the mPower's User Guide on the
HumanWare site today. That's where I've got the
information from.
--- Stacey Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all,
Where in the manual can I find a list of all of the
support
information commands for ks 7?
Thanks,
Stacey and Amigo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List"
<[email protected]
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:58:28 -0800
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] battery is critical
i Les,
I'm assuming you have keysoft 7 because I can't
remember all the
commands for ks6.2. <grin.
The g is okay. What that does is really the same
as the r
command except that it creates a log of the
calibration cycle and
places it in the root directory of
the keysoft disk. It's a text file and will have
something like
"xxxx battery calibation log.txt" where xxxxx is
your serial
number. It's really only useful to tech
support and frankly it makes very boring reading.
<grin
So, you can just complete the calibration cycle and
then simply
delete that log if you like.
Normally, you really can use the r command since
you don't need a
log of the process anyway but it certainly won't
hurt anything.
Don
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:48:51 -0500, Les Kriegler
wrote:
Hi Don,
Thanks for this helpful message. I was using my
mPower and the
battery
seemed to be discharging more slowly since
upgrading to KS 7. I
keep speech
off most of the time and thought that would be the
reason. Now,
yesterday,
my battery was at 38%, and today, it was down to 8%
and the
battery low
message was displayed. I figured that it shouldn't
have dropped
that much,
as I had no cards in the unit, and my usage wasn't
indicating
that a 30% in
one day should have occurred. So I figured time
for Calibration.
AS I
haven't done this before, I went into Support Mode
and typed
Letter G and
the message you referenced regarding the initial
charge was
displayed.
Should I abort the process, since I obviously
didn't hit letter
R? Thanks.
Best Regards,
Les
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Don
Bishop
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:35 PM
To: Braillenote List
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] battery is critical
If you want to calibrate your battery gauge, do
the following.
Note that
the battery itself is really not effected, but
rather the gauge
within the
MPower which determines when battery warning
messages should be
sent out and
also tracks the percentage of battery charge. It
helps to put
the software
mechanism in the MPower in sync with what is
actually happening
related to
the physical battery charge.
First, use your MPower until your battery registers
below 80
percent. This
will insure that the calibration process starts
with the unit
charging at a
full charger
rate rather than trickle charging. Actually, you
can do this if
the battery
is around 90 percent, but 80 percent gives a bit
more chance to
be sure the
battery is charging. If you start the process with
too high a
percentage of
battery capacity, the initial charge part of the
process can take
nearly
forever.
2. To actually start the calibration process, from
the main
menu, press
space with o on the bt or function with o on the
qt to get into
the options
menu.
3. Enter support mode with space with i on the bt
or read with i
on the qt.
4. Make sure your ac adapter is plugged into an
electrical
outlet
and into the MPower.
5. Press dots 1 2 3 5 on the bt or the letter r on
the qt to
start the
process.
You should see a message on your braille display
which says "
battery
calibration I'm charging up my battery!" And there
may be more
to this
message but this is the gist of it.
Once the battery is fully charged the discharge
cycle will begin.
Speech
will be switched on and you hear the message "I'm
talking until
my battery
goes flat", etc. It's a good idea to put the
MPower somewhere so
this
repeated message won't bother you as it will
continue for many
hours. A
good way to deal with this is to turn up the MPower
volume to 32
and then
plug earphones into the earphone jack of the unit.
This will
also help to
speed up the discharge process. You may be able to
speed it up
further by
playing the repeated message through the speaker
but it may be at
the price
of your sanity and the good will of your family.
Once the battery is fully dicsharged, a second
charging sequence
will start.
There will be no continuous speech during this
charge.
Once the final charging is complete, you should see
a message
saying that
the calibration is complete.
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