I brought up the possibility of getting the battery status while the Booksense is charging on this list before, but as I suspected, this isn't possible because the Booksense uses a lithium ion battery, which doesn't allow for the battery status while it's charging. None of the different devices I've used containing a lithium ion battery have had this feature. Devices containing NiMH batteries though can report the battery's status while it's charging. For example, you get this feature on the NLS DTBM which uses an NiMH battery.
-- Christopher [email protected] From: EVAN REESE [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 1:07 PM To: GW-micro Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Book Sense Wish List: (was: keypad input of desired radio frequencies) The issue is not just independent volumes for the TTS and audio. The max volume for the audio needs to be lifted. If you just get independent volumes for the two without being able to increase the volume for the audio beyond what the max is now, that won't solve the problem of NLS and RFB&D books not being loud enough. Also, I'd still like to see the equalizer in the music player, such as it is, support all the other file types the BS will play, not just mp3 files. While I'm wishing for things I have little hope of getting, I'd also like to hear what the battery level is when the unit is charging, not just that it is charging. My laptop tells me what the battery level is while it's charging, so I don't see why the BS can't do it. But I've never seen anyone else ask for this here, so I guess that won't be in an upgrade anytime soon. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom <mailto:[email protected]> To: Gary King <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] keypad input of desired radio frequencies Gary, Thanks, I could not have said it better. The TTS volume issue is a major annoyance for me and I also have been wanting to access the large volume of material from the public library that uses DRM WMA. Also, after a year the Bluetoot feature of the XT does not work properly. I must atleast daily reset the Bookscence. Plus Bluetoot controls from the Bluetoot headset should be enabled. I do wonder if GW Micro and HIMS are listening. I will not recommend the Bookscence to anyone at this point. If the fix these issues I might consider reavaluating that. A additional volume issue which a posted here and heard nothing about has to do with using the Booksscence to drive a car or home stereo. The max output from the eqrfphone jack is insofficient to properly drive a line in on devices without haveing to crank up the volue on the receiving device. This causes a problem if you accidentlay switche the home or car stereo to another source. Youe will get a blast of sound since you will have had the volue cranked up to compensate for the Bookscence low output level. Is GW Micro still monitoring this reflector/ Tom At 11:32 AM 8/17/2010, Gary King wrote: Direct entry of radio frequencies is just one more feature that should have been included from the initial release of the BookSense, along with a method of text entry for searches, renaming files, etc. The Book Port Plus has 3 different methods of entering text. After more than a year since its release, the BookSense has none. I wonder just how much programming time HIMS dedicates to the BookSense compared to their far more expensive notetakers. Will we ever see any of the features we've requested from the first, such as setting independent volume levels for the menu voice and playback and the capability of listening to Overdrive books and other DRM-protected files? Gary King [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:45 AM Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] keypad input of desired radio frequencies A period would not be necessary. It would be easy enough to ignore the decimal similar to telephone banking or using an ABM. -----Original Message----- From: Kim Lingo [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 4:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [GW-Booksense] keypad input of desired radio frequencies I've given this a little more thought, which I should have done before I sent the last message. Since there is no "period" or "point" key, perhaps that could be omitted. In other words, if you wanted 93.4, you could just put in 934. Alternatively, they could use the "number" key for the "point" key in that particular operation. Kim Lingo If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
