[Reader-users] Battery discharge without use

[Kimberly Morrow, PhD.]

I've had this happen to me on several occasions. I just know that the moment I get home, I absolutely have to plug in my Reader and leave it plugged in at home whenever I'm not using it. I've had several occasions when I reach for my reader and it's warm and won't function. Usually I can locate an outlet wherever I am and it immediately comes back to life or I can do a reset and it begins speaking again.

Kim

 [davidandloristayer at verizon.net] wrote:
Hello i had something like this happen once to me as well.  I reported it 
about a month ago.  It was after reading sojething at a Toyota dealer.  The 
reader got hot and turned off.  After about eight hours of being plugged in 
all of sudden it came back to life and has worked since.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader userlist" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: [Reader-users] Battery discharge without use


>I had a strange thing happen I've never seen before.  On Friday I
> charged my Reader.  On Saturday morning I turned the machine on
> and got the normal message and when it came to the battery status
> it said I had 5 percent.  The machine then went off and would not
> come back on.  I had an appointment and left the machine,
> reconciling myself to the fact I would need help recalibrating
> it.  When I returned home some 8 hours later, connected the
> machine to ACCORDING power, and two hours later tried to use it,
> the machine came up talking.
>
> Beyond the strangeness, I want to ask if we have made progress on
> figuring out what process continues to run during shutdown that
> will drain a battery from 100 percent to nothing over night.
> I've had this happen twice.  If there are any tests we can run to
> help isolate this, please say the word.
>
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