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Old 12-26-2008, 02:46 PM   #1
kf6gpe
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Device: PRS-700
PRS-700 crash whilst reformatting (anyone else observed this?)

Greetings, all! I recently got a PRS 700 and am loving the thing.

I'm trying to track down the root cause of a crash I've seen twice, though, and curious if anyone else has seen it.

In repaginating news dowloaded by Calibre (once New York Times, once the Economist), the unit stops repaginating and hangs. The e--ink display doesn't change, just as if the battery was dead, and pressing reset doesn't do anything. Plugging the unit into a live USB port causes the device to restart with the USB screen after about ten minutes.

I'd think that it was a low battery issue, except that in both cases the battery was fully charged. ISearching the forums here pointed to similar behavior of PRS 505's with low battery).

Anyway, if anyone else sees similar behavior, it'd be good to know what causes it, so that I can avoid it. It's a bummer to get on the train in the morning and have nothing to read!
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