iLiad go-slow

carandol · 03-10-2008, 12:20 PM

I'm having an odd intermittent problem with my (1 month old) iLiad, and wondered whether anyone else had this problem. Sometimes when I switch it on, everything's fine, and stays fine all day. Other times it starts fine, but when its been on for a while it starts to go slowly. It's fine reading a book, but loading a book to read takes 30-40 seconds for a book that should take no more than 10. The light flashes for ages before the progress bars on the screen come up. It also takes ages to quit the book. When it gets like this, the only way to get out of it is to reboot, and usually in this state it won't actually switch off -- it will get as far as the closing down message, or even as far as blanking the screen, but the green light doesn't go off, and I have to press the reset button. I only started noticing it after I got a CF card, but I would have thought it that were causing the problem it would do it all the time.

carandol · 03-10-2008, 03:57 PM

Damn. Seems like this might well be caused by a faulty CF card, I've discovered that about 100 of my books have disappeared!

Not only that, but they must have disappeared before I did the last backup, which means I'm going to have to chase them all back to the websites I found them on in the first place.

I'm going to try reformatting the CF card, and see if that makes it behave itself; I've only had it a week, so it should be working.

03-10-2008, 12:20 PM	#1
carandol Evangelist Posts: 423 Karma: 2153430 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: BeBook	iLiad go-slow I'm having an odd intermittent problem with my (1 month old) iLiad, and wondered whether anyone else had this problem. Sometimes when I switch it on, everything's fine, and stays fine all day. Other times it starts fine, but when its been on for a while it starts to go slowly. It's fine reading a book, but loading a book to read takes 30-40 seconds for a book that should take no more than 10. The light flashes for ages before the progress bars on the screen come up. It also takes ages to quit the book. When it gets like this, the only way to get out of it is to reboot, and usually in this state it won't actually switch off -- it will get as far as the closing down message, or even as far as blanking the screen, but the green light doesn't go off, and I have to press the reset button. I only started noticing it after I got a CF card, but I would have thought it that were causing the problem it would do it all the time.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
PRS-600 Slow-down	lininjim	Sony Reader	3	07-06-2010 09:13 AM
calibre - very slow conversion, very slow on PRS	cremofix	Calibre	3	06-10-2009 04:21 PM
iLiad Extremely Slow	jasem200	iRex	1	04-16-2008 05:55 PM
My Iliad seems slow	cybernet	iRex	4	04-16-2008 01:14 PM
iRex iLiad reader too slow for "live" websites	Alexander Turcic	iRex	24	06-07-2006 07:58 AM

03-10-2008, 03:57 PM	#2
carandol Evangelist Posts: 423 Karma: 2153430 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: BeBook	Damn. Seems like this might well be caused by a faulty CF card, I've discovered that about 100 of my books have disappeared! Not only that, but they must have disappeared before I did the last backup, which means I'm going to have to chase them all back to the websites I found them on in the first place. I'm going to try reformatting the CF card, and see if that makes it behave itself; I've only had it a week, so it should be working.

Advert