06-06-2007, 02:25 AM | #1 | |
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Sony acknowleges problem with the Reader's battery indicator
Got this announcement with my weekly Sony Connect newsletter :
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06-06-2007, 02:33 AM | #2 | |
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• Can I use eBooks that I bought from other retailers with my Sony Reader? Can I use eBooks that I bought from other retailers with my Sony Reader? Question Can I use eBooks that I bought from other retailers with my Sony Reader? Answer CONNECT eBooks is currently the only store where you can purchase books for your Sony Reader. The real answer is YES you can. Purchase LIT format books, get CLIT 1.8, break the DRM, use Book Designer or conver to HTML and use html2lrf and there you go. Sony is so full of shit sometimes. |
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06-06-2007, 07:49 AM | #3 | |
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If you raise that silly little ability to convert books into a LRF format then....er, what was the Connect store for again? Oh yes, I remember: to sell public domain books for profit and make the current publishing "push list" available for full hardback price. |
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06-06-2007, 10:19 AM | #4 |
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Speaking of the battery, I am reading a book and started with a fresh charge, I have gotten to 800 or so pages and the battery over time has gone down down down........... (I haven't had my nose in it much so it's draining even though not being used)........ Anyways, I left it on and stuck the wall unit charger in it to charge, later I walked by and saw it was still charging and so i turned the reader OFF...... later when it was all done charging I figuered I would have to remove the charger, turn it on, see the bars as still dead and plug it in again to get the bars to read correctly, well guess what, it didn't......... it was all ready and good to go this time....... That was a first.
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06-06-2007, 12:36 PM | #5 |
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How amusing that their work-around is a close variation of our own.
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06-06-2007, 12:46 PM | #6 |
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It's interesting, though, that they give a solution which they say works for USB charging; "our" method only works if you use the wall charger. I'll have to try what they suggest using USB and see if it works!
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06-06-2007, 12:52 PM | #7 |
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Now about the draining issue would be nice to solve...
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06-06-2007, 12:54 PM | #8 |
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It took them this long to admit this was a problem, the draining issue will probably take a year or two.
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06-06-2007, 02:45 PM | #9 |
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The draining issue is mostly due to the reader running the internal clock when "off", correct?
For me, the easy solution would be to just disable the clock entirely, or at least provide the option. I'm not sure what purpose it really even serves. I'd trade it for the longer battery life in a heartbeat. |
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06-06-2007, 05:40 PM | #11 | |
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You too can have such if you go to this thread... https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10900 Enjoy! Jon |
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Like above. If they dropped the clock and gave me more live would be happy. |
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What would give us more life is to put the cpu into hibernation when it's turned off and only have it polling for the power button. Besides, I think the clock may be built into something that's not shutoffable.
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I agree on the hibernation. Which is what it should be... Not clear display and sit like a lcd... |
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06-06-2007, 08:17 PM | #15 |
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Is it actively expending power to poll the power button? That seems just blatantly wasteful, when a simple switch or transistor could save that easily.
I guess if it's keeping the OS running to minimize start-up time, that's a tiny bit more reasonable, but even so I can't imagine it would be more than a few extra seconds, since resetting the thing doesn't take very long. It seems that this device might need a different power consumption paradigm since the actual operation power costs seem to be overshadowed by the standby power costs. As compared to things like iPods and the like. |
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