Classic 1.2 unmount/eject issue

[demeulenaere]

I have the Nook, and updated it to 1.2 last night...huge improvements. Still trying to understand the wi-fi, but it looks like I can now keep it on without draining the battery really fast...

That being said, I think I may have found a defect, and wanted to know if others have experienced this too.

I plug my nook into my computer, and get that cable stating it I want to keep charging but still want to read, to unmount, or eject.

I have a windows 7 64bit laptop, and have used it multiple times before with the unmount/eject working just fine.

Since my update, I can't eject the drive...and get the nook back to be able to read. What happens is I plug it in, and see it on my windows system. I eject the drive, and it shows on windows that it has been removed. Nothing changes on the nook, and the book doesn't come back. I have to pull the plug to get the book back...not a major issue, but a surprise that this was missed by B&N QA. Seems like a standard test case.

[mgmueller]

Originally Posted by demeulenaere

I have the Nook, and updated it to 1.2 last night...huge improvements. Still trying to understand the wi-fi, but it looks like I can now keep it on without draining the battery really fast...

That being said, I think I may have found a defect, and wanted to know if others have experienced this too.

I plug my nook into my computer, and get that cable stating it I want to keep charging but still want to read, to unmount, or eject.

I have a windows 7 64bit laptop, and have used it multiple times before with the unmount/eject working just fine.

Since my update, I can't eject the drive...and get the nook back to be able to read. What happens is I plug it in, and see it on my windows system. I eject the drive, and it shows on windows that it has been removed. Nothing changes on the nook, and the book doesn't come back. I have to pull the plug to get the book back...not a major issue, but a surprise that this was missed by B&N QA. Seems like a standard test case.

In various threads, members carefully differentiate between "ejecting" and "safe remove".
"Ejecting" is in your Windows Explorer via right mouse click.
"Safe remove" is via symbol in the tray.

For some installations, i.e. softroot, they recommend eject. If I do so, I have the very same effect you describe.
So usually I do the "safe remove", which works as intended.
Just out of curiosity, after softrooting, I did both. First eject, as suggested to finalise the installation on nook. And then safe remove, to end connection to PC for sure.

[bthoven]

I'm on Winxp sp3 and Nook 1.2, eject alone still works fine and bring it out of USB mode; but I usually follow by safe remove too.

[demeulenaere]

The problem was that it wasn't ejecting, it was that I was only ejecting one of two drives. I ejected the nook drive, but forgot I had the memory card inserted. Once I ejected that all was well with the world.