[DennisR]

I have had my 505 for about a month now and had no issues. Yesterday I turned it on and hit "resume reading" on my current book. It paused and the screen went a little funky on me, but finally went to the last read page. I read that page and hit the page turn button, and nothing happenned. I then just turned the power off and tried to turn it back on, but no joy.

I had not charged the battery for a couple days, but it was fully charged less than 3 days ago and seen little use so that should not be an issue. I have the AC adapter and usually just plug it in when I go to bed at night.

Okay -- fine, lets just do a reset via the magic button on the back. No joy again. After reading this forum a bit I plugged it in and let it charge for a couple of hours, then tried all above with no success, but now it comes up and says "Updating Firmware now". I left it that way overnight, and it still says that next morning. If I unplug it from AC or computer and hit reset button, it says, "Starting up....", then flashes back to that "Updating Firmware now ...." screen and stays there. The yellow indicator light on the top left is flashing a steady pattern, but like I said, I left it there all night long with no change.

If I connect it to the computer (Vista laptop), I get the little plug nd play tone, and a Windows Explorer window starts up and shows a single file called "Protected". In the eBook Library software, the Reader icon just says "Error" beside it.

Okay, so if I have it plugged into the computer and it says "Updating firmware now"....", and I then unplug from the computer, it quickly then says "Firmware update did not complete successfully. Please try again." The yellow light then stays flashing until I hit reset again, which turns the yellow light off. I can then hit the power button, the light goes solid yellow, device says "Starting up...", and the cycle starts up again.

So..., I am bricked. I have no idea why it is trying a firmware update, I certainly never started one. So is it automatic? I see nothing about an update being issued. I am dead in the water at this point. Is there a hard reset somehow that will reset it back to factory state? I have all my books I have bought on my computer still (by the way, I only had about 15 on the device).

Thank for any insight!

Dennis