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meerkat · 03-30-2011, 04:21 PM

I experienced 650 freeze once, the screen showing the page in read forever. and pushing reset or power/sleep button was not working (this really sucks as the reset button should really be designed to trigger a hardware level interrupt that jump the hardware program counter to well-known address to initialize the device).

My freeze is (perhaps) due to a file in reading may not totally comply with epub standard or has internal corruption that reader software does not handle oops format in a graceful way (where is the defensive programming?).

Hooking my reader to a computer via USB (not external power) , which trigger the reader going into storage mode, revived the reader (I removed the troubled file).

03-30-2011, 04:21 PM	#29
meerkat Member Posts: 18 Karma: 22522 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Bay area, CA Device: prs-650BC (was prs-600), ipad, kindle PW1,Google Nexus7 (2013)	I experienced 650 freeze once, the screen showing the page in read forever. and pushing reset or power/sleep button was not working (this really sucks as the reset button should really be designed to trigger a hardware level interrupt that jump the hardware program counter to well-known address to initialize the device). My freeze is (perhaps) due to a file in reading may not totally comply with epub standard or has internal corruption that reader software does not handle oops format in a graceful way (where is the defensive programming?). Hooking my reader to a computer via USB (not external power) , which trigger the reader going into storage mode, revived the reader (I removed the troubled file). Last edited by meerkat; 03-30-2011 at 04:27 PM.