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paranormal · 11-03-2011, 08:53 PM

Hello everyone.

Long time-lurker, first time poster and I'm hoping y'all can help. My friend got a Sony PRS-505 reader as a gift (second-hand) last Christmas. It never had a memory card, only books on the internal memory. A couple of months ago, she wanted me to upload some books for her so I did but I ran out of room so she bought a memory card. All was well for a while until I added some more books for her this past week and now her reader is going all funky.

After uploading the books and disconnecting the machine from the computer, the ereader shows the little spinning arrow indicating it's trying to upload, it does this for a minute or so, then shuts off and automatically starts up again (without anyone hitting the power button) and goes on this continuous loop of the spinning arrows, shut down and restart. If you remove the memory card, the cycle going nowhere stops and the reader stays on, just with no books.

We thought it could be her memory card because when I took it out of her machine and put it in mine (Aluratek), my reader didn't read it and it's a generic memory card, not the special Sony one you can get. So she bought a new one today and the same thing is happening.

A little bit of a history on this machine. Apparently my friend (who's laptop screen is shot) bought a wall adapter to plug in a USB cord and used it to charge her reader. After a while, either the voltage wasn't right because the reader the screen started looking odd and the device was quite warm to the touch.

At first it didn't want to turn on but she left it a week and it did start to work again, but her battery life was no longer good (she read on Sony somewhere I think, that if you're charging the reader and your computer goes in standby, it stops charging and actually drains the battery and ruins it???).

Just wondering if anyone has gotten the same memory card reader issue, or if this could be a by-product of possibly cooking the device using an alternate charging method?

11-03-2011, 08:53 PM	#1
paranormal Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 110 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Aluratek Libre Pro	Sony PRS-505 not reading memory card Hello everyone. Long time-lurker, first time poster and I'm hoping y'all can help. My friend got a Sony PRS-505 reader as a gift (second-hand) last Christmas. It never had a memory card, only books on the internal memory. A couple of months ago, she wanted me to upload some books for her so I did but I ran out of room so she bought a memory card. All was well for a while until I added some more books for her this past week and now her reader is going all funky. After uploading the books and disconnecting the machine from the computer, the ereader shows the little spinning arrow indicating it's trying to upload, it does this for a minute or so, then shuts off and automatically starts up again (without anyone hitting the power button) and goes on this continuous loop of the spinning arrows, shut down and restart. If you remove the memory card, the cycle going nowhere stops and the reader stays on, just with no books. We thought it could be her memory card because when I took it out of her machine and put it in mine (Aluratek), my reader didn't read it and it's a generic memory card, not the special Sony one you can get. So she bought a new one today and the same thing is happening. A little bit of a history on this machine. Apparently my friend (who's laptop screen is shot) bought a wall adapter to plug in a USB cord and used it to charge her reader. After a while, either the voltage wasn't right because the reader the screen started looking odd and the device was quite warm to the touch. At first it didn't want to turn on but she left it a week and it did start to work again, but her battery life was no longer good (she read on Sony somewhere I think, that if you're charging the reader and your computer goes in standby, it stops charging and actually drains the battery and ruins it???). Just wondering if anyone has gotten the same memory card reader issue, or if this could be a by-product of possibly cooking the device using an alternate charging method?