[Berzelius]

My wife's PRS-T1 froze the other day. In the center of the screen was a largish, circular icon that I can best describe as two curved arrows chasing each others tails. It may have been revolving but, to be honest, I cannot recall whether or not it was.

Pressing the on/off button or pushing a paperclip in the small reset recess did not work. I got it working again by connecting it to a USB port on my PC.

I have 2 questions, if I may.

1) What exactly is this icon - there was no text, just the icon? In the user manual this icon is shown as indicating 'Updating database'. However, it also says that the icon would be displayed in the status bar, which was not the case here.

2) Is there any other way of recovering from this kind of freezing. The reason I ask is that we have had a similar problem of freezing a couple of times and, in each case, connecting to my PC has cured it. However, we are going on a cruise soon and I really doubt if anyone would allow some stranger to plug an unknown device into their laptop! So, what else could I try if the need arose?