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Originally Posted by TechniSol
It would be VERY helpful if they made an effort to display some sort of a heartbeat through any function requiring excessive time either onscreen or at least with the LED. It's my contention that as devices have gotten faster and faster user patience has gotten shorter and shorter -this is especially obvious when nothing appears to be happening during higher stress activities like firmware upgrades.
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I don't think that patience has diminished that much. It's more as you say the lack of an indication if it's truly working. Back in the DOS days and such, even if the screen froze during long operations as files were copied and whatnot there was the light indicating hard drive activity (and the really loud noise of the drives from those days, ahh, childhood memories). But now I have actually seen laptops with no light indicator for hard drive activity (not often but when I
do see them it bugs the hell out of me). Cell phones and tablets have nothing of the sort as is the case with ereaders.
Then we have pages that hang. When my friend first tried to buy the Aura for me (the option to buy doesn't appear where I am) the "processing" message would not disappear. We waited for overe fifteen minutes for it to process but no luck. And as web page operations are not local if it hangs there is no indication that nothing is happening (like the hard drive activity light or a task manager showing you that there is actual activity in the process you are concerned with).
So yeah, if they used the LED as a write/read indicator of the flash memory when updating firmware it'd be greatly appreciated (has anybody listed this on the feature request thread?)