Bought Sony PRS-950--Has issues--Fixable?
I chose a PRS-950 intentionally for its feature set. I bought one on ebay, it mostly works. I need to decide if issues I notice can be fixed, else may want to return it. Here are 3 issues that bug me so far.
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1. Sleep mode seems to hang it sometimes
Twice in two days of slight use it has failed to wake from Sleep by sliding the power slider. I have had to use soft reset.
Is there a trick to waking the 950 from auto-Sleep mode?
After soft reset, I notice this:
- the reader appears to boot from scratch (it goes to the "Opening book" screen, I'm not sure if that is normal after Sleep)
- the wifi password for my home network has been erased
Probably other stuff's getting reset, also, but I'm too much a novice to see.
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2. Many annoying messages about problems with website security certificates.
I understand that such messages are routine and ubiquitous.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell the 950 to always ignore them.
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3. Failed downloading an ebook from my library
(Berkeley Public - they seem to know what they're doing w/r/t ebooks, so likely not their fault)
There are two cards in the top of the reader and both appear to be well-seated.
Here is part of the error message after starting a download.
status: 6
task status code: -197
path: undefined
Above this in the error message it mentioned a parameter that appears to be path-related:
dir:{"/Data/database/media/downloads/"}
==> I should mention, I used Calibre successfully to put several books onto the 950's Main memory. Was able to read one okay.
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Thanks for any insights about used Sony 950.
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