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Originally Posted by ElaHuguet
Hehehe...
Apparently, when you first receive the iLiad, the battery indicator isn't totally reliable, until after the first charge.
And ah! for Spanish hours, lol, at 6.30pm everything is open here ('cept banks and public admin/government offices).  Hope you're lucky. |
Well, it's good news! I found a tourist shop in The Rocks (which is an area near the harbour and a favourite tourist haunt) that had an adapter that let me plug the European connector into my local socket.
Got it home, plugged it in and the LED came on red ... yippee!
I let it charge for a few minutes and pressed the power button. Sure enough, it booted fine and the content I'd been copying via the USB cable when it died was on there.
So, a happy ending :-).
I'll let it fully charge now before I connect to iRDS, grab the latest software and have a serious play with it.
Re the terrible shopping hours, yes here in Sydney, most shops close around 5pm. We only have one night a week (Thursday) where shops stay open later ... we called it "late night shopping" ... and, even then, it's only until 9pm.
Oh well, as I say, at least I was able to find what I needed. Good luck it was the kind of thing a visitor to Australia would need, otherwise I'd have to wait until tomorrow to enjoy my fantastic new gadget!