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Kent Walters · 10-14-2009, 11:53 PM

Shaggy, All,

No, I don’t know, either; as I’ve said elsewhere, I had been leaving the DR plugged in whenever possible, and have been doing that since just after I bought it in February; periodic efforts otherwise proved futile, for whatever reasons. In 1.6 I was still having trouble with it not being charged after a night on the charger (a bug, I know--if it were hardware, I don’t think the DR would work at all). Anyway, tonight at 7:00 PM (24 hours later) The DR’s power button did not respond (shutdown bug?), so I plugged it in to power up. It showed 84% charge, so at least the power drain while off issue seems to be gone, or at least reduced to a more reasonable (to me) level.

This, of course brings us back to curbarthedog’s original suggestion in this thread--at least for rousing a comatose DR--and I have another idea to incorporate that, and save wear and tear on the USB socket. I’ll work it out first, but I’m thinking that I might just go ahead and install a switch, anyway.

[EDIT: Removed erroneous information--see below. KW]

‘Nuff fer now,
Kent Walters

10-14-2009, 11:53 PM	#25
Kent Walters Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 92 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Northern California, USA Device: iRex DR1000S, Astak EZreader (Hanlin V3)	Shaggy, All, No, I don’t know, either; as I’ve said elsewhere, I had been leaving the DR plugged in whenever possible, and have been doing that since just after I bought it in February; periodic efforts otherwise proved futile, for whatever reasons. In 1.6 I was still having trouble with it not being charged after a night on the charger (a bug, I know--if it were hardware, I don’t think the DR would work at all). Anyway, tonight at 7:00 PM (24 hours later) The DR’s power button did not respond (shutdown bug?), so I plugged it in to power up. It showed 84% charge, so at least the power drain while off issue seems to be gone, or at least reduced to a more reasonable (to me) level. This, of course brings us back to curbarthedog’s original suggestion in this thread--at least for rousing a comatose DR--and I have another idea to incorporate that, and save wear and tear on the USB socket. I’ll work it out first, but I’m thinking that I might just go ahead and install a switch, anyway. [EDIT: Removed erroneous information--see below. KW] ‘Nuff fer now, Kent Walters Last edited by Kent Walters; 10-18-2009 at 10:26 PM.