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Haywards_Heathen · 01-03-2010, 07:58 AM

Hi All,

My first post on this forum

I got my PRS-600 on Xmas day and had my first and so only lock-up on New Years day.

It had been connected to my PC. I updated the Reader Library software and organised my books into more logical collections. I synced the reader then disconnected from the Reader software. When I unplugged USB cable, the PRS-600 display said Re-starting please wait.. I waited 10 mins then assuming it has locked-up I pressed the reset button. This caused to reader to re-start and then just display "Opening Book...."

Nothing I did by way resets and powering-on seemed to do anything except cause the LED to flash.

In the end after lots of cursing I managed to recover it by piecing together advice from posts from a number of forums.

I got it to re-start and clear the screen by pushing the Reset button, then flicking the power switch 3 times. However, when I powered it on again it still just showed the "Opening book..." message so I did a hard reset by following the advice in this post from Sony http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/d...nalId=C1006375
btw you press the "home" key to select "yes"

The hard-reset wipes all content and restores the reader to its factory configuration. At this point I was able to re-calibrate the display and then re-load all my books.

Up until then I'd been really impressed. The PRS-600 is really nice to hold and the screen is easy to read. The Internet seems to be littered with tales of Sony eReaders locking up :-( Hope Sony releases a software update soon to fix these problems..

01-03-2010, 07:58 AM	#42
Haywards_Heathen Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Haywards Heath, UK Device: PRS-600	Hi All, My first post on this forum I got my PRS-600 on Xmas day and had my first and so only lock-up on New Years day. It had been connected to my PC. I updated the Reader Library software and organised my books into more logical collections. I synced the reader then disconnected from the Reader software. When I unplugged USB cable, the PRS-600 display said Re-starting please wait.. I waited 10 mins then assuming it has locked-up I pressed the reset button. This caused to reader to re-start and then just display "Opening Book...." Nothing I did by way resets and powering-on seemed to do anything except cause the LED to flash. In the end after lots of cursing I managed to recover it by piecing together advice from posts from a number of forums. I got it to re-start and clear the screen by pushing the Reset button, then flicking the power switch 3 times. However, when I powered it on again it still just showed the "Opening book..." message so I did a hard reset by following the advice in this post from Sony http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/d...nalId=C1006375 btw you press the "home" key to select "yes" The hard-reset wipes all content and restores the reader to its factory configuration. At this point I was able to re-calibrate the display and then re-load all my books. Up until then I'd been really impressed. The PRS-600 is really nice to hold and the screen is easy to read. The Internet seems to be littered with tales of Sony eReaders locking up :-( Hope Sony releases a software update soon to fix these problems..