Thread: Sony PRS-500 going back to the service center after upgrade
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Old 04-08-2010, 11:50 AM   #96
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Device: Sony PRS-500 (RIP); PRS-600 (Good Riddance); PRS-505; PRS-650; PRS-350
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Originally Posted by John Brewster View Post
I sent my PRS-500 in on Wednesday, 3/24/2010 via UPS overnight. It was back at my home on Wednesday, 3/31/2010.

I am very happy with the repair! It is now Wednesday, 4/7/2010, and I have not charged it up again. The PRS-500 is still going strong after 1 week, over 1,000 pages & the formatting 3 books to Small font then to Medium font.

However, there was a couple moment of concern on the day I got it back. I turned it on and got a “battery low” warning. I turned it off and put it on the wall charger. After it was fully charged I turned it on again. It must have been placed on “reset” at the Sony repair facility, as it took 4-6 minutes to boot up. By the time I had gone into and formatted the book it was on, the battery meter had dropped to ¾ full. I decided to not recharge it until it dropped lower. It has been a week and the battery meter is still at ¾ charge, i.e. not even a ¼ drop in 1 full week.
Mine went back Tuesday.

These are pretty solid improvements. I was reading an 800 page (at Medium) book, and recharged 3 times!

And, when it first formatted the book upon copy, I'd lose a bar immediately.

The Reader software used to pre-format, but for some reason now it leaves it entirely up to the Reader. For the PRS-500, this is a major loss, as the reformatting takes quite a while, and if you cycle through font sizes, you get formatted 3x! I can see the PRS-600 burning through this in a few seconds, but the 500 isn't nearly as up to the task.

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