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richman · 10-01-2009, 06:25 PM

Maybe if you can get the pc to recognize the reader , go to the folder where the files are for the 505 and or move all your books to your computer or create folder on desktop and put folders and everything into it, so it's saved , and you can always move it back , later. Try to empty the folders , cache, etc.
Then do a sony update.
Maybe you can do a psr customizer update, loading stuff on the card to see if you can install that way. Maybe go to dev 505 area and research there too. Hopefully, one of us will come up with what is wrong with it.
By start up screen you mean the screen that says
READER starting up.... and it stays just at that screen, mine stays on that screen from cold start for about 25 seconds. Seems like the reader is not seeing a file or something. Maybe prs customizer is way to load on stuff, maybe not, but it is worth a try.
You don't have a SD card in the unit do you? If you do , maybe take it out to see if that changes anything.
Did you ever hack the unit?

10-01-2009, 06:25 PM	#29
richman Addict Posts: 269 Karma: 58 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: sony prs-505 BLUE,itouch,netbook	Maybe if you can get the pc to recognize the reader , go to the folder where the files are for the 505 and or move all your books to your computer or create folder on desktop and put folders and everything into it, so it's saved , and you can always move it back , later. Try to empty the folders , cache, etc. Then do a sony update. Maybe you can do a psr customizer update, loading stuff on the card to see if you can install that way. Maybe go to dev 505 area and research there too. Hopefully, one of us will come up with what is wrong with it. By start up screen you mean the screen that says READER starting up.... and it stays just at that screen, mine stays on that screen from cold start for about 25 seconds. Seems like the reader is not seeing a file or something. Maybe prs customizer is way to load on stuff, maybe not, but it is worth a try. You don't have a SD card in the unit do you? If you do , maybe take it out to see if that changes anything. Did you ever hack the unit? Last edited by richman; 10-01-2009 at 06:29 PM.