Familiar crash

AprilHare · 09-10-2008, 10:38 PM

Hello,
Every day, I fetch news from the Sydney Morning Herald using calibre and transfer it to my PRS500, then turn it on standby. When I go to read the news ebook, the PRS500 crashes; no error messages are given. I can read anything else beforehand but it always crashes when I attempt to read the uploaded news ebook; usually during the formatting process, sometimes when I press "read now" and occasionally after reading the table of contents.
I have no idea what's going on or why.
I should add that after this crash, the PRS500 acts normally and I can read the news ebook fine. I am using calibre 0.4.83 and PRS-500/U 1.0.03.07170

kovidgoyal · 09-10-2008, 11:16 PM

It's a bug in the sony firmware. You should pester SONY to fix it.

AprilHare · 09-15-2008, 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

It's a bug in the sony firmware. You should pester SONY to fix it.

Maybe not. It crashed yesterday overnight - after force resetting it, the behaviour seems to have gone away. Thanks for replying though.
I think Sony have had enough of PRS500 firmware update requests anyway..

JSWolf · 09-15-2008, 09:38 PM

Try using eBook Library to transfer the Sydney Morning Herald to your 500. It will pre-paginate it and that may solve the problem.

AprilHare · 09-16-2008, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Try using eBook Library to transfer the Sydney Morning Herald to your 500. It will pre-paginate it and that may solve the problem.

I own a AMD64 machine and the Sony software doesn't run on that machine. I have a laptop with x86 Windows and I'd need to transfer the SMH to my laptop to do that. I understand eBook Library and calibre drivers don't like one another.
Seemed like a bit of a hassle

09-10-2008, 10:38 PM	#1
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	Familiar crash Hello, Every day, I fetch news from the Sydney Morning Herald using calibre and transfer it to my PRS500, then turn it on standby. When I go to read the news ebook, the PRS500 crashes; no error messages are given. I can read anything else beforehand but it always crashes when I attempt to read the uploaded news ebook; usually during the formatting process, sometimes when I press "read now" and occasionally after reading the table of contents. I have no idea what's going on or why. I should add that after this crash, the PRS500 acts normally and I can read the news ebook fine. I am using calibre 0.4.83 and PRS-500/U 1.0.03.07170 Last edited by AprilHare; 09-10-2008 at 10:48 PM. Reason: Addendum

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09-10-2008, 11:16 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It's a bug in the sony firmware. You should pester SONY to fix it.

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JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,786 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Try using eBook Library to transfer the Sydney Morning Herald to your 500. It will pre-paginate it and that may solve the problem.

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