Alana:
It sounds like the back plane on the Braille display must have got
damaged a bit. Do you recall having dropped it, or having had it fall
off a table, or collide with something by accident? I know symptoms
really well, I'm afraid; and once it starts to do that, all you can do
is send it back to the manufacturer or vendor for servicing and repair.
I'm sorry to have to tell you such bad news ... it's not a cheap fix.
Rebecca
Alana Jovanovski wrote:
Hi List,
Can anyone please tell me what is possiblely going on with my braille display?
Tonight I turned on my Bn and the Bn said,
"Main menu."
I pressed a thumb key by accident and the Bn said,
"Wordprocessor."
I had both speech and the display on at the same time. The braille display had all these symbols for the
grade 2 contraction "For." I kept pressing the thumb key (which was the advance key) and checked
the display. Sometimes the display was ok. I turned the Bn off, then on again. The display said "Main
menu." I pressed the advanced thumb key again to see what would happen with the display. I had a dot 4
and w as part of the word "Wordprocessor."
Instead of the letter p appearing on the display I had an m appearing on the display. The interesting thing
was that the dot 3 on the m was going down so I had dots 1-4 and the rest of the word
"wordprocessor" on the displayddI hope I am making sense here. I gave it a reset. That didn't fix
the problem. Actually, I gave the display a clean with a dry cloth before I pressed the reset button. I
tried a 1-2-3 reset, but that didn't work either. Next I tried a 4-5-6 reset. That also didn't work. I
tried to exercise the display. The display didn't exercise properly because the cs didn't come up. Instead
dots 1 to 6 were up. I went back to the main menu. I turned the Bn off, then on again. When I pressed the
advance thumb key again the speech said "wordprocessor" and the the grade 2 contraction for the
word "for" came up again. The cells were in some groups and the groups were gapped. Amongst these
cells were some qs I think.
I turned the braille display on and off. I also turned the unit off and on. I went to
the item wordprocessor. This time I had the grade 2 st symbol instead of the dots 4-5 as
part of the word "wordprocessor." I waited to find out what would happen.
After what seemed like a few seconds the dot 3 of that symbol went down and I was left
with the dot 4 as part of that word. This time I turned the Bn off for a few minutes (i
think) and tried it again. I think I still had a few problems. For now the display
works, but I just wanted to know what was going on. The problem I have described above,
has been experienced in all of the cells on the display.
I appreciate any help anyone can give on this matter.
Thanks,
Alana
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