Dear Maria, I am Kathy from Florida and I have recently received a Braille Note qt. Please tell me what a GPS is. I am really looking forward to gaining knowledge from those of you who know so much than I do at this point about the BN.
Thanks in advance. Kathy Davis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Kristic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: re: [Braillenote] First Day owner > Hi Nancy, > My name's Maria Kristic, and I live in upstate New York. Congratulations on getting your BrailleNote! I remember being just as excited as you are now when I got my unit over a year ago. I also have a BT, but mine's a 32-35ll. I don't have a GPS or Super Disk Drive, but I use a memory card, and I'll hopefully get a GPS soon. The BrailleNote was my first experience with a Braille display, as I'd gone from a Braille 'n Speak, so it was a pretty fun experience. Anyway, I don't know if this is what you're looking for to help you with your problem, but the BrailleNote will advise you when your battery is low by displaying a "Battery Is Low" message when you're at 10 percent. You typically have about two more hours of battery life, and when you get to about 5 percent, you'll get the "Battery is Critical" message. If convenient, charge the unit when you get the "Low" message, but if it isn't convenient, you still have battery life. Once I had forgotten to charge my unit, so ! > when I got to school in the morning and turned on my BrailleNote, I was told the battery was low. I was actually able to use the unit all day without my battery dying. Admittedly, it had gone down from 10 to 1 percent, but it still worked. Note though that, when you get the "Critical" warning, go to the Main Menu by pressing SPACE with dots 1-2-3-4-5-6 to save all your work because, although you won't lose all your data if the battery gets so flat that the BrailleNote will shut itself off and be unable to get powered up again until the AC Adapter is plugged in, you will lose the file that's open; this means that when the "Critical" message comes up, you should go to the Main Menu every once in a while, so you can avoid having a file open when the battery goes really low, like 1 percent or something. If a file was open, all you'd lose are the contents you'd put in after saving, so you won't lose all your files. Just for your information, the same thing applies if you ha! > ve to do any type of Reset; if nothing is open, you won't lose anythin > g, but if a file happens to be open, you'll just lose the contents that you hadn't saved. If I'm not using my BrailleNote for a while, I keep it on the Main Menu just in case, and every time I switch off, I make sure I'm on the Main Menu. I know the Braille 'n Speak would tell you the battery was low only when it was so low that you couldn't work with it anymore without charging after the message came up, and I don't know what the Braille Lite had, as I've never used one, but don't worry, you don't have to set anything to advise you of the battery being low because the BrailleNote will automatically advise you of this. I hope I've understood your problem correctly, and I hope this helps. If you need more help with this or anything related to your BrailleNote or the GPS or anything related to the BrailleNote, just post, and I'm sure someone on this List will try and assist you. Hope this helps. > Regards, > Maria > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: Nancy Ungar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 23:02:34 -0800 > >Subject: [Braillenote] First Day owner > > >Hi! I'm writing this in Grade 2 on my Braille Lite millennium ;" and am having some translation problems. I'm so everyxcited I just received my ,? cell Br Note with the Gps system today. I opened the box and saw all those wonderful parts of the system. I even got the super disk drie, since I use it from time to time. I'm like a little kid with a new toy. I've heardo great things about this list, and I've heard that people goet good answers from very adept users. > > > There's a lot to learn, but it seems like it'll be fairly easy. I set the timestdate, and I think the unit came fully charged. I was looking inthe starter chapter that came in Braille but saw nothing about charging it again anyway. I did an o chord and a P which told me how much usage I have, and I'm wondering if I should set a pnmeter so I'll be warned of battery usage, etcdis By the way, my name is Nancy Ungar, and I live in California. Thanks for any info and for reading my excited ramblingso ofsmilewith. > > > Nancy > > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
