In which I’m fucking bummed.
Microsoft Reader killed my Pocket PC!
A few weeks ago, Sin gave me some ebooks. Several were in MS Reader format.
I loaded one onto my PPC Saturday, then opened Reader to see if the newly-loaded ebook showed in the library. It didn’t, and Reader had the audacity to tell me it wasn’t activated. (I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to ‘activate’ Reader. It’s a total pain in the ass.)
So I navigated to the ebook and double-clicked on it.
Reader booted… and hanged. And hanged.
And hanged.
So I reset the device, which has worked in the past.
But not this time, boy howdy! Now the device itself won’t boot. It’s hosed. And it had my checkbook register on it, which I haven’t backed up in almost two months.
So I have a useless PPC, and no idea how much money I have. Grr.
Bread told me to go online today and shop for a new one. He wants me to print them out and show them to him, for some reason. (I think perhaps he actually listened when I told him he had to start giving a shit about my hobbies or I’d poison his meatloaf for real this time. Old dog, new tricks and all that.)
Update: I think I might get a Dell Axim, even if Dell is about to retire the line. It’s either that or an HP iPaq. Most PDA manufacturers are heading into the Windows Mobile market, and I don’t want a cell phone/PDA combo. *sigh*
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(hehe re: meatloaf poisoning)
so with your checkbook register unavailable, you have no excuse to get The PocketPC You Want. because if you don’t know how much money you [don’t] have, it doesn’t count.
do they come in pink?
Before you toss it, try a reinit. You’ll lose any data on the machine and it will go back to factory state.
Good luck.
—– From Toshiba
Initializing:
When you initialize your Toshiba Pocket PC, it returns to the status when it was purchased. Also known as a hard reset.
Important note: When you initialize your Pocket PC, all data stored in the memory is deleted. Your Pocket PC’s initially installed programs are not deleted. Before initialization, remove all storage cards.
1. Turn off the power.
2. Press the power button while pressing and holding the reset switch with the stylus, and then release the power button.
3. When a screen appears, release the reset switch. When initialization is completed, the Welcome screen appears. Set up the system according to the screen as in the case of startup procedure.
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Yeah, I know. *sigh* I just don’t wanna. -m
I use an Axim myself. For what it’s worth, I got my first (and only) PPC in 2003, and it’s been working almost perfectly ever since. The only annoyance is that the stylus-holder gets loose after a while.
But you like the Axim, then? -m
Dig. Never quite got the PDA thing … but getting a smartphone was a revelation 🙂 I hope you get your data back… maybe there’s an engineering mode where you can access data without booting into WinCE. My phone let’s you do it by holding down the power button while plugging in the USB for sync. Then you can use a terminal emulator over USB to run commands in a tiny command line…