RE: [tinspire] reset button
Bikash Jain
Regards-
Bikash Jain
-original message-
Subject: Re: [tinspire] reset button
From: Nelson Sousa <nso...@gmail.com>
Date: 27/04/2011 8:55 PM
A reset is a reboot. If you want to delete all files, delete the OS or
format all you need to go to the maintenance menu.
The fact that historically the reset would delete all data was because
variables were stored in ram. When you reboot you shut down the power
supply and all data in ram is lost. Nowadays all data is stored in non
volatile memory.
Cheers,
Nelson
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 16:12, geoffOst <geoff...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> What does the reset button on the back of the handheld actually do? I
> assumed that it would delete all files and start the handheld as if it
> were a new empty calc. But when I press reset the calc reboots and
> that's all.
>
> Is there an easy way to really reset a handheld?
>
> Geoff.
>
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Nelson Sousa
I never used the reset button. Just didn't come up. Whenever I feel
the need to reboot (which is not common), I just use the maintenance
menu. The most common situation is a botched OS upgrade and in that
situation the reset doesn't do any good either, one has to use the
maintenance menu, delete the current OS and install again.
Nelson
Andy Kemp
Jimmy Fullerenex
) and reboots itself!! This peculiar thing occurs about twice a week, I'm afraid, and doesn't disappear with every new generation of OS. I think TI should do something about it (or is it a unique problem on my part?)
Eric Findlay
About the "reset" issue, actually I'm quite irritated by the automatic reboot on my CAS handheld. (has any of you ever met a similar situation?) When I'm writing a little bit complicated program or notes, the hh sometimes suddenly interrupts my work (unsaved! <33A.gif>) and reboots itself!! This peculiar thing occurs about twice a week, I'm afraid, and doesn't disappear with every new generation of OS. I think TI should do something about it (or is it a unique problem on my part?)
Jimmy Fullerenex
Eric, my problem is a little different because the reboot occurs not always when I'm dealing with huge files. To tell the truth, just yesterday when I was working with a little quiz (only 17K in size) , the machine unhappily destroyed my work... At least the same thing has reappeared a dozen of times if my memory calls.
Andy Kemp
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Jimmy Fullerenex
Lionel Debroux
> About the "reset" issue, actually I'm quite irritated by the
> *automatic reboot* on my CAS handheld. (has any of you ever met a
> similar situation?)
> When I'm writing a little bit complicated program or notes, the hh
> sometimes suddenly interrupts my work (unsaved! [?]) and reboots
> itself!! This peculiar thing occurs about twice a week, I'm afraid,
> and doesn't disappear with every new generation of OS. I think TI
> should do something about it (or is it a unique problem on my part?)
Nope, you're not the first person reporting slowness and/or crashes when
editing documents on the Nspire...
The Nspire uses a reliable file system for Flash memory, so if your work
has entirely disappeared, the Nspire really crashed (most likely,
processor exception due to buggy code).
As Eric wrote, it _seems_ to be more frequent with larger files.
Andy: crashes can indeed be triggered by hardware problems, but it's
less likely than software problems. As pretty much any large program,
the Nspire OS is not free of bugs - besides, Ndless wouldn't exist in
the first place if it were bug-free :)
Lionel.
