Tech Help: Paladin Slowly Losing Mind

[rolanni]

Update: I went to the BN site and found out that a software update was delivered while I wasn’t paying attention. I’ve just finished downloading and installing it, and!

Paladin now knows what time it is.

Thanks to everyone who offered insight and advice.

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So, I bought my little black-and-white Nook, hight Paladin, along in about February. I like it very much and it was a real lifesaver on the summer travels.

Somewhere on the trip, it developed an. . .interesting feature. Its timekeeping got screwed up. By interesting here, I mean — it’s not just off by five minutes; or thinks I’m living in another time zone, or anything like that. It’s slowly gaining time. Right now, at what the atomic clock makes to be 9:41 a.m., Paladin swears that it’s 10:04.

That’s right, I have a digital clock that’s gaining time. I’ve tried reasserting my connection to and loyalty for the Eastern Time Zone, but this has not fixed the problem, and there’s no way to actually set the time, that I can find.

So, that’s the least annoying glitch, but, given the next, may be indicative of a larger problem.

Last night, I opened up Paladin to start a new book, and foolishly hit the “reading now” icon. And instead of taking me to the new book I wanted to open (which I knew it wouldn’t do the instant after I had pressed the icon), or to either of the two other books that I have been sporadically perusing, it opened a book that I had finished weeks ago, while we were on the train. And! It opened that book, not to the end (sometimes I don’t “finish reading” because I forget to page through to the end of the book after I’ve hit the end of the story), but to the middle.

So now I’m worried. Is Paladin in truth losing his mind? Is there anything I can do to bring him back up to line? Am I worrying unnecessarily and this is just a case of the device achieving “personality”?

Thanks in advance.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if this is related to Paladin's time problem, but our clocks have been somewhat unreliable since the electrical grid people started slacking off on maintaining rigid frequency. Both mechanical and digital clocks have been gaining time.

The time is out of joint . . .

And now you've stuck me with the theme from "Have Gun, Will Travel" in my head.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

I have a Kindle, not a Nook, but I've had a similar issue. My Kindle has a 3G wireless connection, and grabs the time everytime it connects. When I travel to Costa Rica, it can't reset the time because it can't use the Costa Rican cell phone network. If the Kindle crashes (mine does occasionally for some reason, other Kindles in the family do not), it resets the time and date to some arbitrary time in the past, whatever the Kindle's minimum date is, and then leaves it there since it can't reset from the cell phone coverage. This makes it update the last read date on anything I read to something significantly earlier than reality, which means anything I read goes to the bottom of the "most recently read" list. This state of affairs continues until I return to the US and regular cell phone connections.

This is a long-winded way of saying that your date may be screwed up as well as the time, resulting in the wrong book coming up. If it started on the trip, and assuming it has cell phone connectivity, the rapidly changing cell zones and/or lack of coverage en route might have messed it up. If you have not done so already, a hard reboot may be in order.

Um..personaility?

[psw456.livejournal.com]

My Sony reader does this sometimes - opens a book at random, I mean.

I usually just ignore it and go to where I wanted to be in the first place.

When it really gets mixed up and ornery I reset it. Does the Nook have a "reset" function.

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

Weird date/time issues and clock running at odd (ie, not normal time) intervals is usually a sign of a battery problem. I'd try draining the battery fully, leaving it dead for a day, then recharging it fully before turning it back on; see if that helps.

(disclaimer: i'm not at all familiar with the Nook hardware, but that would be my recommendation for anything showing similar symptoms)