User's Manual

Turning a Talkman Device Off
Use a button control to properly power off the Talkman device. In some cases, the device turns off automatically.
In rare cases, a forced reset may be necessary. After the device is fully turned off, you can reboot it.
Powering Off by Using the Play/Pause Button
Press and hold the Play/Pause button until the LED indicator turns red. The device will store any data that
has not been transmitted. After a few seconds, the device says, "Powering off." The device turns off, and the
LED indicator light goes out.
Caution:
• Do not remove the battery until the LED indicator is off. If you remove the battery when the device is
on or sleeping, any data collected could be lost.
• You should not turn off the device if the LED indicator is blinking red (A500, T5-series and T2-series)
or has a rotating red ring (A700), unless it has been blinking red or rotating red for several minutes.
If a device is turned off in this state, it may not be ready to use when it is turned back on.
Powering Off Due to Inactivity
If the device's software detects no device activity for a specified length of time, it powers off automatically.
Powering Off Due to Low Battery Levels
If the device's software detects that the current battery level is critically low, it powers off automatically.
Booting a Device After Powering Off
If a device was properly powered off, it does the following operations after a battery is placed into the device
and the Play/Pause button is pressed:
• Performs a background noise sample
• Continues operation at the place in the task where you left off
• Transfers any templates to the host that had not been sent prior to powering off
• Transfers any output data records to the host that had not been sent prior to powering off
• Transfers any lookup tables to the device that had not been received from the host prior to powering off
Forced Reset
This type of reset is invoked by removing the battery from the device without properly powering it off first.
Caution: Perform a forced reset only as a last resort. If you reboot a device in this manner:
• the contents of its memory, including any data collected, will be lost
• the device starts over at the beginning of the task
• if you are in the process of retraining vocabulary, the device will send all vocabulary word templates
to the host computer when the device is turned back on. Do not do anything until the templates have
been sent to the host.
When the battery is replaced and the device is turned back on, it boots and attempts to load the current task
and operator. Once the task and operator have successfully loaded, the device behaves identically to a one
that has just had a new task or operator loaded.
Confidential: For informational use by Honeywell resellers and customers only
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