Sorry, I don't remember who provided this handy hint a few years ago.
If you press enter before turning on your Apex, you'll get the Main Menu
prompt but you'll be able to issue further commands.
It's as if the Apex sees itself as being in one-handed mode when it has
never been set to that mode.
I'm not sure that speech and this bug are connected.
I believe this behavior began in one of the first versions of keysoft 9. It
wasn't there when I first got my Apex in 2010.
Amplifying this point a bit more, a time or two I've even seen part or all
of the phrase "one-handed mode" when turning on my Apex without being able
to use the thumb keys to navigate the main menu.
I'm grateful to the person who iriginally supplied this workaround.
--
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: braillenote-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:braillenote-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ella Yu
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 3:37 PM
To: linda.lassie903@xxxxxxxxx; braillenote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [BNU] Re: Apex: Something I Think Is Very Unusual
That sounds very weird. That's happened to me a few times, but I just reset
and not really stress about it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Stewart <linda.lassie903@xxxxxxxxx
To: Braille <braillenote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:09:26 -0400
Subject: [BNU] Apex: Something I Think Is Very Unusual
Hi Everyone,
Whenever I turned on my Apex, or 99.99 percent of the time, I would have to
reset it. It would say "main menu" and that's as far as it would go. I had
been told by someone that many people are too hasty when they see "main
menu" and go right into something without giving the Apex a chance to get
really ready.
So, I'd count to 30 seconds, or 45, and then try, and it still wouldn't
work. So I'd reset it. I usually don't use the speech on the Apex, but I
remembered that he said, "Wait until you hear the speech say `main menu`
before you do anything else. So, whenever I shut my Apex off I would turn
on the speech first.
Get this! The next time I would turn on the Apex the speech would say "main
menu" right away, and I could start immediately to do whatever I wanted.
Why in the world would the speech have to be on to allow me to do this???
Linda Stewart
Clearance this month for Scentsy, contact me for more information.
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