April 30, 2012
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Sad - Kind of Happy? - Happy - Kind of Sad
Before I left Sac to go back to Vallejo for the weekend, I put my HP TouchPad on it’s wireless charging base, cause it’s battery was getting low. As it’s charging on the base, it automatically displays a nice big clock, which is always displayed as long as it’s on the base. When I came back Sunday evening, the TouchPad was completely turned off, which was completely out of the ordinary (clock should’ve been displayed). It couldn’t be a dead battery because it’s still sitting on the charging base. I tried doing a hard reset (holding down the power & home button for 30 secs), which usually fixes things, but this time it didn’t do anything. I even tried plugging it directly to the wall charger, but that didn’t do anything either. It seemed like the whole thing was just dead.
And that made me sad. I used that thing a lot, not for much, though, just to check my kpop site, check the upcoming weather, and to read my twitter feed. I thought, “damn, now it’s a $150 paperweight”. But then, I got to thinking a little bit. I don’t need to, but I think I’m going to want to replace it with something else. Then I got a little excited. Do I finally have a legitimate reason to buy the new iPad? It’d be a new nice toy, but I couldn’t justify the price plus the fact that I already had perfectly good, albeit app-deprived, tablet. But now with the TouchPad out of commish, I’d only have to justify the price, which I would probably BS any old reason.
But as a last ditch effort, I googled “dead TouchPad”, and tried some things to revive it. Nothing worked, but then I plugged it into my desktop and the light on the home button started to flash. It still didn’t turn on, but at least something lit up. So I left it plugged in for maybe 2 hours, and the screen finally turned on with the red dead battery icon. So it was a dead battery. I guess my wireless charging base is busted, or I didn’t it align it properly, or whatever.
Although I was happy that my TouchPad wasn’t dead after all, I was still kind of sad that I could no longer justify buying the new iPad. Rollercoaster of emotion!
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You could still go out and buy an iPad. My hubby's got two. Yea, he likes gidgets and gadgets, and it's pretty awesome. We take it on road trips, etc. Good for movies when we are bored. Eventually I think you'll have to upgrade.
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