Hi there,
I am sitting in front of two broken Pleos and see my dissertation go down the drain slowly ... either my study participants who try out the Pleos in their homes are very rough with them or I don't know, they seem to keep dying on me (the Pleos not the participants for instance
)!
I have been writing about Pleo 1 before, my favourite. With one of the participants she stopped moving all of a sudden and froze in some strange posture. the only thing happening when you try to turn her on, is a red light and a ticking sound coming from her mouth. Apparently the guy didn't treat her nice because she turned out to have a broken neck in addition. I take it that there is no chance of getting her back to life (...I might do some inspection of the corps one day).
Pleo 2 is a really cute little male Pleo who has just come to mature age, bought off ebay. Same procedure as before: participant called because Pleo is not working any more. He told me, that everything was fine but when he wanted to exchange the battery, the Pleo just wouldn't do even the slightest movement or sound. When I turn it on, the battery light turns green, but nothing happen, it just stays green until you take the battery out again. I tried to perform a skit, he wouldn't utter sounds and with the cable replacement kit het performes some movement and utters some sound (saying "normal" and sometimes something else I can't understand), but would't perform the skit properly. Moreover, when he stopps he also freezes in a weired posture. I reset doesn't help anything either, I hear some sound and the light turns and stays red but nothing else happens.
Am I right that the female Pleo 1 ist dead?
Am I right that whith the male Pleo 2 I am facing a hardware problem or is there any chance of not cutting him open, too?
Any advice and support is very appreciated!
Greets from Germany
PS: Sorry for double-posting!