{"id":1782,"date":"2008-07-31T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2019-12-19T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:35:18","slug":"unbricking-a-logictech-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Unbricking a Logitech Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that a while back <a href=\"?p=1763\">I had a wireless keyboard<\/a> go bad on me.  In the comments of that post, Andrew <a href=\"?p=1763#comment-99631\">made<\/a> the following suggestion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had a Logitech keyboard that would crash on occasion.  The solution communicated from technical support was to remove the batteries and bang on the keys for a while to discharge the capacitors in order to completely power-cycle it.  Then, re-install the batteries and re-synch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was <em>this close<\/em> to throwing the thing out when I read his comment.  It tried it.  It worked.  Keyboard fixed.  <\/p>\n<p>Now you know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Gah.  A few hours after writing this post and the keyboard died on me again.  I&#8217;m sure I can restore it again using the method above, but it seems sort of pointless now.  A wireless keyboard which &#8220;crashes&#8221; every couple of days and needs a couple of hours off to recover is pretty useless.  I have to run a wire to get the conventional keyboard into place and then pull the wire again when the logitech cheers up.  Defeats the whole point of <em>having<\/em> a wireless, really.<\/p>\n<p>Still, maybe this will be useful to someone.  I am sort of surprised at how short-lived this keyboard was.  I don&#8217;t expect that from Logitech.  And while I&#8217;m at it, since when do keyboards need to be so complex that they can <em>crash<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps I do more <a href=\"?tag=keyboards\">blogging about keyboards<\/a> than seems reasonable, but I spend an incredible amount of time with these things which leads to this odd fixation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that a while back I had a wireless keyboard go bad on me. In the comments of that post, Andrew made the following suggestion: I had a Logitech keyboard that would crash on occasion. The solution communicated from technical support was to remove the batteries and bang on the keys for a while to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-keyboards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48822,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/48822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}