How long am I supposed to hold down the on button to turn on my push 3?

[Ttalp]

Ok hi . And yes you have read the question correctly. I haven't been able to find any reference to this in the start up guide and I just don't seem to get consistent behaviour. Compared to basically everything else I own with an on switch the push 3 is very difficult to turn on.

I know which button to press but when I press it quickly it does nothing. If I press and hold it after a while the save button lights up green.

Sometimes if I release then it will turn on but sometimes not.

I know it's slow to load so I try not to rush it but this means that getting the damn thing to start loading is a trial and error process that's taking me up to 15 minutes. The docs say hold for 3 seconds to shutdown so I've tried similar for booting but I'm not getting any clear pattern.

Basically I'm wondering if this impacts other people and what I should expect. It doesn't feel like it should be this hard

[dcjams]

Ok hi . And yes you have read the question correctly. I haven't been able to find any reference to this in the start up guide and I just don't seem to get consistent behaviour. Compared to basically everything else I own with an on switch the push 3 is very difficult to turn on.

I know which button to press but when I press it quickly it does nothing. If I press and hold it after a while the save button lights up green.

Sometimes if I release then it will turn on but sometimes not.

I know it's slow to load so I try not to rush it but this means that getting the damn thing to start loading is a trial and error process that's taking me up to 15 minutes. The docs say hold for 3 seconds to shutdown so I've tried similar for booting but I'm not getting any clear pattern.

Basically I'm wondering if this impacts other people and what I should expect. It doesn't feel like it should be this hard

It's instant for me and the action of the button feels very definite. There's an audible click from the mechanism, like a tact switch. It behaves consistently.

[Ttalp]

Hi dcjams.

Thanks for the message. Quite embarrassingly I tried that and it worked first time. Tried again a little slower and it worked again

I guess I'll keep and eye on it and hope it behaves consistently now I've learnt the not so secret technique

[spbaker64]

hah, I love this! Same here, I start with holding it down, nothing happens so I do a quick click and the logo appears, I've never been sure if it was the first longer push or the second shorter push that pushed the push, but now I'll just go with the shorter push for the push. Thank you

[dcjams]

Hi dcjams.

Thanks for the message. Quite embarrassingly I tried that and it worked first time. Tried again a little slower and it worked again

I guess I'll keep and eye on it and hope it behaves consistently now I've learnt the not so secret technique

Ha! Happy to hear it

Sometimes I find I carry over muscle memory from other devices and forget to adjust for new things.

'Buttons' often invite longer presses somehow, in a way that a 'switch' doesn't. Also anything that boots up feels a bit 'computer' or 'laptop' and they don't always start or wake on a single short press.