The phrase "a device started" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the initiation or activation of a device, often in a technical or operational context.
Example: "After pressing the power button, a device started and the screen lit up."
Alternatives: "a device was activated" or "a device powered on."
The migration to e-reading is usually reported as a one-way journey: You get a device, start downloading and never look back to the old-fashioned book.
As a device starts up, it first runs a route advertisement (i.e., neighbor discovery) procedure to create the routing table, whose entries include the device ID, destination ID (gateway device ID), next-hop ID, hop count to the gateway, and parent/child relationship.
That the cookies were a flirtation device started sinking in when, on a Friday afternoon in August, Mr. Mateo asked Ms. Chang to spend the weekend with him in Avalon, N.J., at his parents' beach house.
Attempts to completely replace the human heart with a prosthetic device started decades ago (see "CPR for the Artificial Heart").
He emptied six of them, left four full and, using a precisely calibrated energy-measuring device, started dropping a steel ball on the bottles from various heights.
Just a few days ago, the above shot of a supposed XPERIA concept device started floating around.
Soon, the critical distance in her voice as she evaluates each slap and its effect as a theatrical device starts to make us feel worried, tense.
A user device starts the pre-association process if the following criterion is met: LS _ thr ≤ P r, curr < Assoc _ thr.
New cellular connectivity not only means you can take your Watch with you and use it on a run to track your stats, but it will also provide access to all of Apple Music without a connected device, starting next month.
Google also showed off NFC-equipped CD cases that, when touched to a Tungsten device, start playing the CD on the network's audio system.
