On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:23:38PM -0500, ktneely at astroturfgarden.com wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:35:50PM -0500, Acadia Secure Networks wrote: > > I don't have any answers but I just yesterday I reported to this > > list a similar problem on the N800 requiring removal/re > > installation of the battery to "unbrick" the device. > > I read those posts and the behavior was definitely similar, but I > thought that p[erhaps my problem was a bit more "passive". Inother > words, I did nothing other than place the cover on the device. > > Also, mine is a 770. I forgot to mention that it is the second to > latest OS flash. I cannot remember the exact numbers. There were three versions of OS2006. So you have OS2006.2. > I hope something can be done about this, because the batttery trick is > a relatively savvy maneuver. Most people I know would not be able to > do this. If it were their iPod, for example, they would call it > broken and take it to the Apple store. This behavior is one of the > things that go through my mind, and a warning I give when I show off > my 770 and recommending it to friends. My 770 spontaneously reboots every now and then, but never turns itself off. (I habitually charge it every night. Well, used to, before I got a N800). My mother sometimes has problems turning on her 770. I hold the power button for a few seconds, release it, and it boots fine. There appears to be a trick to it: if you hold the power button too short, it won't come up; if you hold it too long, it won't power on either. Sometimes it seemed that I had to plug in a charger to get it to see the power button presses, and I usually attributed that to an empty battery. My N800 appears to be very stable. It rebooted once (lifeguard reset due to crashed dsp_dld). Interesting: /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_resets claims I had three reboots (due to dsp_dld, maemo_af_desktop and dnsmasq). I never noticed the other two. Marius Gedminas -- Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070218/b85240af/attachment.pgp