On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:51:48PM -0500, ktneely at astroturfgarden.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:49:15AM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > > 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. > > I will try this. When it happens, I have tried various times: short > and long, but I will try "just right" next time :) Scientific experiments show that I was talking nonsense about holding the power button too long. My 770 boots up fine even if I don't release the power button. I remember some occasions when I held the power button, the screen blinked up with the Nokia logo, and then turned to black again. No idea why that happened. Low battery? > There are times when the device works fine, but this happens with > relatie frequency if I am not careful. Not a problem when I am near a > power source, but a problem if I am travelling. Marius Gedminas -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? -------------- 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/20070218/84a52992/attachment.pgp