Hi, On 3-Sep-07, at 4:42 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext Ryan Campbell wrote: >> On 1-Sep-07, at 11:07 AM, Brian Litzinger wrote: >>> My N800 sits on my desk and has all its life. I do no carry it >>> around with me. It is always plugged into the AC. >>> >>> This morning the backlight was blinking every 5 to 10 seconds and >>> the audio seems to be gone. > > Did you see the UI still, it's not e.g. rebooting, say every 6 > seconds? In my case, (Brian's may be different) it was not rebooting, and was still usable (web browsing etc..) except that the screen would flash off every few seconds. Also, when I rebooted the N800, the screen would continue flashing during boot. > >>> I power cycled it. While it was off it showed a blinking white >>> screen. >>> >>> During power on it blinked and its still blinking and the sound it >>> still gone. > > Which release do you have? > This happened on mine with the previous release and on my girlfriend's with the current release (4.2007.26-8) > >>> When I used the media player to play an mp3 it reports >>> >>> Unable to perform the operation. Try again > > Do you have any extra software installed? > > (this could be D-BUS related, earlier Avahi, a Canola dependency, > was causing this kind of problems, but Avahi should be now fixed) > > >>> Has anyone else run into this? >>> >>> Removing the battery and then re-inserting brings everything back. >>> >>> -- >>> Brian Litzinger >>> _______________________________________________ >> That sounds a lot like a problem I had about a month ago. >> The N800 was left charging overnight like usual, and when waking >> it up in the morning I encountered the same blinking backlight. I >> did not play with it long enough to try to play an mp3, I just >> reflashed the device and it was back to normal. > > Did you also keep it long periods in the charger? I don't keep it in the charger for a ridiculous amount of time. The only time I ever charge it is overnight. > > >> I can't remember if I tried taking the battery out or not. >> My girlfriend is also currently experiencing the same problem, but >> as she is off in europe right now I have not been able to look >> into it much. >> Any idea what the problem could be? Bad battery connection, >> maybe? But that doesn't explain why reflashing my device fixed it. > > Device stores some state that persists over reboot, there might > be something that is cleared only when battery is removed (maybe > something related to battery management?). > > > > - Eero
