Hi guys, Thanks for the replies. I know about the catch bit and the 'hold to see effect', it just wasn't working. OTOH, I experienced a VERY hard crash that required a reimage to even complete booting shortly after, so I imagine the two events were correlated. There is certainly nothing wrong hardware-wise with the switch on my unit, as it now works perfectly, it just required a re-image.... :( Best Regards, josh On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:34:56 -0800, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote: > Scott Carr wrote: >> Joshua Layne wrote: >> >>> Is anyone else having intermittent problems with the hardware lock key > on >>> the N810 (the slider) - mine will just randomly fail, sometimes even >>> immediately after a cold power down (with the battery out). >>> >>> It is a really annoying problem. >>> >>> Yes, I activated red-pill mode and have installed countless third party >>> apps, but this still shouldn't be happening. >>> >>> Any pointers greatly appreciated. >>> >>> josh >>> >>> >> I have seen this before, what I have found is that the slider has a >> "catch" it seems. When I thought I had slide it far enough, there was >> actually a little more that it was needing to slide before it recognized >> it. If I find I am having problems with the slider, if I push a little >> more it works. >> >> Another item I have seen is that if you push it, and get frustrated and >> push it a couple more times, it kind of "catches up", and all of the >> sets works in succession. >> >> > There seems to be a bit of a lag between sliding the key and the screen > prompt. I usually slide the key, hold it until I see the prompt. > > Sameer > > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
