N810 dead?

Hello,
Sunday night I arrived home after a driving trip. For the trip my N810
was running Maemo Mapper recording a gps trace. I had also left gnumeric
spreadsheet running on it. The trip was about seven hours long. When I
arrived home I unlocked the screen and Maemo Mapper was running. I opened
the menu and selected the Trace sub menu to save the gps trace. At some
point in this process, the N810 switched to the white and blue Nokia boot
screen. I thought mapper had crashed and my trace was gone. That has
happened before.

Monday morning at work, I turned the N810 and got the white and blue
boot screen again... OK I must have drained the battery. I didn't have
the charger with me, so I left it alone and plugged it into charge before
I went to bed.

This morning I turned it on and the boot screen comes on and then the
brightness drops (as usual) and then it goes black. The corner light
comes on during the boot (I think it supposed to) in the white with
blue and green tinges. But that's all it does.

Any ideas what could be the going on?

Thanks,
-Mike in Cleveland, OH

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Mike Sherman <mike.sherman@earthlink.net>

Not sure, but maybe you ran out of space on the device when saving
the 7hrs long trace ?

Aniello

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Mike Sherman <mike.sherman@earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hello,
> Sunday night I arrived home after a driving trip. For the trip my N810
> was running Maemo Mapper recording a gps trace. I had also left gnumeric
> spreadsheet running on it. The trip was about seven hours long. When I
> arrived home I unlocked the screen and Maemo Mapper was running. I opened
> the menu and selected the Trace sub menu to save the gps trace. At some
> point in this process, the N810 switched to the white and blue Nokia boot
> screen. I thought mapper had crashed and my trace was gone. That has
> happened before.
>
> Monday morning at work, I turned the N810 and got the white and blue
> boot screen again... OK I must have drained the battery. I didn't have
> the charger with me, so I left it alone and plugged it into charge before
> I went to bed.
>
> This morning I turned it on and the boot screen comes on and then the
> brightness drops (as usual) and then it goes black. The corner light
> comes on during the boot (I think it supposed to) in the white with
> blue and green tinges. But that's all it does.
>
> Any ideas what could be the going on?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike in Cleveland, OH
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mike Sherman <mike.sherman@earthlink.net>
>



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anidel

Hi,

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Mike Sherman <mike.sherman@earthlink.net>wrote:
>> This morning I turned it on and the boot screen comes on and then the
>> brightness drops (as usual) and then it goes black.

Device is turned off, display isn't just very, very dark?

Are you sure the device charged properly?
(maybe the device charger cable is broken?)


>> The corner light
>> comes on during the boot (I think it supposed to) in the white with
>> blue and green tinges. But that's all it does.

So there's no progress bar at the bottom of the screen (which comes
shortly after rootfs is mounted)? If not, this would most likely
be a problem either with mounting the rootfs or battery handling.



ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> Not sure, but maybe you ran out of space on the device when saving
> the 7hrs long trace ?

To cause bootup problems there should be also some (3rd party) root
process that fills the disk, user processes cannot fill the device
full enough to prevent boot.

I would also expect it to cause the device to enter reboot loop
if there's no space even for root to write anything.


- Eero

Try removing & reinstalling the battery. I find that helps, when my
N800 is out to lunch.

Mike Sherman wrote:
> Hello,
> Sunday night I arrived home after a driving trip. For the trip my N810
> was running Maemo Mapper recording a gps trace. I had also left gnumeric
> spreadsheet running on it. The trip was about seven hours long. When I
> arrived home I unlocked the screen and Maemo Mapper was running. I opened
> the menu and selected the Trace sub menu to save the gps trace. At some
> point in this process, the N810 switched to the white and blue Nokia boot
> screen. I thought mapper had crashed and my trace was gone. That has
> happened before.
>
> Monday morning at work, I turned the N810 and got the white and blue
> boot screen again... OK I must have drained the battery. I didn't have
> the charger with me, so I left it alone and plugged it into charge before
> I went to bed.
>
> This morning I turned it on and the boot screen comes on and then the
> brightness drops (as usual) and then it goes black. The corner light
> comes on during the boot (I think it supposed to) in the white with
> blue and green tinges. But that's all it does.
>
> Any ideas what could be the going on?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike in Cleveland, OH
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mike Sherman <mike.sherman@earthlink.net>


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James Knott wrote:
> Try removing & reinstalling the battery. I find that helps, when my
> N800 is out to lunch.
>
This is so true that actually added a "tab" of tape to my battery to
make it easier to get out.