800: D pad/5-way stops responding

[gisborne]

Lately, my d pad has often stopped responding. This is inconvenient in general, and particularly when I'm in "lock touch screen and keys"?

[bobpaul]

That happened once to me. In fact, everythingstopped responding except the screen and power button. When I rebooted it stopped operating and I had to reflash. Sorry I don't haveanything hepful to say, but you are not alone.

[TA-t3]

This is not a hardware issue, in your opinion(s)? If not, is it sluggish in other ways? If so, it could be something hogging the CPU or eating all the memory or something.

[gisborne]

It seemed like a software issue. Otherwise, rebooting would not likely affect it.

[cask]

Newbie n800 owner of 2 days and this has hapened twice.
Had autolock enabled, key/screen locked, when I came back could not unlock as center of d pad would not work. My cure/workaround was to plug into ac to charge. d pad then responded. I should have had enough charge in the battery, but it's possible this is a factor. For now I have disabled autolocking and will see how it goes.

[traveller]

I've had this happen twice. I don't remember how I got it out of this state the first time. The second time I found something small enough to lever out the battery and that fixed it.

It feels to me like some kind of software deadlock.