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2011-04-07
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2011-04-07
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2011-04-08
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2011-04-09
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2011-04-10
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2011-04-11
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Somehow, I am convinced this is related to the battery. I know it sounds weird, but whenever i change to another battery, the issue either shows up or disappears, for a while at least. For example, when i swapped my extended battery to the OEM one, the issue went away, for a while..
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2011-04-11
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2011-04-11
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A memory leak would be consistently--though admittedly only temporarily--cured by a reboot. Is that what people are seeing? The descriptions posted here make me think people find themselves confronting a problem not so easily worked around.
It would fit with geneven not running across the problem though. He'd be resetting the clock on the memory leak every time he swaps batteries.
In contrast though, I reboot less often than once a month, and I haven't had my N900 forget it has a SIM. Of course, I also make or receive a call on my N900 less often than once a month, so if there's a memory leak caused calling, I'm unlikely to see it.
That's a whole lot of every which way. Are people finding that rebooting (or perhaps even power off + pulling the battery) always fixes the problem, at least temporarily?
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2011-04-11
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Thank you for this. Well with me, a reboot would fix it about 30 percent of the times (so really non consistent). As days go by, the issue gets worse, more reboots are needed, to finally get it to recognize the SIM/ get signal.
Here is whats also strange: When it starts doing it, it would just not display any bars, and once you open the keyboard, the no SIM symbol appears, close keyboard, no signal, open keyboard.....
Once I changed batteries, the issue didnt appear until a few weeks later, during which I was convinced the battery is causing it. Now the SIM seems to do it.
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2011-04-11
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Okay, so it sounds as though it's not a memory leak in Maemo. A reboot would cure that.
A loose cable that runs between the display and keyboard sections of the N900, perhaps?
This might support Texrat's memory leak theory. Rebooting (or shutting down and restarting) an N900 completely restarts Maemo, thereby correcting the damaged caused by any memory leaks there. However, I don't know whether or not a reboot also causes the GSM processor to restart.
It could be that the GSM processor maintains its state through a phone reboot. Pulling the battery, either to replace the battery itself or the SIM card, would force the GSM processor to start anew though.
Does pulling the battery get your phone working again (at least temporarily) every time? There's a small backup battery or capacitor inside N900s to help them retain settings (such as date and time) through battery changes, so you may need to keep the battery out of your N900 long enough for that to drain. A minute or two should be more than enough.