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Re: The power on/off enigma..

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Originally Posted by YoDude (Post 106581)

It seems to me there are 3 perhaps, unrelated issues here:

1. The battery is dead, you plug in the charger and expect the Tablet to boot up when you hit the power button. After about 10 minutes of attempting to start it finally does.

The charger barely provides the power to run the tablet. Start up is a current intense process. The charger needs time to charge the battery first.

2. Sometimes the above procedure works then all of the sudden the tablet re-boots. This may continue a few times before the tablet will stay on.

I believe the tablet has a "life guard" program that causes these re-boots until the tablet corrects itself. The initial problem may have occurred because the tablet was performing a task or wirelessly connected when the battery died in the first place.

3. There seems to be a "sweet spot" that works when using the power button. The tablet does not start unless this spot is hit precisely.

This behavior DOES sound like a hardware problem .

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Thanks for your contribution...would be interesting if your experience can be included in the wiki topic opened by our friend nrune.

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IMHO, a poll will do nothing toward solving a problem until the "problem" is correctly identified.

I Agree. Just suggested that because of this comment

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I don't think this is something a large number of Nokia users suffer from.

would like to estimate how many users are suffering the...issue?

Re: The power on/off enigma..

My N810 has been working fine. I've plugged it in/unplugged it and turned it on/off in all kinds of orders over my last four days of owning it, and it's not failed me.

I'm curious how common this problem is. This thread would make it seem like at least half of the N810's out there have this problem, but that can't be the case, can it?

Re: The power on/off enigma..

It would really interest me what firmware you are running...

(Look in "control panel " under "About Product")

Thanks!

Re: The power on/off enigma..

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Originally Posted by akd (Post 106592)

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Thanks for your contribution...would be interesting if your experience can be included in the wiki topic opened by our friend nrune.

At times items 1 and 2 have occurred... but certainly not frequently.

Item #3 has never occurred and I would consider it an incidental production tolerance problem with the switch assembly or perhaps components provided by different vendors.

Re: The power on/off enigma..

Piku, did you upgrade the firmware at any point? Which version are you using now?
If yes, did you use windows, linux or linux-64bit to upgrade?

Re: The power on/off enigma..

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Originally Posted by fiepel (Post 106621)

It would really interest me what firmware you are running...

(Look in "control panel " under "About Product")

Thanks!

1.2007.42-18

Seeing the "2007" in there surprised me. I'm obviously running OS2008 on the N810 I just got a few days ago and haven't had the chance to customize yet. Is my firmware already outdated?

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Ah, I see now that I'm one version behind.

Nokia simply says that the -19 firmware fixes stability issues, but I haven't had any with -18 so far.

Has anyone seen a reason to update from -18 to -19? Even if -19 turns out to not be the cause of this on/off issue, I don't want to update if there's not a noticeable problem with -18.

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I am running the most recent version of the 1.2007.42-19, and for the record I had trouble just this afternoon starting my n810 back up after shutting it down to test the power on issue after the system upgrade.

It has been off for about an hour or so, and during that time I tried repeatedly every few minutes to press the button in every way possible and it would not start.

Just a couple minutes ago I brought the unit back upstairs to my office and plugged the power cord in. Within a minute or two it was displaying the battery image in the center of the screen. Once it showed that it was charging, I pressed the power button one time and it turned on immediately.

Updated moral of the story: if your n810 isn't turning on with a full battery, connect it to AC power and see what happens. I still think pressing the edge of the power button with the stylus plays a role here, but it is certainly no cure-all. :)

I LUV MY n810! Quirky and futuristic all in one.

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Interesting. I have an N800 with 2008, and the version is 1.2007.44-4. I don't have a power on/off problem, fwiw.

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Just bought a brand new N800 from buy.com (which, BTW, had OS2008 on it, if the logo was to be believed). I plugged it in, it went into recharge mode. Screw that, I said, I want to play with it a little. So I started it up and ran it for 15 or 20 minutes. Finally wanted to take it into the other room, so I powered it down and unplugged it.

At this point it wouldn't do anything. I tried removing the battery, removing the SDCard, nothing. Removed battery and unplugged it for 30 minutes or so, hooked it back up and it displayed Recharging again. Cool, left it and went to work. When I got back it said the battery was fully charged. Hit the power button and it powered down; since then it won't do a damn thing no matter what I try. I will probably be RMAing it to buy.com before the weekend.