Re: White screen of death
 

Ouch! Hopefully it was just a WSORL and not a WSOD then :)

Re: White screen of death
 

Let's call it a WIRL (white infinite reboot loop :-)

Re: White screen of death
 

Anyone think it safe to say the N800 doesn't actually suffer from the WSOD? So far I don't think anyone has yet experienced a true WSDO with the N800, "only" far too many non-fatal WIRLs :)

Re: White screen of death
 

Well, not to be a pessimist, but the 770's screen was also trouble-free for the first couple of months or so...

Re: White screen of death
 

Yeah, probably too early to call so far but despite all the scares on this forum I think we're yet to see a true N800 WSOD. Fingers crossed for the next few months, here's hoping this problem has been well and truly put to bed.

Re: White screen of death
 

Two months after I sent my WSOD'ed 770 to Nokia support, I'm still waiting. (Where is the smiley that's bashing its head against the wall? :) )

Based on what I read here, that's what I expected, but I'm getting the feeling they sent it to Estonia for a screen replacement and then forgot about it!...

Re: White screen of death
 

I've had my n800 since February. It was working fine a week ago. I hadn't looked at it for a few days and then I noticed that it was turned off. I'm pretty sure that the battery had a good charge. When I tried to turn it on, I would get the white screen with the NOKIA logo and then it would turn off. With it turned off, I plugged in the recharger. This would bring up the white screen with the logo for a few seconds and then would go dark. A few seconds later, the process would repeat over and over. Does that mean it's dead? Does this classify as a WIRL?

I got this a Fry's with an extended warrantee. They had promissed that they would replace it immediately with a new one if anything went wrong. Let's see if they honor it.

-- rhackenb

Re: White screen of death
 

Mine seems to have a related problem: the screen gets distorted with vertical stripes. This is a 770, purchased in December 2006, at a CompUSA which has since closed. The interesting thing is that it started when I plugged it in to recharge, not on boot (unless the charging sequence actually involves booting the kernel; I suppose it's possible).

Fortunately, most of my actual data is on the MMC, and it's still functioning enough that I should be able to VNC into it; but it sounds like I won't have much luck at actually fixing anything, short of sending it off to Nokia and waiting a few months.

Re: White screen of death
 

You should try a different charger... I know one identical case where battery of N800 was exhausted due to long time of no use/charge. The original charger did not have enough oomph to get the device to start charging... it was just turning on and off constantly. Once plugged into another charger (in this case Nokia N80 charger) it booted up and started charging properly. After few minutes it was put back to the original charger and it worked fine with it...

Re: White screen of death
 

I last had been using a car charger and maybe it wasn't charging adequately. The wall charger that came with the unit has done well all along and that is the one that keeps making it to restart.

I'll try to let it keep trying to recharge and see if it takes.

-- rhackenb