My contribution (I'm the one with spare batteries and a charger) was just an attempt to show a possible solution for those who have a problem. I don't have a problem no matter how I do this. I can't cause the problem. I've never had it. I don't think this is something a large number of Nokia users suffer from.
I have this problem too on my new 810. I have had a 770 since launch and never had any booting problems with it.
I tried rebooting the 810 and, of course, I have never sucessfully managed to make it come back on straight away. The worst being this morning where I spent somewhere in the region of two hours trying various combinations of batter out charger in, holding the button at different angles etc. etc. I had tried exactly what the 'G-spot' trick says several times during this time.
Came back to it an hour later and 'G-spot' works fine! Aha! I say. Let's try to reproduce that. Turn off .. won't come back on.
Totally unacceptable.
Does anyone have an 810 that they can reliably turn on and off without having to sacrifice their first-born at the ebbing of the moon?
My contribution (I'm the one with spare batteries and a charger) was just an attempt to show a possible solution for those who have a problem. I don't have a problem no matter how I do this. I can't cause the problem. I've never had it. I don't think this is something a large number of Nokia users suffer from.
Maybe we can do a poll to see how many users are suffering the problem...maybe there are users that ignore they have the issue, simply because the IT is turned on most the time (as in my personal way of use).
Anyway, with the number of users we can see having the failure on N800 and N810, I think the thread is not a waste of time.
Again, I did'nt found my N800 G-spot (maybe a frigid tablet?)
ochrenaut: thanks for the picture!
I was happy to post the photo... this forum saved me from an awful weekend, since I had printed out the warranty return forms and was going to mail it to Nokia on Monday morning without ever having seen it power up a single time.
Thanks to internettablettalk.com I have been able to spend the weekend getting to know my n810 instead of sobbing in a corner at my misfortune.
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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IMHO, a poll will do nothing toward solving a problem until the "problem" is correctly identified.
