I got my N810 for xmas, was ordered from Nokia Canada dec 11, arrived dec 13. I love it.

My unit can be finicky to start if i leave it on the charger and i dont lock it. The trick for me is to leave it on the charger while i start it, holding the button until the splash screen appears. otherwise it may not respoond.

I think the circuit board date is misleading, mine clearly says 2008.

... I really suspect that people with '2003', or '2005' boards actually have 2008 boards that have just been stamped sloppily. 3 and 5 's could easily be bad 8's.

Do you really think some crappy old board would have room for the GPS and different memory of the N810?

It is quite clear that the 2005 stamp is not a reference to the year, just some version of batch stamp. Mine is definately 2005 not a misprinted 2008.

I just returned from HongKong. Kind of curious why you mentioned HK knock-off Nokia battery. Those are selling on the street for US$20 (HK$160). And they are very RARE, not every shop carry them. Have you try to get one from HK or you try to get from ebay?


bun

Just returned from HongKong, China trip. Will cook up a report very soon about the experience. During the trip, I DEPEND on my Nokia for almost anything if I can catch a Wifi signal, reports, spreadsheet, contacts, phone, skype, send and receive documents. And I carried both N800 and 770. Because of this power on problem, the N800 is absolutely NOT reliable. It failed to turn on many many times. Problem always solved, so far, by plug it in if I can find a plug out on a China street (I usually go in a Seven-Eleven and explain for 5 min or so, they always let me plug in , nice people). On top of this, I also noticed the N800 battery lasted much less than the 770. After overnight charge and over 'average' use, whatever it means, the 770 will last a full day and get recharged when returns to hotel. The N800 will last probably only a half day and then refuse to be turned on. Problem disappeared in the morning after an overnight charge. I have observed this pattern of behavior for a continuous 12 days use. I rely on my 770, it never quit on me during the whole trip, not even once. I HATE my N800, you never know when it is going to quit!

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770: 2007.26-8 2G MMC boot w VM off
N800:2007.26-8 2G/4G MMC boot w 128 Mb VM

bun


Edit: Looking at my own signature, the tablet with VM on has the power on problem........ummmmmmmm

Well.. i left the AC plug in for just.. let's say... 20/30 sec.. that's all.

Anyway... i left the N800 charging (in powered off mode) for more than 15 hours and still it was saying "charging".

Then i got fed up and turned it on and played with it (i love it).

Right now with 3/4 or battery left i powered off the unit and inserted the AC adapter tip and instantly started charging.

There is no rule! Hopefully tonight i will get the spare battery from my friend and run some extra testings.

It is soo bad that such a nice item (the N800) suffers from problems like these never encountered on the previous younger brother the 770 (which i loved very much).

Especially now with OS2008 its really a great device (when it's on) !!!

In my particular case, I got two chargers, two batteries (the original one and a "generic" one from Hong Kong) so I can tell you the problem is not related with chargers or batteries (again, at least in my case).

I humbly disagree. I think the battery is involved. See my prev post, 12 days continuous use, definitely pointed to the battery, in particular, its shorter duration after charge, < half a day on the N800 while compare with > a full day with the 770. I know it is not a scientific study, but with 12 days of experience, I stand firm on this statement. Either my particular N800 battery is defective or it is bad overall.


bun

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I tried two new Nokia batteries (purchased from two different vendors) and two Nokia chargers, and none of them fixed the problem. In my case, I am sure there was something wrong with the N800 itself that kept it from charging/being able to be turned on.

I too have had this problem with an N800.

The first time it happened I didn't pay much attention to what I'd done beforehand, but I did know that the charge was very low, so I recharged it and it was fine afterwards.

The next time it happened was after downloading some maps to the external SD card (actually an MMC card, but that shouldn't matter). Again, the charge was low, but certainly sufficient to power up the device. I tried all kinds of things, such as removing the battery and both SD/MMC cards and nothing worked. Strangely what seemed to cure it wasn't a battery charge at all, but simply sliding back the clip on the internal SD card. After that, the unit would start up fine without a recharge as long as neither card was plugged in. After running dosfsck on each card, the unit would accept the cards again despite dosfsck claiming to have done nothing.

Since then, I haven't had any further problems switching the unit on, but I have steered clear of writing to either SD card and I don't have swap enabled.

Sorry if this clouds the issue, but I thought I should share my experience.

Few days ago i updated this [0], but apparently it went unnoticed.

[0] http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...o_sleep_issues.