Hi folks,

Got my N800 delivered today from TigerDirect.com. BTW, it says Made in Korea on the bottom. It had older OS image (v.1.2006.47-20) so after I played a bit with it and confirmed everything working flawlessly I proceeded to flashing 51-6 right away. Did not expect any troubles since I've done it before with my Nokia 770. My home computer is a Linux box so I downloaded latest flasher-3.0 and a proper OS image from maemo.org and followed the instructions. Flashing completed without a problem (and very fast, much faster than with 770 images) but then the device won't reboot. It sat with the white screen with Nokia blue logo, no progress bar, for maybe 5 minutes then switched itself off. When I tied switching it on it went up to the same white screen and sat there forever, with no buttons working at all. I had to remove the battery to reset it and this time it rebooted and everything seems to work fine and About product window shows OS version as 2.2006.51-6. I have repeated the process twice, checking USB cable, md5sum hashes for the OS image and everything else I could think of but it hung repeatedly after flashing. I am wondering if my unit may be defective (I have 30 days to return it). Anyone else having this kind of problem?

Now I am having another serious problem: every time I open a web page in the browser with Internet radio stream playing in the background the damn thing hangs hard and then reboots itself in 30 seconds. I've never seen anything like that with 770. Something is really fishy with this 2007 OS upgrade, time to reflash, reflash, reflash...

Jjust tried that now and it works fine for me..

Damn, just tried reflashing again and now it gave me the following error:

Found device RX-34, hardware revision 1301
NOLO version 1.1.3
Version of 'sw-release': RX-34_2007SE_2.2006.51-6_PR_MR0
Sending xloader image (8 kB)...
100% (8 of 8 kB, avg. 1479 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (93 kB)...
100% (93 of 93 kB, avg. 10375 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending kernel image (1283 kB)...
100% (1283 of 1283 kB, avg. 19149 kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.
Sending initfs image (1647 kB)...
Sending request 0x42 failed!

Bootloader error log follows:
EP0 in RX state, but no incoming packet
Premature end of control transfer

I then immediately repeated the flash attempt and it finished this time but device again won't reboot. Now I am sitting watching this white screen and kinda don't know what to do. Will it even restart if I try hard reset? Or if I have bricked it already?

Damn.

Ok, based on the experience of another poster, I have removed SD card (128M bundled) that I've had installed in the internal slot and reflashed once again. This time it worked! It won't reboot after flashing however but powered itself off instead and I recall 770 did the same to me. Anyway, it powered on fine and I did not have it hang with the radio streams yet. Will need more testing of course, but looks like a faulty/subspec flash card...

Nope, did not help in fact. Still connection breaks as soon as a page loads in the browser while radio stream is playing. Now most of the time it would just lose connection without any indication, and only occasionally hang and reboot. Guess it's time to call Nokia support...

Reflashing will occasionally report errors (not sure why) which don't recur the next try.

And I've never seen the behavior you're describing, so that does indeed sound like a rare hardware problem.

Strange thing it looks somehow connected to audio playback. I tried playing a regular mp3 file in the background while browsing and got another disconnect. I never happens if I browse in silence

BTW, anyone noticed that plugging headphones in switches the screen on if it was blanked? Sounds wierd I know but plugging headphones also reboots my N800 sometimes. Now I'm really confused.

Maybe Korea was not that brilliant idea for Nokia production contracts...

I installed the bt plugin today, and rebooted. It totally hosed my OS, it went into an infinite loop. No big deal, right? I reflashed my OS 3 times with the windows flasher, with my downloaded image and with the image it downloads automatically. All resulted in the same outcome, the reflash stopped it from looping, however it would no longer turn on. I would press the button and it would start to turn on and then shuts down.

I took it back to COMPUSA and it was replaced (21 day return policy, I wonder how many times I can do that?) hehe hopefully I will not have to do it again.

Anyway the reason I am posting this here, is I am wondering it the flasher hosed my n800 not the bt plugin. Obviously the BT plugin caused the loop, but I think it was my fix (reflash) that may have killed it.

Was yours doing the same thing, start to power on and then shut off?

Don't get me started.