It seems adding feeds to the reader can brick your 800. I added a feed and my 800 went into a constant reboot loop (at least one other user describes the exact same problem). Sad for its first day

There is something seriously wrong going on. This shouldn't be possible to do with an average feed, given that I've added feeds that are identical to ones used on the 770 with this end result on the n800-- a constant reboot loop. I was able to recover by reflashing and then toggling R&D mode off and on, but it's still terrible to experience. It's now happened again after the first reboot since rebuilding it too! I note that one of the packages updated after doing a apt-get upgrade is busybox, so this may be the root of the problem.

Larry

This can't be right... adding an RSS feed shouldn't trash the device, if so that's a really *really* bad bug.

Have you reflashed to see if you can recover the N800 - not an ideal solution I know, but may help you get back up and running. In the meantime I'd suggest you log this as a bug in bugzilla - particularly if you can reproduce the reboot loop reliably.

does it still happen if you turn the rss applet off on the desktop?

Thanks for the feedback. Reflashing did get me back up and running. Im afraid to add any feeds though. At the time it went into the reboot loop, I was running the shipped firmware with no new apps installed. I did have the rss applet on.

Not sure what to think - scary adding a feed could be so damaging. I'll put in a bug report.

Thanks again.

PAC :
Merely adding an RSS feed should ' NOT ' put your N800 into the endless reboot loops ( which eventually may result in a WSOD ) . Since your machine is almost brand spanking new, I suggest the you try to replicate this error and if it does replicate then you should put in a very high priority bug report. At the same time you should also send the N800 back to get it replaced by a new unit, if indeed you brick it by adding the RSS feed. This would indeed open Nokia's eyes and make them address the issue pretty quickly. To a layman like me, this seems to be some kind of HW issue.

I have also experianced issues with my RSS... the device will seemingly ramdonly reboot and when the device comes back to like all of my rss feeds have been disappeared...

Thinking of canning the device and reflashing it later this week, I was hoping that its a bug in the app setup I currently have inplace..

Lets see what happens after the rebuild...

Irony:
My RSS reader crashes EVERY TIME I try to add http://planet.maemo.org/rss20.xml ... Of all things.

One of my feed's icon has taken over another and I keep unsubscribing, subscribing, clearing cache etc etc but it's still masking one feed with another's icon.

Hmm... Mine crashed when I added RSS feed from planet.plone.org. Could the be something in the feeds of the PlanetPlanet application? Never the less, feed reader shouln't crash the unit because of a bad feed. I still haven't been able to reflash my unit. I haven't tried put it into R&D mode and back yet. I'm wondering how is that going to help the reflashing?

I also contacted Nokia via their website. They instructed me to contact one of their authorized repair shops. There is one 2.5 km away from my place so that is also an option.