[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] 770 display failure workaround

[From: Philippe Laporte]

Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere) wrote:

>On ons, 2006-03-29 at 13:41 +0200, ext Philippe Laporte wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>     I'm not quite sure why you adopt such an antagonistic attitude.
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>>I would bet you 1000 Euros, and I am not rich, that the Nokia kernel 
>>team has a workaround patch.
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>Yeah, because it's so much more profitable for Nokia to replace devices
>than provide a software fix.  Ehrm.  NOT.
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>Just face it, you're off chart here.
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I give you a couple of days...keep working...until the guy who told 
there is a patch says there isn't I will stand by my ground.

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>>Even though my grand plan may be evasive to some, it should be obvious 
>>thta I am trying tyo pressure Nokia into allocating time to provide the 
>>code for the patch.
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>>The reason for not having it in the device: you are convinced that if any reason would exist, you would be personaly aware of it?
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>>The LCD hasn't "failed". The reference here is http://www.maemo.org/maemowiki/HowDoiBecomeRoot
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>The article you reference to quite clearly says:
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>"If you get this, there is a hardware failure in your device and you
>need to return it and get a replacement -- VilleRanki That failure is
>probably not related to any software-actions. Displays like the one of
>the 770 tend to break at powerup. But if yours survived the first 5 or
>10 times, it should survive the rest, too"
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>In other words, the display has the highest likelihood of breaking the
>first few times you power cycle the device.  That's when most people
>(well, at least the developers) enable the R&D mode.  People see broken
>display, and draw the conclusion "Ohhhh, broken display when I enabled
>R&D-mode, must be a software bug".  This is incorrect reasoning though.
>The display is faulty, not the software.
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>Bottom line: STOP TROLLING!
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You are out-of-context...

>Oh, and PLEASE don't top-post.
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What does that mean?