[maemo-users] 770 brick

[From: DJ Delorie]

ktneely at astroturfgarden.com writes:
> My assumption was that the battery closed some circuit that allowed
> the device to power up.

It boots just enough to determine that there's no battery (doesn't
even load the kernel), then resets (and reboots).  It cycles about
once a second waiting for a battery to be present.