[maemo-users] Brick after battery dying?

[From: James Knott]

Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> I must say I'm not exactly loving my n800...
>
> Battery died while in sleep mode over night (sayd it had days of idle
> time available but I guess waking up every 10min to scan for wireless
> killed it).  This morning after hours of charging and while plugged in
> it will not power up.  The back light comes onand the screen goes
> white, once I even got a Nokia logo, then it dies.
>
> I did find some references to this happening on line and the answer
> seems to be to reflash from linux, is that really the only answer?
> I've only had the thing 5 days, I can do this if I must but I'd really
> rather not.  It also is a bit puzzling from a commercial device, I
> haven't even done anything weird to it yet...
>
> Is reflashing the only answer?
>   

I had something similar a while ago.  Try pulling the battery and 
reinstalling it.


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