[maemo-users] Blinking backlight and no sound

[From: Ryan Campbell]

On 1-Sep-07, at 11:07 AM, Brian Litzinger wrote:

>
> My N800 sits on my desk and has all its life.  I do no carry it
> around with me.  It is always plugged into the AC.
>
> This morning the backlight was blinking every 5 to 10 seconds and
> the audio seems to be gone.
>
> I power cycled it.  While it was off it showed a blinking white  
> screen.
>
> During power on it blinked and its still blinking and the sound it
> still gone.
>
> When I used the media player to play an mp3 it reports
>
>    Unable to perform the operation. Try again
>
> Has anyone else run into this?
>
> Removing the battery and then re-inserting brings everything back.
>
> -- 
> Brian Litzinger
> _______________________________________________
>



That  sounds a lot like a problem I had about a month ago.

The N800 was left charging overnight like usual, and when waking it  
up in the morning I encountered the same blinking backlight. I did  
not play with it long enough to try to play an mp3, I just reflashed  
the device and it was back to normal.
I can't remember if I tried taking the battery out or not.

My girlfriend is also currently experiencing the same problem, but as  
she is off in europe right now I have not been able to look into it  
much.

Any idea what the problem could be? Bad battery connection, maybe?  
But that doesn't explain why reflashing my device fixed it.


Ryan Campbell