I've had the battery drain brick twice I think and both times after I restored I noticed the battery was dead and thought "geez, I wonder if I could have just left it plugged in for a while?"<br><br>I've also bricked it using "apt-get upgrade" Apparently this is not the wise method for obtaining updates.
<br><br>One thing you might consider is following the instructions on booting from an SD card[1], especially if you do your own development or are a power user that sometimes breaks things. I haven't bricked mine since I've done that and you can backup the whole OS by simplying backing up the SD Card, so you could restore without loosing all your settings and data...
<br><br>[1]http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_EASILY_Boot_From_MMC_card<br><br>--Paul<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Pickler</b> <<a href="mailto:rpickler@gmail.com">
rpickler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I seem to have a knack for killing my n800 without really doing much to it.
<br><br>The first time, I charged the thing over night. When I checked it in the morning, it was constantly rebooting.<br><br>The second time, I was installing some packages I built myself, and it crashed, which I could not recover from. (this one I'll take the blame for).
<br><br>This last time, I did nothing. The battery probably drained all the way over the weekend, and when I plugged it back in, it wouldn't boot again.<br><br>Recovering from these kind of errors is easy enough, but I bought the thing to handle some very specific tasks when I'm on the road for extended periods (traveling by motorcycle, where space is a premium), and I'm worried that if it will die at random like this, I could be comepletely stranded, digitally.
<br><br>Any thoughts? Anybody else having problems like this?<br>
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