<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;">I wonder if it could be out of virtual memory, and removing the batter (or reflashing) is a total power down and clearing of the memory. The flashing backlight could be a warning system, instead of a useful dialog box......<br><br>Or an out of sync file system - again, removing the battery could reset it.<br><br>Ian<br><br>P.S. I'm new to this, but a software developer, so my theories could be silly......<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Ryan Campbell <campbellr@gmail.com><br>To: maemo-users@maemo.org<br>Sent: Saturday, 1 September, 2007 6:28:46 PM<br>Subject: Re: Blinking backlight and no sound<br><br><div><br>On
1-Sep-07, at 11:07 AM, Brian Litzinger wrote:<br><br>><br>> My N800 sits on my desk and has all its life. I do no carry it<br>> around with me. It is always plugged into the AC.<br>><br>> This morning the backlight was blinking every 5 to 10 seconds and<br>> the audio seems to be gone.<br>><br>> I power cycled it. While it was off it showed a blinking white <br>> screen.<br>><br>> During power on it blinked and its still blinking and the sound it<br>> still gone.<br>><br>> When I used the media player to play an mp3 it reports<br>><br>> Unable to perform the operation. Try again<br>><br>> Has anyone else run into this?<br>><br>> Removing the battery and then re-inserting brings everything back.<br>><br>> -- <br>> Brian Litzinger<br>>
_______________________________________________<br>><br><br><br><br>That sounds a lot like a problem I had about a month ago.<br><br>The N800 was left charging overnight like usual, and when waking it <br>up in the morning I encountered the same blinking backlight. I did <br>not play with it long enough to try to play an mp3, I just reflashed <br>the device and it was back to normal.<br>I can't remember if I tried taking the battery out or not.<br><br>My girlfriend is also currently experiencing the same problem, but as <br>she is off in europe right now I have not been able to look into it <br>much.<br><br>Any idea what the problem could be? Bad battery connection, maybe? <br>But that doesn't explain why reflashing my device fixed it.<br><br><br>Ryan Campbell<br>_______________________________________________<br>maemo-users mailing list<br>maemo-users@maemo.org<br><a
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