How durable is the N800
 

Edit** To avoid wasting anybodies time, My Tablet is working again after leaving it without it's battery overnight. I'm still interested in positive stories of the N800 working well, so reply if you feel the urge. Many thanks for all the replies so far ** End edit

Hi
I just got my N800 this morning.. It worked perfectly and I was able to get it to connect to my wifi and Bluetooth within minutes, Downloaded some apps, surfed for a bit... Great stuff. I had intended to wait until I got the hang of everything before deciding to flash the OS to 2008.

But then I turned it off. :( My nice shiny new toy is dead.

From the other threads I have seen on this forum, I'm pretty certain its a fatal hardware fault, so I'll be RMAing it as soon as possible.

The thing I want to know is.. Is it common for the N800 to just die like this? For the short time I was using it, I really liked the N800. And I really want to get it replaced, but I don't want to be sending it back for replacement all the time.

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Have you tried pulling the battery out for about a minute, then putting it back in and then trying to turn on? (I suppose it just refuses to power up.)
This is probably the same problem alot of other users are experiencing and you can read about it here.

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You do know that you have to hold the power button down for several seconds to get it to power, don't you?

I'd do what the previous poster recommended, then put it on the charger for a bit and be sure to hold the power button down until you see the nokia screen.

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BTW, Where did you purchase your N800?

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Thanks for the replies.

The N800 is completely and utterly dead. I've already scoured the forum and tried every solution and every permutation of battery removal, button pressing duration and frequency that I could find. Nothing lights up even when I plug in the charger.

I wasn't asking for any help getting it to start up, as I'm convinced from reading other posts that it is some kind of hardware failure.

I'm interested in the general experience with rates of failure. I can find plenty of people who have bricked tablets, but in most forums, people rarely post about how well things are working.

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Play.com
I ordered it the Friday before Christmas and got it New years eve.

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Well, I'm not sure how scientific this will be, but both of the n800s I care for have been flawless. My biz partner's has taken several spills as well and has survived nicely. (it's in a PDair book type case)

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its no 770 tank but it can take some hard hits and keep on going ... i have a friend that keeps his in his shirt pocket and it falls out all the time ... still works !!

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I keep mine in my jeans' pocket all the time and I have yet to damage the screen nor the structure. I got this n800 in feburary, and it has been working perfectly since. No failures, no nothing. The worst that has happened is a slightly bent power cable pin... which was my own fault (Note to others - Don't fall asleep with your n800 plugged in right next to you).

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OK: every thing is going great then you flash (successfully?) to OS08. Like it went well you opened into the new screen and then you turned it off?
What happened then?

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I've beaten the holy hell out of mine, and it's still alive and ticking. It's been dropped from waist-high onto a wide variety of hard/abrasive surfaces, twice hard enough to pop the faceplate off. I've got a bad case of the dropsies. It has a few knicks on the corners; purely cosmetic damage. It's a generally robust device, IMO, although not unbreakable.

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Thanks for the reply. I was asking if there was a known fault with the N800, not anything about flashing, which I hadn't done. The device was not responding at all to any method detailed in the various posts on the troubleshooting forum, so I thought it was dead. No lights, no LCD lighting up in any way. It looked absolutely and completely dead.

My purpose for posting was to find out if the N800 was very prone to dud units, and hopefully to get lots of positive posts from people who have been using their N800 for a long time without incident.

After reading your post, I made what I thought was yet another futile attempt to turn it on, and after having the battery out for the whole night, it booted up! :D It's now sitting on my shredder charging, and I'll give it a good few hours before I try to do anything with it. I can't even guess why this worked, but I'm not complaining. At least I don't have to go through the embarrassment of sending it back only to be told it's working perfectly. Perhaps it should be renamed Phoenix. :)

Happy user going off to read up everything I can find on shutdown problems so I can hopefully avoid the problem again.

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You'd better send it back. These n800's aren't dainty flowers. I dropped mine from about 4 feet onto my asphalt driveway. I thought for sure it was going to be dead. Nothing but a dinged corner and a scratched bezel. That happened right after I got it nearly 10 months ago.

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I keep my N800 in my shirt pocket and have it fall out in the same way. Thus far, it has not been dented, scratched, or chipped by the abuse.

Actually, the worst that's happened is that I once had it fall out of my pocket when I leaned over to hug my two year old. My N800 clunked her on the head pretty good. No damage to the N800 though.

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My only complaint is the screen. After 1.5 months, mine has fine hairline scratches and a few "bubbles," and even a minor gouge. This is after using only Nokia's stylus or my fingers. After a year of living in my pocket, my Treo 700P's screen is pristine!

Get a screen protector!!!

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Thank goodness your N800 wasn't damaged. I understand that children have softer skulls than adults, so I guess you were lucky. :)

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My friend dropped his N800 in the driveway 3 times already and it still works. I haven't dropped mine yet! lol