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Originally Posted by bunanson View Post
It worked once out of more than 50 times stuck. The bottom line, it is NOT dependable. During those days, I use the N800 as 'back-up' and most of the time using the 770. Now I know, I just software boot, rather than actually turning it off. It is the unreliability that drives me nut.

akd: Do you know any programming? I have used the soft reboot more than 30 times in the last two days! I am really tire of typing the same 3 steps. I googled for linux batch programming and failed to get anything straight forward, there are 19 users having this problems, 1 of this 19 got to know some programming..... somebody? a simple batch for the 3 lines command and place an icon on the home page. TIA,

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xterm
sudo gainroot
shutdown -r now
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bun
Bun: My only experience about programming was with my uncle's VCR in the 80's and was so bad that instead of recording outdoor shows he actually got XXX films recorded.
Seriously, I think each one have founded a non perfect solution for the power on problem. Mine (and never failed btw) is ten, twelve, fifteen short pushes on power button and then the magic blue led comes

Last edited by akd; 2008-01-16 at 14:41.