Thread: Random reboots are normal, right?
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2010-01-05 , 08:51
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Originally Posted by phi View Post
If its not broken hardware, why aren't ALL N900's plagued with this reboot?
Electronic components all differ in their behavior within certain tolerance ranges. They are not all exactly equal. What happened is that the OMAP3 power saving support in recent Linux kernels was assuming too short a tolerance range in waking up the CPU AFAIK. Some OMAP3s wake up faster than others (a deviation of nanoseconds I suppose), all within certain tolerance levels. So the reboots are a hardware issue, but not because of broken hardware, but because of the kernel being too impatient.

Anybody correct me if I'm talking nonsense, please.
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