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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
You may be right Kathy, but rarely do I see so many posts with the *exact* same problem - but have it not be on everyone's device with other products. There has just been so many devices with that specific boot loop problem, especially ending in a "brick", that it is definitely troublesome. So many that someone generated a hack for it until the FW is released - but that hack evidently kills battery life =-\.

You would suspect something like this would either be completely consistent, or significantly reduced. To have so many is just uncanny. (Of course.. it could just be the same people complaining about the boot loop problem over and over... I haven't actually taken a number of "different" nicks I've seen talk about it..)
Well, the 'ending in a brick' element was solved: if you have an n900 that reboots spontaneously, turn if off intermittently. There was found to be a failsafe in the software that causes things to seize up after a certain number of reboots. It resets the number if you actually power down fully and power back up before you reach the failsafe.

Exactly why a proportion of the devices had the spontaneous reboot issue when not all do is a very good question. Interestingly, there was no report of this from the 300 preprodnuction units so either it was a glitch introduced in the productio firmware or it results from an unexpected use-pattern which is perfectly normal for ordinary users but something the summit attendees didn't do.

Either way, I suspect this will be the real target for the new firmware, and may even be the reason for overshooting the hoped for release date.
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