I had a very unpleasant experience this morning. I had to reflash the device to get it working again. This is what happened...

I turned off the device last night before I went to sleep. (Normally I leave the device on standby...) This morning I wanted to power up the device before making breakfast. I opened the cover a little and pushed the power button to turn on the device. After the backlight is on and the device starts to boot, I closed the cover. I noticed that the backlight does not turn off immediately, but only after a few seconds. I wanted to make sure that the device was booting so I opened the cover again. The backlight only turn on after a few seconds. The nokia logo was there. The progress bar starts running, but after some time the progress bar resets and starts again. After a few seconds the nokia logo is moved to the top left corner of the screen?? It looks like the device has crashed. The screen then flashes and the boot sequence starts all over again. This time also, the nokia logo end up moved to the top left corner of the screen and the device reboots.

I tried turning off the device by holding the power button, but the device won't turn off. The only way was to remove the battery. When I start the device it went to the same reboot sequence

So, the only way to get it to work was to do a reflash. Fortunately I did a backup two days ago so I didn't loose too much data, but it's still very annoying.

I suspect that closing and opening the cover during boot caused the problem, but I'm not sure. I'll try and see if I can reproduce the problem when I get home this evening.

Well, the only positive thing is the I had a chance to test my backup and restore scripts...