Thread: I've had it!!!!!! More SD card problems
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dtrask is offline dtrask
2007-07-30 , 05:28
Posts: 29 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Apr 2007 @ Maine USA
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Not ready for prime time? Do you even get how this thing works? I couldn't get along without mine now. Here's a sample day for me....

Wake up...roll over and grab N800...check morning emails and news before I even get out of bed.

Check a few news sites while eating breakfast...shove n800 into pocket.

On the way to work, realize I forgot to restart a server yesterday...pull over to a known hotspot in neighborhood....use ssh to restart server at work.

Periodically check emails and weather.

Cell reception is bad indoors....no problem...I use Skpye with SkypeOut to make some phone calls. Listen to some tunes while working on a project.

Get an email about a printing problem....use VNC to check server and then use web browser to bring up CUPS web admin page and restart stuck printer...call person on Skype to let tem know all is fixed

Email from wife....fire up Pidgin and chat with her about daughters soccer game later in day.

Leave early....no problem as soccer game is at another school that has open wireless (guest) network. I work remotely using rdesktop and my Stowaway BT keyboard....I have Windows and Linux (LTSP) terminal servers at work.

Daughter miscommunicates time of game....I'm an hour early. No problem...I sit in my car and watch a movie I ripped from DVD a few days before (I usually have 3-5 movies on my SD card for times like this...I rip them with Handbrake)

Later at night I surf the web in bed....like I am now. Vrry cool device...this thing is.

I'm keeping mine as I "get" it...and it works fantastic!

Late night emails and blog updates from a hotel in Boston....Skype calls to home from Seville, Spain....Maemo mapper to find directions to a university for a seminar I was teaching....restarting a mail server remotely after a power outage....etc. Remember...it's a tool....not always a toy.





Originally Posted by jeep99 View Post
OK, I've had it! I've now fried my 3rd and final 2gb Sandisk UltraII card and I'm sick of it. N800 says "corrupt or not formatted" and my laptop SD slot won't recognize the card. From what I can tell, once they are in this condition, they are junk. I've scanned the bugzilla and tried several downloaded programs to rescue the cards, but have had no luck. I want Nokia to pay for these. This is not an isolated incident and I haven't done anything outside of the ordinary to cause this problem. I'm sick of wasting my time trying to unsuccessfully recover my files each time this has happened. I'm also really pi##ed off that I paid $400.00 for the N800 for what has amounted to nothing more than being a guinea pig for beta testing a not ready for prime time device and software. As far as I'm concerned Nokia owes me $150.00 for the 3 fried cards I have, because thier device is faulty (read P.O.S.). I'm sure there will be plenty of you that will defend the device and Nokia. That's fine. I 'm also sure there are plenty of others that feel the same way I do, and we need to make Nokia aware of it. I doubt we will ever get any satisfaction from them.
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