After a couple days of using my 770, I innocently turned it off and took out the battery to read the product ID. Now it won't boot past the initial "NOKIA" splash screen. I've seen others recover from similar situations by flashing (http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=654), but I can't get to a point where the WinXP flasher will talk to my 770. Will using the Linux flasher allow me to catch the device early enough in its startup sequence to fix this?

My experiments so far:

1) Pressing and holding the power button for a long time, with or without the power adapter attached -- nothing happens.

2) Pressing and holding the power button without the power adapter, then connecting the adapter while still holding the button -- the display immediately turns on and "NOKIA" splash screen appears. The progress bar at the bottom of the screen never shows up. After a few seconds, the backlight goes off, but in the right light, I can see the display is still on and hung at "NOKIA". It stays this way until I unplug power, at which point the display goes off.

3) Repeating the previous step with the USB cable attached to a WinXP PC -- The PC complains that an unknown USB device is attached, but the device isn't working correctly. If I continue to hold the power button, the display and backlight flash about once a second until I release the button. At the same time the PC cycles USB plug-unplug events until I pull the power adapter. I'd successfully transferred files from that PC to the 770 via USB before the 770 started misbehaving.

4) Attaching the power adapter with the unit off does nothing. The charging screen does not appear, and the display and backlight stay off.