Hey All,

I got my n770 last Friday, and it appears to have died. Its been used by me, my sisters and parents around the house till about Wednesday when i took it to work to read my RSS feeds on the train.

All that happens now is the nokia logo comes up and it turns back off.

Charging does nothing as does removing the battery :/

Any helps great!

Kevin

I must be jinxed! I just got a new 770 Friday (eCost), came with 3.2006.49-2 OS2006 installed. Put a few apps on there, (xterm, maemo-mapper, vnc, ...) and working fine. Browsed last night, put it to sleep, then can't boot this am.
Symptoms are EXTREMELY close to an issue I had with a N800 I had when they came out that was an alleged software bug.
770 symptom:-
Power up => NOKIA in blue on white screen.
No progress bar
33seconds later, screen flash, repeats 'NOKIA' in blue. Looks like this occurs 10 times or so, then screen goes totally blank/white for a while, then shows charge icon. Then goes to black for a moment, then repeats the 'NOKIA'...
I'm about to search for all those WSOD/infinite reboot posts.
Wish me luck, Clive

You will need to reflash to get around that problem.

I will try reflash, and presume that will work (it did on the 5+ times I needed to do it with the N800).
But I reflash and reinstall the apps I had, won't it just repeat the same failure? I was hoping 3.2006.49-2 was stable, but apparently not!
I'm searching for causes, then hopefully avoid them.
regards, Clive

As expected, reflashing restored operation. But I'm left with an uneasy feeling of here-we-go-again, same instability issues as the N800 when it first came out. I wonder how many people have upgraded to 3.2006.49-2 (Nokia's latest from their website) and have experienced this infinite reboot loop?
I was doing nothing out-of-the-ordinary: latest OS2006, added:-
maemo-mapper 1.4.7-2/libsqlite3/flite
osso-xterm
VNC
mplayer
mediastreamer
sylpheed 2.2.0
few other utilities
24MB swap file on Nokia 64MB card
I will see if I can narrow it down to the offending package. Any known offenders?
regards, Clive

Might just be that you've run out of space on the internal memory. Make sure you have never any images / videos (even the nokia pre-installed ones) on teh devices internal memory. Especially make sure that maemo mapper will not store map files to internal memory, because that will 100% fill up your system in no time.

So day #3 and I get hit by the infinite reboot loop again. This time only apps installed are:-
media-streamer
maemo-mapper
vnc viewer

I like the suggestion that maemo mapper files are being saved to internal memory - I presume that is the default? I bet that's my problem then, since I was zooming all around the countryside marvelling at the various maps last night. I presume that maemo-mapper doesn't have a "oops, only 10%/10MB left, better not consume anymore file space" mode then?

I will re-flash, reinstall same apps and set maemo-mapper to use MMC card instead of internal flash.
thanks!
Clive

Yeah, maemo-mapper will download maps to internal memory by default. After memory is full, system cannot boot anymore and you are stuck in the reboot loop. I feel this is a great flaw in the system - it should be able to release memory in such a situation. Also, warning user that the system is almost full would be very nice indeed.

This seems a very plausible explanation.
So we're talking Maps>Manage Repositories>Cache Dir /media/mmc1/Maps/Google street
I've changed that, and will see if the reboot loop returns.

I seem to have hijacked nextgengames' thread. Apologies! I may have identical issues though...
So I changed maemo-mappers map repository cache to point all map types to the MMC card, and yes, it quickly consumed the 50MB of the 64MB card available. Got an error from maemo-mapper when it ran out of space. But still, 50MB free on internal flash. Seemed OK, read some RSS stuff, checked emails, still OK. Did a power-button>Shut Off!, and then came to power back on later. Looping reboot, again (3rd time in as many days).
So yet another reflash with latest 3.2006.49-2 (again) but this time I have not reinstalled:-
maemo-mapper
vncviewer
(this is all I added to the original installation)
I will continue to evaluate email/RSS feeds (again adding no new feeds) and see if looping reboots return.