I get the new one just a few days ago and for now it is working fine....

Mine went back today for the same video issues...
Reflash didn't change anything.
Hope they figure this one out pretty soon.

I actually had this problem with mine, and I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, so far... *knocks on wood*.

I got my 770 last week. Charged it over night. When I first plugged it in I noticed that the screen powered on and displayed a charging icon. I slipped on the cover and let it charge with the screen de-activated.

In the morning, I tried to power it on, but it appeared to be dead. I remembered that the screen had been on the night before, so it couldn't be completely dead. I tried to power it up again, pressing all the buttons, holding the power button for 20+ seconds, connected and disconnected the Power supply, removed and replaced the battery, etc. Finally it powered on, but I had no idea what the trick was.

For the rest of the day, it was very difficult to power on during the several times I did so, but somehow I got it to start up each time.

At night I flashed over the stock firmware with the latest one, and I've yet to experience the same powering up difficulties again.

In my case I'm inclined to conclude that it is (was) a software issue.

I just purchased a new 770 yesterday at CompUSA and charged it up a few hours and then anxiously tried to power it on. Nothing. Totally dead. It would only power on if I plugged it in to the charger. I downloaded the latest software update from Nokia and loaded it on and now everything is working fine. The update seemed to do the trick. All is well. I was pretty freaked out. I thought the new toy was going straight back to the store for an exchange.

My 770 came from a CompUSA in Texas. A friend, who was on a business trip, picked it up for me, and brought it back to Canada.

I would have been SOL if I couldn't get it to work. Like you I was pretty worried about it.

It's unbelievable that brand new units could be put out on the market with such a severe issue. Maybe it's their way of weeding out the casual users from the true fans ;-)

I assume this is a recent development, as opposed to being around from the initial release back in the Fall. Therefore, I wonder if Nokia changed a one of the hardware components in our new units that is incompatible with the firmware, or was our stock/out-of-the-box firmware glitchy?

Difficulty with booting is different than the video issue on powerup.
The video issue usually has faint vertical bars or shading. This one is not recoverable by flashing.
I've had the boot issue where plugging in the the charger would somehow help. The video issue didn't respond to any combination of power and battery.

my first 770 was dead on arrival, white screen with faint vertical streaks. you hear the startup noise and barely see that stuff was happening. i returned and got a refund, then order another. now about a month later this one is showing the same syptoms again.

if i let it boot i can get it to connect to wifi by pressing where i think the buttons should be on the white screen. then i can ssh in from my laptop. i am pretty sure that if this were a driver problem then this would not be possible.

i could also copy all my files off the 770 over ssh. (you will need to have dropbear or some other ssh server installed on it. there is a howto on the maemo site). then run
it still under warrenty so i should be able to get it fixed.

also for the person above who had lost their receipt. under uk law proof of payment (eg credit card statement is good enough) http://www.dti.gov.uk/consumers/fact...page24700.html