Now I'm wondering if my extended timeout settings are what prevented me from experiencing the card problems... probably so.

so my question is, am i (or any of the rest of us) going to get reimbursed for the card(s) burned by n800s? seems to me something should be done about that.

As explained before, the avenue for reimbursement lies with the card vendors.

I recall someone testing this theory out and it did indeed help... maybe a quick seach on forum can find out...

"As explained before, the avenue for reimbursement lies with the card vendors."

This is too terse. You figure out why; I'll adopt your policy and just provide my conclusion with no hint of my reasoning.

It's not *my* policy. As for being too terse, that's simply because I see no need to completely reiterate what's been mentioned numerous times already, including the reasoning. No offense intended.

I'm still getting corruption and crashing after applying the update. Which is extremely annoying, as I'm about to go on vacation, and being able to have a bunch of mp3s and some video was the whole reason I bought the N800. Has anyone else had this problem?

Geneven
see post #109
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204

Does this help?

It sheds some light, but since the last post was on 10/12, I'd think that most people aren't still having problems. My symptoms are a little different after the firmware upgrade - before, individual files and some dirs became corrupt after Canola rescanned my library, but this happened quietly, and I only noticed it as albums dropped out of the list. After the flash, (and with a new 8Gb Transcend card), Canola's scanning again causes corruption, but with more serious results - the N800 locks up on the NOKIA boot screen, and after a minute or so, powers down. I just reformatted and checked the card under OS X, and it seems fine, so I'm trying again, this time with the card's lock switch on (though I'm not sure that'll save me). -T.