Originally Posted by Benz145

I'm not sure if this is old news or not, but it seems to be working...

I recall reading somewhere, I think it was a blog, but it could have been a post here - a theory that the temperature was the cause of the power on issue. At first I thought that was a pretty dumb conclusion and it didn't really seem logical. I'm definitely not one to believe something simply because someone wrote it. I don't think the blog had any evidence to prove the theory so I didn't think much of the post and passed it over fairly quickly.

However, I've recently reflashed my N810 twice, something that has required plenty of restarts. In my effort to try to bypass the annoyance of not being able to get my N810 to turn back on for at least 5 mins after turning it off (every single time), I said what the heck, I'll give the temp thing a try. So when my N810 stopped turning on, I sat it near a poorly insulated window (there were wild winds last night and air was pouring in) for about a minute, picked it up, hit the power button and viola. I was pretty surprised, but just one test wasn't going to prove anything to me.

I repeated the same steps of not being able to get it to turn on, leaving it by the window for a minute or two, then having it turn on the first try after it had the chance to cool way down several times. Again today I took advantage of the very cold weather outside, and after shutting my N810 down due to it locking up, I tried to get it to turn back on which was a no go. I ran outside, set it for one minute or less on a tablet, came back out and turned it on without a problem. It seems like it is becoming apparent that temperature is the deciding factor of whether or not it will turn back on, but why?

Apparently the N810 (and maybe the other tablets) have a temp sensor in them. Maybe the N810 is designed to not be able to turn on if it is too hot, but that threshold was erroneously set too low, or changed by some other factor.

What does everyone thing about this? Has anyone else had success with the temp theory?

Originally Posted by Benz145

Is it possible that somewhere along the line that number is being modified of effected by some other factor? Maybe it is the first thing to be checked before a full power on, and something goes wrong in that process.

Originally Posted by Benz145

I see, is that all we know so far? I didn't know Nokia had even acknowledged the problem. Is there anyway that temp is a factor in that race? It seems so apparent that temperature is effecting its ability to turn on... is it just coincidence?