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2010-02-23
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Originally Posted by Fargus
Thats kind of what I suspected, but the other alternative is a hardware problem, though nothing obvious jumps out at me.
Only had to reflash my N810 a couple of times in it's entire lifetime when I had done something daft and hosed the machine.
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2010-02-23
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I'd check your drive space on /. lack of it can cause some issues. Re-flash will be a really good spring clean and remove loads of crap which you may not have realised was there.
Having said that re-flashing is a pain, as backup and restore does not restore all your files and settings.
I have had my N810 for 6 months and not flashed it yet, and my N800 has only been flashed a couple of times in over two years above what it needed for OS updates.
Having said that re-flashing is a pain, as backup and restore does not restore all your files and settings.
I have had my N810 for 6 months and not flashed it yet, and my N800 has only been flashed a couple of times in over two years above what it needed for OS updates.
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2010-02-23
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#5
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I've found the occasional bit of strangeness gets fixed with a reboot. I leave my N810 on 24/7. Some of the strangeness was the result of applications I'd installed.
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2010-02-23
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Originally Posted by fragos
Agreed. Make sure that you either use the reboot option on the advanced power menu if it is installed, or using xterm enter root to change user, and then type reboot.
I've found the occasional bit of strangeness gets fixed with a reboot. I leave my N810 on 24/7. Some of the strangeness was the result of applications I'd installed.
Alternatively, just drop the battery out for a minute or so.
I have found with me that using the power switch to switch the device off seems to put it into a "hibernation" state, and isn't a true reboot or power-cycle.
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2010-02-23
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Originally Posted by gazza_d
Well, I am at 97%, but have 20MB free:
I'd check your drive space on /. lack of it can cause some issues. Re-flash will be a really good spring clean and remove loads of crap which you may not have realised was there.
Having said that re-flashing is a pain, as backup and restore does not restore all your files and settings.
I have had my N810 for 6 months and not flashed it yet, and my N800 has only been flashed a couple of times in over two years above what it needed for OS updates.
720.9M 664.3M 20.0M 97% /
Which is far more space than I had when on the flash.
I agree that I don't really want to flash, because I don't want to be without full functionality for any length of time...And I know how bad it is trying to get everything working the way it was. I did that a couple of times with back in the day on my Zaurus.
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2010-02-25
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Originally Posted by fragos
Well, many of the problems show themselves after a reboot...Though I didn't think there was a difference in using the power button or the command line/battery as gazza_d suggested.
I've found the occasional bit of strangeness gets fixed with a reboot. I leave my N810 on 24/7. Some of the strangeness was the result of applications I'd installed.
I will give it a shot.
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2010-02-25
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It could be that some poorly written applet is consuming too much memory/cpu cycles. Try disabling all applets, and then enabling one by one, to find out if maybe they are the problem. One was in my case.
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2010-02-25
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I haven't flashed my n810 since about one year. In the beginning, I used to flash the tablet about once a week due to overdoing and testing out the countless tips and tricks like rotating screen, booting from the internal SD card, ... Some of these actions broke the tablet and I had to reflash it. But as this is quite painful and time and battery consuming, I postponed my experiments until I get a spare n8#0.
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I have noticed over the past month or two, some odd behavior that my N810 didn't used to have.
Note that I am using the pb tools to run filesystem from the internal flash, but I didn't think this would cause performance problems...and I don't think it did in the past.
Thoughts?
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