Hi All,

I’ve searched around the forum this morning but haven’t really found reference to similar problems I have had over recent days.

I’ve had my 770 about 2 weeks (From Expansys UK) – been OK for the most part, I took it away last week with Maemo Mapper installed and a GPS unit. All worked well for the first few days then I started to have problems – when trying to start an application, Mapper for example it would show the loading indicator for a while which would then stop but Mapper would not start. Any response to try and open or do anything else would either see a very slow response or at times just a complete freeze. The 770 would then, at times go into a loop of rebooting itself. It was rendered pretty much useless

I finally seemed able to get it to start OK yesterday morning before I left for home worked OK all day and I left it charging overnight (whilst on) and it was still OK this morning.

Similar problems occurred though when I turned it off to see if it would come back on not so long ago – first off the power button didn’t seem to respond, when it did it when I tried to start Mapper again it frooze and went into “auto reboot” mode, at one point it just showed the Nokia logo (the blue progress bar did not show). Anyway its back on again and seems OK for the moment but I’m sure I’ll have problems when I come to try and power off/on again.

Its not the WSOD but could the battery be at fault and or battery detection/charging ? Would a reflash of the o/s help do you think ?

I don't want to be without it really but unless I can sort it soon I think I'll have to return it

Anyway, sorry for the waffle but any help and suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Regards
FF.

as far as the taking a long time to load is an issue with 770 due to ram and stuff.

Thanks for the input - it got worse yesterday after my original I'm afraid. After turning the set off I was unable to get very far It would either freeze shortly after starting any application, reboot on its own and then enter a start - reboot loop until I took the battery out

I reflashed OS2006 last night and that seems to have done the trick as it has been working OK all of today. I've reinstalled my applications I used without any problem and they all start, run and close OK so everything crossed its will be OK.

I can only asssume that somehow, something became corrupt internally - not sure what I may have done that may have sent it that way

Rgds
FF

What I did was boot to my MMC. That fixed alot of my issues

Thanks - I might look into that then.

I hit the same problem late yesterday so am concerened it might be something I either (a) have to live with or (b) give up on and get a refund.

I'm loathed to get rid of it really especially at the price I paid and if a reflash every now and again sorts it I can probably live with that. I'm hardly liley to keep anything on it I really need and am probably going to end up using it for Maemo Mapper and web browsing on the move. I suspect e-mails will still be handled by my trusty steam driven Psion Revo !

Rgds
FF

almost certainly you have installed something that is gobbling memory, it's probably not a hardware problem.

I would go for a re-flash, cannot do any harm as the device is already screwed.

It takes about 30 mins.

ah - had not refreshed my browser - see you already fixed it

Well to follow up my own post it seems I'm stuck with this problem from time to time which seems to be a result of the RAM "getting a little confused" (I'm back in the reboot loop).

Its been OK for the most since my last post but I've just copme back from a bike road using Maemo Mapper to record my route (to pass along to other MTB'ers) as a GPX file.

During the last week I have been able to load Mapper OK providing no Route was "open". If a Route was open when Mapper was closed then it would seem I needed to launch Mapper twice to get it to open - the first time nothing happened. I seemed to be able to replicate this over and over again.

Anyway, Mapper worked OK today - when I came to the end disabled GPS and it saved my route - this turned out to be a 1.2MB file. It then seemd to "Freeze" and my only option was to take the battery out and start again.

Since then I've been unable to start any application longer than 30 secs or so. I can't get Mapper to load at all and on the odd occasion I have been able to open Control Panel->Memory the useage for Device is either 82% or 100%.

Looks like my only option is another flash and start again.

I doubt I'll start again as once flashed it will be going back to Expansys under the Sales of Goods Act for a refund.

If you got this far - well done and thanks. I'm wondering if I just have a 770 with doddy RAM ?

Regards
FF

I had the same problems. After several reflashes I stopped loading mapper and now I have no problems. I'm a newbie so I have no idea of the why it happens but that it seems related to mapper.

my 770 is from expansys uk too. no problem so far, been using maemo mapper - havent test it with a gps retriever though.

if it starts acting strange after installing something (maemo mapper for example), u can try to uninstall it (also delete all maps) and then install again. change the path of the maps (in maemo mapper) to your mmc instead of using the internal memory as the mapsize can get very large.

you can install the system-monitor-plugin to monitor the cpu usuage, etc. which i think is helpful.

good luck to solving your problem

...but one of the main uses of my 770 for me is Mapper though

Rgds
FF