[Tfug] N770 nearly bricked

[Jude Nelson]

Don't even use Minimo if you do choose to reflash...use Angstrom instead.

On 2/15/08, John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have one of these critters which suffered from frequent browser
> crashes, perhaps related to additional packages which I installed from
> various repositories, such as mplayer.  I had been using it in that
> state for several months, but a few days ago it crashed again and
> froze the device.  I was in a hurry so I put it back into its sleeve
> to look at later.
>
> When I opened it, it had rebooted.  The browser seems to load
> normally, but I can't open an xterm or several other applications,
> like the text editor.  It attempts to load, but times out.  I had the
> becomeroot pkg installed, but had never flashed the device with the
> hacker version of the OS or anything like that.
>
> Anybody out there with one of these have a similar experience?
>
> I'm thinking that I'll probably have to reflash to the original OS and
> re-install any applications I had.  Sorta like Windoze  :(
>
> --
> John
>
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