[Tfug] N770 nearly bricked

[Jude Nelson]

:s/Minimo/Maemo/g

On 2/15/08, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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