[Tfug] N770 nearly bricked

[Garrett Hoxie]

I messed mine up pretty badly once.  It was a gradual decline, but it 
ended up not even being able to boot to the desktop.  Like you 
suggested, I decided it was best to reformat and reinstall.  I took out 
my miniSD card and I didn't restore a backup after the flash.  It fixed 
a lot of problems for me.  I think I am running it2007HE these days on 
mine.  It seems to work as well as any of the previous versions...

HTH,
Garrett

John Karns 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  :(
>
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