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screen of death.... |
wayno
Joined: Feb 12, 2003
Posts: 55
From: London
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Happened a couple of times now- get the white screen of death- big exclamation mark, and the phone's graphic telling me to turn it off. Except the off button doesn't work in these cases.. I have to remove the battery... any idea's? |
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pajon82
Joined: Dec 16, 2002
Posts: 135
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That means that you have to turn of the phone. You do this by holding the on/off-button down for 10 seconds! One push doesn't help!
Best regards, Patrik |
digithed
Joined: Sep 10, 2002
Posts: 54
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That's why the crash screen helpfully has a small stopwtch with the number 10 in it 
Its trying to tell you to hold the on/off button for 10 seconds. Obviously the graphic artists didn't do such a great job here since so many people seem not to understand what it means.
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Alhuang1
Joined: Jan 06, 2002
Posts: 30
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Thanks for the info about holding the power button for 10 seconds. If it happens to me, I will try it again. Question is, what is the reason the phone is doing this? |
hktoh
Joined: Feb 17, 2003
Posts: 3
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I checked with a technician, and he said that it is a known problem caused by SIM cards, especially the 64k ones. Try another SIM card and see if this problem still persists... |
robpow
Joined: Jan 20, 2002
Posts: 70
From: London, UK
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On 2003-02-24 16:56, hktoh wrote:
I checked with a technician, and he said that it is a known problem caused by SIM cards, especially the 64k ones. Try another SIM card and see if this problem still persists...
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Shame the phone doesn't like SIM cards, they should have tested the phone with SIM cards in case someone decided to put one in! Also, no other phone seems to have problems with SIM cards, my T68 was very happy both with regular and high-memory (64KB) ones.
You may want to try and get a firmware upgrade (of the phone, not the SIM , i did that and haven't had a 10-sec crash since. Even when using Opera.
Cheers
Matt
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Zoidy
Joined: Jan 30, 2003
Posts: 114
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Hi,
Actually, phones can have problems with certain Sim cards. I have an O2 Sim card (which is about 2 years old) through my employer and it crashes my Nokia 7110 regularly and it also crashed my Siemens SL45i several times. I have ordered a replacement though and was told that the old card had a lower capacity for contacts.
Z.
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sonystoll
Joined: Feb 27, 2003
Posts: 1
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I was ALWAYS having problems with SIM cards in EVERY mobile phone I ever owned (Panasonic EBG500, Nokia 8110, 8210, and 8310). But replacing the SIM card always solved the problem (they can get old and defective, it seems). |
Coramoor
Joined: Nov 13, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Norway
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The "screen of death" has nothing to do with sim cards(not directly at least).
In fact it's called a system failure. And is very similar to what windows users knows as the dreaded "Blue Screen".
It can of course be sim related just as the blue screen can appear when connecting a usb device( read "Windows 98" )
But it can also be closing down the sarien emulator(this happened to me every time so I uninstalled it)
You get my picture.
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Posted: 2003-02-24 12:19
