sonyslave
06-02-2003, 07:25 AM
I've had an NX70v for 5 months with no problems-running all kinds of programs, wonderslik, but no hacks.
I bought an NX60 for my girlfriend 6 days ago and didn't load anything exotic onto it. I tried to keep it as simple for her and operationally stable as possible.
But then it would not power up. While on it worked fine, but once it was turned off it would not turn back on. The first time it happened she thought the battery had died. She put it in the charger for awhile. The orange light was on but it would not power up in the charger. She did a soft reset and it came back to life. She opened the clie datebook app to add date info. then turned it off and again it would not power up. Another soft reset and it came back to life. While I watched it power up I noticed that the battery icon indicated "full". Then she opened the clie datebook app again then exited to home and once turned off it would not power up even with a "tap" (short push of the resect button) soft reset. So we did a hard reset, then we deleted everything on the memory stick and it came back and functioned normally for two hours then again it would not power up once turned off. Instead of doing another hard reset I held in the reset button for about 12 seconds and it soft booted up. Also, it won't beep when it's in the "dead" state if the memory stick it removed or inserted.
Ok it just got weirder - I did another hard boot and everything went fine ("delete all files? yes!"). I got to the home/menu screen and then the display started flickering and fading to all white. At the same time the speaker began crackling and emiting a coarse tone. I figured something inside was shorting/self destructing so I tried to turn it off. IT WOULDN'T POWER DOWN! In desperation I tried another soft boot - same death fade to white, with coarse tone but this time during the black "Sony" logo intro screen. I engaged hold switch to and rebooted again to try and prevent the unit from powering up. It worked.
Another hard reset. The unit seems to work properly until I enter data into the Sony datebook app.-(I'm only running only the rom based programs that load after a hard reset). Again it won't power back up.
Sorry for such a long post but I wanted to included as much detail in case someone had a solution/or it interested in technical issues and problems. So far my solution is a trip back to CompUSA.
I bought an NX60 for my girlfriend 6 days ago and didn't load anything exotic onto it. I tried to keep it as simple for her and operationally stable as possible.
But then it would not power up. While on it worked fine, but once it was turned off it would not turn back on. The first time it happened she thought the battery had died. She put it in the charger for awhile. The orange light was on but it would not power up in the charger. She did a soft reset and it came back to life. She opened the clie datebook app to add date info. then turned it off and again it would not power up. Another soft reset and it came back to life. While I watched it power up I noticed that the battery icon indicated "full". Then she opened the clie datebook app again then exited to home and once turned off it would not power up even with a "tap" (short push of the resect button) soft reset. So we did a hard reset, then we deleted everything on the memory stick and it came back and functioned normally for two hours then again it would not power up once turned off. Instead of doing another hard reset I held in the reset button for about 12 seconds and it soft booted up. Also, it won't beep when it's in the "dead" state if the memory stick it removed or inserted.
Ok it just got weirder - I did another hard boot and everything went fine ("delete all files? yes!"). I got to the home/menu screen and then the display started flickering and fading to all white. At the same time the speaker began crackling and emiting a coarse tone. I figured something inside was shorting/self destructing so I tried to turn it off. IT WOULDN'T POWER DOWN! In desperation I tried another soft boot - same death fade to white, with coarse tone but this time during the black "Sony" logo intro screen. I engaged hold switch to and rebooted again to try and prevent the unit from powering up. It worked.
Another hard reset. The unit seems to work properly until I enter data into the Sony datebook app.-(I'm only running only the rom based programs that load after a hard reset). Again it won't power back up.
Sorry for such a long post but I wanted to included as much detail in case someone had a solution/or it interested in technical issues and problems. So far my solution is a trip back to CompUSA.