Thread: 800 boots 3 seconds then dies....
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Adam in NYC is offline Adam in NYC
2007-01-30 , 22:46
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#20
Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
These constant reboots seem to be a serious cause for concern. Whether it's being caused by end users, or is a Nokia fault I really don't know - mine is fine, touch wood - but either way, Nokia should be very concerned about these problems and act before these devices gain a damaging reputation.
If you are running binary apps on the Linux protected mode operating system, the OS should be able to protect the stability of the computer. You should be able to gracefully recover from a segfault but putting that GUI on top and not having a GURU monitor tell you why it segfaulted and then rebooted is so wrong. Older machines like the Amiga and even the Treo/Palm will give you a diagnostic before rebooting.

BTW, if you are using any interpretive language, this would not be happening. Good VMs usually have stable code and good default error-trapping facilities.

Oh well. Maybe I should just get my old Altair 8800 and put it in my pocket. Yes, I own one.