N93i bug: It turns itself off
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 PM PST In Devices
My days with the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N93i are ending, it’s going to be sent back on Monday. One thing that I’ve been experiencing is shutdowns when closing the device.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Nokia N93i, it is a clamshell form factor device. I’m a pretty strong guy, not like Finland’s Jouko Ahola, but pretty powerful none the less. When closing the N93i too forcefully it powers off. I think the battery is dislodging itself temporarily. The weird thing is I can’t reproduce the bug.
This has been happening to me at least every other day since owning the device. I’ve reseated the battery, but that doesn’t help much.
Any of the other N93i testers have similar experiences?
Update: Less than 2 hours after this post I just experienced another shutdown.
Unfortunatly my e61 does this occasionally too… although it’s only happened about 3 times since I’ve owned it, it’s on my mind because it did it yesterday when trying to switch themes.
-olly
My E61 is built like a tank. It is one of the most reliable phones I’ve ever had.
I have made it crash several times however. No one is perfect.
Yep, I had the very same problem. Nothing worse than a phone that just cuts out like that.
Same here, For me its only happen when i closed the flip hard enough .
James: Huge thanks for confirming the bug. I thought I might have had a broken device, but apparently you’re experiencing the same symptom.
I have had few sudden restarts with the brand new N93i in last two days, but no shut downs or power offs.
i see this too on my N93 with the latest firmware
20.0.058 21-10-06 RM-55 N93 (01.01)
thought it was because the flash button got pressed while in my pocket
still investigating this!
Hey there, I have been experiencing the same problem with my nokia n93i as well..a few times a day. Hopefully this is a firmware problem and not a hardware`issue.
hey, got n93i 3 days ago and same thing happened to me few times already: shuttings off
usualy in stand by mode, never while talking or surfing.
it pisses me off, never know is it online im pocket.
I uped sw to newest ver, but same thing happens.
shame on you, Nokia! first and last time!
same here!!! nokia please fix the damn problem
yes i am having the same problem i have already updated my n93i to the latest firmware also… it sucks cause i went froma phone that is super reliable to a phone that im constantly checking in fear that i have closed it too hard hence turning off the phone.
Same thing happened to my N93i.
Shut itself off sometimes. Most of the time, is when I close the flip.
Has anyone taked to nokia about this?
damn! same problem here, random shutdowns, mostly after closing the phone. i would be glad if this turns a out a firmware problem cause software is easy to fix. it would be much worse if nokia did something wrong at design stage
I’ve the same problem. Phone randomly turns off. It stopped doing that for a while when an application called Apps1 or something had crashed. Or maybe your guess is right about the contacts gettting loose. Will duct-taping solve the problem?
It’s definitely not the batteries though since it turns itself off even when not moved/closed …etc.
well da problom is dat da phone switches off by itslef due to load….
da ram ov da phone gets full and due to a burden it turns offf..
da solution is dis dat try to install less applications and use little memory card…..
i hope it will work out!!!!!!!!!1