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N93i bug: It turns itself off

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By: , IntoMobile
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 PM

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My days with the Nokia 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.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Matt C.

    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

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    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.

  • James @ The Creative Life

    Yep, I had the very same problem. Nothing worse than a phone that just cuts out like that.

  • Korokmu

    Same here, For me its only happen when i closed the flip hard enough .

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    James: Huge thanks for confirming the bug. I thought I might have had a broken device, but apparently you’re experiencing the same symptom.

  • Oliver

    I have had few sudden restarts with the brand new N93i in last two days, but no shut downs or power offs.

  • Roland Tanglao

    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!

  • Triniboy

    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.

  • sasa

    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!

  • frank

    same here!!! nokia please fix the damn problem

  • goodgrief411

    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.

  • David

    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?

  • raw

    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 :(

  • vixay

    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?

  • vixay

    It’s definitely not the batteries though since it turns itself off even when not moved/closed …etc.

  • romy

    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