My Nokia N82, the device that stopped taking pictures one night for no apparent reason, is finally up and atom. While hanging out with a bunch of friends tonight (Flickr album here) I received a call, went outside, 5 minute conversation, then as I was walking back into the pub I decided to check my GMail. Addict I know. One of the girls says “take a picture!” I forget my phone is defective and slide the shutter down and shockingly it worked. Before I could even hit the camera button my Nokia gets possessed by a Finnish demon. My phone locks, locks so hard I need to pull the battery out.
After reassembling my device and powering it back on, it booted and displayed a memory error. The phone says the memory is full and I should delete some files. I try to hit OK, but the phone locks again, hard, hard enough that I had to pull the battery. Booting …
Second reboot finished, same error. At this point I’m about to throw this thing at someone, so I give it the old *#7370 treatment, a key code combination many Nseries fans know by heart no doubt, to fully reformat the device to factory settings.
The device reboots, but it is now stuck at the white screen before the Nokia Connecting People shows up. I leave it be for 3 minutes, give up, pull the battery again.
This is the 4th reboot and even the guy with a Sony Ericsson P990i at the table is laughing at me. It boots just fine, I take a picture just fine, go to the gallery application to send it to my friend over Bluetooth and surprise surprise there are over 4,800 items in my gallery. Apparently I left the screen shot application running and it filled up my phone’s memory, but one would think after a *#7370 treatment everything would be OK?
I’m speechless. My camera works. My phone works. I’m calling GhostBusters.
Update: Not 2 minutes after hitting publish on this article my N82, which is sitting on my desk, decides to reboot. I try to see if the camera is still functioning and I’m sad to say it isn’t. Time to call the priest.