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Sailfish X, part 5
The other time sink was my Sailfish X smartphone.
Saturday morning I attempted to check my email. The phone became unresponsive. I turned it off. It took a very long time doing this, as demonstrated by the red LED staying lit for, it seemed, an age. I left it alone for a while, then tried to turn it back on. Nothing. I attempted to charge it. Nothing. Utterly unresponsive.
Well, since I'd paid for it I contacted Jolla Support. The automated email reminded me that they don't work weekends.
Monday morning I get a reply telling me the whole system seems unstable and that I should reflash with the latest image (it also appears the ota update didn't take). This confused me, as my device was still refusing to either turn on or charge.
The crucial bit of information was that the holding down Volume-Down or Volume-Up while plugging in to your computers USB port requires less power than even charging the battery directly from mains.
So after it had siphoned off a trickle of power I could charge it from mains once again. The battery was 0%. (It had been somewhere around 80% before all this happened.) Once charged up enough I could boot into the unstable system and get a data backup. Once fully charged I'll reflashed with the newer image.
I am extremely disappointed that this happened after I followed all Jolla's and Sony's official instructions. But hey, software does strange things. Here's hoping it was a once-off.
In related news, life without a smartphone is really pleasant.
Saturday morning I attempted to check my email. The phone became unresponsive. I turned it off. It took a very long time doing this, as demonstrated by the red LED staying lit for, it seemed, an age. I left it alone for a while, then tried to turn it back on. Nothing. I attempted to charge it. Nothing. Utterly unresponsive.
Well, since I'd paid for it I contacted Jolla Support. The automated email reminded me that they don't work weekends.
Monday morning I get a reply telling me the whole system seems unstable and that I should reflash with the latest image (it also appears the ota update didn't take). This confused me, as my device was still refusing to either turn on or charge.
The crucial bit of information was that the holding down Volume-Down or Volume-Up while plugging in to your computers USB port requires less power than even charging the battery directly from mains.
So after it had siphoned off a trickle of power I could charge it from mains once again. The battery was 0%. (It had been somewhere around 80% before all this happened.) Once charged up enough I could boot into the unstable system and get a data backup. Once fully charged I'll reflashed with the newer image.
I am extremely disappointed that this happened after I followed all Jolla's and Sony's official instructions. But hey, software does strange things. Here's hoping it was a once-off.
In related news, life without a smartphone is really pleasant.