"James [on his mailserver]" wrote: > > A bit off topic, but interesting nontheless; > > i crashed my mobile phone! > > Panasonic G450, UK Vodafone > > it said Lo Battery, i pressed a key (probably 5) and the backlight came > on, then the battery ran out and it said Phone Shutting Down and stayed > that way until i removed it's battery! when i tried to power it up it > didn't, had to plug the charger in... > > anyone else had any weird experiences with embedded programs like this? > (i seem to have a knack at making things fail, it's happened to my Atari > Lynx, Personal CD Player (i could make the backlight flash patterns!) and > my MD recorder killed a disc for no good reason) > Yeah, they do some wierd things every now and then for a wide variety of reasons. Sometimes just shutting the device off for a while & removing the power supply or a battery, letting it sit for awhile and then power it up again and they seem to work fine again. I've had several such devices fail and after a breif "cooling off period", of a few hours to a day or so, they all started working fine again. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local mailserver <landreau.ruffe.edu> , remote <ns.computer.net> Smoke a Lucky Strike!
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