N8 Dies after 48hrs

My N8 turned it's self off & won't restart after only 48hrs of me owning, battery power was fine, it had been charged, it just shut down & refuses to restart. Not going to bother with trying hard restart, it's going back.

I will probabaly give N8 another shot & get a direct replacement, but Nokia loyalty is wearing very thin,  more trouble with replacement & I'm of in search of Droid or iPhone.

I hope to be able to leave some positive posts in the futre!

Is this an isolated incident or has anyone els experianced the same?

I experience the same problem here.less than 24 hours, my N8 suddenly off by itself.very frustrating with it.already sent to Nokia Care centre and still waiting for it...

I had exactly the same problem on friday. I turn it on and it was working fine, turned it off put my sim card in, then turned it back on, then it crashed, turned off and wouldn't turn back on or charge up for a good half hour, so i sent it back today

Battery life varies a lot.  I can drain mine doing about the same thing in under 2 days or 4 days just depending on what's running.

I doubt the phones are broken at all.  If the battery is low, the phone will not power on.  It will not power on just from being plugged in.  It has to gain enough charge.  With a dead battery, I do find this to be longer than a half hour.  Also depending on what you were dinking around with, you may end up having to do a hard reset to get it to come back on.  Hold it for 8 seconds for the buzzing.  Then restart by holding it down for a few seconds and waiting for the buzzing.  Depending on how low it is, it may not boot up.  Also the bootup isn't short, so you may very well wait a minute just to get the Nokia hands animation.

The one thing I do not like about this phone is that it doesn't really tell you much about what's going on.  There are no indicators of what it's doing.  Even the charge indicator doesn't really update.  It sits there saying 10% forever.  I wish it would have a boot up loading screen, an "action" icon of some sort, maybe even use the charge led as a "harddrive reading" kind of indicator to mimic a computer when it's doing something.  It just doesn't tell you anything.  You sort of just wait.

I think most of you are just not very patient.

Patience is not the issue here I'm affraid, my paticualr phone is dead, still awaiting a replacement, they are are on backorder here in the UK also. Vodafone tell me they have had a large amount of the same issue with the first batch that went out. I hope my new one comes soon & I become a satifiead N8 owner, watch this space!

There's definitely a charging issue here... There are several reports of N8's not booting up even after lengthy overnight charges... 

With every new product release there's always going to be a few lemons... Antennagate, Glue not drying completely under screens, constant reboots....  I remember buying the 1st gen Xbox when it came out and it wouldn't load up any games discs out of the box....  I had to call customer service and they walked me through a special key press in the menu to reboot and reformat my system which solved my problems.....  I"m thinking our N8 boot issue is something more on the hardware side.....  .... Oh well,, at least my wife's N8 is working,,, that saves me a little headache.....

The big thing is this phone isn't very visual about what it's doing.  It could be stupid stuff like it not charging when you think it is charging.  You may leave it hooked up overnight and may not have charged at all.  Realize that it isn't just the phone but the PC too and the USB software.  It might be that the software didn't install properly or messed up (requiring a PC reboot to work).  It's easy to blame the phone because it's new and doing something unexpected, but with all things like this, there can be a LOT of potential issues.  You sort of have to troubleshoot first and weed out all the possibilities.

I do bring this up because my laptop messed up the USB driver install the first time.  I had to manually remove it, restart the PC, and have it find the phone again and install the driver.  I've had the PC not recognize the phone once and not start the charging.  Things like this happen, and it's not just the phone.  Software is stupid sometimes.  It's why we have the joy of restarting Windows from time to time.  We may even need to do a hard reset of the N8 from time to time due to weird bugs.  Growing up in the PC age has taught me that software is buggy, and a lot of things fail for a lot of reasons.  There are several things working together just to make the phone charge its battery.

Are some phones bad?  Probably.  Are a number of the phones sent back probably fine?  Probably.

hi all

just changed to another charger ac-8e and the n8 got life....  but i just wonder if ac-8e is compatible with n8

just for you information.