Help DOA or battery problem

Hey Folks I just received my Green one and it is 8pm and guess what - i opened it s happy and that was it. It does not want to start. I thought the battery is discharged but the charging indicator does not work as well - neither the AC neither VIA USB neither with both. However, I saw it 3 times blinking for 1/10 of sec white light while I was plug in in and out. It's been on the charger for 1 hour - no effect. Please advice I waited this beauty for more than a month...

Ohhh! I realy understand this is often problem of this device... This problem appeared after several days and now I just can't use it and returned my old phone. Terrible. I hope Nokia's people watch this forum. Heeeeelppppp!

I've bought my N8 at O2 Germany, and have the same problem. I did turn off WLan scan, bluetooth, GPS, and email syncro. The fact is that simply the battery sucks. I have talked to a couple of folks and did not have any kind of problem with this. My N8 is Finnish, if matters. So what the hell do I have to do?

I just had the same problem with mine. Tried several different chargers and places to charge. Then my husband found the instructions for rebooting - holding the startbutton in for 8 sec until it buzzes three times. It buzzed and I tried to start it, with no luck. Then I found the three-finger-hold for hard rebooting - one finger pressing the volume down button on the right side, one finger on the camera button also on the right side and one on the menu button in front. I did so, thought nothing happend, then I repeated the "pressing the startbutten for eight sec". It buzzed three times and I pushed the startbutton one time and waited... and it started

Hope it can be of help for any of you others.

Toril

This phone comes to you discharged.  It has very little visual whether it's on, off, charging, or not.  This means you're pretty clueless when you first get the phone.  I too had trouble knowing if I was charging the phone at all or if I actually turned it on or just turned it off.  Until the phone has enough charge, it will NOT turn on.  When forced off like this, off and on are pretty much the same thing.

My suggestion is to do a force off, holding the power button for 8 seconds.  This is a hard reset.  This is also the only way to turn off the phone if a program freezes (will not do a hard reset in this situation).  Then you hold for 3 seconds and turn it back on.  Now you know it's on.  Plug it in and leave it for several hours.  Some phones can turn on only hafter a few minutes once plugged in, but this one doesn't.  If the battery is low enough to be forced off, it won't turn on for an hour or two.  Don't expect it to.  Also, if you are charging via USB, the computer needs to see the phone and properly install the USB drivers.  Make sure the computer installs the drivers properly.  Mine didn't the first time, so don't assume it did install or install properly.