URGENT!!! -5800 is being deaded- URGENT!!!

Hi People,
I have had my Nokia 5800 for about 6 months, and I have always gloated at my aunt with her N97 but now I fear it is my time to be laughed at as my 5800 is in a coma you could say!
Here's the problem, so read carefully!:
I woke up one morning and I looked at my phone, it had only one battery life bar left as I had it play music all night, forgetting to plug it to a charger!
It eventually concked out, fine.
I put it onto charge and tried switching it on, after 4-5 attempts it finally turned on.
While I was using it out and about in the day, I noticed significant keyboard travel problems, as the phone noticed the touch about 2 secs after!
I checked the memory, it was fine, not too full just fine.
The next day I go to a rugby match, I use it on outdoor mode and then after it had finished I heard a song on the radio and I liked it! So obviously I downloaded it, it downloaded fine without any problems, it was in a 3G area, or rather a 3.5 G area!
When I tried playing it, it kept on saying "Verifying License Information", normally this takes 1 sec if this is to happen.
It took longer.
I thought I should turn it off and turn it back on, I have done this before so I thought it would work.
As you can probably imagine, it didn't.
I tried turing it on again, but all it did was show the Nokia logo like it would when turning on the phone like normal.
I left it like that, and it did that for 2 hours without a problem.
It eventually ran out of charge, so I put it on charge and tried to turn it on but all it did was show the Nokia logo!
I have tried turning it on for 2 days, bearing in mind I have tried taking the battery putting it back in etc.
So, my question for you, or rather my challenge for you is too fix this for me please!
I am going to get quotes from two official Nokia dealers and see what they say.
The only thing it does is turn itself off when I tell it to (hit the power button) and it does that only once!
If anyone could solve this I will love them!!!
Oh yes I forgot to mention, I don't really want to Hard Reset it because you know what will happen!
Many Thanks,
Chater!
P.S: If I have made a spelling mistake in this I am going to kill myself!!! lol
Hope you found my posts helpful hit that Kudos button please!
Chater Jordan E70 >>> E65 >>> 5800

Take the battery out for 10 min and pull out your memorycard. After 10 min, put battery back (NOT memorycard) and try to boot your device. - If it boots correctly and everything seems fine, it would be a damaged or corrupted memorycard. Try to format the memorycard first and se if it works, or you will need to buy a new one (formating will delete everything ont it, so try connecting it to a pc using a memcardslot and backup and format from there).
If it still won't turn on, you will need to try the hard reset unless you wanna go to a Nokia care centre ( I think that might be the best solution anyway).

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Still ashamed of using 5800, and being the butt o...

Just before posting this message, I saw a few comments about N97, and I can understand exactly the disappointment and frustration these users are, because for the past 4 months, these are the agonies I experienced.
Want to reiterate, over the past 9 years, I only use Nokia phones, impressed with each phone that I change, the functionality, the speed, their thoughtfulness for users, reliability. All until I made the ultimate mistake of changing to a 5800XM
Just want to ask, how did the development of the S60 5th edition go about. Because I still feel that each screen, each module is designed by a seperate person. What do I mean?
For example, Writing a SMS has a different layout for different language. Writing in English and other language for example, different screen [of course I notice there is only left and right button for English and 'Up down left right' buttons for other languages. The Green Tick placement is different.
I don't know how other Nokia users feel, but being in an area whereby we do use multiple language to write and reply SMS, this is terribly irritating.
Why am I irritated? Simple reason being, in the other phones [eg 6280], simple, phones give better User Interface [UI], consistent, functional, well thought out. And here suppose to be a new phone, and the functionality has gone back equivalent of 5 years ago.
Guess these modules are written by 2 different person, and they both have never shared on how to improve the module together. Plus I guess the author of these modules come from an area whereby they will only write SMS in one language only and never experience how users need to switch between languages, or even multiple languages within 1 SMS.
I can expect people helping Nokia to explain.. oh.. it's a new software on S60 5 EDITION. Things are new, lots of development needed, untested. What I cannot understand is, even if they just had followed their previous successful formula of UI, what could be wrong? Just because it is a new software, functionality has to suffer a total loss?
Also the excuse of 'oh, you must understand, this is touch based, and it is different'. I find it one of the worst excuse. Touch based means more intuitive. So Why can't it just be the same level of functionality, with only having to touch. Instead, they come up with new formats which they try to be creative with their UI and failed miserably.
Challenge for the dear people at Nokia who did the UI for 5800 [and now N97 I guess since they use the same software].
1) Select a user in your phonebook and prepare to send him/her a SMS.
2) Write a SMS in English, but suddenly you need to key in 10 characters in Chinese.
3) Click on the Green Tick.
4) Stare hard at the USER name, and can you tell me the mobile number you are sending out to? Do you know you are sending out to the correct number if the user had 2 mobile numbers, one landline number, one office number, one fax number in the phone book. Stare hard and tell me it has never occured to you , you may just need to see the number beside the USER name, just to make sure it is the correct number.
Challenge 2
1) Key in your best friend number to send him/her a SMS.
2) Send out the SMS.
3) Look at the Sent box.
4) See your best friend's name? NO!!!!!... you see your best friend's number only? BUt hey, wait a minute.. I also have his number in the PhoneBook. Why do I see the number here?
5) Oh, of course if I wanted to see the name displayed out, I will have to select his name from the phonebook, select send SMS to him, only then will I see the name displayed in the SENT box.
6) Yes yes, I can see this is a new feature, because in the other phones, with actual keypads, this has never been seen before. Numbers keyed in are recogznised by the names if they are in the PHONEBOOK list.
Challenge 3
1) Select Adaptive Search functionality.
2) Select on your PhoneBook
3) Select on the bar to search for Steven [or anyone that starts with a S]
4) Wow, all the letters pop up for you to select the key. Yes, it is a fantastic idea.
5) Ok, you found your friend's name and called him.
6) Ok.. Now go to SMS, and you can't remember his number. Select the search bar.
7) Please don't tell me you don't see the difference in the screen. Coz most likely you will see that the alphabet ends with R, and you will have to switch to the 2nd page to find the S.
8) Please be honest to us, and to yourself. Do you find that intuitive? Do you enjoy going to the second page in the SMS mode, but you get the full list for the phonebook.
9) Or is it because it is possible that different modules are done by different person who don't bother to review and see if they could have programmed it consistently?

-- Continue
Challenge 6
1) Has anyone notice how big and friend the alphanumeric keypad for SMS is? [admist all the inconsistency of different language]
2) Big nice buttons for us to press. Nice
3) Think the developer just like nice big buttons to press on the screen. But wait a minute, I need to SMS, and I'm in the SMS mode.
4) Look at the display of SMS. 4 lines [use small fonts and you get 5 or 6]. Wonderful, I get to see 6 lines maximum, and but WOW!!! I get BIG NICE numeric keypad to press - something that took up 3 QUARTERS of my wonderful huge over 3" display screen.
5) Maybe the developers felt, why would you want to key in so many lines of text. All you need is nice big buttons to press.
6) Maybe some will argue, this is to make it friendly, nice and easy to key in. Or, there's limitations to how big or small the buttons can be.
7) True, but hey.. look at the calculator layout. Yah I agree, there are some buttons which are different from the alphanumeric keypad for SMS, but look the layout and size. And look at the number of lines of display.. Don't you think that you would like to see that much of your text [if you had key in 160 characters?]
8) Or would you rather write your message, missed out something in the front of your message , press the NICE GREEN TICK BUTTON, see it displayed on a full page, select the area, then go into the TINY TEENY WEENY space, position the cursor with those NICE HUGE LEFT RIGHT [UP DOWN buttons also if you hare in different language mode} to that area which you need to change on that tiny text area.
9) Doesn't it feel good?
8) If you tell me the calculator is functional at that sizing using the keypad, what is so different from SMS texting?
9) If I know better, the keypad layouts and sizing should be interchanged between the functionality.
I guess, no one at Nokia will ever bother to read these. , or even admit to seeing all these comments.
Some can brush these comments aside.. "We can't please everyone", or "These are just wishlist. We have to look at the big picture", or "Customers will never be satisfied" or "Don't worry, they COULD be included in the next FIRMWARE update".
Or all they need to do is to believe once again that " we design phones to be used and enjoyed by everyone" and not "my developers has to do this this way , so be it"
I was curious about other touch phones, so I took a look at the various SamSang a song that was LeallyGood. First time user of their phone, and I was enjoying the intiutiveness. Guess that is what our dear Nokia developers lack, the "Human Touch". After all , they are the largest phone company in the world. Maybe they will bother about their customers and supporters, fans when they drop to being the 2nd, 3rd ,4th or last
But at least I must still admit, speed wise, 5800XM is still quite acceptable [when compared to the N96 which I made the mistake of buying in replacement to my 5800XM]. Imagine how I feel, to get 2 phones that gives nothing but headaches, heartaches, being rediculed when people see you using a Nokia phone. Double regret within 6 months. Have you waited 3 secs to respond to your selection. And the number of reboots, hanged up application, unresponsiveness..
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Firmwares frequency. Too much and nothing gets changed except "stability issues, better camera quality". What a joke, you get a phone with 3.2megapixel inbuilt... and the first pictures you take is horrible. Then with updates in firmware, the pictures gets better. Why on earth was it first released with horrible quality pictures and improved with updates? Is camera function something new for the company? Or no one bothered to test the product before launch?
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Well the next time I and any of you are in our "process" of deciding which brand of technology to buy, I'm certainly not going to consider Toshiba anymore. This is the second chance I'm giving Toshiba after having a very poor laptop AND service experience in 2000. Well, it took me 9 years to give them another shot, and I'm never going to trust them again. I told myself "well, it's a high quality Japanese brand, one that commands a premium in price that people are willing to pay so it should be an excellent product. AND if things do go pooryly, Toshiba will stand behind their name."
I was SO wrong!!! Let this be a message to all people out there, as I did read these forums before buying my product, but the NB205 was so new it didn't have many posts.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me! I'm done with you Toshiba, it's really too bad that you will not honor your brand with fair treatment of your customers.
Ming Wu

It isn't that difficult to back up the data from the hard drive. You can easily do it yourself for about $20. http://www.datarecoverytutorial.com/recover-data-from-failed-laptop-notebook/
As for Toshiba backing up your data, ALL of the manufacturer's have that same policy. NONE of them will backup the data for you nor will they guarantee that your system will be returned with the existing data intact. This is spelled out in the Warranty documents and is fairly common knowledge amongst most computer users.
If the data was that important you should have been backing it up to USB flash drives, a usb external hard drive, or some other backup device on a daily basis just for this very reason. The fact that you failed to do so doesn't make it Toshiba's problem.
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

URGENT!!! -5800 is being deaded- URGENT!!!

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