[geekmaster]

I added that factory reset flag file and did the hard power reset. This time it asked me to choose a language, which reminded me that I did do a factory reset from the menu when it was on power supply with dead battery and rebooting itself far too often. I suspect the factory reset wiped the home menu and put it into the sandboxed mode mentioned in the setup guide.

Apparently just deregistering (it was not registered when I received it) still gives you a home menu and settings menu, but a full factory reset sandboxes you in "useless" mode (where I am now, after another factory reset)...

And this time after using the factory reset flag file, it booted direcdtly to "Connect to Wi-Fi", but clicking that does nothing (just like before), as if the touchscreen was disabled...

And before this reset, the keyboard was horribly sluggish, typing registration data might delay twenty seconds, then display a couple of typed chars. Pressing shift might take 10 seconds to draw the new keyboard. It is sure VERY BUSY doing a lot of nothing useful...

And I strongly suspect that a serial jailbreak will NOT get me out of this mode, and therefore no way to install MKK or other hacks, even WITH a jailbreak key. This new sandboxed Registration mode that is described in their included "Set Up" manual is very useless if it cannot connect to Wi-Fi (as in my case).

I just pressed the power button for about six seconds or so, and I got a popup window asking if I want to Cancel, Restart, or Screen Off. But the touchscreen is not working at the moment (though it does sometimes, but no way to really test if it works at all locations)... The menus SEEMED to work before the factory reset, so touchscreen may be fine...