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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
What does actually happen if you try a hard-reset: by which I mean, holding the power button down for *a while* (~20s, possibly more. More certainly won't hurt anything besides your finger ^^)?
If you had the FL on, a good hint that the battery cutoff took is that the frontlight will turn off. You can then release the button, wait a few seconds, and just press the power button normally (which is slightly longer than the usual short suspend/resume press ;p) to power it back on.
(Since you have nightmode enabled, a good bet on what happened is an EPDC hang, Mk. 7 kernels have known issues in corner-cases not really exercised in Nickel, and nightmode is one such aggravating factor. In these instances, a hard-reboot should, well, reboot it just fine, though  ). |
I've tried various intervals, from short presses, to a couple of seconds, to 15, 20, even 40 seconds, including with a stopwatch to make sure my slow counting wasn't too fast. Only my fingers hurt.
The FL was off when it happened, if I recall correctly. Forgive my haziness on the details, but as it happened I was about to read a bit before going to sleep. I then got stressed and spent a few hours trying to fix what I thought would just take five minutes. Hopefully I can catch up on my sleep tonight.
So, suppose I would get a new one, it should just be able to reboot and everything is fine. Do I understand it correctly that nightmode is inherently more stable on Nickel? I did turn it on in Nickel, too, and I find myself wondering whether it was an option I found between the dev settings. I just love having white letters on black backgrounds, which is another reason for me to move away from paper books.