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Sidekick Slide Design Flaw Causes Resets?

Boy Genius reports that Sidekick Slide users are getting sudden restarts after sliding the screen up and down a few times. The cause? Apparently a build flaw that has too big of a gap between the contacts for the battery and the connector on the phone. Telstra, an Australian company, seems to be having similar problems on their version of the Motorola device called the Hiptop Slide. A temporary solution is to shove a piece of paper—maybe a business card—between the wall and the battery. This happening to any of you? [Boy Genius]

3:45 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Jason Chen
9,014 views, 8 comments

Latest by LauPan: The sidekick has been sliding for a while. It was cool in the beginning however once HTC came on the more »

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MacBook Shutdown Problem Solved: Little Dab O' Tape'll Do Ya

Is your MacBook shutting down by itself? A German dude came up with a solution to this problem, caused by a heat sensor cable that's too close to the heatsink on the CPU. That heatsink expands when the MacBook gets hot, to the point where it actually touches and melts the insulation on the heat sensor cable, shorting it out and turning off the computer. More »

1:01 PM on Tue Sep 5 2006
By Charlie White
744 views, 3 comments

Latest by PTrack88: No, you wouldn't find this on any Windows PC. Just an eMachines Pc. Every other PC has enough going wrong, its more »