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Doesn't SHUT DOWN.

I was using the radio at the time - maybe that was the cause.....

Hmm, neither for me. I pulled the battery once. Another time I left it. It was more than 2 mins. I sort of gave up and did something else, and when i came back it was off (it wsa powering down because of low battery). No idea if it powered down properly or ran out of power shutting down. I'd imagine that they phones are designed to power down when there's actually still a fair amount of juice, just so that it can unmount the card, close/purge files etc. Better to waste a few mins power than to corrupt data.
 
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Mine has never not shutdown. But it did take 4 or 5 mins to shutdown yesterday.

That's just it - how many people left it as long as 5 mins before pulling the battery? What takes 5 mins to do on a 1ghz cpu anyway? It's some crappy hardware/driver problem no doubt, just like it is on Windows (although my Ubuntu box never has a problem shutting down)
 
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well I have had it shutting down for 10 minutes and finally got fed up.

I agree it is usually when some other app is running in background but it is not always FM radio and I don't use bluetooth.

The first time it happened i was just browsing through photos i had taken. The most recent time I had "music" app running - the reason for shutting down being music app was missing abuot 2,000 songs and my playlists were gone....
 
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