Ok, on a beautiful day [aka 2 days back], I turned on the Atom and realized that there’s a weirdest problem I’ve ever seen. It seems like the “up-arrow” button (or “north” in the d-pad) is being pressed all the time without being released. If I activate the start menu, for example, it would just automatically going through all the items bottom to top and back again.

First I thought it was a software problem, so I soft-reset it several times. That didn’t help. But I found out something. If the atom was soft-reset, the problem does not appear until a hardware button is pressed [ie you can enjoy the touch-screen all you want]

So, I tried hard-resetting. Didn’t help either. So I talked to myself, why not try some different ROM? So I did, tried it with 2 older ROMs from O2 (I have all the ROMs released). Didn’t help.

It was frustrating because along with “keypad problem” you get another one free: there’s no way to turn off the Atom. Try it yourself, holding an arrow button and press the power one, see if it turned off. So, I left the battery drain, just to see how it’d be.

After an afternoon, the atom drained completely. So I had to recharged it and wait. Surprisingly, after charged again, the problem seemed to go away! Thank god…

Now, I was trying to reproduce the problem again but no luck (or should I call it luck). After a few hours leaving it alone, when turned on, it was doing it again! I was so mad, I would have banged the thing on to the wall if I had another phone to use atm. Anyways, I left it to drain the battery and there it was, working again, for the whole night

This morning, when I woke up, guess what, it was doing it AGAIN!!!

I swear to god, this will be my last QUANTA device, ever! I’ll be getting rid of it, anyone wants to buy?