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Re: Am I the first to get a BRICK??

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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK (Post 388086)

Yeah, surely they would pick it up and sell it on eBay for twice its value!

Yep, on guy sold one for $895 the other day after picking it up in the Chicago store.

Re: Am I the first to get a BRICK??

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Originally Posted by wierdo (Post 388219)

Every factory has a nonzero defect rate...

A large company ordered a million custom integrated circuits from a Japanese supplier, specifying a failure rate of 0.0001%.

The shipment arrived and comprised a hundred large boxes plus one very small box. Each of the large boxes contained ten thousand ICs.

And what was packed very carefully in the small box? Why the ten faulty ICs, of course.

This story is presumably apocryphal, but it does illustrate that some companies care about quality control.

I get the impression that Nokia is one of those companies, whereas of the two LG phones bought by members of my family both were faulty on arrival and needed to be replaced.

Regards,
Roger

Re: Am I the first to get a BRICK??

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Originally Posted by 01MSport (Post 388094)

Na, and besides, it was doing a random shut down like I said before I even setup anything. I was just showing my friends the unit last week and it would recycle back to the Nokia screen like it rebooted or something. So from day one NOTHING installed it was messing up for sure. But it took 3-4 days to evolve into a brick :D

Hi,

I got my N900 yesterday and got it bricked exactly the same way as '01MSport'.

The problems started immediately after taking the phone out of the box. It goes to the Nokia screen and reboots in every five minutes. No need to dial PIN code every time though. Took me three tries to apply the wlan settings as the two first were interrupted by this unforeseeable booting. No applications were installed and it was not connected to a PC.

This morning, after during such a random boot, the system freezed totally. It stucks after the Nokia screen at dots loop with the second dot bold. Removing battery or a sim-card does not help. Always stucks at the same point.

I wonder could the initial problem be originated from an old sim card? I've told by Nokia Care center that sim cards no older than 3 years should be used. Mine was maybe 4 years old and I've had similar boot problems with the old Nokia 5500.

The device was bought from Nokia's Webshop, Finland.

Should I try to flash the system?

Cheers,
Rami

Re: Am I the first to get a BRICK??

Moi Rami

Lue tämä threadi Read this

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...hlight=bricked

There has been faulty chargers. Could it be only empty battery? Charge with USB cable or an other charger.