This is a fate worse than death..
 

I've just installed the "recaller" call recording app, and it's completley buggered my N900.

It keeps rebooting. It'll start up, show a random collection of my desktop icons for about a second, then turn off and reboot again. Constantly.

I'm guessing i'll have to flash it but that brings me to the real problem - getting it into flashing mode. I've tried holding "U" and plugging it into my PC via USB, but nothing happens. Am I missing something?

EDIT - sorry, i've gone and posted this in the Maemo category, instead of the N900 one. Can a mod move it for me? thanks.

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

Re-read the page.

Phone should be off when flashing. U should be down when plugged and when flashed. There is no "hello you've done it" because the OS is offline.

Follow the wiki to the letter. It works, thousands have flashed just fine.

ETA: I doubt recaller is at fault, it does precisely nothing while not running. Not excluding it, either, but likely coincidence? I have it installed, no issues.

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I have read the instructions to the letter, but the problem is with putting the N900 in flashing mode. Flasher-3.5 is fine, just says "Suitable USB device not found, waiting."

I've tried connecting the USB cable while holding U over and over, and nothing is happening. The phone stays dead, unless I turn it on, then it goes into it's cycle of rebooting until I remove the battery.

The battery is full, so it can't be that. What the hell is happening??

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

Hi Adam,

What OS are you using on your PC.

The first thing I did upon unboxing my phone was kill it by failing a firmware upgrade. When I tried to follow the reflash instructions in Windows 7 64 bit, windows could not find a driver for the phone in usb mode (holding U while turning on the phone). When this happened the flasher-3.5 program behaved exactly as you described... just waiting for the phone to show up.

I ended up switching over to another computer in the house and was able to flash just fine. Hopefully you can give that a try if this is your issue.

J

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

YOu can install Virtual PC or VmWare and install a Windows XP or something like that and flash your phone. I did this with my N900 and it works like a charm :)

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

Thanks jrox, I tried it on my old XP computer and it worked fine.
BUT, after flashing, it won't pick up my Vodafone SIM card. I just get a little icon of a SIM card with a red line through it, next to my battery meter. Which makes it a little bit... useless.

How do I fix this? Would flashing the eMMC help?

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

That's strange. Try removing the sim and booting it up. Then once up, shut it back down and put the sim back in. I wonder if your sim flipped out causing your odd behavior in the first place.

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shouldn't this be a fate worse than a fate worse than dead?

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Did you flash with the latest firmware?
Had the same prob after flashing the .48 firmware even tough had the current firmware running before...
Flashing again with latest firmware solved the prob!
(eMMC flash did not help in my case ...)

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Yes, I flashed with the latest firmware, and I've tried putting the SIM in another phone. It works fine. I've also tried putting a different SIM in the N900 - no luck.

I'm edging closer to an assisted suicide here.... help?

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Have you tried flashing the eMMC also?

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Yeah, made no difference at all.

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

Have you tried taking the SIM out and putting it back in? Reflashing shouldn't affect this SIM, and there's been no mention of this happening on the forums that I can recall.

Re: This is a fate worse than death.. - wiki Win 7 update
 

Thanks for mentioning this, I've added a note to the Wiki. http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...roubleshooting

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

Yeah, of course. I've tried that many, many times.
How would I be able to try the SIM in another phone without doing so?

I'm starting to fear that it may be a hardware problem, that the N900's sim reader is dead, somehow.

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

Battery might be low. Try charging the phone using a desktop charger before flashing.

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Did you fix this?
If so , please post how .

( I dont need to know, but would be very useful for any one else searching )


Thanks
G

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

There is another thread regarding unrecognized SIM Card problem:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36447

Maybe there is some useful info for you!?

Re: This is a fate worse than death..
 

Recaller has been working excellent for me...just throwing this in there so people don't think that this app is buggy or anything. Guess something went wrong on your end.

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ive now got this problem, phone wont recognise sim, HELP!!!!!

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Swappings SIM caused me trouble as well. Giffgaff to O2 and back to Giffgaff caused home screens to crawl, so I swapped back and left alone.