Question about the loose USB ports
 

Okay so I've heard all kinds of reports about loose USB ports on N900s that need to be sent back. Now my question is, if this happened to you, where was your device made? (Finland, Korea or China).
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Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

All preproduction N900 are made in Finland
All retail N900 are made in Korea
The Usb problem is fixed now for news N900 and concerns only a part of old N900 (For what I saw,the problem seem to be more present with some keyboard localisations)

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

All N900 are made in Korea. No mine is rock solid still.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

How to know where ones N900 was made and when it left a factory?

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

On the box should say Korea. Behind the battery should also say made in Korea. This is where it was made before left factory.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

So there is no free access database, where one could check with an IMEI number when the device left the factory?
Or at least, if the device was ready in 2009 or 2010?
Would think, after some date, all USB-connectors are extra checked in the factory.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

I don't think nokia would release such info. Also releasing databases with IMEI's are potentially dangerous since you can clone the IMEI to other cell phones.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

And that is dangerous because ... ?

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

... the imei uniquely identifies a phone.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

...people who nick phones will get the IMEI changed to a legit one so that the phone can be used on a network again. Where better to get IMEIs from than a list?

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

Isn't IMEI just basically a serial number also. Bigger the number in the same model, later it has left a factory?

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

For the most part yes.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

I'm sorry, but I feel that some facts need to be injected to this discussion:

The algorithm for calculating IMEI checksum is public, so anyone can make up valid numbers, no need to find a number of another phone.

If you change your device's IMEI, you are better off using an invented number than a number of another phone. If you use a number of another phone and it is reported stolen, your device will be blocked. No chance of that with an invented number.

Some networks (those in South Korea, for example) use IMEI white lists for allowing phones on the network, so you do need a valid number from a phone that is on the list, but a list from Nokia does not help anyone in that regard.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

The label on the box has the year and week number the phone was manufactured.

Re: Question about the loose USB ports
 

Not on everyone's box, unfortunately.