[B]Nokia N900 is death[/B]
 

Dear maemo users,

Yesterday when I charged my phone and got to work my Nokia N900 turned itself off after my break I looked at the phone if i had some missed calls i discovered it was off.When I tried to turn it back on there wasn't any reaction no light,no vibration and no led light. First I thought the battery is flat so because I charge my phone every night. I changed the battery from my Nokia X6 with my Nokia N900 battery but still the phone didn't boot.

After a search on google I found a familiar that the phone is possibly bricked so I flashed my N900 when it was finished I turned it on still no responding. The people who had a bricked device had a vibration and Nokia welcome screen and I didn't. The problem is very weird and I don't know what I did wrong.

Now when I turn my phone back on the first keys on the left and the right started to blink still no light on screen. Iv'e kept the phone on all night thinking maybe it would fix itself but It didn't.

Now i have readed about the same problem people had on a Nokia N97 they had a three key combined code Shift + Space + Backspace (+ power button ) and the phone worked again. I tried it but i didn't workout for me.

Does anybody know to problem or a solution to help me?

Thanks for your help!! I appreciate it.

Kinds Regards,

fabolous

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If it's a hardware problem, take it to a Nokia repair center.

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I'm not sure if it is a hardware problem.. but I tried many solutions.. One thing is sure.. the phone has been to long on the charger. I'm gonna wait till monday and bring the phone to a Nokia Service Point second time in a month.:S

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Before getting in details. I have little trouble following your story because of your usage of "on". When device is on? IMHO if you press power button and something happens e.g. screen lights up, you see led then it goes on but doesn't BOOT. So your device goes on but doesn't boot it's OS. For example you could flash it but only way to flash it is to power it on :|

So first question. Did you flash it with both images: Vanilla, Fiasco?
WARNING flashing with vanilla (emmc) deletes all your personal data.Copy at least Mydocs folder from your device to computer, IIRC should be possible even if n900 is not on.

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Like I said before you don't see any light only the keys are lightning up. The computer recognize/sees the phone and I can enter all the directory's however the phone doesn't boot at all no vibration at startup. I flashed it using this guide http://maemofanatics.com/how-to-flash-your-nokia-n900/. Because I'm not that good at flashing thoo.

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hmmm... maybe the screen is dead?

if you can flash the phone then phone can at least enter the bootloader. when you're flashing the phone, do you see anything on the screen? note that the screen's backlight is off so you may have to tilt it at an angle to see.

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Follow this guide:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_f...ndows_7_32-bit

(I would advise to leave "-R" away when flashing fiasco because it just makes device reboot and actually we do not want it when we are going to next flash emmc)

So
- First flash your fiasco (you did this already but do it again), without -R switch in the end
(Please understand that flashing vanilla makes all your messages and contacts disappear from your N900, only stuff what is on your Sim car will stay)
- Follow guide and download Vanilla image from same place where you downloaded your fiasco image
- Run flasher as advised in guide. (filenames for images might be different but leave switches)
- Device should reboot

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Hmmm. When you flashed/during flashing did the screen turn on?

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I will take a look when I get home I'm at work now. Yesterday when I flashed the phone it was already night so I couldn't see. But if the screen is dead the led and vibration function would do it right? But they don't respond either.

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No it didn't no reaction at all from screen and led but maybe because it was evening I didn't see. I'm gonna try again in a couple of hours.

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If the screen doesn't light up when you are flashing it. (pressing "u" and connecting usb should boot it up to white Nokia screen with usb icon in top corner") then you should take it to Nokia care. Flashing will not help on that .

.edit
And backup. I don't know how to backup device when you can't boot it up. Sorry.

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If you don't have this kind of expertise with the device, perhaps you shoud return it to a repair point or the shop you bought it in, and ask them to repair it in warranty.

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I do have expirience with computers I'm a systemadministrator but I didn't do flashing that much only PSP when it was bricked. But if there is no other option to bring my Nokia N900 back to life I will have to go to the Nokia Servicepoint. Because the problem is very weird after the charging the device powered off.. and thats just weird.

Next week I'm planning to bring the device to the store.

I will keep you all up to date. :)

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If you had a ssh server installed onto your phone you could try to ssh into it and see if that works. If it works, then you could install a VNC -server into it through ssh and then remotely connect to your N900. That way you could create backup inside the phone before taking it to Nokia Care.

Sounds like a dead screen to me.

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Love the title:
True or untrue?

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This is very unnormal because i wasn't rude with the device or anything. I'm going to the Nokia Care today.

Wish me luck.

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What you think? sure it is.. or he got drunk and landed in a coma.. but one thing is for sure my device is KO..!!

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my NokiaN900 is at the NokiaServicePoint they said it will be finished on tuesday wich I doubt but we will see.

To be continued.. ;)

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Today I picked up my NokiaN900 @ my local Service Point. He was ready for pickup Monthday :) thoo but didn't have time to pick it up now is Friday. They said my flex cable and slide were defect.. and they have replaced it. But still I really don't know the real problem what made the cause. It's all good I didn't have to pay it was under guarantee so FREE as long as my phone works. My music en phonenumbers are still on the phone memory. :D:D

I got only one more problem when my phone boot's I see the configuration and details I didn't had before.As you can see I flashed the phone myself.. Could be this be the reason? What can I do to make this disappear again.

thx

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Thx mate... :D!!

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This happens to my phone quite often after charging. I have to remove the battery and reinstall it to get it to boot again.

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Mr Ripper himself.....its true....my phone wakes up at night and its looking for innocent souls to take with him,specifically iphone users souls.....ehehe

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I've disabbled r&d mode now everything is fine.. but when I try to install some apps it says: missing packages:

libqt4-core(>=4.6.2~git20100224)
libqt4-dbus(>=4.6.2~git20100224)
libqt4-gui(>=4.6.2~git20100224)
libc6 (>= 2.5.0-1), libgcc1 (>= 4.2.1),
libqt4-maemo5-core (>= 4.6.2~git20100212),
libqt4-maemo5-dbus (>= 4.6.2~git20100212),
libqt4-maemo5-gui (>= 4.6.2~git20100212),
libqt4-maemo5-maemo5 (>= 4.6.2~git20100212),
libqt4-maemo5-xml (>= 4.6.2~git20100212), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1)

I hope there will be a maemo update to fix this soon.. or is there some other solution?