n900 Won't boot anymore
 

Hi,

I have a problem with my n900. It just won't boot anymore. When I press the top-button it will show the white background with the nokia logo and I get the vibrition feedback. (no white LED light) Then it stays there for a while and after a while it shuts itself down.

I tried to reflash, didn't make any difference.

My battery is fully charged.

I've had some more problems with my n900 in the past:

*The indicator LED kept flashing or was solid and wouldn't go away, only after removing the battery.

*The nokia wouldn't go directly in stand-by mode by double pressing the top button or sliding the side button, eventually after a couple of seconds it would go in stand-by.

I have not installed anything risky I think, the only third-party apps where: flashlight, vgba, drsnes, zoutube, witter, custom operator tag and the cpu usage meter.

I searched this forum but I couldn't find anything similar so I made my own thread.

I hope you guys have an solution for my problem, and sorry for any possible grammar or word mistakes, my English is not that good.

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

Curious as to what the colour of the LED that was flashing/blinking was (Red means error)
Can you try reflsahing the device? http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_f...ng_your_device

Edit: sorry, didn't notice you already reflashed.

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

What does "I TRIED to reflash. Didn't make any difference" mean? Did you reflash? What happened?

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

@MohammadAG the colour of the LED that keeped on was the color it was supposed to be, so with an text-message blue, while charging orange, while starting white, but it kept flashing even when I had read the text-message, also when I unplugged the device after fully charging, the green light kept on etc.

@geneven I have flashed my n900 twice, the first time my n900 worked great again but just for one day, then when I turned it of it wouldn't start anymore, so I flashed it again, but now it dousn't start anymore as I mentioned.

Btw both times the flasher reported that everyting went succesfull.
I flashed the device with the file: "RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin"

I live in the Netherlands so the file should be the good one right?.

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

Sry for bumping.

I have the exact same problem, led wouldnt stop flashing and when I rebooted it wouldnt boot. I have also tried flashing (succesfully) with no luck. Have you found any sollution?

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

I too am having a problem with my N900 not booting past the white NOKIA screen. Tried reflashing twice, but no change. Help!

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

To be more specific, I am able to get the phone into USB mode, but when I attempt to flash, nothing happens. No error messages in the command line, but the phone light doesn't flash and it doesn't reboot. It just sits there with the dimmed NOKIA logo and a solid yellow light...

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

whats the last thing u did?
and do u think caused it?

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

Well, I installed Fcam, or at least attempted to. That caused the phone to go into a loop of constant rebooting, so I flashed it and then installed fcam and all seemed to be ok, except that after a while, I noticed things were a little different. Some software that I redownloaded didn't work or didn't appear, and I could no longer access the ovi store. I would get a message saying that I had to upgrade Maemo 5! So I tried to do SSU update and apparently something went wrong...

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

In my case, I think it is a hardware malfunction. Because in 2 of the hundreds of times I tried to boot it the boot screen (the one with the nokia logo) had a text on top saying something along the lines "device malfunction. The device will shutdown in 10", which ofc counted down until it shut down. I will contact nokia tomorrow when their support opens to see how I should proceed.

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

did you reflash both image and emmc?

also have you tried not installing fcam and seeing if you can re-start without any problems..

lastly, is your phone overclocked, I recall this being incompatible with fcam, but i think it was getting fixed....havent kept up with the most recent info on this.

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

If you reflashed and it was good for a whole day.. then i bet it is a program that causes the pain. You probably installed it before and then later installed it again. With the same result.

What happens if you reflash both images and then try to run it dry for a while? Meaning not installing anything.

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

I'm going to reflash both images again and see what happens. Any more info on the ovi store message? I've noticed a few other people have posted that they've received the same message about having to upgrade Maemo 5 before they can access the store.

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

do you have the hide user agent installed, this was a problem where the hiding of the microb type made ovi think you did not have an updated version of maemo...

back OT, did any of the above help the OP??

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

fcam is known to have issues with titans kernel
maybe thats why?
sorry, i didnt try fcam coz it has issues with titans and im waiting for a stable release for either/both

Re: n900 Won't boot anymore
 

I was finally able to successfully reflash after switching to a different desktop computer. However, I am still receiving the screen from Ovi Store telling me that I must upgrade my Maemo 5. This is immediately following a reflash to PR 1.2.
P.S.
I've never had the "Hide Your User Agent" installed. Thanks to everyone for their help so far. If anyone can think of another reason why I might not be able to access the Ovi store, please let me know.
Cheers,
JH

N900 not recognized as N900
 

So, after reflashing, I was able to restart my n900. Now I'm having a new issue. I've looked on these boards for postings describing something similar, but couldn't find anything, so here goes...
It seems that after flashing to the latest U.S. PR 1.2, not only can I not access the Ovi Store, but when I attempt to download Firefox, I get a message saying that it is not available for my device. This is similar to the message that I get when I attempt to access the Ovi Store, when I am instructed to "update my N900." Of course when I do so, no update is available. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.