Help - wont reboot
 

Hi,

my precious N900 wont boot any more. Here what I did: I did set it in offline mode and had my son playing games unti the battery was empty. After I charged it and tried to start it again, it hangs now in a dialogue "exit offline mode: yes/no". That dialogue doesn't react, it just hangs there. I already removed batteries, SIM card, memory card, but no results so far.
Any ideas what else I can try ( a part from never give it to my kids as a game console :( )? I don't want to reset the phone if I can avoid it

Thanks in advance!

Re: Help - wont reboot
 

Have you tried taking the battery out ?

Re: Help - wont reboot
 

Then never give it to your kids to play with lol

Re: Help - wont reboot
 

have you tried everything? start it with/without charger with/without usb and so on. A reflash is probably the only way.

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I did everything. Is there no shortcut I can push during the bootup to force it into phone/online mode? Or in offline mode - anything that allows me to bypass that dialogue

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Perhaps - as a last resort - you could try leave it on that screen for a while and see if it responds after a whle. Try leaving it overnight maybe?

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Sounds like vodoo to me, but at this stage ill try everything. Ill let you know tomorrow if this did the trick.

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OK, that didn't do anything either. I used the flasher tool to set it in R&D mode, but with the same result.
No brilliant ideas here any more? Please?

Re: Help - wont reboot
 

Take the battery out and left it over night. It will kill the reserve power and it will reset.
Take the sim card out and Memory card out as well.

This should work. Sometimes the sim card connection became lost.

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OK - the problem seems to be worse than what I thought. I have reflashed the phone, Now it boots as expected and asks my PIN code, but I cant enter any data. Seems that neither the touchscreen nor the keyboard has any function any longer.
Any ideas what could be wrong?

Re: Help - wont reboot
 

Did you flash fiasco and emmc?

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Nope - I am under the impression that emmc will delete any data/program changes I have done. But the OS should be wiped and updated. At the point where my phone hangs - enter the PIN code - no program could be in the way and blocking anything - or am I wrong?

Re: Help - wont reboot
 

Happened to me before (battery died and the phone refused to turn on, even when charging it).
My fix was removing the battery for more than 10 minutes, and then re-insert it and charge the phone while its off for at least 30 minutes.
After that, I could turn it on (of course I kept recharging it).
I already wrote this in another thread, but I'll repeat it again here:

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Yeah it will delete/wipe the lot. You would need to back up anything that you need.I'm not saying you definately need to do this, but it's entirely up to you. Doing both will return the device to a factory fresh state. This is your last resort as it where. Better to try eveything else first before factory reset.

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Its now back to the factory - Ill have it back in 3 weeks, with all my data gone. Lesson learned: back up regularly :-(

Re: Help - wont reboot
 

ive had this problem before
this is a wreck honestly
what you need it to flash the emmc and rootfs
try connecting it to your laptop or something have it back up some of your data
i dont know how i did it but the phone booted only when connected via usb to the PC and then as soon as i release it it shuts off
so i backed up all the data i had then hard flashed it :D
hope that works

cheers

EDIT:sorry for repeating the same info above i didnt see that there was a 2nd page :P