Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

The reply I got from Nokia Care regarding a little issue I had while trying to reflash my device..

"Dear Mr. Davies, Thank you for contacting Nokia Care. We understand that you are trying to reflash your Nokia N900 software. Please be advised that we do not recommend our consumers to reflash their devices. Therefore, may we suggest that you take your mobile to the nearest Nokia Care Point (NCP) for an assistance and also for out technicians to assess your device. However, charges may apply as reflashing will void the warranty of your device. "

Maybe I missed it, but I dont remember reading anywhere else that flashing the device would void the warranty.....

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Excuse me? Woiding the warranty from flashing? I don't buy that, I need, no, request, the full source from Nokia itself to say this same. Also, how are they going to prove us, that we've flashed the device by ourselfs? Aren't they going to re-flash it anyways so why should it care? There's though the IMEI-code, which lists, as far as I know, all the firmwares and downloads for that IMEI. So yeah, I'm pretty much out of warranty then, eh? :D

Similar topic:

Nokia's policy on whether changing the N900 firmware violates warranty

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Heres the full thing..

Dear Mr. Davies, Thank you for contacting Nokia Care. We understand that you are trying to reflash your Nokia N900 software. Please be advised that we do not recommend our consumers to reflash their devices. Therefore, may we suggest that you take your mobile to the nearest Nokia Care Point (NCP) for an assistance and also for out technicians to assess your device. However, charges may apply as reflashing will void the warranty of your device.
To locate the nearest NCP in your area, please visit the link below: http://www.nokia.co.uk/home/find-a-store/store-locator For future reference, please feel free to check our website.
Kindly refer to the link below: http://www.nokia.co.uk/support You may also call our Customer Care Hotline at 0845-045-5555, Mon-Fri 9am - 7pm (except bank and public holidays).
Please do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely,
Roucelle M.
Nokia Service Professional UK & Ireland Team
Nokia Care
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Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Hmm. Well, I'll wait for the experts to join in. I know I've heard about this earlier but it was related to the fact, that you'd brick your device whilst doing it, not when it was successful. I think.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

It's rubbish, it's a case of the Nokia Care employee not knowing what they're talking about with regards to the N900. That's obviously the policy they have with other devices but the N900 is somewhat of a black sheep that they don't seem to know about.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Strange.

Nokia provides the software to flash our devices themselves.
When you use flasher or NSU (or updating OTA which is also flashing) there is no message that tells us that we are voiding our warranty.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Doesn't Nokia also encourage users sometimes to re-flash the device with provided tools, if OTA doesn't work? Or is the Ovi Suite so much different from flasher? I don't know, since I'm using a Mac and Nokia still doesn't provide us with the Ovi Suite, we're stuck with flasher/770Flasher.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-d...-downloads.php is worth a read then

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Yes, I browsed through that and that is for the software. So we have no warranty for the software, correct? Why should we lose the hardware-warranty then, if the software is not valid on warranty anymore?

Odd. Please, feel free to correct me, if I'm wrong (which I most likely am, in this case, since I know nothing about this).

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

That is irrelevant here.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

The license and terms there say they provide no warranty _for that software_, it doesn't in any way or form remove warranty from those supplied with the phone or from the phone hardware itself.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Alright, thanks, so I was right. This does seem to be (another?) case with Nokia employee stupidity, eh? :p I'll still wait for more comments on this, since I got interested.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

And what he said in his support request:

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

Ah. So the topic is misleading. Alright, I think that's about it, right?

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

I cannot find any mention in any legal papers so far that flashing N900 would cause one to lose warranty on any parts of the OS or the hardware itself. Not to mention the fact that Nokia even themselves suggest you to flash it if you encounter issues.

Considering that N900 is aimed as a developer phone and even Nokia's own documents refer to re-flashing several times I simply don't believe the customer support operative was indeed correct.

Re: Flashing Voids N900 Warranty
 

I should have probably read the OP more carefully :)