hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

i bought n n900(my precious with a scratch) for £120 second hand and would like to know why the ************************************************** ******* it didnt recognize the sim for a period of 10 minutes on two occasions within 3 weeks of buying it until i took the back off and prodded the sim a bit then put the back back on.

is this a bug,,,is this phone ******** (the one i bought),,,,,or,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,is there a ghost in the machine?

i think the last one is hardly unlikely,,,,but this smartphone is for smart people with an imagination or so id like to think!

i cant afford though to happen if im honest! so help is needed cheers thanks

Also if anyone has the day night beecon working 24/7 could they please explain how they did it cheers!

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

A common problem, if you search you'll find dozens of threads about N900 not recognizing SIM cards.

The usual suggestion is to ensure you've got the latest system update installed on your N900, as some SIM problems were fixed early on.

If you click Settings -> About product, it will show the version.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

WoW best thread title ever, lol.

Anyway... if it recognizes it after a prod it could be hw issue especially if its loose. try a piece of paper to wedge it in place. or like stlpaul said there has been quite a few reports on sim card not being recognized. and they were manly sw issues.

P.S welcome to the forum hope you enjoy yourself

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

Eccentric? I thought you occasionally fell asleep on the keyboard and woke up to type like a *****.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

yeah its one of those *** realeses I have with hardware,,,more of a way of escaping the** world my head bowes down for a few seconds a day on my desk and my nose touches the star button! then i wake up out of my trance and continue typing.******************************************* ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** *************************************************i ts like a breath of fresh air after i have eaten or just fartyed, sometimes though i jus** do*** it spasmically.

anyway does anyone want to revel the secret about getting queen snippet day/night working? :D

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

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Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

+1 for hardware fault, there's a good chance the SIM card is bad. If it looks bent/"chewed up" at all it's probably not making good contact.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

I don't think you picked the correct forum section....

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I cant find the secret to getting that day/night working though :(
the creator has given up on my question on his official post so I can only presume no one actually uses it.
this can't be the case, he obviously knows how to work it! bad times bad times,



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Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

im not crazy

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

this whole maemo thing ion n900 (queen beecon) is useless unless you have a friend penguin..assuming penguins know the language of linux coding and stuff

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

rubbing alcohol + q-tip

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what are you on about? ive had enough of this site for now,,,can somebody please tell the creater of queen beecon day/night to help me? fanks buy!

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

drink the alcohol, clean your ears. unless you have a better idea...

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lol i have to work this evening...im presuming there is something fundamentally missing from my phone,,not wget,,,to get day/night beecon working......so....i cant be bothered hard resetting it and backing up the payed apps the guy had on it when i bought it so,,,,,,im screwed,,,unless anyone has suggestions. i give up and im not crazy.
i ay im screweed becuase i saw written somewhere that to hard reset the phone you have to have windows xp and i only have home premuim so i cant do this.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

you can reflash from vista or XP or win7, and seriously clean your sim card if it's not wokring.
i don't know what a day/night beecon is, but it doesn't sound very important.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

thanks. i will look into that. oh so what your saying is clean the front of the sim card,,the gold bit with alcohol and q-tip? ''.

n othe sim seems fine thanks it seems a common problem.

no , you see . my problem is i bought thiss phone because i know it can do alot. behind errrm debian id say probably the most advanced thing is the queen beecon terminal and i have been trying to get the day/night snippet working for about a month with little help.

the only response I have had is from the guy who created it. presuming there are lots of people who are familar with queen beecon and this particular part of it and the amount of people who clearly know what theyre talking about on this forum. im disapointed about the resonse ive had in wanting to run this aplication from the word go upon buying n900.

this rant should probably be in my other thread.

surely someone can sympothise with this if you look at my post history.

thanks for now.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

Your SIM may be flaky. Try replacing it if possible. I am saying this based on my experience ,read on if u care.

Sharing my mom's experience(or I guess mine since I'm her technical support and I get daily calls) with a SIM and Nokia 5230 + Samsung Gravity 2.

She was using a refurbished Samsung Gravity 2 that did not behave very nicely so she wanted a new phone. Bought the 5230 put in her SIM and it would give her a "Connection Error" every time she called somebody, most of the times before the 1 min mark. The same SIM worked like a charm in the Samsung. After random testing etc I realize that the SIM card is to blame even if it worked fine in the N900 and in Samsung.

I was able to get her a new SIM for free and I haven't received a call regarding her cell since then. It's safe to assume it's working well.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

thanks yeah i had the 5230 perviously and you have to use a pen to get it in out out.
it probably buggered the sim in doing that.
ill get a new one cheers

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

My n900 was rebooting when i opened the keyboard for a few days, it works fine now though, and I think cleaning the SIM fixed it. I guess it could have been the battery contacts too though. But yeah, clean first, then replace if it's still working intermittently. Since you bought it used it's hard to know it's not the phone :(

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

@Seasharkvvv

You need to locate the file Xorg and delete that mofo. I know what the problem is.

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

problem will be PEBKAC if you delete that file... lol

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

I think he deleted it. It's suddenly gone very quiet.......;-)

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

i need to delete these two files do i? where from? how? why? are you sure?

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

well, xorg is a critical part of the operating system. PEBKAC is an abbreviation for 'problem exists between keyboard and chair'
I think you will be really unhappy if you delete that :)

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

yeah so im not going to do that am i....pff

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

Sorry to say they are winding you up lol

xorg is a windows manager so should not be deleted

and PEBKAC is a acronym 'Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard' meaning you are the problem lol
sorry thats more 'geek' talk, but you really should embrace the geeks round here we will all help you if you ask nice

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

Of course not. Since you're from the UK, you would immediately detect the extreme levels of sarcasm and know that you should NOT delete that file...

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i have been asking nicely

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im going now. and i cant believe how geeky that is.
you should think about people like me who want ONE applicatin working and everything else he will have no problem with, except this one application is a bummer...the nononoyes guy who created it , i might just nicely ask him again. but i feel like a **** now

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

hey, if you're going to complain about how geeky it is, please use the official thread.

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i think i got it working, as bad at it sounds im still to test it when i go out on 3g yet..we will see soon

Re: hi im eccentric and straight to the point
 

Sea Shark.

Road Car.

Floor Shoe.

Airplane.

Wet Water.

Dry Land.