nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

Goodday Everyone,
Good day nokia, if you are reading this, it means my n900 has malfunctioned! My magnificent n900 only worked for 3 months, and after an unexpected power surge, the phone was affected. and it just kept rebooting every 5 secs.
I bought it from the USA so it was far fetched to send it back.
i tried to flash it myself. but unknown to me, windows 7 usb issues interruped the flash process. it remained the same.

I took it to a local mobile device engineer, and it was for some reason back to life again...every thing works...but it doesent vibrate on start up...and it still displays the flashmode logo on startup, and some paragraphs of green text!
but everything works...except that the qwerty lights blink in an unstable manner when closed...the lights never go off.

so my question is this:
is it possible to change it back to factory setting again where the boot was normal again or i will always look at my pathetic boot screen and regret paying $400 for this?
:(
or is there a way of fixing these few errors?

thank you immensely for your time.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

are you flashing the phone properly following this wiki?

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

well i did not flash it properly thats for sure thats for sure...and this is why i took it to the engineer in the first place...he managed to bring it back to life...but its still obviously broken...cos the anomalies here and there...i have tried updating the firmware using nokia pc suite...it still shows me the flashing mode logo and a bunch of green text. however the phone works...this is why i asked the question...

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

The phone needs to be properly flashed. Let us know if you have any questions!

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

please suggest to me the proper flashing for it...it was bought in the USA. and im presently in europe. how do i even start...which firmware should i use ?...

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

What you are doing is all wrong and will never get your device back to normal !.

First you need to read the FULL explanation given on this forum how to flash your N900 and digest it untill you know what to do.

It is very simply to know by the way you are talking that you have not read up at all on flashing the device.

https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware

Now please go and read ALL of this and get some knowledge behind you and i can assure you your N900 will be as good as new, good luck and enjoy because it is fun to learn.

Any problems whatsoever that you have you can come back on this thread that you started and ask questions but not before you have read the full guide ok.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

Thank you very much for your suggestions,
I Just wanted to know if its possible to hard reset it again...I have downloaded the files that are needed and Since I have to flash the phone, I will switch it off for now...Thank You All :)

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

Go to the main menu then to settings menu and touch the word "settings" at the top and you should get a drop down menu, in that you have "Restore original settings" tap on that and your device will restart putting it back to the way it was hopefully.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

@ojiprince
Your device looks to be in R&D mode. You just have to flash it disabling it. As stated above - read carefully flashing WiKi, it is all explained there.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

yes you must be right...i just never knew how to take it out of r and d mode to normal boot...it works but it always displays the green text and the flashmode logo...everytime i reboot...
cos i just flashed it and nothing happened. its still the same...

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

thank you zlakto! you were right!! everything is back to normal...just as i bought it..thank you everyone else...the RnD mode made it look like there was a problem with the device...but now...its ok. Thank you very much.

but no thankx to the person who said i should use the factory reset button...you shouldnt say anything if you are not sure of it...you are killing the reason why a forum like this was built!

now i should be able to help others that come accross a similar problem.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

If you are referring to me then you need to know i did not tell you to restore to factory settings, that restore would have taken you back to a working last known state.

What YOU did took it back to factory settings if you were able to re-flash both images.

Please do try to understand your device more.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

Question is: where did you get the information about R&D mode?

Maybe we should put a big "DO NOT USE THIS" sign there?

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

Why don't you take it to warranty repair? A 3 months old N900 should still be under warranty.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

Software glitches and the inability to deal with it are normally brought on by user error and do not come under warranty repair.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

this is normal. you're in R&D mode
run flasher with --disable-rd-mode and you should be fine

edit: whoops, sorry. i should know better than to skip down to quick reply and post my genius solutions when the problem's been resolved :/

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

LOL don't worry we all do that.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

@ abill_uk....pressing the restore button will by no means undo that error. It was just a mistaken step which i took from the nokia disscussion forums...
that person was very wrong to tell ppl to switch to r&d mode without remembering to tell them to switch back....

well we should put a big sign there saying "do not switch to r&d mode" for it is totally insignificant to your devices recovery...

cos really the phone just performed as if it was damaged..
well as for the information, i got it from the "flasher documentation" it is a link so you can click on it too. it contains commands for the hardware config.
and as for my warranty; i say again that my phone was ordered from th US. i am in east europe...it will take ages to send it forth and back.
thank you all, i should have joined this forum months ago.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

Good to know you got it working again.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

flasher-3.5 --disable-rd-mode

Oops missed the last page l:rolleyes:

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

haha...thankx everyone...but you wont believe what just happened.
i went to the terminal and typed: "sudo gain root" it asked me for my password...which i dont remember having any :p....then i typed again: 'sudo gainroot' it says: enable r&d mode if you want to break your phone! how sick is that ? lol....does anyone know what this means ?

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

OH NOOO lol here we go again !!!.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

yeah go download rootsh from the repos and you'll be fine, and what PR are you running? make sure its the latest which is 1.3.

Re: nokia n900 hardware issue....Resolution?
 

thanx man....i just did it....rootsh....and lol@abill....this forum rocks!