N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

I am a fairly careful N9 owner, and I don't know much about Terminal so I usually don't bother with it.

But please let this post be a sort of warning for you; my N9 now won't boot up, and I didn't really do anything.

I had installed FasterN9 about a week ago (no problems) and the new shiny Wazapp (no problems) and everything was working hunky dory.

Then I read that a new FasterN9 was out so I uninstalled my old one and rebooted.

That's when this message appeared. The phone will not go past this now. Holding the power button in for a long time just produces the same.

I'm hopeful that the ever-helpful Arie can get things back to normal by steering me through flashing it. The fact that it at least shows this message as opposed to totally dead gives me some hope.

I hope you guys have not had similar problems, and if anyone knows why my N9 is now on strike, please feel free to throw 2 cents my way. And before you say, "Try Nokia Suite like it says", that would be like the IT guy saying, "Did you try turning it on?"

I will update this post when I am back as part of the N9 community. Right now I'm part of the Nokia E75 community, and trust me, I'm all alone :(

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Plug your N9 in to a charger and try to boot it after ~30 minutes.

My device got the same message when I rebooted it with almost empty battery. Well, I had to reflash, but the reflashing event couldn't start before charging the device first. So maybe there is a possibility that empty battery prevents the N9 for starting after reboot.

You might have tried charging already (quite possibly), but I mention it just because I didn't.

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

@Ministeri Thanks, I'll try it although I know the battery was pretty full before this happened - it had come of the overnight charge about an hour or so since.

Hey, there's always this option: http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Smartpho...7596874&sr=8-9

GULP! ;)

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

I had to reflash my almost-new cyan N9 a few days ago. It wasn't hard, but I had lots of experience with my N900. The first thing I would do in your situation would be try to run the software updater, as the screen suggests.

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I did the same thing you did.. Wazapp.. faster N9 new version.. Even rebooted to make sure everything was in order. So far it's working fine, thank God. But yeah, when you "update" apps.. make sure your battery is full or that you're connected to a charger. The phone has a tendency to keep going "sorry, not enough battery for doing that, plug yo charger, dude" so it must have done that like half way through installation of fasterN9 or wazapp or something.

Reflashing should bring it back new.. Although I hope you backed up everything before doing that

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Here is a great guide for flashing:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82693

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

I had the same problem and had to send it to Alabama Nokia repair center to get it reflashed, as I couldn't do it myself. Good luck

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I don't have much faith in that Alabama care center as they scratched the screen of a previous phone I sent them. Really!

Thanks though

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Don't worry, we'll get it up and running. I've flashed all 3 of my N9's many times. My main one, which is dead, has been flashed over 100 times plus.

It'll be fine, just text me the time, we'll do it. BTW, if you do it this weekend, you'll have Shaun around to help too.

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

reflash, end of story. Good luck

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It's probably going to be this weekend the way my schedule is looking... which means 4 more days with my old E75. *SIGH*

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Do it today, 5 min process..

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5 minutes for a pro like you translates into a couple of hours for a terminal noob like me... ;)

But I'm getting desperate. Might have to stay up late tonight to do the deed.

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

you can do it, event a noob like me succesfully flash my n9, i did it 4days agi, and trust me, its easy, i can do it, you can do it, we can do it, thx to com
unity, i learning new things everyday here, :)

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Guys in Alabama did a great job for me. No problems since they reflashed it. i couldnt get past the yellow triangle no matter what I did or didnt do.

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Couple of month a go I also was a noob and did this without any problem...
Just read this a little manual and try to understand what to do.. ;)

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Honestly the hardest part of flashing your N9, is getting the firmware file :P

Once you have that its a piece of cake :D

Gotta do things once and then you will be able to do it many times after, means you can start doing more tinkering and you know you can just re-flash if it goes wrong.

Just follow a guide n give it a go :D

Here's an AWESOME guide :)

http://www.n9fanclub.com/2011/11/how...11-on-any.html

Just obviously look for the V30 instead of V20 in Navifirm.

Best of Luck :)

ps. Add -R to the end of the CMD command, itll auto reboot your N9 after flashing :)

e.g

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Hmmm, I've updated Wazapp & 'faster N9' to newer versions a few times now. Each time I delete the old version first, before installing a new(er) version. I don't reboot in between as the OP did and my battery is fully charched when installing.
No problem whatsoever...

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Thanks to Arie and a little motivation from you guys and we're back!

Basically, as soon as you have WinFlasher installed, Navifirm downloaded, and the 2 huge files for rootfs and emmc in your pocket, the whole process takes about 5 minutes. So if I need to do this again, it won't take long.

Nice to have a fresh N9. Wonder how many of those apps I won't bother to redownload...

:)

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

^ i realized that too...everytime i re-flashed i ended up not re-installing a few apps...it just shows what a failure the app count logic is...other than a few essentials and games nobody actually uses the other apps other than for novelty value.

Re: N9 doesn't want to play anymore :(
 

Yep, just as I thought, no need for the spirit level or the two stopwatch apps... if I ever need them, I'll know where to go!