N9 Battery drain
 

Hi,

My N9 just went dead, it seems a battery drain. I have just changed to a new battery just a month ago, so I expect no problems from the battery as such. But it seems a nasty issue to charge N9 when battery is totally empty.

What I experience is the following: I plugin N9 to charger, it tries to start, then dies. Also the white led is sometime blinking or stays ON for few seconds, then goes dead.

Any suggestions how to bring back to life by N9?

Thanks,
M.

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

You could always follow this method using flasher: http://everythingn9.com/death-by-bat...arge-nokia-n9/

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

Indeed, I have seen that one. Well, despite the "risk" that you play with a flasher, issue is I need a firmware, even that I would not use it in the end. This brought me to searching the correct firmware for this excersize, and I got a bit stuck. I have currently a DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_001 (white, 64GBs, NEurope). If somebody can give me a link for this FW so I can use its bin, would be appreciated.

On the other hand I wonder what N9 is really trying to do. I do successive plugins to the charger and the white led stays continuously ON for ~2:30 min, after that it makes that specific sound and blinks few times, then goes OFF. I wonder if during this process any power goes into the battery and if successive attempts like this have any chance in incrementally charge the phone to the point where I can boot it? Any view?

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

I might have a bigger problem now... Started the flashig procedure, which is fact was intended to charge the battery only. BUT, to my surprise, the flasher mentioned 100% battery level and continued into flashing!! I aborted immediately the flashing process, not sure if any damage done as such...

Any thought on what the heck might be going on? How come N9 does not start but in the flashing process it says 100% battery? Now i might have no other choice than try to truly flash it again, so once again I appreciate a link to a correct FW for my variant. What I have used so far is 43AD05DD_DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3.454.6_PR_LEGACY_454_ARM_RM-696_PRD_signed.bin

P.S: the flasher indicates that I have the previous SW version, so I hope no damage done from the attempted charging through flash

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

mrcrab.net ???

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

"flasher -i" would have been much better option, as then device turns into charging mode, and there is no danger of flashing starting.

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

some update no this... just took the N9 from a Nokia Care here in Espoo, they could not flash it either, but on the other hand they confirm that battery and screen are OK.

Any hints how I could flash it? As I mentioned in an initial post, flasher -i does not identify the phone anymore, after i "smartly" stoped an earlier flash...

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

Hi
Don't know whether you can find local mobile phone technician with ATF Nitro Box as will flash N9/950, although have not yet had to resurrect either of mine using it so not aware of it's limitations in this respect.

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

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Did you try a cold flash? Add parameter '-c'

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

Can you please give me the full command for cold flash? Is
>flasher -c -F image.bin ?

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

It is just adding '-c' to your normal flash command, so
flasher -c -f -F image.bin
should be it.

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

Thanks for the clarification, did the cold flash and things are back on track...except that it seems the image I used was intended for Vietnam or something like this. I have changed all the language and text input to English, but it seems when using some apps la Opera or Twitter, that somehow the device is fetching this Vietnamese option from somewhere. Is any way to change this to English or do I need to use a different image, like for example some Northern Europe one...

Just to be more clear. I have flashed this image:
43AD05DD_DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3.454.6_PR_LEGACY_454_ARM_RM-696_PRD_signed

is it better to use one of the images below? if yes, which one?
29FAD658_DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.13-7.NORTHERNEUROPE_EMMC_NORTHERNEUROPE

or

DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_LEGACY_001-OEM1-958_ARM

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

That seems indeed to be a variant for a Vietnamese operator (http://www.mrcrab.net/nokia/Nokia_N9...n=40.2012.21.3)

What did you choose to use that file to flash the device?
Now definitely you cannot go back and flash the variant 001 that you wanted. You should search more e.g. on mrcrab and find some variant that has a higher variant number and has it's suitable for your choices.

Re: N9 Battery drain
 

Oh oh :(

Be advised to not flash any other variant before you made clear that the one you have now on device is NOT an ASIAN firmware which has a special "cmt" (modem firmware)!

Flashing a higher firmware may result in no telephony.
Search thebigtruck N9 firmware flashing guide or forum for occurences of that.

Could be that you are stuck on that FW (but maybe not, do not know about vietnamese, for sure with chinese FW).

Try to verify with flasher -i (or what command?) to find out version of your CMT.