Every reboot sends a text to 86400
 

Since upgrading to the latest version of Maemo (1.2), each time I reboot (which I need to do every few days, because things stop working), my N900 sends a text message to 86400 - which appears to be something to do with Nokia. I noticed in the smallprint that it says it will do this the first time (that's a little rough - once you've installed it, you have no choice, if you want your phone to work). But it does it every time. And each time, it costs me money.

I asked Nokia on 27th June what I could do about this. They promised to answer within 48 hours. Well, they haven't. So I am turning to here, to see if anyone else has experienced this on upgrade.

I wonder if it has something to do with the way I did my upgrade - via an apt-get dist-upgrade. As Nokia's PC software for doing the upgrade is MS Windows and Mac only (a bit ironic that, since Maemo is Linux), and my PC runs Linux only, I had no other way to do it.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Adrian

Re: Every reboot sends a text to 86400
 

Try the following commands in the terminal and report their output:

ls -l .cherry_state
cat .cherry_state

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Every reboot sends a text to 86400
 

Thanks Jan. There is no file .cherry_state anywhere on the filesystem.

Nokia-N900-42-11:/# ls -Ra | grep cherry_state
Nokia-N900-42-11:/#

Adrian

Re: Every reboot sends a text to 86400
 

BS detector has just been fried.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Flasher

Re: Every reboot sends a text to 86400
 

Try (as user) to create it in /home/user.

If I recall correctly its contents are unimportant, but in case it matters I've attached mine here. I had to remove the initial "." and add ".txt" to upload, make sure you save this as /home/user/.cherry_state - as I understand it that should stop the texts.

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Every reboot sends a text to 86400
 

Excellent! That did it, thankyou so much.

I'd googled, and couldn't find anyone else with the problem. I wonder what went wrong with mine.