Greetings all. I apologize in advance if this post belongs somewhere else.

A recent 'OTA' update has rendered my N9 unbootable and I'm about at wits end. I was curious if anyone else has experienced this issue or has a solution to it. The phone notified me of the update last night, and after downloading and installing it all I have is the illuminated 'NOKIA' logo. Multiple reboots have rendered the same... Sim in or out, etc.

The phone's product code is '059L3S6' which I gather is "RM-696 SingTel Singapore SG Black 64GB". The phone came with firmware PR1.1 20.2011.40-2_PR_005. After realizing the device was bricked, I grabbed the flasher program and downloaded firmware: 'DFL61_HARMATTAN_10.2011.34-1.263.1_PR_LEGACY_263_ARM_RM-696_PRD_signed.bin' using Navifirm (this firmware matched the 059L3S6 product). Attempting to flash with this firmware resulted in this error:

I tried several other firmwares including:
DFL61_HARMATTAN_20.2011.40-4.418.2_PR_LEGACY_418_ARM_RM-696_PRD_signed.bin
DFL61_HARMATTAN_20.2011.40-4_PR_LEGACY_001-OEM1-958_ARM.bin

And so forth. None of these work. It seems that a '2011.40-4' firmware does not exist for my product. Reading through posts from others with similar issues, I found that I could use flasher to only flash parts of these images to the handset: (nolo,kernel,moslo,initfs,rootfs,cmt,mmc,tar). In using the --flash-only option, I found that all options regardless of firmware image actually succeed except for the rootfs, which makes sense I suppose.

Am I completely pooched here? Do I wait for a '2011.40-4' firmware for my product code to appear on Navifirm? Do I need to send the phone to Nokia? Or should I perhaps just tie it to a tree and see how accurate my M1 rifle is at 100 yards.. Any suggestions are appreciated.. I'm a long-time N900 user and I'm not afraid to try anything to get this sucker working again.

Thanks.