Hi guys
first time poster here, and a noob at that,
well, my N900 suffered a different fate with practically the same result. i used my N900 daily at work in the M.E. and the battery doesnt last all day as we know. so i used a "good quality" 12V charger you plug into the cig lighter(i work as a crane operator). worked fine for about two months then the charger exploded. literally.
and now my N900's USB is totally unusable. i cant use it to transfer files or even charge it. and now i wanna flash my poor old N900 because of, stupid me, a botched NItdroid install. and i tried what messrs Lazart, Wonko... did to their N900 with the alternate USB connection.
i tried plugging it in, boots with an unlit screen with what looked like the Nitdroid bootup, then led glows orange and then the phone shuts down. thats when i felt the USB i plugged into the computer was WARM. i soldered all connections correctly as posted. is there something else wrong with my N900 circuitry wise?? gulp!!