Thread: Help! Flex cable - ribbon connecting screen and keyboard - ripped.
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2012-09-05 , 12:37
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Originally Posted by foobar View Post
Hm, I'm currently refurbishing my old N900 that got run over by a car two years ago. It came out surprisingly well, the biggest defect being the snapped flex cable. I ordered a replacement one on ebay, which will hopefully arrive soon.

Anyway, that phone ran an old firmware (1.1?) and I can access it over USB without using the screen. Maybe you could try flashing 1.1 (without flashing MyDocs, of course).

On a side-note, that phone starts vibrating (in an on-off pattern) as soon as it's booted. I thought that might be some emergency thing due to it being head-less. Does yours do that, too?
I have ordered a replacement (about ten dollars) from EBay, too. But it will take at least a week to arrive, likely more. And do you know what should be done about the white adhesive attaching flex cable to the metal?

I have not flashed firmware in a long time, and I am not going to do it now. Not when the software itself is running smoothly, and the problem is in hardware, and hopefully repairable. I am afraid of losing everything already installed on the device: cellwriter, Modrana, Firefox-for-mobile, et cetera....

As far as I have noticed, my N900 does not vibrate at all. When I restart it, I hear the Nokia's start-up tune, and that's it. However, I have never used vibration before, I turned it off in both Silent and General profiles, so it could be one of the reasons my device does not vibrate. In any case, vibrating non-stop should not be normal.

What are the shortcuts to determine what it happening inside the device? For instance, if the camera window is active, t will turn on/off the white LED, and h will turn on/off the red LED (http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU/Features/Camera_UI). Ctrl + Shift + X should start X-Terminal; it definitely goes away from the camera window (camera shortcuts no longer work), but I cannot get "espeak cat" to pronounce anything (speakers are fine, I have heard incoming=missed calls). What could be happening?
 

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